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Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Lockheed Martin’s MUOS Production Line Ships Fifth Secure Communications Satellite to Florida for May Launch

CAPE cANAVERAL aIR foRCe station, Fla., March 9, 2016 — The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on March 3, prior to its expected May launch.   The spacecraft will be the third MUOS satellite launched in a 16-month

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

UK Space Agency Supports Mexico Workshop on Earth Observation Platforms for Forests & Land Use

The UK Space Agency’s (UKSA) International Partnership Space Programme (IPSP) supported a workshop on geo-information platforms to aid the forest sector in Mexico, as part of the “Advancing Earth Observation Applications for Forests” project, co-ordinated by Ecometrica. The meeting was held in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas and was attended by delegates from over

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Big Data Project Aims to Make Breathing Easier by Mapping Air Quality

Heavy city traffic contributes significantly to air pollution and health problems such as asthma, but University of Texas at Dallas researchers think another kind of traffic — data traffic — might help citizens better cope with pollution. “Online maps are accessed millions of times daily by people using computers and mobile devices to find the

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Tracking Turtles via Drone

While many students returned from the semester break with stories of vacations taken or jobs worked, Boston College freshman Branick Weix had something unusual and inspiring to share: his weeklong trip to Costa Rica to help researchers track endangered sea turtles. Through his company, SkyLink Productions, the Minnesota native partnered with the nonprofit group Seeds

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Innovapptive and Critigen Announce Technology Partnership to Enable Geospatial System Integration Across Their Enterprise Asset Management Portfolio

Innovapptive Inc., a leading provider of SAP® Mobile and User experience software and solutions, and Critigen, a full-lifecycle spatial systems integrator, today announced a technology partnership in geospatial integration and mobility to deliver market-leading technologies for enterprises looking to help SAP customers take advantage of geospatial system integration capabilities. “Critigen helps clients integrate geospatial technologies with

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Aibotix and Its Partners at CeBIT 2016

The research project InventAIRy will be part of this year’s DRONEMASTERS Summit during CeBIT 2016in Hannover, Germany. Aibotix and Fraunhofer IML, Dortmund, Germany, will present the first results of the project. Aim of the project is to develop an autonomous flying inventory UAV. Inventory of the Future: A Drone based Auto ID Parkour – this

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Commercial UAV Expo Issues Report on the Outlook for the Commercial Drone Market

Portland, Maine, USA  – Commercial UAV Expo today announced the release of its most recent report, titled “6 Predictions: UAV Experts Discuss Important Developments for Commercial Drone Applications.” This free report provides insights from industry experts on the changes to come for the commercial drone industry in 2016, including the highly anticipated FAA ruling scheduled

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

OGC Announces Successful Completion of Incident Management Information Sharing IoT Pilot

8 March 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced the recent successful completion of the OGC Incident Management Information Sharing Internet of Things Pilot Project (IMIS IoT Pilot). The IMIS IoT Pilot was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the IJIS Institute. The project

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

Skybox is Now Terra Bella

Skybox Imaging, acquired by Google in 2014, is now Terra Bella. Introducing Terra Bella Seven years ago, we started Skybox Imaging with the vision of a new era in space technology. Small satellites with big capabilities are no longer a dream. Today, two years and nearly 100,000 images separate us from the launch of our

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

Sentinel-3A Continues to Impress

The three instruments on the Sentinel-3A satellite are now offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s in store for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. The latest images, which feature Europe and Antarctica, come from the sensor that records Earth’s radiant energy. Launched just three weeks ago, Sentinel-3A carries a suite of cutting-edge instruments to provide systematic