October 23, 2015 — OS follows up its Minecraft map success to make a virtual Ben Nevis for Oculus and cardboard. The spectacular setting of Ben Nevis provides the backdrop for an Oculus Rift game created by Ordnance Survey developers, in which players race against...
MAPPS Takes Seat on FAA UAS Registration Task Force
October 23, 2015 (Reston, VA) — MAPPS, the only national association of private sector firms in the surveying, spatial data and geographic information systems field in the United States and a leader on the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the geospatial...
Aerial Mapping Pioneer Bluesky Supports Clean Energy Campaign
Leicestershire, UK, October 23, 2015 –— Aerial mapping company Bluesky is backing a charity’s campaign to protect the subsidies for clean energy projects. Under recent Government proposals, changes to the Feed-in-Tariffs (FiTs) for wind, solar and hydro power...
Dewberry Selected to Collect Lidar Data for Hawaii's Big Island
Fairfax, VA, October 22, 2015 — Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has been contracted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management to collect and deliver topographic elevation point data derived from...
Leica Geosystems, NCTech Cooperate to Streamline Workflows,Improve Productivity
HEERBRUGG, SWITZERLAND/EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM, October 22, 2015 — Leica Geosystems, global leader of measurement and reality capture technologies, has teamed with NCTech, developer of reality imaging systems, to deliver automated, colourised 3D point clouds for...
Commercial Satellite Imaging Market to Grow at 13.9% CAGR till 2019 due to Growing Demand from Oil and Gas Sector : Transparency Market Research
Albany - NY, Oct. 22, 2015 —The featured report on Transparency Market Research (TMR) on the global commercial satellite imaging market gives a bird's eye view of this industry. This report is titled Commercial Satellite Imaging Market - Global Industry Analysis,...
SSL Selected to Provide Satellite for Azercosmos, Intelsat Partnership at 45 Degrees East
BAKU/LUXEMBOURG/PALO ALTO, Oct. 20, 2015 — Space Systems/Loral (SSL), which is a leading provider of commercial satellites, is selected to provide a communications satellite to Azercosmos, the national satellite operator of Azerbaijan. Under the strategic agreement...
LizardTech Publishes Industry Survey Results on Raster Imagery and LiDAR Data Challenges
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 9, 2015 — LizardTech®, the creator of MrSID® and provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, has published the results of a survey into the preferences and challenges of raster and LiDAR data users....
Sanborn Technology Benefits Government Appraisers
Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 9, 2015 — The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) offers a complete solution for government appraisers to decidedly streamline the process of property valuation. Using this process, some counties have reported adjusting the values of...
The GeoInformation Group Supports St Helena’s Multi-Million Pound Development
October 9 2015 — The UKMap team within The GeoInformation Group has been commissioned by St Helena Government to create a cartographic database for the island’s new 1:25,000 and 1:10,000 scale mapping. The South Atlantic island, one of the most isolated,...