Redlands, Calif., May 27, 2014—Responding to President Barack Obama’s call to help strengthen STEM education through the ConnectED Initiative, Esri president Jack Dangermond announced today that Esri will provide a grant to make its advanced mapping software...
Exelis Wins Multimillion-Dollar Contract for Climate-Monitoring Satellite Payload
ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 20, 2014—Exelis (NYSE:XLS) has been awarded a multimillion-dollar commercial contract to build the primary payload for the Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite-2 (GOSAT), which Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will build for the Japanese Aerospace...
GeoAir Adds UltraCam Falcon to Aerial Resources in Mexico
Graz, Austria, May 14, 2014—GeoAir has contracted with Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit and subsidiary to purchase an UltraCam Falcon digital aerial camera system and UltraMap workflow software to handle large volumes of data efficiently. GeoAir operates...
Insitu Pacific Demonstrates Fire Management Assistance with ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft
BRISBANE, Australia, May 13, 2014—Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., today announced it recently conducted a successful demonstration for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) using the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS)....
Airbus Defence and Space Partners with BAE Systems on Radar Satellite Imagery
Toulouse, France, May 20, 2014—Airbus Defence and Space and BAE Systems have launched a strategic alliance to produce, market and sell innovative geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) products and solutions using state-of-the-art data collected exclusively by TerraSAR-X...
NASA’s Newest Wind Watcher Arrives at Launch Site
Washington, D.C., May 15, 2014—A new NASA Earth-observing mission that will measure ocean winds from the International Space Station has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final preparations for launch. The International Space Station...
NEANY Expands Partnership with Visual Intelligence to Deploy iOne M+ 108 Megapixel Multispectral Sensor in Arrow UAVs
Hollywood, Md., Houston and Orlando, Fla, May 12, 2014—NEANY has expanded its partnership agreement with Visual Intelligence to deploy Visual Intelligence’s iOne M+ 108 megapixel metric mapping system in NEANY’s flagship unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Arrow....
Northrop Grumman, RMIT University Studying Operation of Unmanned Aircraft in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia, May 12, 2014—Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is collaborating with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, to study airworthiness requirements for operating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Australia. The...
Northrop Grumman, Yamaha Motor, U.S.A., Collaborate on Unmanned Helicopter System
SAN DIEGO, May 8, 2014—Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., have agreed to work together to develop and market an innovative small, unmanned autonomous helicopter system. Photos accompanying this release can be found here:...
OGC Adopts “I15” Standard, Providing ebRIM Extension to OGC Catalog Services Interface Standard
May 12, 2014—The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership adopted the OGC standard, "OGC I15 (ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of CS-W ebRIM Profile 1.0." The OGC Catalogue Services Standard establishes a general framework for implementing catalogue...