Hallowell, Maine, Aug. 26, 2014—Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the featured speakers for the 2014 Blue Marble User Conference (BMUC) to be held in Calgary, which will be the first of two User Conferences this year. Blue Marble's...
Leica Geosystems Welcomes Bryan Baker as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Sales Manager
NORCROSS, Ga., Aug. 28, 2014—Leica Geosystems has hired Bryan Baker as UAS Sales Manager, NAFTA.  In his new role, Baker will apply his aviation expertise and extensive geospatial experience to lead the adoption and strategic growth of Leica Geosystems’ UAS...
LizardTech to Host Workshop at GeCo in the Rockies
SEATTLE, Aug. 26, 2014—LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content,  will exhibit at the upcoming GeCo in the Rockies Conference in Grand Junction, Colo. The conference will take place in September and will...
PCI Geomatics Rolls out the Geomatica 2014 Roadshow
RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 27, 2014—PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today a series of online and live events focused on the Geomatica 2014 software release. The Geomatica 2014...
URISA Announces GIS-Pro 2014 Virtual Conference Agenda
Des Plaines, Ill., Aug. 28, 2014—GIS-Pro 2014: URISA’s 52nd Annual Conference is taking place September 8-11 in New Orleans, Louisiana. For those unable to travel to the conference due to budget or time constraints, there is a unique opportunity to participate...
Young GIS Practitioners Encouraged to Apply to URISA Vanguard Cabinet
Des Plaines, Ill., Aug. 29, 2014—URISA is pleased to announce the availability of the 2015 Vanguard Cabinet application. The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a URISA initiative which debuted in 2011 to engage young GIS practitioners (35 and under), increase their numbers in...
DMCii Invests for the Future
GUILDFORD, United Kingdom, Aug. 28, 2014—DMC International Imaging (DMCii), the global satellite imagery products and services provider, have made major improvements to their data centre, involving a full internal upgrade of processing systems. Over five billion sq....
Estimates of the Value of the UAV Market Vary Widely
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 2, 2014—Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones, remotely piloted vehicles. Intriguing yet sometimes controversial. No form of technology has provided as much fascination since man first undertook powered flight. Recent years has seen an increase in...
Unmanned Aircraft Partnership Reaches Major Milestone
WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 29, 2014—A team of research students and staff from Warsaw University of Technology have successfully demonstrated the first phase of flight test and integration of unmanned aircraft platforms with an autonomous mission control system. The...
Earth Pulling Apart at the Seams
Like some fantastic land conjured by a storyteller, Ethiopia's Danakil Depression (or Afar Depression) exhibits some uncommon wonders: lava that burns blue, bright yellow hot springs and lakes of bubbling mud. These otherworldly oddities are all manifestations of a tectonic process called continental rifting.
