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Friday, August 21st, 2015

PTFS to Demo Multi-INT Change Detection Service with Social Media Feed at DoDIIS Conference

NORTH BETHESDA, Maryland, USA, August 21, 2015 — Progressive Technology Federal Systems Inc. (PTFS), a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, will demonstrate a Multi-INT change detection service at the 2015 Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems Worldwide Conference (DoDIIS). The new service enables clients to correlate change on the earth’s surface with other geospatial

Friday, August 21st, 2015

Juniper Systems Sees a Change in Leadership with New CEO

Logan, UT, August 21, 2015  — Rugged handheld computer manufacturer, Juniper Systems, is seeing a change in leadership as its current President and CEO, Rob Campbell, is stepping aside after fourteen years at the company’s head, to accept a position as President of Campbell Scientific, Inc., Juniper Systems’ parent company and a world leader in precision

Friday, August 21st, 2015

MapAction Wins Multiple Gold and Silver Awards at the Stevie International Business Awards

Saunderton, August 21, 2015 — MapAction is delighted to announce that it has won four Stevie International Business Awards, which will be formally presented on October 23rd 2015 in Toronto, Canada.   MapAction, the only volunteer-driven charity of its kind worldwide, provides rapid on-the-ground mapping to aid agencies in response to humanitarian emergencies.  Most recently it deployed

Friday, August 21st, 2015

One of the World leading Drone Companies, Parrot, will Sponsor Expodronica

Saragossa, August 21, 015 — Parrot, one of the world leading dronecompanies, will sponsor Expodronica, the 1st first International trade showon civil drones to be held in Spain, next September 24th & 25th.

Friday, August 21st, 2015

USGIF Announces New Membership Structure

Herndon, Virginia, August 21, 2015 — With members’ feedback in mind, the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) launched a new Individual Membership program and simplified its Organizational Membership. USGIF introduced the new structure at the GEOINT 2015 Symposium.

Thursday, August 20th, 2015

Commercial UAV Expo Adds Exhibit Space Following Initial Sell-Out

August 20, 2015 (Portland, Maine, USA) — The exhibit floor for the 2015 Commercial UAV Expo completely sold out almost two months before the show’s launch, spurring event organizer SPAR Point Group to add space to handle the overwhelming demand.   “UAS companies have thrown their support behind Commercial UAV Expo,” said Lisa Murray, Commercial UAV Expo

Thursday, August 20th, 2015

UCI, NASA Researchers Find Link Between Amazon Fire Risk, Devastating Hurricanes

Irvine, Calif., August 20, 2015 — Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s

Thursday, August 20th, 2015

NSF Awards $6 Million to UK and Three Partner Schools to Develop Weather Research Drones

LEXINGTON, Ky., August 20, 2015 — A $6 million National Science Foundation grant will allow researchers at the University of Kentucky, Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, and University of Nebraska to develop unmanned aircraft systems, otherwise known as drone systems, to study atmospheric physics for improved precision agriculture and weather forecasting.

Thursday, August 20th, 2015

1Spatial Platinum Sponsor at BCS – SoC Mapping Together Conference 2015

Cambridge, UK, August 20, 2015 — (www.1spatial.com) 1Spatial, the global spatial software firm which manages the world’s largest spatial data, will be a Platinum Sponsor of the BCS – SoC Conference 2015, an event bringing together The British Cartographic Society and the Society of Cartographers, taking place in York, 8-10 September 2015. The company will also be

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

ASPRS Launches New Lidar Certification

Bethesda, Md., August 19, 2015 — The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) certification program announces the launch of a Professional and Technologist LIDAR Certification, the Certified Mapping Scientists, Lidar (CMS, Lidar) and the Certified Lidar Technologist (CLT).