Anchorage, Alaska, March 26, 2014—DAT/EM Systems International® is pleased to announce The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. purchased its software to support in-house mapping, orthorectification, mosaicking and triangulation activities for commercial mapping projects in...
East View Celebrates 25 Years
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 31, 2014—East View Information Services is proud to announce its 25th year anniversary as a premier provider of uncommon information from extraordinary places. In 1989, a Soviet military specialist in Moscow and an American graduate student...
Elbit Systems Awarded Contract to Supply Brazil with Hermes 900 UAS
HAIFA, Israel, March 26, 2014—Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: ESLT) ("Elbit Systems") announced today that it was awarded a contract by the Brazilian Air Force ("FAB") for the supply of a Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft System ("UAS"). The Hermes 900, which will...
MDA Provides RADARSAT-2 Information to the ¨Malaysia Remote Sensing Agency
Richmond, Canada, March 26, 2014—MDA’s Information Systems group (MDA) announced today that it has signed a contract with the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA) to provide RADARSAT-2 information that will be used to support a number of applications, such as...
New Virtual NAPSG Center Supplies Mapping Resources, Expertise to Public Safety Agencies Nationwide
Redlands, Calif., March 26, 2014—Esri and the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation announced the creation of a new cloud-based, virtual center that will supply public safety and homeland security agencies with valuable tools, resources, and...
Surdex First in United States to Operate Leica ADS100 Digital Imaging Sensors
NORCROSS, Ga., March 26, 2014—Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Surdex Corporation has received delivery of its third Leica ADS100 digital imaging sensor. Two units were delivered in June 2013, which were the first Leica ADS100 systems to become operational...
Triton Unmanned Aircraft System Completes Initial Flight Test Phase
Patuxent River, Md., March 21, 2014—The Navy's MQ-4C Triton completed its initial flight test phase at Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, Calif., facility March 13, bringing the unmanned air system one step closer to introduction to the fleet in 2017. The flight testing,...
Unmanned Aircraft Reach New Heights with Warsaw Polytechnic & Lockheed Martin Partnership
WARSAW, Poland, March 20, 2014—Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw Polytechnic) will jointly conduct an advanced applied research program in the field of integration between manned and unmanned airborne platform systems. The program adds...
Birds and Shrimp Flourish in India's Largest Lagoon
Located in southeastern India, Chilika is best known as a mecca for birds, which are attracted by the hundreds of species of fish and other aquatic life. During peak migratory season, the lake hosts more than 1 million birds from more than 200 species. Also, the number of shrimp farms around Chilika has increased dramatically in recent decades.
Deal for Sentinel-5 Air Quality Sensor Inked
The €144 million contract for the Sentinel-5 instrument of Europe's Copernicus program was signed with Airbus Defence and Space on March 28, 2014, in Ottobrunn, Germany.
