San Francisco — MapJam, Inc. announced the release of MapJam for Developers with free access to the simplest and most accessible developer tools for building mapping applications. MapJam now offers robust, vector map tiles based on OpenStreetMap data that work...
Tri-County Health Department Honors Esri Employee for Opioid Addiction Prevention Advocacy
Redlands, California — Jeremiah Lindemann, solution engineer at Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, was honored as Public Health Hero of the Year by Colorado's Tri-County Health Department (TCHD), which serves Adams, Arapahoe,...
Maptitude Mapping Software Team Provides Awards & Prizes for AAG Student Paper Competition
NEWTON MA (USA) - The Business Geography Specialty Group (BGSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) announced the winners of the 2016 Student Paper Competition in Business Geography at the 2016 AAG Meeting in San Francisco, CA (March 29-April 2). The...
Sentinel-1B Will Complete Europe’s Radar Vision
Pre-launch preparations for the Sentinel-1B satellite, carrying an Airbus Defence and Space built radar instrument, are in full swing at Europe´s Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite, which has Thales Alenia Space Italy as prime contractor, is set to be...
Aerial Photography, Inspection Top List of FAA-Approved Business Uses for UAS
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) today released an interactive analysis that finds 38 types of business operations have been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly unmanned aircraft systems...
exactEarth and Larus Technologies Announce Strategic Alliance to Develop Big Data Analytics Applications
Cambridge, ON – exactEarth Ltd. (TSX: XCT) (“the Companyâ€), the leading provider of Satellite AIS data services, today announces a Strategic Alliance Agreement (the “Agreementâ€) with Larus Technologies (“Larusâ€), an Ottawa-based provider of adaptive...
A Flexible Camera: A Radically Different Approach to Imaging
New York, NY—A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one or more conventional cameras....
Battelle Assumes Management of the National Ecological Observatory Network
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Battelle, an independent, nonprofit research and development organization, to manage the construction, commissioning and initial operations of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Battelle, with a long...
Topcon Demonstrates Smart Working Tech at GeoBusiness
Topcon GB & Ireland will be showcasing a range of cutting-edge technology designed to save time and create efficiencies at this year’s Geobusiness at the Business Design Centre in London (24-25th May). The Falcon 8 is Topcon’s 8 rotary-wing unmanned...
Sofradir Turns 30, Marks Anniversary at SPIE DCS
Palaiseau, near Paris, France, April 14, 2016 – Sofradir, the global leader in advanced infrared (IR) detectors for military, space and commercial applications, today announces it will mark its 30th anniversary as an industrial pioneer of high performance IR...
