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...
Mercury Project Solutions Partners with what3words
Sydney, May 31, 2016– Location Information Management firm Mercury Project Solutions is proud to announce it has been appointed “Authorised Solutions Consultant†(ASC) for what3words projects in Australia and New Zealand. what3words is a multi-award winning...
TerraGo Edge Now Available with All Ruggedized Android Tablets from DT Research
Washington, D.C. – June 2, 2016 – TerraGo is pleased to announce a technology partnership that matches the ruggedized performance of high-accuracy, ruggedized GNSS tablets with TerraGo’s industry-leading platform TerraGo Edge, to enable organizations to...
CoreLogic Storm Surge Analysis Identifies More Than 6.8 Million US Homes at Risk of Hurricane Storm Surge Damage in 2016
IRVINE, Calif., June 1, 2016 – CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, today released its 2016 Storm Surge Report which concludes that more than 6.8 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts...
Mapping that Sinking Feeling
For a low-lying, densely populated country like the Netherlands, monitoring subsidence is critical. Until recently, tiny displacements in the ground beneath our feet couldn’t be mapped nationally but, thanks to the Sentinel-1 mission, this is now possible. Focusing...
Increasing Adoption of Hyperspectral Imaging Boosting Global Market, Reports BCC Research
WELLESLEY, MA, June 01, 2016 - Rising demand for high-bandwidth communication and installation of higher capacity communication networks is growing demand for highly precise hyperspectral imaging. BCC Research anticipates in its new report that the hyperspectral...