Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
MONTREAL – Maxar Technologies (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), a global technology innovator powering the new space economy, was honored to host the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, at its Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, satellite manufacturing facilities on August 9 to view the final phases of construction of
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
NEW YORK – Infor, a leading provider of industry-specific cloud applications, today announced significant enhancements to Infor Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). Designed to help improve asset performance, Infor EAM is a 21st-century enterprise asset management solution with rich built-in industry-specific functionality that uses predictive and preventive technologies to extend asset life and increase efficiency. Infor
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
In a landmark development, geospatial industry leaders from across the world came together to announce the formation of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) at the 8th session of the UN-GGIM (United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management) by Jack Dangermond, Chairman of WGIC and Founder and President, Esri. WGIC is co-founded by a group of 21 companies, namely AAM Group, AGI
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, England- Argon Design Ltd, known for its award-winning family of advanced video verification solutions, announced today that it has released Argon Streams AV1. This release coincides with the formal release of the AV1 Bitstream and Decoding Process Specification by the industry wide consortium Alliance for Open Media. AV1 is the new open source and royalty-free
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
San Francisco – The forest manager’s nightmare of struggling to manage widely dispersed forestry assets in remote, challenging, and inaccessible locations is now a thing of the past with PlanetWatchers’ new Foresights Analytics Platform (Foresights). PlanetWatchers, a geospatial intelligence and enterprise natural resource monitoring services company, is the first startup in the new space revolution
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Satellite images of phytoplankton blooms on the surface of the ocean often dazzle with their diverse colors, shades and shapes. But phytoplankton are more than just nature’s watercolors: They play a key role in Earth’s climate by removing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Yet a detailed account of what becomes of that
Monday, August 13th, 2018
OTTAWA, ON – Kongsberg Geospatial Ltd., an Ottawa-based developer of geospatial visualization software, announced today the conclusion of the final trials of a new situational awareness system for emergency airspace management, in a project funded by Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC). The trials were conducted at an abandoned airfield near Pembroke, Ontario, with the participation
Friday, August 10th, 2018
Fugro is introducing a new bathymetric lidar system that delivers industry-leading depth penetration and point densities for nearshore and coastal mapping. Known as RAMMS (Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System), the field-proven technology promises to deliver an efficient and cost-effective solution, dramatically improving upon other bathymetric lidar mapping capabilities. “Traditional bathymetric lidar technology requires customers
Friday, August 10th, 2018
London/Montreal/Edinburgh – Ecometrica has forecast further years of profitable growth after its latest figures showed earnings tripled to £650,000 – almost 15 times what they were two years ago. The Edinburgh-headquartered downstream space and sustainability reporting company saw turnover increase by 109% to £5.5m in the year to the end of March. Profits were
Friday, August 10th, 2018
HERNDON, VA – SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today that it was selected by Zin Technologies to build and test the Psyche Compute Element. This critical flight system component was designed by NASA’s Jet
