Friday, May 24th, 2013
1Spatial plc (AIM:SPA), the Spatial Big Data Company, announces today that the Company has conditionally raised £18 million (before expenses) through the Placing of 300,000,000 new Ordinary Shares at the Placing Price of 6p per share with certain institutional investors, in accordance with the terms set out in the Circular to be published by the
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC®) standards are cited in the Obama Administration’s National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) recently released “National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations—a framework for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Nation’s Earth-observation enterprise.”
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that Correlator3D™ is being used for forestry projects in Southeast Asia by PT Credent Teknologi. SimActive’s software is employed to perform aerial triangulation for seamless orthomosaic production using medium format digital cameras.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
The Pléiades satellites, operated and built by Astrium, number three company in the world for space technologies, have captured this image of Moore, Oklahoma, which clearly shows the devastation caused by the massive tornado that swept through the region on May 20, 2013. By comparing today’s image with an image acquired on April 29, 2013,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
OpenGeo, the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company, is excited to announce a full public beta of its new server analytics console while at FOSS4G-North America 2013. The product, formerly known as “The Enterprise Console,” is now Mapmeter, a full administration and management tool for analyzing GeoServer systems.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
For decades, Landsat satellites have documented the desiccation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once one of the largest seas in the world, it shrunk to a tenth of its original volume after Russia diverted its feeder rivers in the 1960s. Scientists studying the Aral Sea’s changing ecology and retreating shoreline have looked to
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Citizen volunteers are making significant additions to the U.S. Geological Survey’s ability to provide accurate information to the public. Using crowd sourcing techniques, the USGS project known as The National Map Corps (TNMC) encourages citizen volunteers to collect manmade structure data in an effort to provide accurate and authoritative spatial map data for the National
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Mapper version 14.2. This update to the company’s popular desktop GIS software offers many new and improved features and functions. Some of the major improvements include several scripting updates, improved Volume Measurement tools, new right-click option to the vector data Search dialog, many LiDAR
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
OpenGeo the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company, is promoting key team members Juan Marin, Tim Schaub, and Justin Deoliveira to new roles within the company. Marin has been named chief technology officer, OpenGeo CEO Eddie Pickle said in making the announcement, while Schaub and Deoliveira assume Vice President positions in OpenGeo’s industry-leading software
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
The global map of fires, detected as a result of operational satellite-based monitoring in now being tested in beta-mode on the SFMS service “Kosmosnimki – Fires”. Now the updated information about fire situation in any region of our plant is available. This was made possible due to the integration of the FIRMS information system data
