Monday, April 15th, 2019
India’s growing might in earth observation, remote sensing, mapping, and location technologies has got a shot in the arm, with the US department of interior appointing an Indian to its prestigious National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC). Read...
Monday, April 15th, 2019
The Australian space industry has received a $245m injection with the launch of the Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Satellite Technologies and Analytics, announced today in Adelaide at the University of South Australia. The national SmartSat CRC...
Friday, April 12th, 2019
A range of systems already exists to prevent drones from flying into restricted airspace, but the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has decided to go its own way with the launch of a $2.5 million contest aimed...
Friday, April 12th, 2019
New Zealanders’ commitment to supporting women in the spatial industry and an innovative way to catch pests all won big at the prestigious Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) this week in Melbourne. Read More at Voxy
Friday, April 12th, 2019
Record rainfall and flooding in Iran has led to substantial loss of life and forced evacuations of thousands of people since mid March 2019, causing hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. Responding to requests from UNESCAP...
Friday, April 12th, 2019
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has launched a competition to seek robust and cost-effective next-generation solutions to tackle the future threats posed by drones. Read More at Airforce Technology
Friday, April 12th, 2019
SKY Perfect JSAT has reached a business partnership agreement with PASCO. The aim of the partnership is to create high added-value services and to mutually make effective use of the technologies and resources owned by both companies...
Friday, April 12th, 2019
India’s government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has revealed additional details about the successful test-firing on 27 March of its first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile that destroyed one of the country’s own satellites in space. Read More...
Friday, April 12th, 2019
The African Open Data and Internet Research Foundation (AODIRF), a non-profit organisation focused on open data access and internet capacity building, is organising African Geospatial Data and Internet Conference 2019, on 22-24 October in Accra. Read More...
Friday, April 12th, 2019
Australia's new space agency is embarking into a bold and ambitious program — it wants to mine water and other resources from the moon. Read More at Tech Times
