RIEGL and Aeroscout have worked closely for many years. As a pioneer in the UAV LiDAR field, Aeroscout has integrated RIEGL scanners into many of their systems. In 2016, RIEGL and Aeroscout strengthened their long-standing business relationship by entering into a...
Hexagon Acquires SigmaSpace Corporation, a Leading 3D Mapping Company
Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, today announced the acquisition of SigmaSpace Corporation, a provider of next-generation technologies used...
LizardTech White Paper Reveals 12 Hidden Gems in GeoExpress Software
SEATTLE, Wash. — Feb. 18, 2016 — LizardTech®, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, has published a white paper showing users how to access 12 little-known geospatial data manipulation tools inside its popular...
LuxCarta to Launch New Global Brand at Mobile World Congress
Sophia Antipolis, France – February 17, 2016 – LuxCarta, parent of leading geodata production companies ComputaMaps and GEOIMAGE, announced today it is moving to a single global brand. The company’s digital maps and SpacEyes3D visualization software will be...
Esri Announces Big Changes to Small Government Enterprise License Agreement Program
Redlands, California—February 17, 2016 — Esri has announced a significant change to its Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) program. Municipal and county governments serving populations between 100,000 and 250,000 that have...
Geospatial Analytics Market Worth 72.21 Billion USD by 2020
According to a new market research report "Geospatial Analytics Market by Type (Surface Analysis, Network Analysis, Geovisualization), Technology, Application, Vertical, Region (Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Latin America) - Global...
MQ-4C Triton UAS Completes Operational Assessment
NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md., Feb. 17, 2016 — The MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) built for the U.S. Navy by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully completed Operational Assessment (OA). Pending final data analysis, the...
Ball Aerospace Completes Instrument Integration on Nation’s Next Polar-orbiting Weather Satellite
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 17, 2016 — All five of the complex and critical instruments that will deliver data for NOAA's next polar-orbiting weather satellite mission have been integrated by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. on the Joint Polar Satellite System-1...
Growing Adoption of Open-Source GIS Software Driving the Global GIS Market Through 2020, Says Technavio
LONDON — According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global geographic information system (GIS) market is set to reach close to USD 16 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of more than 10%. This research report titled ‘Global GIS Market...
Sentinel-3: A New Window on the Changing State of Our Oceans
Climate change is much discussed, says Dr Simon Keogh of the Met Office, and to inform the conversation the Met Office uses historical scientific data including sea-surface temperature records, based on data from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) series of...