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Monday, April 11th, 2016

NOVA IMS First International GEOINT Program to Achieve USGIF Accreditation

Herndon, Virginia, April 11, 2016 —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is excited to announce the addition of NOVA Information Management School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA IMS), located in Lisbon, Portugal, to its growing list of USGIF-accredited GEOINT programs.   Through the USGIF Academic Accreditation program, colleges and universities around the

Monday, April 11th, 2016

Basis Software Introduces All New Surphaser Model 10

Basis Software, Inc, is pleased to introduce the Surphaser Model 10 laser scanner, the first in a new product line of compact light weight scanners. The new model will be presented at the SPAR 3D Expo and Conference, Woodlands, Texas. The Surphaser Model 10 represents an entirely new branch on the Surphaser model tree. Model

Monday, April 11th, 2016

NCTech Unveils New 360 Degree Imaging Developments

Edinburgh, UK and Houston, TX  – NCTech, the developer of reality imaging systems, recently announced two new developments for its industrial-grade iSTAR panoramic camera. The company will be demonstrating these developments at the SPAR 3D conference and tradeshow this week in Houston,Texas. Designed for rapid 360 degree imaging, iSTAR is a panoramic camera that precisely

Friday, April 8th, 2016

TerraGo Edge Delivers GeoPackage to Mobile Users

TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration, field engineering and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of TerraGo Edge 3.9.3, which features full support for OGC GeoPackage, a universal format for sharing maps and geographic data across mobile devices and all platforms. TerraGo Edge enables users to import and export OGC GeoPackage as a SQLite database

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

New Maps for Texas and Oklahoma Released

New US Topo maps for Texas and Oklahoma are now available in the USGS Store for free download. One of the main improvements is the inclusion of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) road data. “The US Topo digital maps are a great public resource to provide authoritative, robust maps

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Update of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115:2014

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests public comment on the update of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115:2014. The update has been approved by the OGC Architecture Board (OAB) and the Metadata Domain Working Group (DWG). The period for public comment ends 07 May, 2016 ISO 19115-1:2014 defines the

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Smart Mobile Solution for Cadastral Mapping, Time to Go International!

It’s time to announce the next huge leap of SuperGIS Mobile Solution! The well-known Mobile Cadastral App powered by Supergeo, one of the best-selling land management and cadastral survey work application on Android platform, is going to have an international version which has been already under construction. The international version of Mobile Cadastral App will

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Vricon and Japan Space Imaging Partner on Bringing High-res 3D and Elevation Geodata Products to Japan

MCLEAN, Va. — Vricon has announced it has selected Japan Space Imaging Corporation (JSI) for an exclusive reselling agreement. JSI is appointed as Vricon’s distributor in Japan and an exclusive partner for the Japanese defense and intelligence segment. Vricon provides The Globe in 3D – the most accurate geospatial terrain data of Earth in 3D. The

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Esri Announces 2016 Storytelling with Maps Contest

Redlands, California—Esri is inviting people to submit their top Esri Story Map projects for a chance to win prizes and peer recognition at the Esri User Conference. Contest participants can submit up to three preexisting or new story maps between now and May 23, 2016. Story maps come in many forms and have a wide

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

Airbus Defence and Space and Thales to Produce New Digital Maps for French Defence

The IGN has awarded Airbus Defence and Space and Thales the so-called GeoMaps contract to supply the French Ministry of Defence database with digital geographic data on a range of scales, including city maps. They will mainly be based on images acquired by the two Pléiades satellites, significantly increasing the accuracy of the maps to