Philadelphia, PA, May 13, 2015 — Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Keystone a Section 333 Exemption and an accompanying Certificate of Authorization (COA) for Unmanned Airborne Systems...
GAF and ESA Sign an Agreement Regarding the Delivery of IRS Data for the Copernicus Data Warehouse 2014-2020
Munich, May 12, 2015 — GAF AG, the exclusive supplier of optical Indian Remote Sensing data in Europe, has signed an agreement with ESA concerning the provision of IRS data for the Copernicus Data Warehouse. The agreement will run until the end of 2020. The...
Engility Supports National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to Launch Innovative Applications Technology Program
CHANTILLY, Va., May 12, 2015 — Engility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EGL), today joined the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to announce an innovative government program to solicit, screen and acquire geospatial applications from commercial developers. With...
OGC Issues GeoPackage Corrigendum
May 12,  2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a corrigendum to correct minor flaws in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard. The flaws were identified after publication of Version 1.0 in early 2014. A key reference for Well Known Binary...
Accident A400M in Seville
May 11, 2015 — Airbus Defence and Space confirms that an A400M aircraft has been involved in an accident near Sevilla (Spain) Airport on May 09, 2015 around 13:00 local time. The aircraft with the serial number MSN023, was making the first production flight and had...
Exelis ENVI Analytics now on DigitalGlobe's Geospatial Big Data Platform
BOULDER, Colo., May 8, 2015 — Exelis (NYSE: XLS) and DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI) have agreed to provide a new commercial offering of cloud-based ENVI earth science analytics for the DigitalGlobe Geospatial Big Data (GBD) platform. ENVI is the industry-leading...
PrecisionHawk Signs UAV Research Agreement with FAA to Address Extended Visual Line of Sight
RALEIGH, N.C., May 8, 2015 — PrecisionHawk has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to advance the research around unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) across rural areas. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta...
DroneMetrex Selects Dacosmo Company as Exclusive Reseller in China & Taiwan
May 7, 2015 — DroneMetrex, a developer and manufacturer of TopoDrones - unique photogrammetric mapping UAV systems, is proud to announce that it has awarded Dacosmo Company with the exclusive reseller contract in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Dr.He Ru,...
PlexiDrone Achieves Canada’s Highest Grossing Crowdfunding Campaign
TORONTO, May 7, 2015 — DreamQii, a robotics company based out of the DMZ at Ryerson University, has led the highest grossing Canadian campaign in Indiegogo's history, raising over $2 million USD (over C$2.5 million) to support the production of PlexiDrone. The...
Supercomputers Make Bluesky's National Geographic Datasets a Reality
Leicestershire, May 7, 2015 — Aerial mapping company Bluesky is exploring the power of supercomputers to process and deliver 3D maps, comprising trillions of data points, for a range of environmental applications. Working with HPC Midlands and experts from...
