Noida, India – Geospatial technology is changing rapidly and finding use in virtually every economic sector globally. It is considered one of the most important high-growth industries of the 21st century. But then, what does the geospatial industry encompass and...
USGS and NASA Select New Landsat Science Team
The team’s primary responsibility is to conduct Landsat-based scientific research and engineering studies, develop useful data products and applications and share the results of its work with the USGS, NASA and others. Members will serve a five-year term from 2018...
TomTom and Precisely Extend Their Collaborative, Long-Standing Partnership and Improve Location-Based Insights
AMSTERDAM and NEW YORK, Oct.- TomTom (TOM2), the mapmaker and location technology specialist, and Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced an extension of their long-term partnership. TomTom will continue to provide...
Nokia joins Sendai City in world's first test of private wireless connected drones for tsunami evacuation alerts
Sendai City and Nokia successfully conducted a test flight of a Nokia drone on a private LTE network provided by Nokia Digital Automation Cloud. They tested the potential use of drones during a tsunami or other disasters to help in prevention and mitigation efforts....
How Disaster Ready Are You?
Esri Helps Central U.S. States Participate in the Nation’s Largest Emergency Exercise On the morning of May 20, 2011, hundreds of emergency responders across the central United States got the alert: A devastating earthquake along the New Madrid fault line had just...
Woolpert Deploys UAS to Collect Imagery for Rural Roads Project
Woolpert has been hired by Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) to collect imagery via unmanned aerial system (UAS), or drone, of haul roads throughout the Midwest. This project, “Characterization of Unpaved Road Conditions Through the Use of Remote Sensing,â€...
Intermap Announces Definitive Agreement with Lufthansa Systems
DENVER -Â Intermap Technologies ("Intermap" or the "Company"), a global leader in geospatial intelligence solutions, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Lufthansa Systems GmbH & Co KG (Lufthansa Systems) that formalizes the business...
16th Century Dutch Star-Shaped ˜Moat Fort'
Fort Bourtange is a star-shaped moat fort, located in the village of Bourtange in the east of Groningen in the Netherlands near the German border. This fort was built in 1593 to create a border around the only road between Germany and Groningen, which was was occupied by Spaniards around the time of the Eighty Years War.
CHC Navigation introduces cloud-based 3D data platform
CoCloud, the new cloud-native platform for 3D data processing, management and collaborative analysis from CHC Navigation (CHCNAV), offers robust tools for handling multi-source 3D data. This comprehensive solution facilitates streamlined workflows from data...
ESA Satellite Observations Identify Piracy Trends
Earth observation data from the European Space Agency's GlobWave project reveals that Mother Nature seems to be slowing down the rate of successful pirate attacks on the high seas.
