EuroGeographics has announced a new Management Board comprising senior representatives from Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registry Authorities. During the Association’s 2016 General Assembly in Budapest, Hungary, members elected Anne Cathrine...
Sanborn Completes Kentucky County Aerial Project
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —  The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) has completed a project for Boone County GIS (BCGIS), Burlington, Ky., comprising the acquisition and delivery of oblique imagery and orthoimagery for the 256-square-mile county. Geospatial and...
OriginGPS Elevates Drone Navigation with Streamlined Module+Software Integration
AIRPORT CITY, Israel — OriginGPS, one of the leading manufacturers of miniature Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) modules, announced today the launch of three new products built on the flash-based SiRFstar V from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. This latest trio...
NASA Establishes Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute
NASA introduced the Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI), hosted at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., to leverage the growing small spacecraft (i.e., SmallSat) community, promote innovation, identify emerging technology opportunities, and provide an efficient channel for communication about small spacecraft systems with industry, academia and other government agencies.
Desert Irrigation Makes for Spectacular Imagery
Although it may be difficult to irrigate fields in the middle of the the Wadi As Sirhan basin of Saudi Arabia, the practice does lead to stunning and beautifully contrasting imagery, as evidenced in this European Space Agency (ESA) false-color image from the Proba-V minisatellite.
International Year of Global Understanding Story Maps Competition
The International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) Story Maps Competition is a contest aimed at young people from around the world to help raise awareness of the global implications of local everyday actions. Our world faces social, cultural, and economic change,...
Municipalities are Adopting Analytics for their Geospatial Projects
A few months ago Maptiks announced their web map analytics for Esri’s ArcGIS Online. It made it possible for ArcGIS Online users to track visitor activities, helping to answer key questions like “how and where are users interacting with a web map†and “what...
Versar Goes Mobile with TerraGo Edge for Environmental Compliance Assessments
Washington, D.C. - TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration, field data collection and enterprise mobility software, announced today that TerraGo Edge® was deployed by Versar’s Environmental Services group. “Now we don’t necessarily need complex GPS...
Operation INTERSECT Receives Award of Excellence in GIS
OTTAWA, Esri Canada User Conference – Esri Canada today recognized Operation INTERSECT with an Award of Excellence for its outstanding use of geographic information system (GIS) technology. Operation INTERSECT is a collaboration among 28 agencies in the National...
Hemisphere GNSS Announces New Eclipse P328 OEM Positioning Board
Scottsdale, AZ, USA – Today, Hemisphere GNSS announces the Eclipse P328, the next offering in a line of new and refreshed, low-power, high-precision, positioning OEM boards. The multi-frequency, multi-GNSS P328 is an all signals receiver board that includes...
