A gloomy icon of its depressed population, North Korea is almost completely blacked out at night compared with the bright city lights in neighboring South Korea and China. In this astronaut photo taken from the International Space Station, the darkened country strangely appears as if it is a patch of water connecting the Yellow Sea to the Sea of Japan.
A storm wave dropped 15 inches of rain on southern England December 2013-January 2014”the wettest two-month period on record since 1910. The rain and flooding continued into February.
During its first two months, the European Space Agency's Proba-V minisatellite collected more than 5,000 images, 65 daily global maps and six 10-day global syntheses, plus gave us a quick peek at the Olympics.
Hexagon, a global provider of design, measurement and visualization solutions, acquired Aibotix, the maker of the Aibot X6, a multirotor, vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft system.
Innovative technology was a key focus at this year's International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), held Feb. 17-19 in Denver. Topics included waveform processing and commercial unmanned aircraft.
Kassel, Germany, Feb. 5, 2014—The year 2014 has just started and the company Aibotix from Kassel presents its new version of the Aibot X6, the Aibot X6 V2, just on time for the new year. After having sold more than 150 copters worldwide, Aibotix starts off to the...
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Feb. 10, 2014—The Compass family of geospatial companies reminds organizations involved in recovery efforts related to the 2013 Colorado floods they may still obtain GIS and mapping support at no or low cost through the Compass4Colorado program....
Redlands, Calif., Feb. 10, 2014—Fourth in Esri's "Mapping the Nation" series, Mapping the Nation: Supporting Decisions that Govern a People demonstrates how geographic information system (GIS) technology is being used by the United States federal government to...
BREST, France, Feb. 17, 2014—iXBlue, a leading provider of navigation, positioning, and mapping solutions, today launched its new ATLANS-C position and orientation system, developed in close cooperation with Septentrio Satellite Navigation. The system is designed to...
Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 6, 2014—LiDAR USA, is proud to announce the integration of the NovAtel STIM300 INS into ScanLook Snoopy. Late in 2013 NovAtel released the STIM300 IMU from Sensonor as part of their INS line of positioning products. After receiving a system in...
