November 17, 2014
Australia’s Department of Defence has signed a three year $16.5 million agreement with geospatial giant Esri Australia that will provide more than 65,000 military and civilian personnel with access to state-of-the-art Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. The landmark partnership will see the use of Esri GIS technology extended across the entire Defence enterprise, at fixed
November 17, 2014
Nov. 17, 2014—The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Earth Observation Metadata Profile of the OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) Standard. The Earth Observation (EO) Metadata profile of Observations and Measurements is intended to provide a standard schema for encoding Earth Observation product metadata to support the description
November 12, 2014
BRUSSELS, Nov. 11, 2014—A ground-breaking agreement was signed in Brussels today between the European Commission and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). This agreement means that ECMWF will be managing the Copernicus Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services. The European Union’s flagship Copernicus programme ensures operational monitoring of the atmosphere, oceans, and continental surfaces, and
November 12, 2014
Stockholm, Sweden, Nov. 12, 2014—Airborne Hydrography AB (AHAB), an affiliate company of Leica Geosystems that works closely with the Geospatial Solutions Division, is the winner of this year’s PhotonicSweden industry award for its contribution to the field of photonics, including the development and marketing of an airborne measurement system based on LIDAR technology and the company’s
November 11, 2014
Cambridge, United Kingdom, Nov. 11, 2014—1Spatial plc, the spatial big data company, was called upon by SINFOGEO, a GIS consultancy, to provide a robust, flexible and easy-to-use cloud-based solution. This was for a public tender to complete the production of a new national 100k scale cartographic series in Spain. SINFOGEO opted to use 1Spatial Cloud for
November 10, 2014
With the first Copernicus satellite now operational, ESA and the DLR German Aerospace Center have signed an arrangement on managing and accessing Sentinel data. The Sentinel family of satellites is being developed to meet the operational needs of Europe’s environment monitoring programme, Copernicus. The first in the fleet, Sentinel-1A, was launched in April and began
November 10, 2014
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 6, 2014—Lockheed Martin has partnered with the University of Arizona to operate the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) located on Maunakea, Hawaii. The agreement expands the corporation's support of scientists pursuing a broad range of research, from the study of orbital debris to deep space astronomy. For 35 years,
November 6, 2014
Tamara Patton from the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation has been named the this year’s winner of the European Space Imaging’s High-Res Challenge with a project which aims to use the sub-daily access capability of the SkySat constellation of small satellites to monitor illegal nuclear weapons testing. A second aspect of her project is
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