The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate Moving Features Access Standard. Applications using moving feature data, such as vehicles or pedestrians, are rapidly increasing. Innovative applications are expected to require the overlay,...
DigitalGlobe's Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery Program Renewed
WESTMINSTER, Colo. — DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced that the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has renewed the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global...
Esri Partners with XPRIZE Foundation to Map the Ocean
Redlands, California—Global smart mapping leader Esri and the XPRIZE Foundation today announced Esri’s partnership in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. The new partnership will help accelerate innovative surveys of the ocean, 95% of which remains unexplored.Esri...
GPSengine and Alematics Forge New Partnership in Tracking Fleets
Alematics a tracking device manufacturer for fleet tracking and management and GPSengine, a leading hosted platform service provider in IoT, GNSS, Tracking and Telematics,have established a new partnership to support Alematics tracking devices on GPSengine’s...
Multi-Million Pound MoU Makes Ecometrica’s Software Available Across the University of Edinburgh
SCOTLAND/ UNITED KINGDOM - Academics and students at the University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences are set to become the first to gain unlimited access to millions of pounds worth of state-of-the-art Earth Observation, geospatial intelligence and satellite mapping...
TomTom Maps and Navigation Software Power Subaru's New Infotainment Platform
AMSTERDAM - TomTom (TOM2) has been chosen by Subaru to be the global maps and navigation supplier for their next generation infotainment platform. The global platform will launch first in North America with the all-new 2017 Subaru Impreza. HARMAN International, the...
City of Berkeley Enlists Farallon Geographics to Migrate to Esri LGIM and Leverage Off-the-Shelf Services, Applications and Workflows
San Francisco, CA - Farallon Geographics worked with the City of Berkeley to migrate their GIS from a legacy data model to Esri’s “Local Government Information Model†(LGIM). Farallon assisted the City’s GIS staff with LGIM strategic planning and provided the...
New Bluesky and University of Leicester Joint Venture to Tackle Air Pollution
EarthSense Systems, a joint venture between aerial mapping company Bluesky and the UK's University of Leicester, is set to spearhead innovations in air quality monitoring. Building on more than four years of collaboration between the two organisations, the new company...
KEYW Awarded Five-Year Contract for Airborne Collection Services
HANOVER, Md.- The KEYW Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:KEYW) announced today that it has received a five-year contract from Leidos Inc. to provide global airborne collection services valued at $268.5 million if all options are exercised to support the Army Geospatial...
Autodesk Increases Share Repurchase Program
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.-Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) today announced a program to repurchase up to 30 million shares of the company's common stock, in addition to the approximately 1.5 million shares that remained at the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2017 under...
