21 January 2016 — The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC Emergency and Disaster Management Information Framework Discussion Paper. This paper proposes the establishment of information management ecosystems for...
Bluesky Revolutionises Aerial Photomap Production with Microsoft UltraMap
Leicestershire, UK, 20 January 2016 — Aerial mapping company Bluesky has revolutionised the production of aerial photography, reducing the time taken to process the terabytes of data captured by more than 75 percent. Following a major research project, the team at...
Esri Debuts Solutions to Help Organizations Compete in FCC Auction
Redlands, California—January 19, 2016 — Enterprises of all sizes can now gain a competitive edge in the 2016 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 600-MHz spectrum auction using Esri Solutions for Smart Spectrum Analysis. With three offerings available, Esri's...
W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group publishes First Public Working Draft of its Best Practices
19 January 2016 — The W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of its Best Practices document for Spatial Data on the Web. This is a concerted attempt to bring together techniques used by the geospatial industry...
Indonesian City Gears up Smart City Roadmap with Smart Mapping Tech
The City of Depok, located in the West Java Province, Indonesia, has cemented its commitment to achieve smart city status by 2025 by leveraging state-of-the-art mapping technology to boost government efficiency and productivity. The 2015 winner of the Indonesian Smart...
Ordnance Survey to Map Oman's World Class Geospatial Path
Ordnance Survey (OS) has signed a deal with the Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Defence to help the National Survey Authority (NSA) advance its position as Oman’s national mapping authority. This contribution to the development of NSA as a world-class national...
OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model and XML Encoding Standard
19 January 2016 — The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the following two candidate standards: OGC Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model (“GUF Modelâ€) and the OGC Geospatial User Feedback XML encoding Standard. The...
Launch of the First Satellite in the SpaceDataHighway Programme
EDRS-A, the first relay satellite in the SpaceDataHighway programme (also called EDRS), will be launched to geostationary orbit on 28 January 2016 (Baikonour time). The SpaceDataHighway will provide high speed laser communications in space of up to 1.8 Gigabit per...
U.S. Navy Selects Trimble Survey Solutions for Marine Corps Topographic Missions
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 145 2016 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has been awarded a five-year IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity) contract from the U.S. Navy to provide survey systems for the U.S. Marines Corps to support topographic...
Rise and Shine for Sentinel-3A
Following the Christmas break, the Sentinel-3A satellite has been taken out of its storage container and woken up as the campaign to prepare it for launch resumes at the Russian Plesetsk cosmodrome. Liftoff is set for 4 February. This latest satellite for Europe’s...
