Images of the massive wildfire that engulfed Fort McMurray, Alberta earlier this year have been seared into our collective consciousness. Record-setting heat, low humidity, dry conditions and high winds combined to create a destructive “perfect […]
Final preparations are underway at Lockheed Martin to ship DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for a Sept. 15 launch. The Lockheed Martin team is completing final satellite testing and checkout […]
Airbus Defense and Space and 3v Geomatics Inc. (3v Geomatics) signed a multi-year agreement that will provide 3v Geomatics with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery acquired by TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites. Both sensors deliver imagery […]
Richmond, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced that it has signed a CA$48.5 million (including taxes) contract with the Government of […]
SaveTheMap Campaign: “to encourage citizens and startups to use geospatial data in everyday lives and create businesses that serve India” Interesting (geospatial) times in India lately… On May 4th, 2016, just three months after […]
MARKHAM, Ontario, Canada—May 25, 2016: PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that SkyMap Global of Singapore has become a key commercial GXL customer in Asia. […]
Recently, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced an extension to the OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding standard that specifies how Climate and Forecast (CF) netCDF datasets are encoded as OGC coverages. This extended standard facilitates […]
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) industry is soaring! Civilian drones are being applied in various global industries ranging from agriculture and mining to construction and film production. The potential of the application of UAVs in […]