Monday, April 9th, 2018
The European Space Agency (ESA) CryoSat mission revealed that, during the last seven years, Antarctica has lost an area of underwater ice the size of Greater London. This is because warm ocean water beneath the continent’s floating margins is eating away at the ice attached to the seabed. Most Antarctic glaciers flow straight into the
Monday, April 9th, 2018
CHATTANOOGA, TN – Skytec LLC, a leading Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Drone as a Service (DaaS) provider, has been selected to join the Esri Startup program as an emerging business partner. The three-year program is part of a global Esri initiative to help emerging businesses succeed by giving them access to ArcGIS software
Monday, April 9th, 2018
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah- Nearmap, a location content provider, has partnered with the fast-growing city of Carmel, Indiana, helping it improve its stormwater billing process, resulting in the collection of about $60,000 in unclaimed revenue. Carmel turned to Nearmap to provide high-quality aerial images that are frequently updated to integrate with its existing applications, including ArcMap
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Cambridge, UK (www.1spatial.com) 1Spatial, the global geospatial software and solutions company, is pleased to announce that they have been awarded a contract from the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid, Spain) to provide a solution which implements a geospatial data quality workflow based on 1Integrate and 1Integrate for ArcGIS. The workflow
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Hallowell, Maine – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the availability of an update to the Global Mapper Academic Curriculum. Comprised of a series of hands-on lessons, the full package of lab materials is available free of charge to schools and colleges using Global Mapper in the classroom. Developed by Blue Marble Application
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based geospatial visualization software company, and SURVAE, a video and data mapping technology company based in Wilmington, NC, announced today that they have integrated the Kongsberg Geospatial IRIS UAS Ground Control Station (GCS) with SURVAE’s digital asset management platform for geolocated video, imagery and data. This capability will enable a single
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research’s (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) will host the 2018 GIS for a Sustainable World conference from April 17 through 19 in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference will showcase the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations, and, for the
Monday, April 9th, 2018
MCLEAN, Va., April 09, 2018 – Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:IRDM) announced today that the Iridium-6/GRACE-FO rideshare mission, the sixth Iridium® NEXT launch overall, has been targeted for launch by SpaceX from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California for May 19, 2018 at approximately 1:03 PM PDT (20:03 UTC). An exact instantaneous launch window time
Monday, April 9th, 2018
SAKOR Technologies, Inc., a recognized leader in the implementation of instrumentation products for dynamometer testing, announces that it has supplied a test system to Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) to be used to test the atmospheric flight control system for the Dream Chaser® spacecraft. Dream Chaser is a lifting-body, reusable, crewed or uncrewed horizontal-landing vehicle. It
Monday, April 9th, 2018
DJI, the world’s leader in creative camera technology, has updated its Zenmuse X7 camera to support the new ProRes RAW standard from Apple. Enabled through firmware updates, the Zenmuse X7 also gains performance enhancements that deliver improved workflows and image quality. These new features increase the power and efficiency of the Zenmuse X7 and reinforce
