Space Foundation will be hosting a "State of Space" event Tuesday, Feb. 11, 9-11 a.m., at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C. The event will be webcasted so everyone can join in regardless of location; visit...
Riverside Research’s Commercial Innovation Center (CIC) and T-REX Innovation Center Announce Partnership
WASHINGTON - Riverside Research's Commercial Innovation Center (CIC) and St. Louis, Missouri-based T-REX Innovation Center have formed a new partnership to further accelerate GEOINT, MASINT, and Multi-INT research and development. Riverside...
Homeland Security Challenges Create Geospatial Opportunities
By Michael F. Goodchild, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara (www.geog.ucsb.edu). Although traditional geospatial applications often have proceeded at a fairly leisurely pace, applications in emergency management almost always stress the...
MAPPS Applauds Introduction of FLAIR Act, A Bill To Create A Federal Land Inventory
Reston, VA, July 24, 2015 — A bi-partisan bill to create a current, accurate federal inventory or "cadastre" of all federal land, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, has earned praise from MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private...
Transparency Is Challenging the Status Quo
More industry and academia collaboration, easier points of entry for a wider audience to interact in the agency's tradecraft and business practices, and initiatives creating a larger public conversation ” all signs welcoming outsiders to a state of greater transparency at NGA.
The Carbon Project Selected to Deploy Cloud-based Parcel Data Exchange
ALEXANDRIA, VA, January 13, 2016 — The Carbon Project today announced that the State of North Carolina, Office of Information Technology Services renewed its contract to deploy a cloud-based Cadastral Data Exchange, The effort builds on a pilot project conducted in...
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Annual TomTom Traffic Index: the World at the Pace of the Pandemic
Global congestion level in 2021 remains 10% lower than pre-COVID times (2019) World’s most congested city in 2021 is Istanbul, Turkey (Congestion level: 62%1) In London, traffic congestion was responsible for an additional 2.2 megatonnes of CO2 in 2021. In over a...
Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems
Teledyne and FLIR to Host Joint Conference Call and Webcast at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Today THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and ARLINGTON, Va. – Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) (“Teledyneâ€) and FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR​​​​​) (“FLIRâ€) jointly...
Japanese Space Industry Startup Synspective Raises US $100 Million in Funding
TOKYO - Synspective Inc., is a Japanese startup which provides satellite data solutions using small sized SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites. The company accumulated $100 million USD in funding since its foundation in February 2018. Raising that amount in less...
