Herndon, Virginia Oct. - The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has launched the EdGEOcation Giving Campaign to raise money and awareness for USGIF’s educational programs. The Foundation has set the goal to raise $5,000 by Dec. 31. USGIF’s...
Airbus Completes First GRACE-FO Satellite for NASA/JPL
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has finished construction of the first of the two GRACE-FO (GRACE = Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, FO = Follow-On) satellites in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The satellite will now be...
Esri Sponsors 2016 Code for America Summit
REDLANDS, Calif. — Global smart mapping leader Esri will continue its long-standing support of Code for America by sponsoring the 2016 Code for America Summit, which will take place November 1 to 3, in Oakland, California. Each year, Code for America brings...
HYPACK Chose the Ellipse-D Inertial Navigation System to Equip their UAV-Based Surveying Solution: NEXUS 800
Rueil-Malmaison, France– Hypack chose the Ellipse-D inertial navigation system to equip their new UAV-based surveying solution: the NEXUS 800. The NEXUS 800 is an out of the box turnkey system that tightly integrates hardware and software to provide an advanced and...
MBRSC Presents Three Technical Studies at the 2016 SPIE Remote Sensing Conference
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has attended the SPIE Remote Sensing Conference 2016, held this year in Scotland at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Edinburgh, between the 26th and 29th September, presenting three technical studies to the...
CACI Awarded Prime Position on $978 Million IDIQ for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
ARLINGTON, Va.- CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced today that it has been awarded a prime position on the Full-Motion Video (FMV) functional area of the Multi-Intelligence Analytical and Collection Support Services (MACSS) multiple-award, indefinite...
IBM and Esri Team Up to Offer Cognitive Analytics and IoT in the IBM Cloud
At this year's IBM World of Watson event in Las Vegas, global smart mapping leader Esri announced that it now works with IBM users and developers to broaden the customer experience by making Esri data and technology available in the IBM cloud. IBM customers can now...
East View Provides Remote Maps to Record Seeking Trekkers
Brits Anthony Lambert and Louis Nethercott are seeking to become the first humans to travel across the five largest islands on the planet. Starting this November, Lambert and Nethercott will visit Greenland, Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar and Canada's Baffin...
SmartBetterCities Released New Version of CloudCities Virtual Reality Tool
In its first version, SmartBetterCities’ released CloudCities virtual reality tool, that can be imported from CityEngine, SketchUp and GoogleEarth. CloudCities is an online platform for hosting, sharing and visualizing smart 3D city models. The models are based on...
Statistical Map API of Taiwan Won Asia Geospatial Excellence Award 2016
The long-term GIS project of Taiwan government "Statistical Map API" was selected as Asia Geospatial Excellence Award 2016 and announced on GeoSmart Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With the title of Developing Nationwide Statistical Map API for Effective Governance,...
