Nokia and the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have collaborated to develop a new ecosystem to support regular commercial use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the country. With the new UAS ecosystem, the UAE will allow businesses and government...
New Aerial Survey Identifies More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102...
Uttar Pradesh Police Launch India’s Largest Emergency Operation Center with Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure Software
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -Â Uttar Pradesh Police, the largest police force in India, has opened its state-wide, centralized "Dial 100" Emergency Operation Center in the provincial capital, Lucknow. It houses India's largest police emergency response system, which is equipped...
CyberCity 3D Signs Integrator License Agreement with DigitalGlobe/Joins DigitalGlobe's Information Partner Program
El Segundo,CA - CyberCity 3D, Inc., a leading geospatial 3D modeling and streaming services company headquartered in Los Angeles County, CA, announced today that it has signed an Integrator License Agreement with Westminster, CO-based DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE:DGI),...
Global market for Remote Sensing Products Expected to Reach $13.8 Billion by 2021
NEW YORK - This Research study provides an overview of the remote sensing industry and 2016 to 2021 national-level forecasts for nine application-oriented markets. Use this report to: Gain information about the remote sensing industry, with descriptions of important...
EuroGeographics and Kadaster, The Netherlands Renew Agreement to Provide Secretariat for UN-GGIM: Europe
EuroGeographics has renewed its Service Level Agreement with The Netherlands' Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster) to provide secretariat services for UN-GGIM: Europe. Â The membership association for the European National Mapping, Cadastre and Land...
Exprodat & MapAction Take On Matthew
Exprodat, the oil and gas ArcGIS platform specialist, Esri Gold Partner and Getech group company, has always made it part of the company ethos to support their staff in pursuing extra-curricular activities and several have volunteered to work for the charity MapAction...
Investments in Open Earth Observation Data Set to Grow
Geneva - A global trend towards open data, i.e. data that anyone can access, use and share without restriction is steadily replacing a previous tendency by governments to charge for Earth observations, especially satellite imagery. The Group on Earth Observations...
Fugro Signs Multi-Year Survey Contract With U.S. Government
Fugro was recently awarded a five-year survey contract by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Task orders under this indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) type contract will support the Architect and Engineering Survey and Mapping Support...
UK Leading the Way to a 5G Future
Ordnance Survey (OS) has been chosen by the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to develop a groundbreaking planning and mapping tool that will be instrumental for the national rollout of 5G technology - the next generation of wireless communications...
