Last Friday was a record-breaking day for golf enthusiasts world-wide. Two of the world’s best golfers, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, participated in a one-on-one golf duel. Having scored 19 majors between the two of them, they competed for a $9 million grand...
MapTiler Wins Airbus Challenge of the Copernicus Masters 2018
Toulouse – MapTiler, a maps API (Application Programming Interface) developed by the Swiss company Klokan Technologies, has been named the winner of Airbus Multi-Data Challenge organised as part of the Copernicus Masters 2018. Klokan Technologies receives a...
Broadband Mapping Pioneer, Michael Byrne, Joins Conexon as Vice President, Information Technology
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.,- Conexon, a company committed to partnering with electric membership cooperatives to bring fiber to the home in rural communities, today announced the addition of broadband mapping pioneer and innovator Michael Byrne to its leadership team. Byrne...
Michael Baker International’s Keri Brennan, GISP, Elected to URISA Board of Directors
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, announced that Keri Brennan, GISP, Product Manager for the firm's public safety geographic information systems (GIS) business, has been elected to the Urban and Regional...
Geo4Dev 2018 Conference Addresses Innovative Geospatial Analysis for Disaster Response
BERKELEY, Calif. - New Light Technologies (NLT) was the primary sponsor of this year's second annual Geo4Dev conference, organized by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a hub for global development research at UC Berkeley. On November 15, 2018, the event...
BeBop Sensors Wins TIME Magazine Best Inventions 2018 Award for Forte Wireless Data Glove
Berkeley, CA — BeBop Sensors www.bebopsensors.com, the leader in smart fabric sensor technology with over 2 million state-of-the-art wearable smart fabric sensors shipped, announced today that it has won TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions 2018 Award for the Forte...
Announcing the OGC Energy & Utilities Summit, to be held as part of OGC's December TC Meeting in Charlotte
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group (DWG) is excited to announce that its 2nd Energy Summit will be held alongside the December OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Charlotte, NC. This 2nd Energy & Utilities Summit will...
Technology Demonstrator CIMON* Receives ˜Best of What's New Award' from US Science Magazine Popular Science
Friedrichshafen, 28 November 2018 – CIMON, the technology demonstrator developed and built by Airbus on behalf of the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and funded by the German Federal Ministry for...
TerraSim® Demonstrates New Technology at I/ITSEC 2018
At I/ITSEC 2018 in Orlando, Florida, TerraSim will introduce our new terrain server technology which underpins BISim’s cloud-enabled simulation solution for the U.S. Army Synthetic Training Environment (STE) program. Our STE World Server (STEWS) is a geospatial data...
Ville de Sherbrooke Awarded for Using GIS to Manage Traffic Data
MONTRÉAL, Esri Canada User Conference –Esri Canada presented Ville de Sherbrooke with an Award of Excellence today for its use of geographic information system (GIS) technology to create effective traffic management and make that information accessible to the...