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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Demonstrates Digital Production Innovations

On Friday, Oct. 4, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company hosted community leaders from Leadership Jefferson County to celebrate Manufacturing Day and educate the community on the company’s manufacturing prowess. Local leaders toured the leading-edge Lockheed Martin facility and heard from Dennis Little, vice president of Production, on revolutionizing manufacturing.

Monday, October 7th, 2013

SimActive Forges Agreement with Space Imaging Middle East

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Space Imaging Middle East (SIME), whereby SIME will act as an authorized SimActive distributor in the Middle East region.

Monday, October 7th, 2013

20th Anniversary of CalGIS Conference in Monterey, April 14-16, 2014

Each year the four URISA chapters in California, along with the California Geographic Information Association, come together to present the California GIS Conference.  In 2014, the conference will celebrate the milestone 20th annual event in Monterey, California, April 14-16, 2014. The conference committee invites submissions of presentation proposals until December 15.  For details and presentation

Monday, October 7th, 2013

Optech Announces ALTM Orion C300—Class 1 for FAA Rotorcraft

Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the latest addition to its innovative line of airborne laser terrain mappers (ALTM), the Optech Orion C300-1, which is designed as a Class 1 eye-safe laser product.

Monday, October 7th, 2013

The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Esri

Esri and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Esri Corporate Headquarters in Redlands, California on 3 October. This MoU confirms the two organisations’ long-standing relationship: it provides an official framework to the GICHD’s collaboration with Esri, the leading Geographic Information System (GIS) software company which

Monday, October 7th, 2013

Satellites See Pastoralism Patterns in Niger

Satellites see defined lines of nomadic pastoralism in one of the world’s poorest countries. Landlocked in western Africa, Niger is one of the world’s poorest nations. With less than 4% of the country’s land arable and prone to drought, food security is a major concern for the population of over 17 million.

Monday, October 7th, 2013

Bluesky Announces International Expansion at Intergeo 2013

Using a state of the art airborne mapping system, aerial surveying company Bluesky is expanding its international operations. The integrated system, developed by Optech, includes a LiDAR and fully integrated thermal sensor and high resolution camera.  Already proven in the UK the system, thought to be a world first, has already been successfully deployed in

Monday, October 7th, 2013

Ordnance Survey Holds Free OS OpenData Masterclasses

Ordnance Survey are pleased to announce details on the latest series of free OS OpenData masterclasses, giving developers the chance to get to grips with digital mapping data and understand how it can support their businesses, products, services and applications.

Monday, October 7th, 2013

1Spatial’s Big Data Roadshow To Visit London, Manchester & Dublin

1Spatial, global specialists in spatial big data management will be visiting London, Manchester and Dublin to address industry trends and challenges and will also reveal its new management suite, 1SMS. The Roadshows will involve lively sessions to discuss the challenges facing the industry and attendees will leave with the knowledge and understanding to take their

Sunday, October 6th, 2013

“Open Landscape” Partnership Program Hits the Road

ScanEx, announced today the launch of the innovation partnership program “Open Landscape”. The program will officially start on October 1, 2013. Founding members of the “Open Landscape” program include : ScanEx Research and Development Center and NGO “Transparent World” together with the World Bank, the World Resources Institute,members of the Global Forest Watch 2.0 and the Global Tiger Initiative. The program is supported by DigitalGlobe, NASA, and other satellite imagery