MANCHESTER, Conn. -Â PhotoFlight Aerial Media www.photoflightam.com, the leading national commercial drone service provider offering state of the art FAA authorized UAV aerial media services, announced today it has acquired 500 Feet Drones, LLC and Stribog Media LLC,...
Kratos Receives $1.6 Million Single Award Contract for New, In Development, High Performance Unmanned Aerial Drone System
SAN DIEGO - Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Unmanned Systems Division (USD) recently received an initial $1.6 million single award contract related to a new, in...
TomTom HD Map for Autonomous Driving Now Covers Mainland US Interstate Road Network
DEARBORN, Mich.- Connected Car Detroit, – TomTom (TOM2) today announces it has completed the expansion of its High Definition (HD) Map product to the entire mainland US interstate network, now covering over 185,000 kilometres** of interstates and highways across the...
UrtheCast Receives C$17.6 million of Funding from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to Support Development of OptiSARTM Satellite Constellation
VANCOUVER - UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR) ("UrtheCast" or the "Company") today announces that it will receive approximately $17.6 million in funding from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's Industrial Technologies Office as part of its Strategic Aerospace...
Airbus Ships First High-Power All-Electric EUTELSAT 172B Satellite to Kourou for Eutelsat.
Toulouse – EUTELSAT 172B, the first high power all-electric telecommunications satellite, is now ready for shipment on 20 March from the Airbus satellite assembly facility in Toulouse to Kourou, French Guiana for Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite...
The Getech Group Delivers Insights into African Lakes from Space
Getech, providers of natural resources exploration data and information expertise, has recently developed a new gravity data product that will enhance explorationists’ understanding of the East African Rift.  Potential fields data have proved particularly...
Cadcorp SIS Service Release Brings Extensive Support to Latest Ordnance Survey Products
Cadcorp has launched a new Network Manager application in the latest service release of Cadcorp SIS 8.0. The application loads OS MasterMap Highways Network data into a structured topological network that includes roads, paths, and asset management information. This...
Black Swift Technologies Summits Extreme Altitude Mapping Test of Mount Evans (14,265′) with Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS)
Boulder, CO – (March 14, 2017) – Overcoming the challenges of mapping terrain in difficult conditions at altitudes exceeding 14,000 feet using a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS), Black Swift Technologies (BST), a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder,...
OGC Publishes Moving Features Access Specification as a Standard for Rapid and Advanced Utilization of Location Data for Moving Features
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is excited to announce that it has published Moving Features Access as an official standard. Moving Features Access defines location data access operations so that big data from moving features, such as people and vehicles, can...
InterDrone Acquired by Emerald Expositions LLC
MELVILLE, N.Y. — BZ Media LLCannounced today that InterDrone™The International Drone Conference & Exposition has been acquired by Emerald Expositions LLC, the largest producer of trade shows in North America. InterDrone 2016 drew 3,518 attendees from 54...