July 8, 2014
Skycatch, like Google’s recently purchased satellite venture, is seeking ways to make high-resolution, easily accessible aerial imagery a part of how the everyday world works.
July 8, 2014
With NASA’s blessing and following a successful crowd-funding campaign, a group of “citizen scientists” have taken control of an abandoned NASA satellite with plans to put it back to work.
July 3, 2014
IRVINE, Calif., July 2, 2014—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, today released a new version of its EQECAT™ natural catastrophe modeling platform which contains three new proprietary risk models that quantify and analyze the potential financial impact of catastrophic natural hazards in peak exposure regions across the globe.
July 3, 2014
Redlands, Calif., June 25, 2014—The Esri ArcGIS Online platform is now authorized and accredited by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a secure platform for delivering cloud-based geospatial services. Following a rigorous assessment, the agency has granted ArcGIS Online a Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) low Authority to Operate (ATO). Esri, the
July 3, 2014
Fitchburg, Mass., June 23, 2014—In extending technological leadership within the remote sensing market, Headwall announced availability of its new Nano-Hyperspec sensor for commercial UAV deployment. The low-cost hyperspectral sensor operates in the VNIR (400-1000nm) spectral range and includes onboard data processing and storage to minimize size, weight, and power constraints inherent with small, hand-launched UAVs.
July 3, 2014
Norcross, Ga., June 26, 2014—Leica Geosystems launches Leica GeoMoS Now!, a new web-based application that is part of the Leica Geosystems monitoring solution and enables on-the-go visualization and analysis of structural and ground movement monitoring data. Large amounts of geodetic and geotechnical data are now easier to handle with simplified workflows using automatic configuration and
July 3, 2014
June 24, 2014—The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) calls for participation in an interoperability experiment to define data quality requirements for virtual 3D city models encoded in CityGML. CityGML has been widely adopted and is used throughout the world as a data model and exchange format for virtual 3D city and landscape models. An increasing range
July 3, 2014
Lausanne, Switzerland, June 25, 2014—Pix4D’s pre‐summer challenge was to create a highly accurate and very dense 3D model of Chillon Castle (Château de Chillon), Switzerland’s most visited historic monument. The 3D point cloud integrates the indoor and outdoor structures of this highly complex architectural object with a resolution of up to 5mm and is based
July 3, 2014
Toulouse, France, June 23, 2014—Airbus Defence and Space, in partnership with HisdeSAT, announced a Radar Constellation Challenge to encourage the development of innovative application ideas using radar satellite imagery. The initiative is part of the Earth monitoring Copernicus Masters Competition, which aims to support the development of market-oriented applications based on Earth observation data. The
July 3, 2014
Redlands, Calif., June 25, 2014—Dr. Bruce Aylward from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Dr. Vincent Seaman from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will share their stories with an audience of more than 16,000 attendees at the Opening Session of the 2014 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) on Monday, July 14. As experts in
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