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...
NSF Awards $6 Million to UK and Three Partner Schools to Develop Weather Research Drones
LEXINGTON, Ky., August 20, 2015 — A $6 million National Science Foundation grant will allow researchers at the University of Kentucky, Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, and University of Nebraska to develop unmanned aircraft systems, otherwise known...
ASPRS Launches New Lidar Certification
Bethesda, Md., August 19, 2015 — The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) certification program announces the launch of a Professional and Technologist LIDAR Certification, the Certified Mapping Scientists, Lidar (CMS, Lidar) and the...
French Energy Company SPIE Chooses SuperPad To Enhance Survey Efficiency
August 19, 2015 — Supergeo, the total GIS software solution provider, announces that SPIE, France, chooses SuperPad, the mapping application designed for Windows Mobile, to empower its streetlights and other utilities survey works. SPIE, the European leading company...
OGC Requests Comment on Standard Model and Encoding for Timeseries Data
August 18, 2015 — Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on proposed OGC standards for the representation of observations as timeseries, that is, a sequence of data values which are ordered in time. The OGC Timeseries Profile of...
Buttoned Up: Lockheed Martin-Built MUOS-4 Secure Communications Satellite Encapsulated for August 31 Launch
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., August 14, 2015 — The fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)satellite built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the U.S. Navy was encapsulated in its protective launch vehicle fairing August 10. It is scheduled to launch...
