Minutes after the 1964 magnitude-9.2 Great Alaska Earthquake began shaking, a series of tsunami waves swept through the village of Chenega in Prince William Sound, destroying all but two of the buildings and killing 23 of the 75 inhabitants. Fifty years later,...
AeroVironment's Puma AE UAS Supporting Coast Guard Ice Breaker for Operation Deep Freeze Resupply Mission through Treacherous Antarctic Seas
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — In a development that takes the life-saving capabilities of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to one of the most remote and unforgiving regions on earth, AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced it and a team from the National...
Boundless Announces Support for Complex Weather Data
Washington, DC - February 3, 2016 — Boundless, the leading provider of open source geospatial software and services, today highlighted the inclusion of NetCDF Support for Atmospheric Data in its latest release of the OpenGeo Suite, Version 4.8. Developed in...
What is the Economic Value of Satellite Imagery? The Case of Forest Management in Sweden
We, EARSC and The Green Land, investigated the benefits brought by the use of satellite imagery in managing forestry in Sweden. Our approach consisted in finding identifiable impacts for each tier of such value chain. According to our analysis, the result leads to a...
AXIS GeoSpatial Takes Delivery of the RIEGL LMS-Q1560!
RIEGL USA is pleased to announce that AXIS GeoSpatial LLC, through their purchase and delivery of the LMS-Q1560 dual LiDAR channel airborne laser scanning system, has become the latest U.S. based commercial firm to own this sensor, adding to their LiDAR and camera...
World Wetlands Day
Wetlands are land areas that are permanently or seasonally saturated with water. They play an important role in the local environment and associated plant and animal life. On 2 February 1971, the ‘Ramsar Convention on Wetlands’ was adopted in the Iranian city of...
Coordinated Measuring Flights for Climate Research “ Gravity Waves and Airglow
Gravity waves affect the climate and weather. For the first time ever, scientists from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), together with colleagues from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruher Institut für...
Woolpert Selected for Orthoimagery Collection in Florida
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. Feb 2, 2016 — Woolpert has been contracted to collect orthoimagery of St. Johns County, Fla., it was announced today. The six-inch resolution, multispectral digital imagery, collected for the entire 776 square miles, will be used by multiple...
ASI Expands Large-Area LiDAR Capabilities with Investment in Leica Geosystems Sensors
NORCROSS, GA, February 2, 2016 — Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Aerial Services, Inc. (ASI), a privately owned small business based in Cedar Falls, IA, has purchased a Leica ALS70-HP LiDAR sensor co-mounted with a four-band, 80 megapixel RCD30 imaging...
Esri Canada to Open GIS Centres of Excellence at the University of New Brunswick & York University
TORONTO – February 2, 2016 — Esri Canada, the leading provider of geographic information system (GIS) solutions, has named the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and York University (York) to its growing network of GIS Centres of Excellence in Higher Education. The...