Esri Geospatial Technology Speeds Analysis for US Army

Redlands, Calif., April 7, 2014—Esri has provided a recently revised set of customized templates to the US Army for its Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A). These easy-to-use templates come with maps, analytic capabilities, and other visualization...

NGA Joins GitHub, Offers Code to Help Disaster Response

SPRINGFIELD, Va., April 10, 2014—The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency this week joined GitHub, a popular social network that allows programmers to collaborate and share computer code between users.  The network allows developers to modify, distribute and...

Psomas Chooses Optech Lynx SG1 Mobile Mapper for Highway Surveying

Toronto, April 14, 2014—Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of high-accuracy lidar 3D survey systems and productivity-enhancing workflow software, is pleased to announce delivery of a Lynx SG1 Mobile Mapper™ to Psomas. One of the...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Deploys RIEGL LMS-Q1560

Orlando, Fla., April 7, 2014—RIEGL USA is proud to announce that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recently deployed its RIEGL LMS-Q1560 airborne laser scanner system! NASA JPL is utilizing the RIEGL LMS-Q1560 to more completely and accurately measure snowpack...

Sewall and CAI Technologies Announce New Cooperative Agreement

OLD TOWN, Maine, and LITTLETON, N.H., April 8, 2014—James W. Sewall Company of Old Town, Maine, and Cartographic Associates, Inc. (dba CAI Technologies) of Littleton, New Hampshire, have announced a new cooperative agreement whereby clients will benefit from the...

Unlocking Radar's Full Potential

Unlocking Radar's Full Potential

More individuals and organizations are harnessing the power of radar mapping data. By Rob Mott, vice president of Geospatial Solutions, Intergraph Government Solutions (www.intergraphgovsolutions.com), Madison, Ala. Radar has become one of the most versatile remote...

How to Interpret a False-Color Satellite Image

How to Interpret a False-Color Satellite Image

How can a forest be red and a cloud blue? It depends on the processes used to transform satellite measurements into images. In our photo-saturated world, it’s natural to think of the images on NASA’s Earth Observatory website as snapshots from space. But most...