Switzerland's Aeroscout recently equipped several unmanned aircraft system helicopter systems with a combined Riegl laser scanner and inertial navigation system/Global Positioning System payload solution for airborne laser scanning.
Journalism Schools Test EO Drones”And Legal Boundaries
AP style, interviewing skills and drone flying lessons? At least two journalism schools are experimenting with Earth observation (EO) unmanned aircraft systems as news-gathering tools.
Astrium GEO-Information Services Makes Its Satellite Imagery Experts Available to the International Community
Toulouse, France, March 17, 2011—Astrium GEO-Information Services is the sole distributor of the Formosat-2 satellite’s imagery. This high resolution satellite is the only satellite, due to its atypical orbit, capable of taking images of the same point every day....
Danish Meteorological Institute Partners with MDA to Create Ice Charts for the Greenland Sea
Richmond, B.C., Canada, March 21, 2013—MDA’s Information Systems group announced today that it has signed a contract to provide the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) with RADARSAT-1 and RADARSAT-2 data to create up-to-date ice charts and reports that are sent...
World Government Expenditures for Space Facing Short-Term Decline
Paris, Montreal and Washington, D.C., March 18, 2013—According to Euroconsult's newly released research report,Government Space Markets, World Prospects to 2022, government spending on space reached a peak in 2012 of $72.9 billion, a non-negligible increase compared...
GeoSpatial Experts Establishes Reseller Channel for GeoJot+ Field Data Solution
THORNTON, Colo., March 25, 2013—GeoSpatial Experts has established a global network of resellers for its new GeoJot+ field data collection system. A subscription-based cloud solution, GeoJot+ combines GeoSpatial Experts’ popular GPS-Photo Link photo-mapping...
Kenyan Firm Ramani Geosystems Purchases First UltraCam
Graz, Austria, March 14, 2013—Ramani Geosystems, an aerial mapping and surveying company based in Nairobi, Kenya, has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit to purchase an UltraCamX photogrammetric digital aerial camera system. The new camera will be...
MDA to Provide Digital Elevation Models for National Flood Hazard Analysis ¨in the Philippines
Richmond, BC, Canada, March 18. 2003—MDA’s Information Systems group has signed a contract with Accent Micro Technologies Inc. (AMTI) to provide comprehensive 3-D terrain models for the territory of the Philippines in support of a national disaster management...
MDA to Provide RADARSAT Information for Environmental Monitoring and Emergency Response Services
Richmond, BC, Canada, March 20, 2013—MDA’s Information Systems group (MDA) announced today that its Geospatial business unit will deliver RADARSAT-2 data products and change monitoring services to the Ukraine Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources...
Merrick Continues Work on 3-Year Contract with Henrico County
Aurora, Colo., March 21, 2013—Merrick & Company’s geospatial and surveying team (http://www.merrick.com/Geospatial) was awarded the third installment with Henrico County, VA, to continue the collection and processing of digital orthophototography and oblique...
