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Friday, January 5th, 2018

Trimble Partners with CalAmp to Deliver Fleet and Asset Management Solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and IRVINE, Calif.- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that CalAmp (NASDAQ: CAMP) is supplying customized telematics tracking devices and systems management technology for Trimble's Field Service Management (FSM) vehicle and asset monitoring solutions. Trimble will focus...

Friday, January 5th, 2018

GEO Jobe Welcomes Steven McCall as Application Developer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - GEO Jobe (www.geo-jobe.com), a leading GIS software and geospatial solutions provider and developers of Admin Tools (Top application in the ArcGIS MarketPlace) Mapfolio, and the GEOpowered cloud for ArcGIS, is pleased to welcome Steven...

Friday, January 5th, 2018

2G Delivers Laser Scanning System to Kongsberg for Norwegian Mine Countermeasures

2G Robotics is pleased to announce the first of four ULS-500 PRO laser scanning systems has been shipped to Kongsberg Maritime for integration into the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency’s (NDMA) newly purchased HUGIN AUV’s. The acquisition signifies the...

Friday, January 5th, 2018

East View Geospatial Offers New Formats, Lower Pricing for French Nautical Charts

MINNEAPOLIS – East View Geospatial (EVG) is pleased to announce an agreement with the French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (Service Hydrographique et Océanographique De La Marine, SHOM) to offer digital nautical charts of French waters. This...

Friday, January 5th, 2018

Indian Government Plans to Start Commercial Mapping and Navigation Platform

India: The Indian government is planning to start its own commercial mapping and navigation platform to plug the loopholes existing in services being offered by companies such as Google Maps and MapmyIndia, as per a senior government official. Read...

Friday, January 5th, 2018

Malaysia Invites Pitches For Appointment Of High Speed Rail Geospatial Data Consultant

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's MyHSR Corporation said Tuesday it is inviting pitches for the role of so-called geospatial data consultant for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail project. Read More at Asian Nikkei Review

Friday, January 5th, 2018

England to be Mapped with 3D LiDAR Scanners to Tackle Flooding

England: Planning to tackle flooding, and track illegal waste dumps in England, LiDAR mapping will be conducted in all of England, announced Environment Agency. Aircraft equipped with laser scanners will map all 130,000 square kilometers (50,000 square...

Thursday, January 4th, 2018

Japan Launches ‘Super Low Altitude’ Earth Observation Satellite that will Orbit Just 180 Miles Above Us Using a Radical Ion Engine

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has launched a satellite designed to reach ‘super low orbit’, using a radical ion engine said to be 10 times more efficient than gas jets. Read More at Daily mail

Thursday, January 4th, 2018

Israel to Launch World’s First Nanosatellites in 2018

JERUSALEM (Xinhua) -- The Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and the Israel Space Agency said on Wednesday that Israel will launch a group of three nanosatellites into space in 2018. Read More at Xinhua

Thursday, January 4th, 2018

China to Attempt More than 40 Space Launches in 2018

China: In 2018, China is expected to attempt more than 40 launches including the Long March 5 and lunar far side missions. The main space program contractor aims to launch 35 times, whereas the additional missions are...