Tel Aviv, Israel – January 5, 2016 - VisionMap, a leading provider of automatic airborne imaging systems, announced the launch of its new website www.visionmap.com. The new website provides quick and intuitive access to VisionMap’s versatile line of products and...
ESA Funded A-SeNS Enables Port-Log Data to be Captured by Satellites
The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a tracking system used by ships and vessel traffic services for identifying and locating vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby vessels, shore stations and satellites. As well as providing information...
Romanian Surveying Company Selects SuperSurv
With assistance from Helix SRL, Supergeo’s partner in Italy, the Romanian company Black Light SRL has recently selected the well-known mobile GIS software SuperSurv as its mobile geospatial solution. Established in 1992, Black Light SRL is a surveying company with...
NASA Looks at Deadly Weather Over the US
NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite analyzed extreme weather that affected the U.S. over the course of five days. Heavy rainfall, flooding and tornado outbreaks affected areas of the United States from the Southwest through the...
New Esri Book Teaches the Principles of Good Map Design
Redlands, Californi—Mapmakers should always strive to create maps that look great and get their message across clearly and succinctly. According to Esri president Jack Dangermond, more emphasis today needs to be placed on map design, especially on the web. "We need...
Badger State Maps Put TIGER in the Tank
The USGS US Topo map program has entered its third, three-year cycle of revising and updating the digital US Topo maps. To start this new cycle, the USGS National Geospatial Program is excited to announce the inclusion of U.S. Census Bureau’s Topologically...
10 Productive Years in Orbit for GIOVE-A, Galileo's Small Satellite Pathfinder
British small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is today marking the 10th year of in-orbit operations from its GIOVE-A satellite, the pathfinder mission for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation programme. Since retirement from its...
Low-Level Flights in Southeast Missouri Will Look at Geology and Mineral Resources
A high-resolution airborne survey to study the rocks within the St. Francois Mountains will be conducted by U.S. Geological Survey scientists starting this week. Over the next month, an airplane under contract with the USGS, operated by Terraquest Ltd. of Ontario,...
DigitalGlobe, Inc. Completes Amendment to Credit Agreement
WESTMINSTER, Colo.— DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, announced today that it has completed an amendment to the credit agreement which governs its existing...
Sanborn Expands Extensive Oblique Imagery Collection
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 23, 2015 —  Just as The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) pioneered mobile light detection and ranging (LiDAR) mapping at the turn of the century, the firm now is at the leading edge of collecting and processing high-resolution...
