August 10, 2015 — Launching satellites into space could soon be easier and cheaper than ever before, thanks to research at The University of Queensland. UQ’s Centre for Hypersonics is planning a three-stage transformational space project called SPARTAN, designed...
GeoShot Technologies Completed Large City Modeling Project Using LiDAR Data
August 7, 2015 — GeoShot Technologies has successfully completed large city modeling using LiDAR data. “We are very excited to complete the first large scale city modeling project at GeoShot Technologies at a time when 3D city modeling demand is accelerating.â€...
Avenza Releases MAPublisher 9.6 for Adobe Illustrator
Toronto, ON, August 7, 2015 — Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for mobile devices and geospatial plug-ins for Adobe Creative Cloud, including Geographic Imager® for Adobe Photoshop®, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 9.6 for...
First Responders Convene for National Summit and Awards on GIS Technology
WASHINGTON, August 7, 2015 — On August 4th and 5th the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation brought together more than 150 of the Nation's public safety leaders and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) professionals for the inaugural National...
GDA Continues to Provide Global Agricultural Intelligence to USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
August 6, 2015 — Geospatial Data Analysis Corporation (GDA) is pleased to announce a new contract award with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA FAS) . Via this USDA SBIR Phase III award, GDA will be continuing to provide to USDA FAS subscription-level...
Kratos Dramatically Reduces Complexity of Ground Systems for Small Satellites With quantumGND
SAN DIEGO, August 7, 2015 — Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, today introduced quantumGND, the first complete C2 to RF ground systems package specifically designed to meet the unique...
Surrey Satellite US Expands Business Development Team
ENGLEWOOD, COLO., August 6, 2015 — Colorado-based Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) today announced the addition of Stephen Eisele and Rick Sanford to its business development team. Eisele and Sanford join Brent Abbott and report to COO Doug Gerull in...
Caylym Technologies: An EU Air Force Paves the Way for New Aerial Firefighting System
FRESNO, Calif., August 6, 2015 — To those who are concerned with wildfires, help is on the way. Caylym is celebrating three significant milestones with its advanced aerial firefighting system, the Guardian™. These developments have moved the Guardian closer to...
European Space Imaging Meets Euro Parliamentarian
Munich, August 6, 2015 — Europe's leading provider of high-resolution satellite imagery received a visit last Tuesday from Dr. Angelika Niebler, Member of the European Parliament who wanted to gain an insight into the activities of the medium-sized company in...
Learn to Create and Share Tasks in Esri ArcGIS Pro
August 6, 2015 — Esri ArcGIS for Desktop software now includes the ArcGIS Pro application, with many tools to visualize, analyze, model, and share data using a mapping platform. The ArcGIS Pro workflow includes tasks, or preconfigured steps, that interactively guide...