NEW YORK, October 6, 2015 — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announces the largest civil penalty the FAA has proposed against a UAS operator for endangering the safety of our airspace. The FAA proposes a $1.9...
Geospatial Data in Taiwan Focus More on Opening
October 6, 2015 — Supergeo’s biggest application customer in Taiwan, Ministry of the Interior and the TGOS platform, has just announced one of the biggest projects in the GIS field from ide@ Taiwan 2020 Policy: White Paper which focuses on the integration of...
Textron Systems’ Aerosonde(TM) Small Unmanned Aircraft System & Remote Video Technologies Support Wildfire Deterrence and Response in Idaho
HUNT VALLEY, MD, Oct 01,2015 — Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a Textron Inc. TXT, +0.93% business, announced today that the company provided its equipment and personnel in support of a multi-day wildfire response and decision support effort in Idaho with the...
Weather Decision Technologies Powers Big Data Analytics for Climate Applications with Internap’s High-Performance Colocation and Global Network Services
ATLANTA, Oct. 2, 2015 —  Internap Corporation INAP,-1.16% a provider of high-performance Internetinfrastructure services, today announced that weather industry leader Weather Decision Technologies (WDT) is using the company's high-density colocation,...
NM Group and Pulse Collaboration to Offer Electrical Power Utilities Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) LiDAR and Inspection Services
Oct. 2, 2015 – NM Group (Network Mapping, Inc), a leading data capture, analytics and engineering services provider to electrical utilities, today announced a collaboration with Pulse (Pulse Aerospace, LLC). Pulse Aerospace is the premier developer of helicopter...
Detection and Monitoring of Landslides in the Management of Infrastructures and Urban Areas
October 2, 2015 — How to detect and monitor landslides and instability risks over urban areas, large infrastructures and the territory around it, in order to prevent disasters? Planetek Italia has set up Preciso® landslide, a new monitoring product, based on...
PlanetObserver Continues Production of PlanetSAT 15 L8 Imagery Base Map: More than 50 Mill. sq km are Now Available
Clermont-Ferrand, October 2, 2015 — The French company PlanetObserver, specialized in imagery base map production for more than 25 years, announced today the coverage of more than 50 Mill. sq km with PlanetSAT 15 L8 base map. Processed from Landsat 8 imagery,...
Teledyne Oceanscience Supplies Innovative RapidCAST to TerraSond for Major Hydrographic Project
CARLSBAD, Calif. Oct. 2, 2015 —Teledyne Oceanscience supplied world-leading geospatial company TerraSond Limited with rapidCAST, a new innovative automated underway profiling system. According to TerraSond, the product was used in a major hydrographic project...
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’sAn Insurance Drone?
ERIE, Pa., Oct. 2, 2015 — In what could be the first step toward changing how insurance claims are handled in the future, Erie Insurance has moved from testing to actually using a drone to assist with a property damage claim. ERIE was among the first insurance...
OS Puts its Mapping Knowledge to the Test
October 1, 2015 — OS has been supporting A Streetcar Named Hyundai, the latest campaign from Hyundai Motor UK. This world first initiative involves driving, photographing and filming all 2005 miles of central London’s streets as defined by the world-famous cabbie...
