August 10, 2015 (Reston, VA) — MAPPS, the association of private sector geospatial firms, is pleased to announce today it is accepting entries for the 9th Annual MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards. The Excellence Awards exemplify the...
First Responders Convene for National Summit and Awards on GIS Technology
WASHINGTON, August 7, 2015 — On August 4th and 5th the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation brought together more than 150 of the Nation's public safety leaders and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) professionals for the inaugural National...
Surrey Satellite US Expands Business Development Team
ENGLEWOOD, COLO., August 6, 2015 — Colorado-based Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) today announced the addition of Stephen Eisele and Rick Sanford to its business development team. Eisele and Sanford join Brent Abbott and report to COO Doug Gerull in...
Avineon Hosts Webinar on Business Intelligence for ArcGIS
McLean, Virginia, August 4, 2015 — Avineon, Inc. (Avineon), a global provider of information technology, geospatial, and engineering support services, is hosting a free webinar to show ArcGIS users how to gain better understanding of the data in their geodatabase...
2015 URISA Exemplary Systems in Government Award Recipients Announced
Des Plaines, IL, August 4, 2015 — URISA Is pleased to announce the recipients of 2015 Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) Awards. Since 1980, URISA's ESIG Awards have recognized extraordinary achievements in the use of geospatial information technology that have...
Teledyne Optech going to Geomatics Indaba in South Africa
August 4, 2015 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it is displaying its latest technologies for surveying land and sea at the Geomatics Indaba 2015 conference on August 11 to 13 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Geomatics Indaba is one of Africa’s largest...
Two ASPRS Awards for Pit-Free CHM Algorithm
July 29, 2015 — The paper “Generating Pit-free Canopy Height Models from Airborne LiDAR†co-authored by rapidlasso GmbH and published in the September 2014 issue of PE&RS (the journal of the ASPRS) was awarded twice at the IGTF 2015 – ASPRS Annual...
TerraGo to Demonstrate Advanced GPS and GIS Solutions at InfoAg 2015
Washington, D.C., July 29, 2015 — TerraGo®, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, will exhibit at the InfoAg Conference which takes place July 28-30 at Union Station in St. Louis. TerraGo’s mobile GPS data collection and...
2015 SAG Award Winners Announced by Esri Inc
Aylesbury, July 29, 2015 — Network Rail and Public Health England have both been honoured by Esri Inc in its annual Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards, presented at the Esri User Conference in San Diego, California.  The SAG Awards highlight users that have...
Velodyne's 3D LiDAR Sensor Helps EU Joint Research Centre Win Microsoft Competition
MORGAN HILL, Calif., July 29, 2015 — A team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's in-house science service, has outperformed a global mix of 27 teams from academia and industry, achieving the best overall result at a recent...
