Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
February 24, 2016 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce two critical performance upgrades designed to once again give a leading edge to users of its Optech Lynx SG and Lynx SG-S mobile survey systems. The programmable scan speed of the Lynx SG and SG-S has been increased by 20% — pushing the already industry-leading
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Vector tiles are a good way to manipulate your vector data through the internet. It helps users to display and use a large quantity of detailed vector data while maintaining excellent performance. Now the Cache Generator in the SuperGIS Desktop 10 beta version supports the generation of vector tiles. Simply assign the format as text/gml
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Supergeo Technologies Inc., the global geospatial software and solution provider, together with Allwavetech Inc., Supergeo’s reseller in South Korea, announces that mapping company Taeyoung Information Systems has chosen Supergeo’s desktop software for GIS data processing. Taeyoung Information Systems is a Korean corporation focused on providing fine quality digital maps for public sector applications and has
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
New consortium led by Ordnance Survey secures Government funding to position the UK as a leader in connected and autonomous vehicles. A consortium of leading UK businesses has secured funding from Innovate UK to examine the data requirements needed to support autonomous navigation. The ground breaking ‘Atlas’ initiative will study data critical to the efficient operation
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Redlands, California—February 23, 2016—The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) has transferred its web GIS application, Fire Globe, to the Esri platform. Responding to Google’s announcement about its deprecation of Google Earth Enterprise in January 2015, Esri partner Next Tier Concepts (NT Concepts) worked with NIFC to facilitate the move. Esri, the world leader in GIS,
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
CHANTILLY, Va. – Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has completed a transaction with OGSystems, LLC and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to transfer responsibility for the TASER prime contract to Ball Aerospace. The TASER (Total Application Services Enterprise Requirements) program provides high-end mission analysis, systems and software engineering, integration and IT services, for the NGA.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Redlands, California—February 23, 2016—Vricon, a leading provider of photo-realistic 3D mapping products and digital elevation models for the defense and security industries, is now a member of the Esri Partner Network. Vricon’s partnership with Esri, the market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, will help drive the growth and adoption of new technologies for
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
23 February 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that the Kickoff Event for six threads of the Testbed 12 Interoperability Initiative will be held at the USGS Headquarters in Reston, VA on Wednesday through Friday, March 2-4, the week before the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Washington, DC. The threads are sets of
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
SEATTLE, Wash. — Feb. 23, 2016 — LizardTech®, the creator of MrSID® and provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced today it will exhibit at the FedGIS 2016 conference in booth number 116 Feb. 24-25, 2016 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. At the conference, LizardTech will
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Unstable and rapidly eroding coastlines can cause risk to local infrastructure, and as such, it is important to gain a deeper insight and knowledge into the exact movements and erosion of a coastline. Capturing high-resolution 3D data of unstable slopes in an important step in understanding coastal erosion. The improved insight gained from such datasets
