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Friday, December 9th, 2016

Dewberry Selected to Conduct Lidar Surveys of Everglades National Park

Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has been selected by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct 1,211 square miles of lidar surveys covering a large portion of the Everglades National Park in southern Florida....

Friday, December 9th, 2016

GIS Leadership: URISA Program to be Offered Twice in 2017

Des Plaines, IL - URISA is pleased to announce that its GIS Leadership Academy will be offered twice in 2017. •April 3-7, 2017 in San Diego, California •July 24-28, 2017 in Providence, Rhode Island The success of...

Friday, December 9th, 2016

Optimal GEO Announces the Appointment of Two Geospatial Industry Veterans to the Management Team

Andy Freckmann comes aboard as Program Director and will oversee all Business Development activities at Optimal GEO.  “Andy is a strong addition to the Optimal GEO team,” said Mark Brooks, Chief Operating Officer for Optimal GEO. “With...

Friday, December 9th, 2016

BigData Earth Develops New Location Profile Report for Worldwide Agricultural Land

Modern Earth observation technologies (spaceborne, airborne and terrestrial) are increasingly deployed to capture environmental attributes about agricultural land and assets. Big data collected by various sensors and the information extracted are critical for the growing AgTech and...

Friday, December 9th, 2016

WOC and UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Sign Partnership Agreement At SOS 2016

IOC Executive Secretary, Vladimir Ryabinin, and WOC CEO, Paul Holthus, signed the Partnership Agreement at the opening session of the Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS), Rotterdam, 30 Dec-2 Nov. Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the IOC, stated that,...

Friday, December 9th, 2016

AeroVironment and California State University, Fresno Begin Field Research to Identify Water Stress in Almond Production Using Advanced UAV Data

MONROVIA, Calif.- AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, today announced it has begun a year-long study with California State University, Fresno to research how unmanned aerial...

Friday, December 9th, 2016

Europe’s Galileo Woos Indian Navigation Business

Galileo, Europe's fleet of navigation satellites, is now more than halfway through and its operator, the European Space Agency, is keen on supporting industry collaborations based on it in India and Asia, according to Justyna Redelkiewicz-Musial of...

Friday, December 9th, 2016

SQU, Khatib and Alami LoU to Support Remote Sensing & GIS Research

Muscat - Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), represented by Dr Rahma Ibrahim al Mahrooqi, deputy vice chancellor for Postgraduate Studies and Research, and Khatib and Alami Company (Middle East), represented by Eng Ismail Bazyan, senior director, signed a letter...

Friday, December 9th, 2016

Esri to Showcase Innovations in Science Tech at AGU Fall Meeting

REDLANDS, Calif. — Global smart-mapping leader Esri today announced that its experts will be convening at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. The AGU is among the world's most well-respected earth science...

Friday, December 9th, 2016

FARO Opens New Office in Australia

Singapore, 9 December 2016 – FARO Technologies, a global technology company that develops and markets computer-aided coordinate measurement devices and software, opens its new office in Brisbane, Australia.   This move is part of FARO’s long-term growth...