Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama, November 12, 2015 — Euroconsult's latest report, Satellite Value Chain: The Snapshot 2015, brings together a selection of key trends and indicators on supply and demand from Euroconsult's 2015 reports complemented by...
LizardTech Introduces National Universities Subscription Program
SEATTLE, Wash. — Nov. 12, 2015 — LizardTech®, the creator of MrSID® and provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced today it has made its line of geospatial software available to national university students...
Many Discover the Benefits of 3D Measurement Technology in London
November 12, 2015 — Last week UK delegates were shown the benefits and uses of 3D measurement systems and software at a free event held by 3D Laser Mapping, ‘Digital Information in 3D’. Held at the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering, existing customers and...
Remote-Sensing Scholarship Introduced
The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) partnered with Riverside Research to create the Ken Miller Scholarship for Advanced Remote Sensing Applications, which will be awarded for the first of three times in fall 2016.
Satellite Archaeologist Wins 2016 TED Prize
Sarah Parcak, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and founder of the Laboratory for Global Observation, won the $1 million TED Prize grant, given annually to a bold leader with a wish to spark global change.
Kathmandu University Students Learn to Use Drones for Disaster Response
Humanitarian UAV Network founder Patrick Meier led a weeklong UAV training mission in Nepal, teaching engineering students at Kathmandu University how to use drones and image-processing software for humanitarian and disaster-response scenarios.
ESA Offering Free Course on EO for Monitoring Climate Change
The European Space Agency (ESA) introduced a free online course, featuring scientists and experts from ESA and other European research centers, to educate people about the science behind Earth observation (EO), and how it can help detect and monitor global climate change.
Newly Released Photo Catalog Puts US Landscapes On Exhibit
November 10, 2015 — The U.S. Geological Survey announced today that it has made part of a huge national repository of geographically referenced USGS field photographs publicly available. USGS geographers developed a simple, easy-to-use mapping portal called the Land...
Merrick Awarded Contract with Municipality of Anchorage
November 10, 2015 — Anchorage, AK – Merrick Alaska (www.merrick.com/Alaska) was recently awarded a contract to provide aerial photography and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) services for the Municipality of Anchorage, AK (MOA). This data will address...
Arithmetica Announces Pointfuse Hands-On Workshop at Capturing Reality Conference
Shepperton Studios, November 10, 2015 — Visitors to Capturing Reality – the new event for laser scanning, LiDAR and 3D data capture and modelling – will be able to get hands on with the latest rapid point cloud processing software, Pointfuse. Arithmetica, the...
