October 23, 2015 — OS follows up its Minecraft map success to make a virtual Ben Nevis for Oculus and cardboard. The spectacular setting of Ben Nevis provides the backdrop for an Oculus Rift game created by Ordnance Survey developers, in which players race against...
MAPPS Takes Seat on FAA UAS Registration Task Force
October 23, 2015 (Reston, VA) — MAPPS, the only national association of private sector firms in the surveying, spatial data and geographic information systems field in the United States and a leader on the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the geospatial...
Aerial Mapping Pioneer Bluesky Supports Clean Energy Campaign
Leicestershire, UK, October 23, 2015 –— Aerial mapping company Bluesky is backing a charity’s campaign to protect the subsidies for clean energy projects. Under recent Government proposals, changes to the Feed-in-Tariffs (FiTs) for wind, solar and hydro power...
Dewberry Selected to Collect Lidar Data for Hawaii's Big Island
Fairfax, VA, October 22, 2015 — Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has been contracted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management to collect and deliver topographic elevation point data derived from...
SpaceCom Conference and Expo Announces Satellite Applications Catapult’s
HOUSTON – The first annual SpaceCom (SpaceCommerce Conference and Exposition) announced today that Stuart Martin, CEO of Satellite Applications Catapult, will be joining SpaceCom's powerful roster of keynote speakers during the up-coming three-day conference....
Leica Geosystems, NCTech Cooperate to Streamline Workflows,Improve Productivity
HEERBRUGG, SWITZERLAND/EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM, October 22, 2015 — Leica Geosystems, global leader of measurement and reality capture technologies, has teamed with NCTech, developer of reality imaging systems, to deliver automated, colourised 3D point clouds for...
Commercial Satellite Imaging Market to Grow at 13.9% CAGR till 2019 due to Growing Demand from Oil and Gas Sector : Transparency Market Research
Albany - NY, Oct. 22, 2015 —The featured report on Transparency Market Research (TMR) on the global commercial satellite imaging market gives a bird's eye view of this industry. This report is titled Commercial Satellite Imaging Market - Global Industry Analysis,...
SSL Selected to Provide Satellite for Azercosmos, Intelsat Partnership at 45 Degrees East
BAKU/LUXEMBOURG/PALO ALTO, Oct. 20, 2015 — Space Systems/Loral (SSL), which is a leading provider of commercial satellites, is selected to provide a communications satellite to Azercosmos, the national satellite operator of Azerbaijan. Under the strategic agreement...
RIEGL is Attending and Sponsoring Conferences Worldwide
ACRS 2015 — The 36th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing takes place from October 19-23, 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria in Manila, Philippines. RIEGL is attending and sponsoring this conference, which is “Fostering Resilient Growth in Asia†in...
Life-Saving Maritime Rescue Drone Wins European Satellite Navigation Competition 2015
Berlin / Oberpfaffenhofen, October 21 2015 —This evening, the global satellite navigation community gathered at the ddb forum in Berlin to recognise the year's most brilliant innovations in commercial applications of satellite technology. The project POSEIDRON won...
