Friday, March 20th, 2020
WASHINTON, D.C., USA — Hexagon’s Geosystems division announced today the HxGN Content Program is making its aerial imagery library of the entire United States and Europe freely available to any government agencies and non-profit organizations managing the COVID-19 outbreak. The orthorectified high-resolution aerial imagery can be used by first responders, healthcare departments and GIS professionals
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Enables remote monitoring of all power system functions Hingham, MA – Russelectric, A Siemens Business, a leading manufacturer of power control systems and automatic transfer switches, announces the availability of customized Russelectric® supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, enabling users to monitor system operation, acknowledge alarms, and review PLC setpoints and alarm history. All
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
The UK’s largest geospatial event will now take place on 24-25 September at the new venue ExCeL London Following increasing concern about the developing coronavirus situation, GEO Business organiser Diversified Communications UK has consulted with the industry and decided to change the event dates to 24-25 September 2020. The event will also move from its previous
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
The World Geospatial Industry Council (‘WGIC’) released, on 9 March 2020, its report on geospatial information and privacy (‘the Report’). In particular, the Report addresses, among other things, data protection laws and their scopes of application, privacy and data protection requirements per jurisdictions, their impact on the geospatial industry, as well as best practices for
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. and RALEIGH, N.C. – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), and Draganfly (CSE: DFLY) (OTCQB: DFLYF) (FSE: 3U8), an award-winning, industry-leading manufacturer within the commercial unmanned aerial systems (“UAS”), remotely piloted aircraft systems (“RPAS”), and unmanned vehicle sectors, today announced a teaming agreement for Draganfly’s distribution
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
SEATTLE, March – Igneous, the SaaS data management company for file intensive environments, announced today that Quantum Spatial, Inc. has standardized on Igneous for its fast file movement, cloud capabilities, and simplified operations. Quantum Spatial, an NV5 company, is the nation’s largest geospatial data firm. A pioneer in advanced mapping technology, Quantum Spatial’s end-to-end solution
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid the recent coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic, Earth Day Network, the global organizer of Earth Day, will mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with the first Digital Earth Day, a global digital mobilization on April 22 to address the most urgent threats to people and the planet. “At Earth Day Network, the
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Fairfax, VA – The meeting to explore a new trade association of equipment, instrument, and software firms in the surveying, mapping, GIS, and geospatial market, the Geospatial Equipment and Technology Institute (GETI), will be held on March 23 via web conference, it was announced today. The change was necessitated by the cancellation of the GEOWEEK event in Washington, DC. In place of
Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
The engineering teams from Airbus, the European Space Agency (ESA), Lockheed Martin and NASA were involved in the testing. The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission has successfully completed several months of simulated space environment system-level testing in the NASA-owned thermal vacuum chamber at Plum Brook Station in Ohio. The tests were conducted in
