Sunday, May 25th, 2014
Japan successfully launched a new mapping satellite on Saturday that will be used to survey damage from natural disasters and changes affecting rainforests. The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) will be able to see scars left by...
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
The Earth is changing constantly, every day, due to natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions and landslides, and damage inflicted by humans, such as illegal logging. The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2), also known as...
Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Japanese media reports say the United States seeks to deploy a fleet of drones in Japan to monitor the Chinese military activities in the troubled Asia-Pacific region.A recent report published in Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun said...
Thursday, April 24th, 2014
Japan will invest additional dollars for added satellites in its Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) in order to improve the positioning accuracy of the U.S. Global Position System (GPS) across Asia. This project began in 2010 with the...
Monday, April 21st, 2014
Japan has begun construction work on a military radar station near a string of islands that is at the centre of a territorial dispute with China. Correspondents say the move will anger Beijing as it may allow...
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
MacDonald , Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA" or the "Company") (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced today that it has signed a five-year multi-million dollar agreement...
Monday, April 14th, 2014
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has signed a contract with PASCO Corporation, Japan, for the installation of the Street Factory 3D urban mapping solution at one of its production facilities in Japan,...
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) of the United States designated the Dokdo Islands as a part of the territory of Korea. What is drawing attention is the fact that it used all of the names of the...
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
Drone Adventures teamed up with Taichi Furuhashi, researcher at the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo, to map some of the hardest hit towns on the...
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
In recognition of the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Esri has created two interactive maps that the media can embed or share as part of anniversary coverage.
