February 25, 2015
Feb. 25, 2015—Eternix Ltd., leading provider of next-generation software for GIS visualization and editing in 3D, releases its first WAMI extension, enabling Blaze Terra users to access WAMI data through cloud-based services. WAMI stands for Wide Area Motion Imagery and is an advanced sensor-based technology, delivering board stretches of video-like footage. WAMI has been gaining
February 25, 2015
Feb.25, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper. This essential document for Smart City systems planning is available free at https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=61188. Urban residents make up 54% of the global population, and that percentage is growing rapidly. Effective integration of human, physical, and digital
February 25, 2015
Gatineau, QC, Feb. 25, 2015 — CubeWerx today announced the availability of OpenImgeMap™ – A cloud-based platform for hosting and publishing dynamic collections of geospatial imagery and securely delivering them through Open APIs. As a world leader in the provisioning of interoperable Web services, CubeWerx now sets the bar for dynamic hosting of imagery. Upload
February 25, 2015
Feb.25, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC® Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0). ARML 2.0 provides a free and open, non-proprietary encoding that augmented reality (AR) content providers can use to specify the visual appearance and real world “anchors” (including location) of virtual objects in an AR scene. Additionally, ARML
February 25, 2015
Feb.25, 2015 — GoGeomatics Canada recently launched a new service for job seekers looking for work in geomatics, GIS, remote sensing, surveying, cartography, and other related fields. Their Geospatial Resume and Cover Letter Writing Services are designed to offer an effective, affordable approach to help geospatial job seekers find employment, regardless of where they are
February 24, 2015
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 24, 2015—Exelis (XLS) released the first nighttime imagery taken by the CorvusEye 1500 wide-area airborne system. The image, taken using a mid-wave infrared (IR) sensor, depicts cars and pedestrians in downtown Rochester. From an altitude of 15,000 feet over a 1-square-mile area of Rochester, the nighttime picture shows a level of detail and context
February 24, 2015
Feb. 22, 2015—After many years of development the new stable major release GRASS GIS 7.0.0 is available. The graphical user interface based on wxPython has been enriched with many new features in order to make complex GIS operations available as simple as possible. The old Tcl/Tk based GUI has been dropped. The developers added important
February 24, 2015
Rome, Feb.24, 2015 — e-GEOS, a company established by Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%), has been awarded a contract from the European Commission worth 12 million euros, to provide satellite maps for emergency management. The contract, identified as Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Rapid Mapping, will be active in the period 20152019.
February 24, 2015
Feb.24, 2015 — The QuickBird satellite designed and built by Ball Aerospace for DigitalGlobe de-orbited successfully last month after making 70,000 trips around the Earth during its more than 13 years on orbit. QuickBird, which far exceeded its five-year design life, provided the highest resolution Earth imagery that was commercially available when it launched in
February 24, 2015
Friedrichshafen/Ottobrunn, Feb.24, 2015 — After six months of intensive testing, the first Sentinel-2 satellite developed and built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency (ESA) is getting ready for its mission in space. Sentinel-2A will be the second satellite of the Copernicus programme to be launched. Copernicus is an operational programme led by
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