COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) aerial acquisition team will mobilize to Arkansas to collect high-resolution imagery to map the entire state of Arkansas under the 2017-2018 Statewide Orthoimagery Program. The firm will collect more...
DigitalGlobe Adds New, Innovative Partners to Its Rapidly Growing Geospatial Big Data Ecosystem
WESTMINSTER, Colo.- DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, announced the growth of its ecosystem of content producers and consumers who leverage the Company’s Geospatial Big Data analytics...
Leica Geosystems Partners with Geolantis to Integrate a Cloud Based Utility Mapping Platform
(Heerbrugg, Switzerland; Klagenfurt, Austria, 8 February 2017) – Leica Geosystems, global leader of measurement and digital reality capture technologies, has teamed with Geolantis, a provider and developer of the best-in-class cloud based utility mapping and...
PCI Joins the Geological Remote Sensing Group
Following an incredibly successful 2016 for the Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG), 2017 has started at a similarly active pace with the news that Canadian-based supplier of geo-imaging software solutions, PCI Geomatics has decided to join as a Corporate Member....
NRCS California Concludes Eight-Year Mapping Survey of Los Angeles Soils
Conservation Service (NRCS) in California has concluded an eight-year project creating an inventory of the soil properties and their associated landscapes within the southeastern section of Los Angeles County. The City of Los Angeles, included in this survey, was the...
DigitalGlobe Completes Testing and Calibration of WorldView-4 and Begins Serving the Satellite's First Direct Access Customer
WESTMINSTER, Colo. — DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced that the WorldView-4 satellite successfully completed in-orbit testing and calibration and began serving its first...
Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google
WASHINGTON — Commercial remote sensing company Planet announced Feb. 3 it was acquiring rival Terra Bella from Google for an undisclosed sum, bringing together what the companies believe are complementary capabilities to image the Earth from space. Under the deal,...
Putting Disease on the Map
Redlands, California—The new edition of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine from Esri traces the long history of how maps have been used to help unlock the mysteries behind the cause and spread of diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, and Ebola....
Oncor Upgrades to Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure’s GIS and Network Modelling Solution
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -Â Oncor Electric Delivery Company (Oncor) has selected Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure to deliver geospatial data across the company's operations. Hexagon's geographic information system (GIS) and network modelling solution will coordinate with...
Leica Geosystems Wins Prestigious PRISM Award and Geospatial World Innovation Award
Heerbrugg, Switzerland; 2 February 2017 – Leica Geosystems, a global leader of measurement and reality capture technology, today announced it has won both the 2017 PRISM Award for Photonics Innovation and the 2017 Geospatial World Innovation Award. The 2017 PRISM...
