June 30, 2015 — DelNorte in conjunction with OceanWise has delivered a new on-line tidal level system to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to assist its crews to safely launch its rescue craft from its new Lifeboat station at Portishead, Avon, UK. With...
Bluesky Mapshop Now Serving British Geological Survey Data
Leicestershire, June 30, 2015 — An agreement between the British Geological Survey (BGS) and aerial mapping company Bluesky is allowing for a range of geological and geohazard map layers to be made available online at www.blueskymapshop.com. The eight new layers...
Wild Horses Are Watched By Flying Drone
Prague, June 30, 2015 — Using the latest techniques in these days continues a scientific programme of wild horses return project coordinated by European Wildlife organisation. Yesterday the experts were going to start monitoring a rare steppe locality in central...
Good Call as T-Mobile Take Delivery of First Drone From Aerialtronics
June 30, 2015 — Telecoms ​companies can save time and significant operation costs when inspecting mobile communication towers with drones, according to Jeffrey Leentjes, network specialist at T-Mobile. T-Mobile, who took delivery of the Altura Zenith UAV system...
Australian Land Survey Firm Increases Map Quality by SuperGIS Desktop
June 30, 2015 — Supergeo Technologies, the leading GIS software and solution provider, announces that SuperGIS Desktop assists Mesurage Group Pty Ltd, Australia to process surveyed data for value-added applications and services. Located in Victoria, Australia,...
Caliper Offers Updated Germany Data for Maptitude
NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS (USA), June 30, 2015 — Caliper is excited to announce an updated Germany Data Package! The product includes a wealth of data and functionality not available in any other software. The Germany data includes an updated street layer with address...
OGC Requests Comment on Draft Charter for Hydrologic Features Standards Working Group
June 29, 2015 — Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Hydrologic Features (HY_Features) Standards Working Group (SWG). The purpose of the proposed SWG is to progress the HY_Features hydrologic feature...
Cranfield University Uses VR in Bid to Become Centre for Doctoral Training
June 29, 2015 — Cranfield University researchers received NERC funding through the ‘Big Data Capital Call’ for GeoVisionary software plus a Virtalis ActiveMove portable Virtual Reality (VR) system. With various research projects underway, Cranfield heard...
USGS Welcomes European Space Agency's New Land Observing Satellite
June 29, 2015 — The U.S. Geological Survey salutes the European Space Agency (ESA) on the successful June 23 launch of its Sentinel-2A satellite, the second satellite to be launched in Europe’s Copernicus environment monitoring program. "We are very pleased to...
USGIF Announces 2015 Award Program Recipients
Washington, D.C., June 29, 2015 —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) today announced the six recipients of its 2015 Awards Program on the main stage at the GEOINT 2015 Symposium. The USGIF Awards Program annually recognizes the exceptional...
