July 3, 2014—The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a call for presentations and presentation abstracts at the inaugural OGC Academic Summit 2014. The OGC Academic Summit will be held 15-16 September 2014 at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada as...
Optech Is Silver Sponsor of the Imagery Pavilion at 2014 Esri User Conference
TORONTO, July 9, 2014—Optech is pleased to announce that it is a Silver Sponsor of the Imagery Pavilion at the 2014 Esri User Conference in San Diego, California. Optech will be at the Esri UC from July 12 to 18 to show how our full line of lidar, cameras and...
Open Access to Airbus Defense and Space Enhanced Satellite Imagery Now Available for ArcGIS Online Users Worldwide
Toulouse, France, July 10, 2014—Over 85 million square kilometers of fresh basemap imagery from Airbus Defense and Space is now available in ArcGIS Online. This announcement follows the signing of an agreement between Airbus Defense and Space and Esri for access to...
ASAL and SSTL Enter a New Collaboration for Alsat-1B
Guildford, United Kingdom, July 9, 2014—The Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) have signed a contract to build the Alsat-1B Earth Observation satellite in combination with a comprehensive training and development programme....
Ball Aerospace Takes Delivery of CERES Instrument for the JPSS-1 Polar-Orbiting Satellite
BOULDER, Colo., July 10, 2014—The Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy Systems (CERES) instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), the nation's next generation polar-orbiting satellite, arrived at...
ERDAS IMAGINE Transforms the Way Rezatec Analyses EO Data
Loughborough, United Kingdom, July 11, 2014—ERDAS IMAGINE brings together the gigabytes of images captured from the 1000s of sensors that are used in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing today. Sterling Geo is pleased to be working with landscape intelligence...
Government Funding for Space on the Road to Recovery
PARIS, MONTREAL, WASHINGTON D.C., JULY 9, 2014—According to Euroconsult's newly released executive report, Government Space Programs: Strategic Outlook, Benchmarks & Forecasts, government funding for space is expected to progressively recover as public finances...
OGC Seeks Comment on Charter for New Urban Planning Domain Working Group
July 7, 2014—An OGC Urban Planning Domain Working Group (SWG) is being chartered to define the role for OGC standards and related activities within the Urban Planning Discipline and to provide an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability...
PIXIA Corp and Esri Provide New Suite of Data Access Solutions
RESTON, Va., July 10, 2014—PIXIA Corp., the US industry leader in fast access to large data, announced a new relationship with Esri to integrate PIXIA’s geospatial intelligence solutions into Esri’s ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, and ArcGIS MarketPlace. This...
SSTL Announces the Successful Launch of UK In-Orbit Demonstrator Satellite TechDemoSat-1
Guildford, United Kingdom, July 8, 2014—Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) today announced the successful launch of TechDemoSat-1, an in-orbit technology demonstration mission for innovative UK spacecraft equipment and software.  The spacecraft was launched...
