New Zealand farmers rejoiced in mid-April 2013 when rains broke one of the worst droughts in decades. Images from NASA's Terra satellite compare drought conditions with a healthy landscape.
Boundless Elevates Andrew Dearing as Acting CEO
New York, NY and Washington DC – Dec. 3, 2015 —  Boundless, the leading provider of open source geospatial software and services, today announced the elevation of Andrew Dearing to serve as its acting Chief Executive Officer. “I am honored to be asked to...
HP Announces CEO Succession
PALO ALTO, Calif. - HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that its board of directors has unanimously appointed Enrique Lores, currently President of HP’s Imaging, Printing and Solutions business, to succeed Dion Weisler as the company’s President and CEO, effective...
New BlueSky GNSS Firewall From Microsemi Provides Secure, Continuous Timing Integrity in GPS-Denied Environments
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - GPS revolutionized the world with its ability to provide accurate and cost-effective positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), yet its rapid adoption has caused critical infrastructure sectors to be overly dependent upon the satellite-based...
Lufthansa Systems & Intermap Technologies obtain first EASA certification for global terrain data
Lido Surface Data NEXTView receives EASA Service Provider Type 1 Certificate, becoming the first certified aviation terrain product on the market RAUNHEIM, Germany -Â Lufthansa Systems and Intermap Technologies announced that Lido Surface Data NEXTView has received...
Earth, Moon and Orion
NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached a maximum distance of nearly 270,000 miles from Earth during the Artemis I flight test before beginning its journey back toward Earth.
Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg 2014 in Retrospect
Salzburg, Austria, July 8, 2014—In accordance with the motto “Geospatial Innovation for Societyâ€, around 1100 participants from 40 countries attended GI_Forum and AGIT 2014 to exchange information on the latest trends in technological, analytical, societal and...
From the South Pole: Ice Loss on the Rise
Three years of CryoSat satellite observations show West Antarctic Ice Sheet losses of more than 150 cubic kilometers of ice annually, considerably more than when last surveyed.
Satellite Images Reveal Earthquake/Tsunami Damage in Japan
Satellite imagery provided dramatic before-and-after perspectives after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan’s coast on March 11, 2011. The imagery provided an assessment of the damage seen at the two Fukushima nuclear power plants...
GITA Spring Conference Schedule Announced for 2016
St. Paul, Minnesota — The Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) is pleased to announce that for the first time in its 33-year history it will be delivering four (4) conferences in a two (2) month period. Starting with the GITA Pacific Northwest...
