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Thursday, December 15th, 2016

GPSengine Align with Ulbotech to Deliver Tracking Solutions

Ulbotech, long established as a key tracking device supplier in a number of market segments and GPSengine, a leading hosted platform service provider in GNSS, Telematics, IoT and Tracking, today announced a new partnership to bring support for the Ulbotech range to GPSengine’s Platform Connect service. With a range of devices catering for the vehicle

Wednesday, September 14th, 2016

Deep-Sea Sensors Aid Search for Rare Whales

Using a new system of drifting buoys, scientists from NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., will have a much better chance of hearing beaked whales in their deep-water habitat off the West Coast. About 20 buoys will be deployed from a NOAA ship with a listening device suspended 330 feet below the

Monday, May 16th, 2016

NSF Grant to Help NAU Grow Drone Technology for Biologists and Ecologists

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

Monday, February 29th, 2016

Global Food Traceability Center Issues Recommendations Guiding Development of Interoperable Seafood Traceability Technology

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Consumers are placing greater expectations on the ability to verify the authenticity, value, sustainability, quality and safety of the seafood they choose to consume which makes traceability vital for the seafood industry. The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Global Food Traceability Center outlines in detail the issues businesses in the seafood industry

Thursday, July 10th, 2014

CompassCom Empowers Real-Time Tracking of the Mobile Workforce in ArcGIS with the No-Cost Connector to Esri GeoEvent Processor

CompassCom has officially unveiled the CompassLDE Connector for the Esri ArcGIS GeoEvent Processor, allowing organizations to track the locations and status of their mobile resources – vehicles, smartphones, and other GPS-enabled assets – in real time on their Esri ArcGIS 10.2 platform.

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

Earth Networks Commits to Providing Severe Weather Warnings to Haiti

Earth Networks, the owner of WeatherBug and operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, announces it is making a formal Commitment to Action to deploy $1.5 million in state-of-the-art weather alerting infrastructure, including hardware and weather tracking technology, in Haiti in 2013. Commitments to Action are new, concrete plans with practical goals and measureable results made

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Google Can Track Ships At Sea

Google will soon make public information about virtually every ship at sea, giving the current location and identity even of American warships. Meanwhile, the company is consulting with the Navy and others about security issues. Google paid several million dollars for the satellite technology to pinpoint ships’ locations. Read More