CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 19, 2015 — Panoptes Systems is excited to introduce the eBumper4, the first commercially-available, sonar-based, small drone obstacle avoidance system. Running into obstacles is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome for effective drone...
Airbus Defence and Space Selects Arianespace to Launch EDRS-C Satellite
March 19, 2015 — Airbus Defence and Space and Arianespace have reached an agreement for the launch of EDRS-C which is the second geostationary satellite of the SpaceDataHighway system. The launch is scheduled for the first quarter in 2017. EDRS-C will increase the...
Paolo E. Colombi Named Global Sales Lead for Harris Corporation's Geospatial Solutions Business Area
March 18, 2015 — Harris is pleased to announce that Paolo E. Colombi has joined Harris as Head of Global Sales for Geospatial Solutions. Paolo is responsible for bringing Harris’ IntelliEarth™ Geospatial Solutions to global markets. In this capacity, he leads...
Higher Resolution Satellite Imagery Now a Highly Competitive Alternative to Aerial Imagery for Global Applications
Munich, March 18, 2015 — European Space Imaging announced today that they are now able to supply 30 cm imagery from the WorldView-3 satellite for European and North African customers wishing to use the most sophisticated very high-resolution satellite imagery on the...
WorldDEM, the New-Class 3D Model, Now Available for More than 50% of the Global Landmass
March 18, 2015 — The availability of WorldDEM, the global pole-to-pole Digital Elevation Model, is continuously expanding and now extends to more than 50% of the Earth’s landmass. The 3D mapping database now covers large parts of Northern and Southern America,...
BlackBridge Providing Precision Farm info for FarmLogs
March 18, 2015 — BlackBridge announced its partnership with FarmLogs, a farm management software and data-science company, to provide the U.S. with satellite imagery for crop health and field performance analysis. Through the partnership, FarmLogs will leverage...
Manchester Climate Instruments Take a Ride on NASA's Global Hawk
March 18, 2015 — The unmanned aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Centre, California, can fly at twice the height of Mount Everest and double the altitude of a commercial jet for more than a day at a time, travelling the equivalent of half of the...
Improve Underground Utilities Management and Public Safety by 3D GIS
March 18, 2015 — Developed by Supergeo Technologies, SuperGIS 3D Earth Server is going to support underground utilities management. The breakthrough tech enables administrators to comprehend the distribution of underground utilities that cannot be seen in daily life...
GEOVISION Utilizes SuperGIS for Maritime and Land GIS Planning
March 18, 2015 — Supergeo Technologies Inc., the leading GIS software and solution provider, announces that GEOVISION, Nouvelle-Calédonie, selects cross-platform SuperGIS series products, SuperGIS Desktop, SuperSurv and SuperVeyor, to elevate its maritime and land...
Maponics Reinforces Position in the Spatial Data Industry With the Acquisition of Certain Assets of Urban Mapping, Inc.
White River Juction, Vt., March 18, 2015 — Maponics, a leading provider of spatial data, today announced the acquisition of Urban Mapping's Neighborhood product and related assets from Silicon Valley-based Urban Mapping, Inc. Urban Mapping is a geospatial web and...
