MANASSAS, Va., May 1, 2014—Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that aerospace industry veteran Martin E. Dandridge has joined the company's Board of Directors. Dandridge, who retired as executive vice president for Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems in 2007,...
OGC Calls for Participation in USGS Interoperability Assessment Virtual Exercise
May 1, 2014—USGS data services get over 1 million hits per day. These data are used by a range of communities including governments at state, county, and city levels for a variety of purposes (science, decision-support, etc). As such, there is an increasing desire...
Optech to Exhibit at AUVSI 2014 in Orlando
TORONTO, May 5, 2014—Optech is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the 2014 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Conference and Tradeshow in Orlando, FL, May 13-15. From the depths of marine environments to the barren plains...
PCI Geomatics Continues Tradition of Supporting Higher Education with the Centre of Geographic Sciences
RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada, April 30, 2014—PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, as part of its education initiative, recently visited with students and faculty at the Annapolis Valley Campus of the...
RIEGL USA to Exhibit and Present at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems 2014
ORLANDO, Fla., May 1, 2014—RIEGL USA will be exhibiting and presenting at AUVSI's Unmanned Systems 2014! AUVSI's Unmanned Systems 2014 will be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida from May 13 through May 15, 2014. RIEGL USA will be...
URISA and IAAO Issue Call for Presentations for GIS/CAMA 2015
Des Plaines, Ill., May 1, 2014—The International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) and the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) are pleased to announce the 19th GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference taking place March 2-5, 2015 in Oklahoma...
Esri and the United Nations Partner to Improve Global Climate Resilience
Redlands, Calif., May 5, 2014—Esri and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) have formed a partnership to build more resilient communities with geospatial technology. The announcement was made at the Abu Dhabi Ascent conference on Sunday,...
Lockheed Martin Marks Significant Milestone in Research and Development for Unmanned Technologies
VINEYARD, Utah, April 29, 2014—Three systems acquired by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have progressed from their research and development phase to operational readiness. The Indago vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) quad-rotor, accompanied by its handheld ground...
NASA-CNES Move Forward with Global Water and Ocean Surface Mission
Washington, D.C., May 2, 2014—NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) have agreed to jointly build, launch, and operate a spacecraft to conduct the first-ever global survey of Earth's surface water and to map ocean surface height...
Stennis Space Center Ranks First in Innovation
Stennis Space Center, Miss., April 30, 2014—The Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions (EIGS) is pleased to announce a recent survey named NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) as number one for innovation among federal agencies by the Partnership for...
