Swindon, UK, 09 June 2016 – CartoConsult has completed a 3D mapping project for Pearson’s Business School, London. Commissioned by Hunterlodge Advertising, CartoConsult produced a range of 3D images for Pearson Business School and Escape Studio’s 2016 prospectus...
Bluesky's 3D Aerial Laser Maps Inform BIM Projects
Leicestershire, UK, 09 June 2016 – 3D models produced from aircraft mounted lasers are being used by survey company Greenhatch Group to help inform a range of Building Information Modelling (BIM) projects. Downloaded from aerial mapping company Bluesky’s online...
The Carbon Project Selected to Support Major Mapping Testbed
ALEXANDRIA, VA - The Carbon Project today announced it has been selected by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGCR) to support the Testbed 12 Interoperability Initiative. In OGC Testbed 12, major sponsoring organizations work with technology providers from around the...
MDA Awarded Follow-On Contract to Support NGA with Persistent Change Detection
RICHMOND, BC — MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA" or the "Company") (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has been awarded a follow-on contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to...
Merrick-Surdex JV Awarded Contract with USGS
June 7, 2016 – COLORADO – The Merrick-Surdex Joint Venture (JV) has signed a five-year, multimillion dollar Geospatial Product and Services Contract (GPSC) with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to provide mapping and surveying services. GPSC is a suite...
Flight of the RoboBee
Increasingly, researchers are designing robots with forms and functions that defy our expectation of what a machine can be or do. One of the more unexpected robotics applications in recent years comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported "RoboBees"...
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service Selects Web Mapping from Cadcorp to Support Tactical and Strategic Planning
STEVENAGE, United Kingdom, 7 June 2016 – Web mapping from British software developer Cadcorp is to provide location intelligence to firefighters and analysts in a large metropolitan fire and rescue service in the UK. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) has...
Down Under “ SOFIA Flying Observatory with Three Instruments in New Zealand
SOFIA is in New Zealand for the third time – it visited the country in 2013 and 2015 as well. On 6 June 2016, the joint NASA and German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) flying observatory landed at Christchurch Internationl Airport...
Orbit Logic Awarded Air Force Space Situational Awareness Contract
GREENBELT, MD, June 6, 2016 – Orbit Logic has signed a Phase II SBIR contract sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to research and implement software to optimize the scheduling of observations of known space objects and the search for unknown space...
Wanted: Mobile Apps to Handle Big Data from Space
An array of Earth observation satellites, including the Sentinels involved in Europe's Copernicus programme, collect untold amounts of data as they circle our planet. This high-resolution imagery and further information on climates and environments present tremendous...
