Washington, DC, August 24, 2015 — TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, announces a technology partnership with CHC Navigation that combines the mobile GPS collaboration platform, TerraGo Edge, with CHC’s rugged...
Azavea Awarded Research Grants to Build Web Tools for Managing and Modeling with Earth Observation Data
Philadelphia, PA, August 24, 2015 — Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software company, was awarded two Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants; one from the U.S. Department of Energy and one from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
ESO and ESA Directors General sign Cooperation Agreement
August 24, 2015 — On 20 August 2015 the Director General of ESO, Tim de Zeeuw, and the Director General of ESA, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, signed a cooperation agreement between the two organisations at ESO’s offices in Santiago, Chile. The ESA Director General was...
U.S. Army Awards AeroVironment Contracts Totaling $47 Million for RQ-11B Raven and RQ-20A Puma AE Unmanned Aircraft Systems Sustainment
MONROVIA, Calif., August 24, 2015 — AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced receipt since May 1, 2015 of ten orders from the United States Army totaling $47.1 million for RQ-11B Raven® and RQ-20A Puma™AE unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sustainment....
Blaze Terra Gives Access to over 200,000 Landsat Images
August 24, 2015 — Data - Eternix Ltd., leading provider of next-generation software for GIS visualization and editing in 3D, announces the availability of Landsat’s database through Blaze Terra, allowing users to instantly review and analyze the entire data...
Taiwan Utilizes SmartDO to Optimize the Remote Sensing Instrument of FORMOSAT-8 Satellite
August 22, 2015 - Taiwan began to collaborate with US company on designing and developing its own satellite since 1994. In January of 1999, the first satellite FORMOSAT-1 was launched, and retired in 2004. Later in 2004 and 2006 FORMOSAT-2 and FORMOSAT-3 were...
100 Resilient Cities — Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation — Teams with Trimble for Innovative Global Urban Resilience Initiative
SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 22, 2015 — 100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) is partnering with Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), which will offer a critical resilience building tool to 100RC's network cities. Using Trimble® eCognition®...
OGC Requests Comment on Discussion Papers Extending Access to 4D Weather Data Collections
August 21, 2015 — Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on a proposed OGC Discussion Paper "A MetOcean Metadata Profile for WCS 2.0" and the supporting Discussion Paper "OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard - Coverage Collection...
PTFS to Demo Multi-INT Change Detection Service with Social Media Feed at DoDIIS Conference
NORTH BETHESDA, Maryland, USA, August 21, 2015 — Progressive Technology Federal Systems Inc. (PTFS), a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, will demonstrate a Multi-INT change detection service at the 2015 Department of Defense Intelligence...
USGIF Announces New Membership Structure
Herndon, Virginia, August 21, 2015 — With members’ feedback in mind, the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) launched a new Individual Membership program and simplified its Organizational Membership. USGIF introduced the new structure at the...
