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Monday, October 31st, 2016

Ian Masser to Receive GSDI Global Citizen Award

Emeritus Professor Ian Masser is to receive the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Global Citizen Award during the 15th GSDI World Conference in Taipei, Taiwan on 2 December 2016. Read More at GIM International

Monday, October 31st, 2016

GAF Operationally Provides Ocean Colour Data to ESA

Neustrelitz, Germany -  After signing respective agreements with ESA and Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO, GAF as the prime contractor in cooperation with DLR has upgraded the ground station in Neustrelitz to accommodate the reception of...

Monday, October 31st, 2016

USGIF Launches EdGEOcation Giving Campaign

Herndon, Virginia Oct. - The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has launched the EdGEOcation Giving Campaign to raise money and awareness for USGIF’s educational programs. The Foundation has set the goal to raise $5,000 by Dec....

Monday, October 31st, 2016

Esri Sponsors 2016 Code for America Summit

REDLANDS, Calif.  — Global smart mapping leader Esri will continue its long-standing support of Code for America by sponsoring the 2016 Code for America Summit, which will take place November 1 to 3, in Oakland, California. Each...

Monday, October 31st, 2016

Call for ISDE Video Competition

The ISDE Video competition is organized by the International Society for Digital Earth. Previously a first video competition was organized in 2015 and the winner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsmiTZ-2hrM) was announced in Halifax, Canada, during the 9th ISDE Symposium. Starting...

Monday, October 31st, 2016

HYPACK Chose the Ellipse-D Inertial Navigation System to Equip their UAV-Based Surveying Solution: NEXUS 800

Rueil-Malmaison, France– Hypack chose the Ellipse-D inertial navigation system to equip their new UAV-based surveying solution: the NEXUS 800. The NEXUS 800 is an out of the box turnkey system that tightly integrates hardware and software to...

Friday, October 28th, 2016

CACI Awarded Prime Position on $978 Million IDIQ for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

ARLINGTON, Va.- CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced today that it has been awarded a prime position on the Full-Motion Video (FMV) functional area of the Multi-Intelligence Analytical and Collection Support Services (MACSS) multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity...

Friday, October 28th, 2016

IBM and Esri Team Up to Offer Cognitive Analytics and IoT in the IBM Cloud

At this year's IBM World of Watson event in Las Vegas, global smart mapping leader Esri announced that it now works with IBM users and developers to broaden the customer experience by making Esri data and technology...

Friday, October 28th, 2016

Orbital ATK Selected to Build NASA’s Next Civilian Land Remote Sensing Satellite

DULLES, Va.--Orbital ATK, Inc. (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design and build Landsat 9,...

Friday, October 28th, 2016

East View Provides Remote Maps to Record Seeking Trekkers

Brits Anthony Lambert and Louis Nethercott are seeking to become the first humans to travel across the five largest islands on the planet. Starting this November, Lambert and Nethercott will visit Greenland, Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar...