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Friday, September 4th, 2015

Speakers Confirmed for the Blue Marble User Conference 2015

September 4, 2015 – Blue Marble Geographics cordially invites you to the company’s 2015 User Conference in Arlington, VA. The agenda has been confirmed and the conference will feature speakers from industry leaders such as Woolpert, Bechtel Infrastructure, Aerial Filmworks and more.

Friday, September 4th, 2015

Richmond International Airport Hires Timmons Group to Design and Implement Enterprise GIS

Richmond, VA, September 4, 2015 – The Richmond International Airport (RIC) contracted with Timmons Group, a national geospatial consulting firm to design and implement an Enterprise GIS. 

Friday, September 4th, 2015

NSF, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Support Development of New Arctic maps

September 4, 2015 – The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is supporting development of high-resolution topographic maps of the Arctic that for the first time will provide consistent coverage of the entire globally significant region, including Alaska.

Friday, September 4th, 2015

Gilman Louie Elected as Chairman of the Board for Vricon, Inc.

RESTON, Va., September 4, 2015 – Today, Gilman Louie has been appointed as the first Chairman of the Board of Vricon, Inc.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

Sierra Nevada Corporation Congratulates NASA, NOAA and Lockheed Martin on Extraordinary EPIC Instrument Images

SPARKS, Nev., September 3, 2015 – Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems  congratulates NASA, NOAA and Lockheed Martin on successfully capturing the first-ever continuous images of the entire sunlit side of planet Earth. SNC is proud to have supplied several key mechanisms for this mission.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

Global Weather Corporation Named Most Accurate Temperature Forecast Provider in the World

BOULDER, Colo., September 3, 2015 – Global Weather Corporation (GWC) has been identified as the most accurate temperature forecast of 2014 for the U.S., Europe and Asia in a recent study by ForecastWatch, an independent analyst of industry performance. The study compared the accuracy of daily high temperature forecasts among the leading providers of weather forecasting.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

Europe LiDAR Market By Product Type, By Application, and By Geography – Analysis and Forecast (2014-2019)

NEW YORK, September 3, 2015 – The term ‘LiDAR’ is an acronym for ‘Light Detection and Ranging’, which has been derived from the common term ‘RADAR’. LiDAR technology has been around in the military and research circles, since the early 1960s. A typical LiDAR system mainly consists of three major components, namely laser sensor, global

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

WB Electronics and Thales Unveil their Unmanned Aircraft System for Polish Gryf Programme

MSPO, Poland, September 3, 2015 – WB Electronics and Thales unveiled today at Poland’s MSPO exhibition, their exclusive tactical unmanned aircraft system for the Polish Gryf requirement. The WB Electronics/Thales solution offers a capability that fully meets the Gryf requirements for an armed unmanned aircraft system, and delivers the capability through full Polish industrial collaboration.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

Thales Alenia Space Signs New Phase of COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Contract to Continue Program

Cannes, September 3, 2015 – As mandataire of the Temporary Grouping of Companies already set up with Telespazio (Finmeccanica), Thales Alenia Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has signed a new phase of the contract for the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) satellite program with the Italian space agency ASI). This new phase is worth

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

Bluesky Helps Scientists Understand Impact of Urban Trees on Air Quality

Leicestershire, September 3, 2015 – Aerial mapping company Bluesky has supported a major research project by scientists from the University of Leicester into the role of trees on pollution dispersion. Using a range of geographic datasets, including Bluesky’s National Tree Map, the team was able to create a detailed 3D model of Leicester.