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Friday, March 27th, 2015

MAPPS Members Promote UAV Before Wisconsin Legislature

March 27, 2015 — MAPPS members Kirk Contrucci of Ayres Associates, Inc., George Southard of Trimble Navigation Limited and Paul Braun of Continental Mapping Consultants delivered testimony yesterday to the Wisconsin General Assembly, presenting the merits and benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) operations for surveying, mapping and geospatial applications.

Friday, March 27th, 2015

Ordnance Survey Reaches Open Data Milestone

March 27, 2015 — The number of times OS OpenData has been downloaded since its April 2010 launch has now exceeded the one million mark.

Friday, March 27th, 2015

SEVP Releases 2015 International Student Data, Launches Interactive Mapping tool

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2015 — “SEVIS by the Numbers,” a quarterly report on international students studying in the United States, was released Wednesday by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Friday, March 27th, 2015

LizardTech is Exhibiting at the Coastal GeoTools Conference

SEATTLE, Wash. — Mar. 27, 2015 — LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting at the Coastal GeoTools Conference. The conference is held at the North Charleston Convention Center in North Charleston, S.C., March 30-31, 2015.

Friday, March 27th, 2015

Blue Marble to Highlight the Global Mapper Lidar Module at SPAR International and CoastalGeoTools

Hallowell, Maine – March 27, 2015 —  Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) will be exhibiting at the SPAR International in Houston and CoastalGeoTools in Charleston, SC the week of March 30th highlighting Global Mapper’s Lidar Module automatic classification and feature extraction capabilities.  Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

Phase One Industrial Announces the iXU 180 – the World’s Smallest 80 MP Medium format Aerial Camera

COPENHAGEN, March 26, 2015 — Phase One Industrial, a leading manufacturer and provider of medium format aerial digital photography equipment and software solutions, today announced the Phase One iXU 180 camera, the world’s smallest 80 MP medium format aerial camera.

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

Bluesky Purchases Second UltraCam Eagle Camera

Leicestershire, UK, 26 March 2015 — Aerial mapping company Bluesky has invested in a second 260 megapixel digital aerial framing camera. The UltraCam Eagle, purchased from Microsoft’s photogrammetry division, is the most recent addition to the Leicestershire based company’s portfolio of state of the art aerial mapping equipment.

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

PhotoSat Verifies Accuracy of DigitalGlobe’s 30 cm WorldView-3 Satellite Elevation Data to within 15 cm

VANCOUVER, March 26, 2015 — PhotoSat is pleased to announce that the elevation data processed from DigitalGlobe’s new 30 centimeter resolution satellite, WorldView-3, has been verified as accurate to within 15 centimeters. DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services, and is the first company to offer 30 cm resolution

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

Intermap Technologies® Unveils Risk Scoring Functionality in Latest Version of InsitePro™

DENVER, CO, March 26, 2015 — Intermap Technologies (TSX:IMP), (ITMSF:BB), a leading provider of location-based solutions, today released a new version of InsitePro, a SaaS product that delivers location-based risk assessments to the property insurance industry.

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

DroneView Technologies Completes Funding to Accelerate Growth of Commercial Drone Services Business

DETROIT, March 26, 2015 — DroneView Technologies, a provider of aerial imaging solutions and drone operator training announced today that it has completed an initial funding round from Stephen Polk, a private investor and former Chairman and CEO of R.L. Polk & Co. The funding will be used to accelerate the growth of the company’s training