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Friday, March 30th, 2018

InterDrone Forms Industry Advisory Board

NEW YORK  — Emerald Expositions, owner and organizer of InterDrone, the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to commercial drone use, announced it has created a new Industry Advisory Board. The board consists of 19 members from industry-leading...

Friday, March 30th, 2018

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...

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

VIAMETRIS Chooses the Ellipse-D Inertial Navigation System to Equip Their New Backpack-Based Scanning Solution

March 28th2018, Carrières-sur-Seine, France - 2018 VIAMETRIS , specialist of SLAM-based mobile scanning systems, completes its product range with a backpack-based scanning system called the “bMS3D-360”. The company continues to rely on SBG Systems’ expertise in inertial...

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

Release of New Accurate and Recent Global Imagery Mosaic

Clermont-Ferrand, France – PlanetObserver, provider of geospatial data for civil and military solutions, announces the release of the most up-to-date global mosaic processed with recent and cloud-free satellite imagery. With an unmatched 10-meter resolution at the global...

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

OGC Requests Responses to a Survey Regarding Potential Professional Certification Program

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering developing a Professional Certification program. The program would allow individuals to achieve certification that confirms their competency in specific OGC standards. The program would therefore focus primarily on OGC standards,...

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

AgEagle Aerial Systems Closes Merger with EnerJex; To Initiate Trading on NYSE as UAVS

Neodesha, KS - AgEagle Aerial Systems, Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS), an aerial drone imagery collection and analytics company, today announced that it has closed its merger transaction with EnerJex Resources, Inc. (NYSE American: ENRJ), pursuant to which...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk

Australian scientists say a powerful ground-based laser targeting space junk will be ready for use in 2019, noting that there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris circling the Earth that have the potential to damage...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

MDA to Provide RADARSAT-2 Information to Meet Critical and Complex Challenges for Land and Maritime Monitoring

RICHMOND, BC - MDA, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.), (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), announced today it has recently signed multiple geospatial-related contracts based on RADARSAT-2 satellite information. RADARSAT-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Spacecom Selects Maxar Technologies’ SSL to Build AMOS-8 Communications Satellite with Advanced Capabilities

PALO ALTO, CA and TEL AVIV, Israel - Spacecom (TASE: SCC), operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, today announced it has chosen SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.), (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR) to...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

senseFly Takes Drone Flight Plannng & Management to Next Level with Release of eMotion 3.5

Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland: senseFly, the world’s first-choice producer of professional mapping drones, and a Parrot Group company, today released a groundbreaking new version of its industry-acclaimed flight and data management software, eMotion.   eMotion 3.5 includes a raft...