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Thursday, December 29th, 2016

China Launches Two High-Resolution Remote Sensing Satellites

China today successfully launched a pair of high-resolution remote sensing satellites to get commercial images. The satellites were launched today from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi Province, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Read More at...

Thursday, December 29th, 2016

China Investors Buy Stake in Mapping Firm

FRANKFURT: Chinese mapping firm NavInfo, Internet group Tencent and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC are buying a 10% stake in digital maps company HERE, the latest in a string of Chinese acquisitions in Europe. Read More at...

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016

Intermap Offers Debt, Equity Rights Restructuring

Geospatial intelligence corporation Intermap (TSX: IMP) (ITMSF:BB) has agreed with Vertex One Asset Management Inc. on behalf of the Vertex Fund to restructure Intermap´s outstanding indebtedness, reduce its interest and certain other payment obligations, and provide the...

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016

ISRO to Launch Record 83 Satellites in One Go in January

BENGALURU: ISRO today said it would launch a record 83 satellites in one go using its workhorse PSLV-C37 toward the end of January.  Read More at Economics Times

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016

Belarus-China Joint Venture to Make UAS

(BelTA) – Belarus and China are busy setting up a joint venture to make unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), BelTA learned from First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Sergei Chizhik...

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016

ImageSat International and Ben-Gurion University to Collaborate on Miniature Hyperspect

BEER-SHEVA, Israel  - ImageSat International (ISI) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) announced a collaboration to leverage BGU’s breakthrough spectroscopy imaging research and develop a high performance, high resolution hyperspectral/ultraspectral imaging system with vast flight- and...

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

DRONE IN BANGLADESH: Safety Concerns and Regulation

Like most of the ICT related innovations, positive and negative coverage on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) (popularly known as “drones”) in popular media is the recent regulatory...

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

USGS Releases Results of Gem County Groundwater Quality Study

The entire population of southwestern Idaho’s Gem County depends on aquifers for its drinking water. The water in those aquifers is of generally good quality according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released today. The study was...

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

ASPRS Announces Vice-President Candidates

Bethesda, MD - Thomas R. Jordan is the recently retired Associate Director and current Lead Research Professional at the Center for Geospatial Research (CGR), Department of Geography at The University of Georgia (UGA).  A member of ASPRS...

Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

DigitalGlobe Announces Successful Refinancing

DigitalGlobe, Inc. today announced the completion of its new senior secured credit facility that reduces the interest rate and extends maturities on the company’s debt, with a new seven-year $1.275 billion senior secured credit facility and a...