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Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

MDA to Provide RADARSAT-2 Information for Maritime Surveillance

Canada: MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. also known as “MDA”, has signed three contracts with Satellite Applications Catapult Ltd. that has a total approximate value of CA$2.5 million. MDA will use imaging capabilities from the RADARSAT-2 satellite...

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Trimble Partners with Teledyne to Distribute its Software for Construction, Hydrographic Survey and Dredging Operations

LAS VEGAS - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Teledyne Marine announced today that Trimble will distribute a branded version of Teledyne's PDS software package for hydrographic survey, construction and dredging operations—Trimble® Marine Construction Software. The software provides accurate measurement...

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Topcon Announces Agreement to Bundle Bentley Reality Modeling Software with UAS Software Solutions

LIVERMORE, Calif., USA/ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, The Netherlands – Topcon Positioning Group introduces Topcon ContextCapture, powered by Bentley Systems, a reality modeling software solution that will be offered with Topcon UAS (unmanned aerial systems). The system is...

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Shih Hsin University Winner of SuperGIS Youth Award 2017

Held by Supergeo for years, SuperGIS Youth Award is an annual competition that aims to encourage college students solving problems with geospatial technologies. Also, this event not only provides opportunities for students and teachers to discuss their...

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Trimble and Ordnance Survey Collaborate to Aid Geospatial Industry Innovation

The Geovation Innovators will also be granted access to Trimble’s subscription-based on-demand positioning services, which enable the receivers to obtain high-accuracy positioning by utilizing data from OS’s OSNet for the necessary corrections. It is hoped entrepreneurial imagination...

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Globalstar CEO Inducted Into Satellite Hall of Fame for Lifesaving Technology

COVINGTON, La. - Globalstar (NYSE:GSAT) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jay Monroe, has been inducted into the Society of Satellite Professionals International’s (SSPI) Satellite Hall of Fame for his efforts in bringing Globalstar’s lifesaving technology, SPOT, to...

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Simularity and Spacemetric Team to Improve Anomaly Detection

With rapidly increasing volumes of imagery from satellite and other platforms, such as drones and video sensors, the challenge is to extract the anomalous changes from the predictable, everyday ones and spurious noise. Suppression of noise is...

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Chinese Navigation System BeiDou Makes Significant Progress in GPS Navigation

China: Engineers working on Chinese satellite navigation system, BeiDou, have announced that the system has made significant progress in terms of its accuracy. At a press conference, the BeiDou engineers confirmed that the satellites can pin users...

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Airbus: Successfully Launched Sentinel-2B to Complete Europe´s Colour Vision Mission of Earth

Kourou, 07/03/2017 - Europe´s Copernicus programme has got its second eye. On Tuesday, 7 March at 02:49 am CET (6 March at 10.49 pm local time), a Vega launcher successfully took off from the spaceport in Kourou,...

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

OGC Seeks Public Comment on New Abstract Specification Topic for Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting public comment on its Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) Abstract Specification Topic. DGGS enable rapid integration of spatial data without the difficulties of working with legacy coordinate systems, particularly projected...