May 12, 2015 — GIM International, the global print and media platform for geomatics, is excited to announce the inaugural GIM International Summit which it will be organising from 10-12 February 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The conference is a brand-new event...
Accident A400M in Seville
May 11, 2015 — Airbus Defence and Space confirms that an A400M aircraft has been involved in an accident near Sevilla (Spain) Airport on May 09, 2015 around 13:00 local time. The aircraft with the serial number MSN023, was making the first production flight and had...
Exelis ENVI Analytics now on DigitalGlobe's Geospatial Big Data Platform
BOULDER, Colo., May 8, 2015 — Exelis (NYSE: XLS) and DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI) have agreed to provide a new commercial offering of cloud-based ENVI earth science analytics for the DigitalGlobe Geospatial Big Data (GBD) platform. ENVI is the industry-leading...
PrecisionHawk Signs UAV Research Agreement with FAA to Address Extended Visual Line of Sight
RALEIGH, N.C., May 8, 2015 — PrecisionHawk has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to advance the research around unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) across rural areas. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta...
OnBase by Hyland Enhances Esri Integration with the Release of OnBase 15
Cleveland, Ohio, May 08, 2015 — The newest annual release of OnBase 15 includes more than 2,000 customer-focused enhancements, including the ability to place documents and content on a map within OnBase leveraging the Esri® ArcGIS platform. The integration...
Citation Recognizes Development of National Mapping Standards
TAMPA, Fla., May 8, 2015 — Dr. Qassim Abdullah was awarded a Presidential Citation from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) at the 2015 ASPRS Conference on Wednesday, May 6, in Tampa, Fla. Abdullah, a senior geospatial scientist and...
DroneMetrex Selects Dacosmo Company as Exclusive Reseller in China & Taiwan
May 7, 2015 — DroneMetrex, a developer and manufacturer of TopoDrones - unique photogrammetric mapping UAV systems, is proud to announce that it has awarded Dacosmo Company with the exclusive reseller contract in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Dr.He Ru,...
FAA's B4UFLY App Will Help UAS Pilots Operate Safely and Legally
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2015 — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today demonstrated a new smartphone application called “B4UFLY,†designed to help model aircraft and unmanned aircraft (UAS) users know if it is safe and...
Airgon Announces Technical Workshop for Drone Collected Volumetrics
Huntsville, AL, May 7, 2015 — AirGon LLC is pleased to announce a 2 day Technical Workshop for Drone Collected Volumetrics to be held in Toronto, Canada. This event will be a comprehensive overview of using a small UAS (drone) to collect and process data for...
PlexiDrone Achieves Canada’s Highest Grossing Crowdfunding Campaign
TORONTO, May 7, 2015 — DreamQii, a robotics company based out of the DMZ at Ryerson University, has led the highest grossing Canadian campaign in Indiegogo's history, raising over $2 million USD (over C$2.5 million) to support the production of PlexiDrone. The...
