Monday, March 11th, 2013
In its User Group meeting at the 2013 ASPRS conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Microsoft’s UltraCam product team will introduce its latest technological advancements that the company expects will set new standards for the aerial mapping industry. The meeting will take place on Monday, March 25th from 8:00am – 12:00 noon eastern time in Harborside Ballroom
Sunday, March 10th, 2013
Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of land surface and newly improved satellite data sets.
Saturday, March 9th, 2013
A new NOAA study projects that heat-stress related labor capacity losses will double globally by 2050 with a warming climate. The impact will be felt the most by those who work outside or in hot environments, such as firefighters, bakery workers, farmers, construction workers, factory workers, and others who will be forced to slow down
Friday, March 8th, 2013
In 2012 there were 24 civil, commercial and military spacecrafts for Earth observation launched, belonging to 13 world countries and organizations. The undisputable leader in the number of launched national Earth remote sensing spacecrafts is again China for the fourth time in a row since 2007 (8 satellites), well outrunning Russia (3 satellites), France (satellites),
Friday, March 8th, 2013
Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) introduced today the Ashtech ADU800 for GNSS attitude determination and real-time positioning. The ADU800 is a 6D positioning solution providing position plus orientation for system integrators. The ADU800 provides precise heading, pitch and roll with 3D positioning up to centimeter-level accuracy and velocities at a rate of up to 20 Hz for static
Friday, March 8th, 2013
A double-header luncheon session on implementation of the recently-enacted MAP-21 Act, featuring senior officials of the Federal Highway Administration (FHwA) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), will highlight the annual MAPPS (www.mapps.org) Federal Programs Conference opening on Tuesday, March 12 in Washington, DC. The conference will include presentations by Federal agencies, members of Congress, and
Friday, March 8th, 2013
A recent major milestone to develop the next-generation of polar-orbiting satellites was reached when operational control of America’s newest environmental satellite was transitioned to NOAA. These satellites are critical to providing advanced warning for severe weather including tornado outbreaks, heavy snowfall, hurricanes, heat waves, floods, and wildfires.
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
TerraGo, a leading global provider of location intelligence, geospatial collaboration and field data collection solutions, released updates to its TerraGo 3D Composer for Adobe Acrobat, TerraGo Toolbar and TerraGo Collaboration Manager software.
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
STRaND-1, the nanosatellite carrying a smartphone, has been declared operational in orbit by the mission team from the University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). The satellite successfully separated from the Indian PSLV launcher in low Earth orbit after its launch on 25th February, and first contact with STRaND-1
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Supergeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that SuperGIS Server 3.1a Standard edition will support Mobile SDK to help developers easily customize mobile applications to connect with SuperGIS Server services.
