Heerbrugg, Switzerland/Beijing, China, 26 April 2016 – BJ Open Tide BoGuan IT Co.LTD, an aerial mapping firm located in Beijing, China, has taken delivery of China’s 10th Leica DMC III airborne digital camera. Specialising in smart city planning, the DMC III,...
Fugro Awarded Contract by CHS to Provide Hydrographic Survey Services in Canada
Fugro has been awarded a Supply Arrangement by the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) to provide vessel based hydrographic survey services. Under this contract CHS will procure hydrographic surveys as needed, anywhere in Canada, to enhance its capacity for data...
Juniper Unmanned and Pulse Aerospace Announce Strategic Business Partnership
Golden, Colorado – Juniper Unmanned, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic business partnership with Pulse Aerospace, to provide operator training services for Pulse’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS) product line. This agreement...
SimActive Achieves Breakthrough with Latest Correlator3D Release
Montreal, Canada, April 26th, 2016 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce the latest version of Correlator3D™, including a completely redesigned aerial triangulation (AT) module. The tie point extraction and...
Sentinel-1B Launched to Complete Radar Pair
The second Sentinel-1 satellite – Sentinel-1B – was launched today to provide more ‘radar vision’ for Europe’s environmental Copernicus programme. Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 21:02 GMT...
Second Sentinel Successfully Launched
The second satellite of the Sentinel-1 mission, Sentinel-1B, was successfully launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on April 22, 2016.
3D-Printed UAS Aiding Antarctic Navigation
A 3D-printed UAS built by the University of Southampton is helping the British Royal Navy's ice-patrol ship HMS Protector navigate through Antarctic seas.
FAA Urges Non-Hobby UAS Registration Via New System
April 21- What’s not to like about an automated government system that’s faster, simpler and more user-friendly than the paper-based system it supplements? In a Federal Register notice (PDF), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officially notified owners of...
OGC Requests Comment on Charter for Coordinate Reference System Standards Working Group
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Standards Working Group (SWG). The purpose of the OGC SWG is to revise Abstract Specification Topic 2 - Spatial Referencing by...
GSDI 15 World Conference: Ed Parsons Announced as Keynote Speaker
The organizing team of the 15th Global Spatial Data Infrastructure World Conference (GSDI 15) is delighted to welcome Ed Parsons as a keynote speaker. Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google, with responsibility for evangelizing Google’s mission to organize...
