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Monday, November 16th, 2015

Aerialtronics’ Altura Zenith Offers Widest Sensor Compatibility on the UAS Market

November 16, 2015 — Aerialtronics have revealed a unique series of commercial drone sensors for the safety and security industry which include some of the first nuclear radiation and hazardous chemical detectors on the commercial market.

Friday, November 13th, 2015

Abu Dhabi to Host Esri Middle East and North Africa User Conference

Redlands, California, November 13, 2015 — For almost a decade, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has typified smart government—primarily due to its wide application of geographic information system (GIS) technology across the enterprise. As such, Abu Dhabi will host the Esri Middle East and North Africa User Conference (MENAUC) to commemorate the emirate’s success and propagate

Friday, November 13th, 2015

Xplore Technologies Reports 284% Increase in Revenue for Second Quarter of Fiscal 2016

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 13, 2015 — Xplore Technologies Corp. XPLR, +2.52% reported its results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2016. For the three months ended September 30, 2015, Xplore reported revenue of $28,853,000, compared to $7,522,000 in reported revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2014, an increase of $21,331,000, or approximately

Friday, November 13th, 2015

DisasterLAN 9.7 Makes GIS Analysis Easy

BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 13, 2015 — DisasterLAN (DLAN) 9.7 excels at providing more information about the current environment while users are out in the field. Included in the 9.7 release are new GIS based map identification tools, powerful data layer viewing tools for analyzing mappable information layer by layer, and new support for AERIS Weather layers

Friday, November 13th, 2015

The Results are in – INTERGEO is the Top International Trade Fair Once Again

Karlsruhe, November 13, 2015 — Exhibitors and visitors alike have judged INTERGEO 2015 a resounding success. Their feedback confirms host DVW’s own positive appraisal. With 15 percent more exhibitors and exhibition area and 16,500 visitors, INTERGEO, the world’s leading trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, has just delivered its best ever results. The feedback

Thursday, November 12th, 2015

Bluesky Aerial Laser Survey set to Reveal Hidden Bronze-Age Archaeology

Leicestershire, UK, November 12 2015 — LiDAR is being employed to reveal the hidden archaeology of a Bronze-Age hill settlement in Lancashire, England. Visually, the archaeological features are very difficult to see, but the Bluesky laser survey, commissioned by the Morecambe Bay Partnership, is expected to reveal previously undiscovered details of the settlement at Warton Crag. Identified as

Thursday, November 12th, 2015

New Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management at the University of British Columbia

November 12, 2015 — Beginning in August 2016, (subject to final government approval), the Faculty of Forestry is offering a new 9 month course-based Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management (MGEM). It was created in response to an increasing need for geospatial scientists in environmental management.

Thursday, November 12th, 2015

East View Partners with World-Renowned French Mapping Agency

MINNEAPOLIS – November 12, 2015 — East View Geospatial has secured an agreement with Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN), the national mapping authority of France, to be an official distributor for the organization.

Thursday, November 12th, 2015

Software, Technology Streamlining Aviation for the Masses

LOS ANGELES – November 12, 2015 — With drones expected to be a holiday season must-have, a new interest in aviation is emerging from the hobbyist to professional pilots, to corporate industries. Leaders are predicting the unmanned aircraft will become as forward thinking, cutting edge and as common as the upsurge of the smartphone. International industry

Thursday, November 12th, 2015

NASA Selects Quantum’s StorNext Platform as Foundation for New Content Management & Storage System

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 12, 2015 — Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) today announced that its StorNext® scale-out storage platform will serve as the foundation for NASA’s new Content Management & Storage System (CM&S) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Vencore Inc., the prime contractor on the KSC Engineering Services Contract, has awarded a contract