Sensors and Systems
Breaking News
SPASA advances aerial imaging capabilities with UltraCam Osprey 4.2
Graz, Austria • May 13, 2026 — Vexcel Imaging announces that Servicios Politécnicos Aéreos...
Septentrio extends its GNSS module family with mosaic-G5 P6
All-in-one GPS/GNSS receiver with minimal SWaP sets a new...
NEC Software Solutions UK Expands Public Safety Capabilities with Strategic Acquisition of Cadcorp
NEC Software Solutions (NECSWS) announced the acquisition of Cadcorp,...

Top Stories

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

DAP Technologies Unveils New Rugged Mobile Tablet

DAP Technologies today introduced its rugged M9000 tablet with breakthrough communications options including Wireless USB and integrated ZigBee® wireless technology, which are among the first applications of these technologies on tablet computers. It is also the first computer with the new Intel® E660T industrial processor and includes Qualcomm’s latest Gobi TM 3000 module.

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Italian Gravimetric Digital Cartography Project at the Scale 1:250.000

The digital mapping project is the result of a scientific collaboration between the Geophysics Service of the Department of Soil Protection in Ispra, Cartography and Remote Sensing Group, Department of Geophysics of the Lithosphere of OGS and Exploration & Production Division of Eni. The project stems from the need to provide the scientific world and, more

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

TerraSAR-X Satellite Data Reveals Destruction Caused by Tsunami in Japan

The German Remote Sensing Data Center (Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum; DFD) and the German Space Operations Center (GSOC), both of which are part of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), are continuing to provide as much data as possible from the two German radar satellites, TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X, for the assessment of

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

German Post-Mining Landscapes

Open-cast mining in the lignite districts of central and eastern Germany has affected huge areas of land, leaving behind entirely new landscapes characterised by their unique yet typical forms, in some cases bizarre and striking surfaces, and the absence of human activity. What makes the eastern German mining districts particularly interesting is that at the beginning

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

ERDAS 11 World Tour Goes to Italy!

ERDAS will co-host a series of 11 World Tour events with distributor Planetek Italia in March and April. The Italian branch of the tour will kick off on March 29 in Rome at the Star Hotel Metropole, and will include stops in Palermo, Milan, Venice, Cagliari and Bari.  The tour will conclude on April 19

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Stephen D. DeGloria Elected as ASPRS Vice President

The results of the 2011 election have been tallied by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Tellers Committee and they reported that Stephen D. DeGloria, a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, won the election to become ASPRS Vice President for 2011.  With the installation of officers at the ASPRS

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Web-based Augmented Reality with FLARToolKit

Creating Augmented Reality experiences in the web today is possible thanks to a number of options. The solution that grants the wider reaching capability in the web is undoubtedly Flash-based Augmented Reality. FLARToolKit is the most widely used Flash-based AR library with the support of a large developer community and many websites with example applications. FLARToolKit is the

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

MAPPS Praises DHS Emergency Response Contract

DHS has issued a request for qualifications from private firms for “Remote Sensing to Support Incident Management and Homeland Security”. Under the contract to be awarded,  approximately four  teams of firms will be under Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) firm-fixed price contracts for five years. Services to be provided via task orders under the contract will

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

AutoCAD 2012 Products Deliver Flexibility and Accessibility

Autodesk, Inc. announced the availability of the AutoCAD 2012 software products and the Autodesk Design Suite 2012 offering. The AutoCAD 2012 products and the Autodesk Design Suite 2012 series are AutoCAD-based design software that give users the flexibility to use AutoCAD in a variety of industries, and the accessibility to stay connected to their work no matter where

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

5th GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference

The Royal Institute of Navigation, London, UK, the Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy, University of Nottingham, UK, and the Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia have a pleasure in welcoming you to the GNSS Vulnerabilities Conference to be held 23 – 25 May, 2011 in Baška. This traditional and unique world-wide