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UAE space economy grows 27.1% to $1.5 billion
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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...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Esri Location Intelligence Empowers Innovation at FirstNet Hackathon

REDLANDS, Calif. — Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced that it will sponsor the FirstNet Public Safety Hackathon in San Francisco, March 23–24. FirstNet is hosting the hackathon to drive the development of public...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

GRSG Chairman is Coming Up Trumps for the Geological Society

The Chairman of the Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) Charlotte Bishop, will be giving the next Geological Society Public Lecture at Burlington House on London’s Piccadilly once in the afternoon and again in the evening of Wednesday...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

New Esri Textbook Teaches the Fundamentals of ArcGIS

Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced the publication of Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, Fifth Edition. The comprehensive textbook teaches the concepts of geographic information system (GIS) technology and the fundamentals of mapmaking...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Indian Railways to Use GIS Portal, Satellite Imagery and GPS to Monitor Trains, Manage its Assets

NEW DELHI: Indian Railways will soon use satellite imagery to monitor, maintain and manage its assets across the country. The national transporter has signed a MOU with ISRO signed for mutual cooperation.  Read More at Economics Times

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Gurugram Becomes First City of North India to Get GIS Mapping

Gurugram has become first city of North India to get done GIS Mapping, which would not only become the base for master services of water, sewerage, power and roads, but it would also be help in putting...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

SpaceX Rocket Launch Created Shock Wave 4 Times Larger Than California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch last year generated a record-setting shock wave in Earth's atmosphere four times larger than the state of California, a new study reports. Read More at Space.com

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Airports Authority of India Conducts International Workshop on Harmonised Satellite Navigation

Last week, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that it has now shared the significant benefits of advanced navigation system by offering GPS-aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Southeast...