Redlands, Calif., April 7, 2014—Esri has provided a recently revised set of customized templates to the US Army for its Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A). These easy-to-use templates come with maps, analytic capabilities, and other visualization...
NGA Joins GitHub, Offers Code to Help Disaster Response
SPRINGFIELD, Va., April 10, 2014—The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency this week joined GitHub, a popular social network that allows programmers to collaborate and share computer code between users.  The network allows developers to modify, distribute and...
PCI Geomatics Delivers High-Speed and Automated Historical Airphoto Processing System to Nationwide Environmental Title Research
RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada, April 10, 2014—PCI Geomatics has successfully delivered its high-speed and automated Historical Airphoto Processing (HAP) system to Nationwide Environmental Title Research (NETR). “The HAP system has really reduced our project...
Psomas Chooses Optech Lynx SG1 Mobile Mapper for Highway Surveying
Toronto, April 14, 2014—Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of high-accuracy lidar 3D survey systems and productivity-enhancing workflow software, is pleased to announce delivery of a Lynx SG1 Mobile Mapper™ to Psomas. One of the...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Deploys RIEGL LMS-Q1560
Orlando, Fla., April 7, 2014—RIEGL USA is proud to announce that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recently deployed its RIEGL LMS-Q1560 airborne laser scanner system! NASA JPL is utilizing the RIEGL LMS-Q1560 to more completely and accurately measure snowpack...
Sewall and CAI Technologies Announce New Cooperative Agreement
OLD TOWN, Maine, and LITTLETON, N.H., April 8, 2014—James W. Sewall Company of Old Town, Maine, and Cartographic Associates, Inc. (dba CAI Technologies) of Littleton, New Hampshire, have announced a new cooperative agreement whereby clients will benefit from the...
Blue Marble Releases GeoCalc 7.0 with EPSG Area of Use Polygon Data
Hallowell, Maine, April 2, 2014—Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the release of the GeoCalc 7.0 software development kit (SDK). This release features new functionality to display and utilize the EPSG “Area of Use†Polygon...
Blue Marble Releases the Coordinate System Song on Roughly Round Records
Hallowell, Maine, April 1, 2014—Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the release of the “Coordinate System Song†on Roughly Round Records.  This is the company’s first foray into the world of educational songs in its twenty year...
Global Hawk Expands Satellite Communications Capability
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., April 3, 2014—The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has completed a series of ground and air demonstrations at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., expanding the adaptability of the Global Hawk system to use an...
Hyperspectral Software Announced for Airborne Applications
Fitchburg, Mass., April 4, 2014—Headwall has released its new Hyperspec III application software featuring a powerful set of hyperspectral data acquisition management tools. The enhanced software suite represents an easy-to-use platform for controlling hyperspectral...
