COPENHAGEN, August 4, 2015 — Phase One Industrial, a leading manufacturer and provider of medium format aerial digital photography equipment and software solutions, today introduced the iXU-R camera series. Available in 80 MP, 60MP and 60MP achromatic versions,...
Protected Military SatCom Network Live for Global Deployment
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 31, 2015 — One of the world’s most impenetrable satellite communications systems, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to serve the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands and the U.K., is now live. Those nations now have a modern, operational...
New England Maps Adding Trails
July 30, 2015 — Several of the new US Topo quadrangles for New Hampshire and Vermont now display parts of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (A.T.) and other selected public trails. Also, parts of the new maps for Connecticut and Massachusetts feature segments of...
Timmons Group to Provide Performance Measures for the National Association of State Foresters
Richmond, VA, July 30, 2015 — The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) recently selected Timmons Group to assist in the process of defining State Forestry Performance Measures. The project will work to define a concise set of national priority...
TerraSAR-X Satellite Feeding of Copernicus Data Warehouse Extended until 2020
July 30, 2015 — Airbus Defence and Space, owner of the commercial distribution rights for TerraSAR-X data, and ESA have signed a contract securing the continued supply of TerraSAR-X data for the Copernicus Data Warehouse. The agreement is valid until the end of...
A3 Edge Digital Mapping System Upgrades Oblique Capabilities
Tel Aviv, Israel, July 30, 2015 — VisionMap announced today the introduction of upgraded oblique capabilities to its A3 Edge Digital Mapping System. The A3 Edge camera, well known for its high capture productivity, now utilizes a proprietary Roll Stabilization...
Surfing for Science
July 29, 2015 —Thanks to a new system developed by scientists in the UK, taking to the waves for a spot of surfing can benefit research into the health of coastal waters, and could help confirm satellite measurements of sea-surface temperature. The system, developed...
FAA: Wildfires and Drones Don't Mix
WASHINGTON, July 29, 2015 — Responding to recent incidents in which unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), also known as “drones,†interfered with manned aircraft involved in wildland firefighting operations, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation...
Two ASPRS Awards for Pit-Free CHM Algorithm
July 29, 2015 — The paper “Generating Pit-free Canopy Height Models from Airborne LiDAR†co-authored by rapidlasso GmbH and published in the September 2014 issue of PE&RS (the journal of the ASPRS) was awarded twice at the IGTF 2015 – ASPRS Annual...
TerraGo to Demonstrate Advanced GPS and GIS Solutions at InfoAg 2015
Washington, D.C., July 29, 2015 — TerraGo®, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, will exhibit at the InfoAg Conference which takes place July 28-30 at Union Station in St. Louis. TerraGo’s mobile GPS data collection and...
