STAMFORD, Conn. - Rizing, LLC, the privately held global SAP® functional and technical firm, today announces the acquisition of Transcend Spatial Solutions ("Transcend"), a Geographic Information System (GIS) services and solutions company founded in 2010 and...
VRMesh V11.2 Adds Two-Sided Meshing for Visualizing Large-Volume Scans
Seattle, WA – VirtualGrid announced today the release of VRMesh v11.2, the latest version of its powerful point cloud and mesh processing software. This release presents a new method of point cloud meshing that enables users to convert point clouds to a two-sided...
OGC Academic Summit 2014 Issues Call for Presentations
July 3, 2014—The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a call for presentations and presentation abstracts at the inaugural OGC Academic Summit 2014. The OGC Academic Summit will be held 15-16 September 2014 at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada as...
EARTH-i Brings Earth Observation Capabilities to Farnborough: A Year on from Launch of DMC3/TripleSat Constellation
EARTH-i (www.earthi.space), the innovative British distributor of Earth Observation and information services is, for the first time, attending the Farnborough International Airshow and exhibiting alongside the UK Space Agency. The show provides Earth-i an opportunity...
California Fire Scorches More Than 17,000 Acres
When NASA's Terra satellite snapped this image of the Lion Fire on July 28, the fire was approximately 15 percent contained and growing.
MAPPS Celebrates 35th Anniversary
Reston, VA - July 12, marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of MAPPS, the national association of photogrammetry, mapping, and geospatial firms. It was on July 12, 1982 that a group of visionary firm owners gathered at a hotel at O'Hare Airport in Chicago and...
OGC Announces Retirement of Board Members Michael Jackson and Jack Pellicci, Appointment of Kristin Tolle
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the retirement of two of its longest-serving board members, Dr. Mike Jackson and Jack Pellicci, as well as the appointment of Kristin Tolle, to its Board of Directors. Both Dr. Jackson and Mr. Pellicci will continue to...
Boundless Launches Complete Open Source GIS Platform for the Enterprise
Washington D.C  —Boundless, the leading provider of open source geospatial software and services, today announced the launch of its latest products designed to enable organizations to successfully transition to the open source GIS platform. The new...
The Getech Group is Set to Explore and Innovate with Esri
Exprodat, a Getech Group Company, that provides natural resources insight, data and expertise to companies and governments around the world, will be a Sapphire Sponsor of the forthcoming Esri Petroleum GIS Conference. Held in the George R Brown Convention Center,...
Pecora Award Recognizes Excellence in Earth Observation
Dr. Curtis E. Woodcock, a longtime innovator in space-based Earth observation at Boston University, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) team, which paved the way for the next generation of satellite precipitation observations, received the 2016 William T. Pecora Award for achievement in Earth remote sensing.
