December 9, 2014
MapStory quietly opened up for public registration back in March of 2013. Since then, people from all over the world have uploaded their open data or leveraged the data shared by others to create their own MapStories. In turn, their work has been viewed more than 100 million times across six continents and been featured
December 9, 2014
Dec. 9, 2014—Agrian Inc. announced today that beginning in January 2015, Agrian users will have access to all current and historical BlackBridge satellite imagery available through the BlackBridge Agriculture Monitoring Service in the U.S. and Canada—for a nominal fee. The new partnership gives Agrian the ability to leverage BlackBridge’s RapidEye constellation of five identical satellites
December 9, 2014
HERNDON, Va., Dec. 8, 2014 – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) became the first intelligence agency to host an operational capability within Amazon Web Services’ Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment after Lockheed Martin deployed the interactive map for NGA’s Map of the World to the C2S environment. The Map of the World initiative acts as an
December 9, 2014
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has signed as the leader of the industrial team (including Thales Alenia Space as co-prime contractor), a contract with the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates (UAEAF) for the development, manufacture and launch of Falcon Eye, a high-performance optical Earth-observation satellite system. The contract was officially
December 8, 2014
Kassel, Germany and Adana, Turkey, Dec. 5, 2014—The Turkish distributor of Leica Geosystems SISTEM A.S., the project management service provider NRJ Engineering and the German multicopter- manufacturer Aibotix inspected the famous Sabancı Merkez Mosque in Adana by UAS and created a detailed 3D model. The largest mosque in Turkey has six minarets, four of them are
December 8, 2014
Dec. 4, 2014—For more than 18 months, engineers have been carefully piecing together the many components that make up ESA’s Sentinel-3A satellite. Now hosting an array of instruments to provide a wealth of information about Earth’s oceans and land, the satellite is complete, standing proud for testing. Scheduled for launch at the end of 2015,
December 8, 2014
MINNETONKA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2014—East View Information Services is celebrating a 25-year milestone as a premier provider of uncommon information from extraordinary places on topics from Russian military strategy to Chinese cultural relics, and everything in between. In 1989, a Soviet military specialist in Moscow and an American graduate student in New York City decided to start a business
December 7, 2014
Ariane 5 has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, for the 63rd time in a row, once again confirming the reliability of the European launcher developed and built by Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s number two space technology company. The required performance for this, the 221st Ariane flight – for which Arianespace conducted the launch operations
December 6, 2014
Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies announces that is has delivered the technological solution for a county wide Mobile Mapping portal. The Orbit Mobile Mapping Publisher will host 24 million 360 degree images as well as pointclouds covering the whole territory. “We’re very happy that the Flemish Government has chosen the Orbit GT solutions to power their county wide
December 6, 2014
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, as the prime contractor to develop and construct the first Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 satellite. Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 is a mission to carry out high-precision measurements of ocean surface topography. The satellite will measure its distance to the ocean surface with an accuracy
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