August 6, 2014
Redlands, Calif., July 30, 2014—Modernizing American Land Records: Order upon Chaos examines the history of American land concepts, governance, and records systems and their use. The book considers institutional land record trends and the latest technical developments of location-oriented land data systems such as geographic and land information systems (GIS/LIS). Both the institutional and technical concepts
August 6, 2014
Redlands, Calif., July 31, 2014—Education software publisher Maps.com has released its Field Trip Library series, which is powered by the Esri Story Map platform. Using this platform, students are introduced to fundamental geographic information system (GIS) concepts while exploring global culture, regional patterns, and major historical events through interactive maps. Field trips are enhanced with classroom materials
August 6, 2014
COPENHAGEN, July 28, 2014—Phase One Industrial, a leading manufacturer of medium format aerial photography equipment and software solutions, today announced the release of Phase One iX Capture, an image capture and RAW conversion application designed specifically for aerial photography. An intuitive interface displays key information such as exposure settings and history, histogram, GPS data and
August 6, 2014
PARIS, MONTREAL, WASHINGTON D.C., July 31, 2014—According to Euroconsult's newly released research report, Satellites to be Built & Launched, 115 satellites will be launched on average yearly over the next decade (2014-2023). In comparison with last year's forecast, the number of satellites is stable while market value is growing, thus translating the growing economic importance
July 30, 2014
Hallowell, Maine, July 22, 2014—Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the release of the Geographic Calculator 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This interim release features new job functions including the Area Calculation Tool and the Line Intersection Tool, as well as improved text rendering on Land Survey Summary jobs. Blue Marble's geospatial data
July 30, 2014
BINGEN, Wash., July 22, 2014—Insitu announced today the successful 24-hour flight of its Integrator unmanned aircraft. The flight demonstrated Integrator's expanded endurance at an increased gross take-off weight with payload on board. The event is the first of several planned milestones for the platform aimed toward continuously increasing payload capacity and endurance for future missions.
July 30, 2014
ROME, July 18, 2014—Finmeccanica-Selex ES’s ASIO-B and SPYBALL-B UAVs have passed their factory acceptance tests, leaving them ready for delivery to the Italian Army for its Forza NEC modernisation programme. With the systems ready to be welcomed into operation, the Italian Army will soon be able to benefit from the effective support that mini-micro UAVs
July 30, 2014
Washington, D.C., July 23, 2014—IDC predicts that by 2015, 37% of the workforce — approximately 1.3 billion workers — will be considered mobile. To help organizations truly harness the mobile workforce, unprecedented availability of geographic data, rise of cloud-based services and explosive growth of location-enabled devices, TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration software, introduces TerraGo
July 30, 2014
Des Plaines, Ill., July 22, 2014—The URISA Board of Directors recently recommended that the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) add addresses as an eighth framework data theme to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), and, in support of that, incorporate the FGDC address data standard into the Geographic Information Framework Data Content Standard. In addition,
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August 6, 2014
OGC Calls for Comment on Candidate Moving Feature Encoding Standard
July 24, 2014—The OGC seeks public comment on a candidate OGC® Moving Feature Encoding Standard. Part I of this candidate standard provides a standard way of encoding moving feature data in an XML encoding in the form of an OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) application schema. Part II provides a standard way of encoding moving