Following are the top stories from the last few months (in terms of traffic on the Earth Imaging Journal Web site). These listing categories reflect key coverage areas of this publication. Information about the imaging industry's business transactions, product releases and employee movement are posted daily on the Web site, syndicated on Twitter (@eijournal) and delivered weekly via the Earth Imaging Express e-newsletter. Be certain to subscribe to the newsletter at: www.eijournal.com/subscribe and follow us on Twitter.
Environmental Monitoring
- NSF, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Support Development of New Arctic Maps
- Bluesky Helps Scientists Understand Impact of Urban Trees on Air Quality
- Rezatec Uses Earth Observation to Measure Peatland Integrity and Restoration Prioritization for Northern Ireland Water
- GeoVisionary Used to Visualise Flood Risk by Cardiff University
- Help Wanted on Tracking Biodiversity from Space
- GDA Continues to Provide Global Agricultural Intelligence to USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
- CMC Acquires Maptek Sentry for Survey and Monitoring at Portia Gold Mine
- Elite Expedition Team Uses Juniper Systems' Archer 2 to Collect GIS Data on Remote Burmese Peak
Satellites and Sensors
- VisionMap Thermal Airborne Imaging System Maps German Pipelines
- Teledyne Selects Orbit Logic Software for ISS Imaging Platform Operations
- Sierra Nevada Corporation Congratulates NASA, NOAA and Lockheed Martin on Extraordinary EPIC Instrument Images
- Thales Alenia Space Signs New Phase of COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Contract to Continue Program
- Locata Positioning Will Underpin Future Unmanned Aerial System Research at NASA's Famed Langley Research Center
- PRENAV Releases Video of the World's Most Precise Commercial Drone System
- Taiwan Utilizes SmartDO to Optimize the Remote Sensing Instrument of FORMOSAT-8 Satellite
- NSF Awards $6 Million to UK and Three Partner Schools to Develop Weather Research Drones
- FAA: Wildfires and Drones Don't Mix
- First Applications from Sentinel-2A
- Leica GS14 GNSS Receiver Simplifies Field Connectivity With New Hybrid Communication Technology
- Routescene LidarPod Enables New Approach to Surveying
- Trimble Takes Flight with New Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System
Data Modeling/Analysis
- LandScan 2014 Global Population Database
- Alaska Mapping Project Passes 50 Percent Mark
- UA to Partner With Uber on Research
- Azavea Awarded Research Grants to Build Web Tools for Managing and Modeling with Earth Observation Data
- Blaze Terra Gives Access to over 200,000 Landsat Images
Business Transactions
- Trimble Acquires Spatial Dimension to Expand its Enterprise Land Management Solutions
- Independent Mapping Consultants to Acquire Carolina Resource Mapping
- Russia to Develop an Earth Observation System for Iran
- Esri and FlightAware Partner for Extensive Flight Tracking and Status Data Mapping Initiative
- Real Earth Partners with Velodyne to Lower Cost of Entry for Creating High-Res LiDAR Maps
- Nokia Agrees to Sell HERE to Automotive Industry Consortium
