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ISRO to map landslides in J&K using satellite to generate alerts
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Korea to Build 3D ‘New National Map’ Under Spatial Data Strategy
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

Boundless Exchange Now Available as Managed Offering in the Cloud

St. Louis, MO – Boundless, the leader in open and scalable GIS, announced that, for the first time, its flagship product Boundless Exchange™, is now available as a managed service. Boundless Exchange is a highly-configurable geospatial content...

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

Airbus Aerial and DroneBase Team Up for the World’s First Multi-Source Data Services Solution

ATLANTA and LOS ANGELES - Airbus Aerial and DroneBase, the largest global drone operations company, today announced a partnership that delivers the world's first multi-source data service solution for aerial imagery and data from a single provider....

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

UTC Aerospace Systems To Support United States Special Operations Command’s Mid-Endurance UAS Program

DENVER - UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), announced today that it will be part of the U.S. Special Operations Command's (USSOCOM) Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MEUAS III) program. As a subcontractor to...

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

Esri Joins Smart Cities New York 2018 Conference

REDLANDS, Calif. — Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, will join this year's Smart Cities New York conference, to be held May 8–10. Experts from Esri will be on hand to discuss how the company's GIS...

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

China, Finland to Enhance Arctic Research Cooperation

The China Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced that China and Finland signed an agreement to establish a joint research center for Arctic space observation and data sharing services. The agreement, signed on April 8 by Liu Jianbo,...

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Europe Launches Seventh Sentinel Earth Observation Satellite

FRANKFURT  – Europe has launched the seventh of its Sentinel Earth observation satellites as part of its multi-billion-euro Copernicus program to help predict weather phenomena such as El Nino and track the progress of global warming. Read...

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Drones are about to start mapping the Great Wall of China in incredible detail

Intel and the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation have teamed up to deploy drones to scan and capture 3-D images of the structure. A detailed model of the nearly 700-year-old Jiankou portion of the wall, in...

Monday, April 30th, 2018

China’s Shaanxi Province Releases Plan for Remote Sensing CubeSat Constellation

The northern Chinese province of Shaanxi has released a plan to construct a low Earth orbit constellation of remote sensing CubeSats for resource, environmental, agricultural and other uses. Read More at GB Times

Monday, April 30th, 2018

PM Calls Upon People to Make Water Conservation a Collective Responsibility

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in his customary radio address Mann Ki Baat that conservation of water must be a collective responsibility. He said an average of Rs 32,000 crore has been spent, besides the MNREGA...

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Digital Mapping Firm Esri Ireland Invests €1.6m in Expansion

Geographic information services group Esri Ireland has invested €1.6 million to upgrade its Dublin headquarters and expand into Northern Ireland. Read More at Irish Times