Where wild ponies once roamed the marshes and beaches, today Wallops Island is the site of a thriving spaceport that launches several commercial and government rockets each year.
Lake Erie Faces Harmful Late-Summer Algae Bloom
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its research partners predict a significant bloom of cyanobacteria, a toxic blue-green algae, for Lake Erie later this summer.
How Can a Beer Cooler Help Us Better Understand Climate?
While European Space Agency engineers have almost finished building the first Sentinel-3 satellite for ocean forecasting, a beer cooler has an unusual role in supporting the mission.
Elecnor Deimos Publishes First Images of the DEIMOS-2 Satellite
MADRID, July 3, 2014—DEIMOS-2, Spain's first ultra-high resolution satellite launched into orbit on 19 June, has started capturing its first images just 12 hours after it was brought on line. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click:...
Harfang MALE UAS Controlled Successfully from a French Air Force Base Almost 5,000 Kilometers Away
PARIS, June 27, 2014—A Harfang unmanned aircraft system (UAS) belonging to the French Air Force (FAF) controlled by a crew from the French Military Flight Test Centre (Centre d'Expérience Aérienne Militaire), the UAS Squadron “Belfort†(ED 1/33) and the UAS...
New York to LA: History of America's Maps in One App
Redlands, Calif., July 1, 2014—Two of the nation’s most authoritative mapping sources, the U.S. Geological Survey and Esri, have partnered to put the rich tapestry of U.S. Historical Maps into the hands of everyone. Available in time for the Fourth of July and...
OGC Adopts Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) Standard
July 1, 2014—The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the Open Modelling Interface Standard Version 2 (OpenMI) as an OGC standard. This standard defines a means by which independently developed computer models of environmental processes, or...
OGC Publishes Testbed 10 Aviation Information Management Engineering Reports
June 26, 2014—22 public Engineering Reports resulted from the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC®) recently completed OGC Interoperability Testbed 10 (OSW-10), the most recent in the OGC's yearly series of major geospatial interoperability testbeds. Eight of these...
American Sentinel University to Showcase Innovative GIS Programs at 2014 Esri User Conference
AURORA, Colo., June 30, 2014-American Sentinel University, an accredited online university that offers degree programs focused on the needs of high-growth careers, will be exhibiting its innovative competency-based geographic information systems (GIS) degree programs...
Esri Announces Finalists of Climate Resilience App Challenge 2014
Redlands, Calif., July 2, 2014—Esri, the world leader in mapping technology, today announced the top 13 finalists of Esri Climate Resilience App Challenge 2014. The challenge called for developers to create desktop, web, or mobile apps that enable communities to...
