Horn, Austria, June 26, 2014—RIEGL is happy to announce the expansion of its global sales network with two new distribution partners responsible for the Middle East and North Africa. These new partners, Mena 3D and Mapping Solutions, both with local offices in...
Rockwell Collins and NASA Complete Successful UAS Communications Test
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 2, 2014—With one crew squeezed into a computer-filled bus and another inside an airborne Lockheed S-3 Viking airplane, experts from Rockwell Collins and NASA teamed up to better determine the future of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) during...
SPUTNIX Launches First Russian Private Earth Remote Sensing Satellite
MOSCOW, June 20, 2014—ISC Kosmotras successfully launched a cluster of small spacecraft by the RS-20 rocket (Dnepr) on 20 June 2014. The first Russian private Earth remote sensing satellite of SPUTNIX Company, named TabletSat-Aurora also was set into its target...
SPOT 7 Satellite Launched Successfully
Like SPOT 6”its twin”SPOT 7 covers wide areas in record time. Both satellites in orbit boosts acquisition capacity to 6 million square kilometers per day, an area 10 times the size of France.
Spy Satellite Agency Eyes Video Game Technology
The National Reconnaissance Office is looking at technology developed by the video game industry to help it improve how it gathers and analyzes intelligence data.
Satellogic Joins List of Earth-Observing Smallsat Firms
Among the 30-plus small satellites carried into orbit by the most recent Kosmotras Dnepr launch was BugSat 1, the third prototype for Argentinian startup company Satellogic.
Satellite Tracks Twin Tornadoes
On June 16, 2014, a tornadic thunderstorm system moved across portions of northeast Nebraska, producing five tornadoes, including rare twins on the ground at the same time.
Sanborn Refreshes 3-D Digital Maps of Four Major U.S. Cities
Colorado Springs, Colo., June 25, 2014—The Sanborn Map Company announces a key upgrade to its world-class 3-D geospatial product line with updated coverage of the Dallas, New York, Phoenix and San Francisco metropolitan areas. Sanborn’s massive collection of...
Blue Marble's Global Mapper SDK v15.2 Features Updates to Online Data Access
Hallowell, Maine, June 18, 2014—Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the release of the Global Mapper Software Development Kit (SDK) version 15.2. This interim release features a significant improvement in the organization and quantity...
CoreLogic Announces New Land Records Management Solution
IRVINE, Calif., June 18, 2014—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, today introduced a new land records management solution that is the first single source of location information and property...
