Friday, July 19th, 2013
The International Space Station (ISS) partner agencies released a statement Wednesday on the benefits of the space station during natural disasters on Earth. Flying 250 miles above the planet and circling it every 90 minutes, the orbiting outpost provides a unique vantage point from which images of Earth can play an important role in helping
Friday, July 19th, 2013
SPOT 6, the high-resolution Earth observation satellite designed, built and operated by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, has now been qualified by the JRC to take part in the MARS-CAP programme. MARS-CAP is a programme run by the European Commission which involves surveying agricultural land by satellite, as part of the Common Agricultural Policy
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
The first global map of vegetation from the recently launched Proba-V has been unveiled, demonstrating that the minisatellite is on track to continue a 15-year legacy of global vegetation monitoring from space. Proba-V is designed to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days. The data can also be used
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Have you ever dropped a stick into a river and wondered where it might go if it floated all the way downstream? Now you can trace its journey using Streamer – a new on-line service from the National Atlas of the United States. Streamer is an online map service that lets anyone trace downstream along
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
The UltraCam team recently visited Ramani Geosystems, a Kenya–based geospatial services firm that offers land surveying, aerial photography, aerial LiDAR and mapping services throughout Africa and an UltraCam customer since 2012. Ramani Geosystems wanted to be able to take on larger projects and find a better way to capture high-resolution images in East Africa’s tricky
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
The Worldwatch Institute is assisting the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in developing a Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS) to provide a more strategic approach to implementing renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in the region. The overall goals are to address the inadequate energy security of most CARICOM member states and to establish them
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced today that it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France. MDA will provide a RADARSAT-2 ground station and three years of RADARSAT information. The station will be installed in Bali, Indonesia, providing
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Trimble introduced today new functionality and configuration options for the Juno T41 rugged handheld computer. In addition to a handheld computer and smartphone configuration, the series now includes high-speed 1D/2D barcode imaging technology and enhanced, real-time 1-2 meter GPS accuracy.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
Developers using Ordnance Survey’s OS OpenData products have been busy accessing the organisation’s new Linked Data service.The enhanced Linked Data service, which provides more flexibility and ease when using the free geographic datasets, is proving popular with hundreds of developers already accessing datasets and the new features. In the first month the new site received
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the charter for a proposed OGC Standards Working Group (SWG). The new SWG will revise the Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements, an existing OGC standard for documenting Earth Observation (EO) product metadata. It will also develop a new, related standard to extend the
