NEW DELHI, India, and BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- High-level leaders from several nations' space agencies provided insider perspectives on programs for monitoring natural and manmade impacts on the environment, as featured speakers at the SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote...
GigaSpaces Leads the Pack in Merging In-Memory Computing and Geospatial Analytics
NEW YORK — GigaSpaces, a provider of in-memory computing (IMC) technologies, today announced enhancements to its industry leading IMC platform, XAP. With the new version, XAP 11, users are now able to integrate and utilize location data from a wide range of...
Time Out Acquires Geo-Mapping Startup HallStreet
LONDON --Time Out Group, the trusted global platform that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city, has acquired HallStreet, an award-winning geo-mapping startup, for an undisclosed sum. Spanish-based startup HallStreet has revolutionised the...
MDA to Demonstrate Geospatial Information Solution to US Air Force Research Lab
RICHMOND, BC —  MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA" or the "Company") (TSX:MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has been awarded a two year contract valued at CA$7.2 million to support the U.S. Air Force...
OGC Seeks Public Comment on CDB Candidate Standard
This OGC Candidate Standard specifies an open format and encoding for the storage, access and modification of a representation of the natural and built environment for simulation applications. CDB defines the data representation, organization and storage structure of...
Blue Marble Wraps up Successful User Conference Road Show
Hallowell, Maine — Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the successful completion of its first annual User Conference Road Show. Throughout the month of March, Blue Marble staff members traveled to four locations in the US and Canada to...
Leica Geosystems Launches 2016 Plan Contest with Focus on Reality Capture, Digital Innovation
Heerbrugg, Switzerland, 13 April 2016 – Leica Geosystems announced today the launch of the 2016 Plan Contest. An annual highlight of the Geosystems Track at HxGN LIVE, the contest gives conference attendees the opportunity to showcase their best deliverables by...
Registration Now Open! EUROPEAN SPACE SOLUTIONS – Bringing Space to Earth, 30 May – 03 June 2016, The Hague
Register now for the fourth edition of European Space Solutions! Hosted by the 2016 Dutch Presidency of the EU Council, the conference brings business and policy makers together with users and developers of space-based solutions for five inspiring days of talks,...
Surrey Satellite and BridgeSat to Develop Free-Space Satellite Optical Communications Solution
ENGLEWOOD, COLO., and BOSTON, MASS. — Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC and BridgeSat Inc. are pleased to announce a partnership to work towards developing a free-space optical communications system that will provide secure data downlinks from satellites to a...
ISPRS awards Prof. Wolfgang Förstner with Brock Gold Medal in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Photogrammetry
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) announced today that Prof. Wolfgang Förstner of Bonn University, Germany, will be presented with the 2016 Brock Gold Medal Award for his outstanding scientific achievements in the fields of...