MINNEAPOLISÂ -Â East View Geospatial has teamed with DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), to provide access to DigitalGlobe's Geospatial Big Data platform (GBDX), expanding research and design capabilities with high resolution imagery archives. The GBDX ecosystem...
New Esri Workbook Teaches Basic Mapmaking and Spatial Analysis Techniques
Redlands, California —The new edition of GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook, published by Esri, teaches the fundamentals of using geographic information system (GIS) technology, including making maps, geocoding data, and analyzing spatial data. The workbook, updated for...
FAA Administrator Makes Two Major Drone Announcements
Speaking today at the AUVSI annual conference in New Orleans, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced the agency is establishing a broad-based advisory committee that will provide advice on key unmanned aircraft integration issues. He also announced plans to make...
OGC Requests Comment on Charter for Land Administration Domain Working Group
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Land Administration Domain Working Group (DWG). Worldwide, effective and efficient land administration is an ongoing concern. Only 40 countries around the world have...
NASA, AeroVironment and SmartC2 Team for Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Flight Demonstration
NEW ORLEANS (XPONENTIAL 2016), MAY 3, 2016 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a world leader in small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today announced that the company – in partnership with SmartC2, a leading provider of flight business management systems –...
Digital Map App Popular with Outdoor Enthusiasts Surpasses 1M Downloads Mark
TORONTO, May 3, 2016 — Avenza Systems Inc., the leading developer of cartographic software—such as MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop— is excited to announce that its PDF Maps app recently surpassed the...
UrtheCast Reports Major Milestone Achieved in Proving its Revolutionary Dual-Frequency SAR Technology
Vancouver, May 3, 2016 — UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR) (“UrtheCast†or the “Companyâ€) today announces that it has successfully completed prototype hardware testing of the principal core enabling elements of our ground-breaking Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)...
Ready to Build the Biomass Forest Mission
ESA and Airbus Defence and Space UK signed a €229 million contract on 29 April to build the next Earth Explorer: the Biomass satellite, due to begin its mission in 2021. The satellite will provide global maps of how much carbon is stored in the world’s forests and...
Launch of US Subsidiary by Professional Drone World Leader Delair-Tech
AUVSI’s Xponential, New Orleans, May 2nd 2016: Delair-Tech, a french pioneer and world leader in the professional civilian drone industry, announces, during the AUVSI’s Xponential exhibition, the opening of a subsidiary in the United States – a country which is...
AeroVironment Unveils Mantis i45 EO/IR Gimbal Payload for Puma AE, Delivering a Dramatic Leap in Small UAS Image Resolution and ISR Capability
NEW ORLEANS (XPONENTIAL 2016), MAY 2, 2016 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a world leader in small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today unveiled its new Mantis i45 electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) gimbal payload designed for AeroVironment Puma™ AE (All...
