New Jersey Search and Rescue (NJSAR), a team of more than 50 highly trained volunteers who conduct an average of 25 missing-person searches per year, installed an HP DesignJet T2500 Multifunction Printer (MFP) to produce large-format maps to aid in search-and-rescue...
2016 URISA Vanguard Cabinet Announced
Des Plaines, IL, February 9, 2016 — URISA is pleased to announce the 2016 members of its Vanguard Cabinet. The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a URISA initiative (which debuted in 2011) to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and...
Caliper Corporation Mapping Software Becomes an Associate Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
NEWTON, MA (USA) — Caliper Corporation, the leader in the development of cost-effective professional map software, has announced that is has become an associate member of the Open Geospatial Consortium. As an Associate Member, Caliper will participate in OGC's...
Proba-V Eyes Bolivia's Vanishing Lake
8 February 2016 — Monitoring Earth’s surface every day, ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite has had a ringside seat as the second largest lake in Bolivia gradually dried up. Lake Poopó has now been declared fully evaporated. The three 100-m resolution Proba-V images...
OGC Invites Input to Guide Point Cloud Standards Work
8 February 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)  Point Cloud Domain Working Group (Point Cloud DWG) formed late last year to assess the current state of standards and best practices in the management of point cloud data and to guide OGC activities in...
Korean Geotechnology Company Selects SuperGIS Desktop to Process Spatial Data
Supergeo Technologies Inc., the total GIS software and solution provider announces that Nexgeo has selected SuperGIS Desktop for processing and visualizing geospatial data. Headquartered in Seoul, Nexgeo is a Korean consulting firm and construction contractor involved...
EagleView Continues to Innovate with Development of Outdoor Lab for Drone Research at RIT
Bothell, Washington, February 5, 2016 — EagleView Technology Corporation, a leading technology provider of aerial imagery, data analytics and GIS solutions, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Pictometry International Corp., has designed and is developing an...
Esri Supports White House Police Data Initiative
Redlands, California—February 5, 2016 — Esri announced the availability of the ArcGIS Open Data Initiative for Law Enforcement, which allows police agencies of any size to build and share authoritative data for better policing and community engagement. The Esri...
Axis Acquires Leading Video Analytics Provider Citilog
STOCKHOLM — Regulatory News: Axis Communications (STO:AXIS): Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, today announced the acquisition of Citilog, a provider of intelligent real-time video monitoring for traffic and transportation security and...
Dewberry Selected to Produce High-Resolution Lidar Topography and Bathymetry Data for Puerto Rico
Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, was selected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to collect and process topographic lidar data of Puerto Rico and the islands of Culebra, Vieques, and Isla de Mona. Falling under the USGS' Geospatial Product and...
