Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
Redlands, California —Esri enhanced its ArcGIS technology to simplify the use of free global imagery from the Sentinel-2 satellite launched by the European Space Agency. ArcGIS supports visualization, interpretation, and analysis of Sentinel imagery, which is of significant value in applications for forestry, agriculture, land resources management, and environmental monitoring. “Scientists and GIS professionals rely
Monday, May 16th, 2016
Wildlife biologists and ecologists are data starved because current technologies for tracking small animals are time intensive and produce low sample sizes, said Paul Flikkema, Northern Arizona University professor of electrical engineering. NAU researchers have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle to find animals in the wild that
Thursday, May 5th, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS – East View Geospatial has teamed with DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), to provide access to DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform (GBDX), expanding research and design capabilities with high resolution imagery archives. The GBDX ecosystem complements East View Geospatial efforts to deliver innovative analytic solutions to customers while deepening its already rich product lines. The
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
NASA has awarded a contract to Science Systems and Applications, Inc. of Lanham, Maryland, to conduct atmospheric sciences support services for the Science Directorate at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, as well as for the broader Earth science community. The Science, Technology and Research Support Services (STARSS) III contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee follow-on
Thursday, March 17th, 2016
Lake Mary, Fla., March 3, 2016—FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:FARO), announces the achievement of another milestone in cloud-based as-built data management with the release of version 2.0 of its well-known web hosting service, SCENE WebShare Cloud. SCENE WebShare Cloud 2.0 is the first cloud-based software unleashing the power of fluid 3D viewing of 3D laser scan
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
The precursor laser technology to the EDRS SpaceDataHighway relayed a radar scan of the Brazilian coast to the DLR German Aerospace Center mere seconds after it was collected. It was then processed in a record-breaking 13 minutes, showing the surrounding ships just five minutes later. The information was gathered by Sentinel-1A over the South Atlantic
Monday, February 29th, 2016
Feb. 29, 2016—Operators of UK transport networks are the first who are set to benefit from Live Land, a satellite-based land monitoring system developed through ESA. Transport operators across the UK face significant challenges in monitoring and detecting landslides and subsidence across their networks. Incidents in the vicinity of roads and railways, resulting from such
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 24, 2016 – Hundreds of methane-emitting hot spots have been identified across the Los Angeles Basin, including a “clean ports” truck refueling facility near the Port of Long Beach, power plants, water treatment facilities, and cattle in Chino, according to new findings by the University of California, Irvine. Atmospheric scientists conducted a
