HAIFA, Israel, March 26, 2014—Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: ESLT) ("Elbit Systems") announced today that it was awarded a contract by the Brazilian Air Force ("FAB") for the supply of a Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft System ("UAS"). The Hermes 900, which will...
MDA Provides RADARSAT-2 Information to the ¨Malaysia Remote Sensing Agency
Richmond, Canada, March 26, 2014—MDA’s Information Systems group (MDA) announced today that it has signed a contract with the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA) to provide RADARSAT-2 information that will be used to support a number of applications, such as...
New Virtual NAPSG Center Supplies Mapping Resources, Expertise to Public Safety Agencies Nationwide
Redlands, Calif., March 26, 2014—Esri and the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation announced the creation of a new cloud-based, virtual center that will supply public safety and homeland security agencies with valuable tools, resources, and...
Surdex First in United States to Operate Leica ADS100 Digital Imaging Sensors
NORCROSS, Ga., March 26, 2014—Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Surdex Corporation has received delivery of its third Leica ADS100 digital imaging sensor. Two units were delivered in June 2013, which were the first Leica ADS100 systems to become operational...
Triton Unmanned Aircraft System Completes Initial Flight Test Phase
Patuxent River, Md., March 21, 2014—The Navy's MQ-4C Triton completed its initial flight test phase at Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, Calif., facility March 13, bringing the unmanned air system one step closer to introduction to the fleet in 2017. The flight testing,...
Unmanned Aircraft Reach New Heights with Warsaw Polytechnic & Lockheed Martin Partnership
WARSAW, Poland, March 20, 2014—Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw Polytechnic) will jointly conduct an advanced applied research program in the field of integration between manned and unmanned airborne platform systems. The program adds...
Deal for Sentinel-5 Air Quality Sensor Inked
The €144 million contract for the Sentinel-5 instrument of Europe's Copernicus program was signed with Airbus Defence and Space on March 28, 2014, in Ottobrunn, Germany.
Parting the Sea to Save Venice
A massive engineering project aims to temporarily separate the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea when unusually high tides occur through a series of 78 gates that seal the lagoon's three inlets.
Pine Island Ice Retreat on the Radar
Twenty years of radar coverage from European Space Agency satellites have been used to measure the rapid thinning of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, and it's losing more ice than previously thought.
First Global Precipitation Mission Images Released
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency released the first images from their new Earth-observing satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory.
