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Digital Map Products to Discuss the New Rules for Communicating with Residents

Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)

Digital Map Products (DMP) is excited to announce that it will be participating as both an exhibitor and presenter at the International City/County Management A...

Apple CEO sorry for maps shortcomings

Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)

Apple apologized Friday for its glitch-ridden maps application in the new operating system used by the iPhone 5 and urged customers to use rival programs while ...

Landslide mapping in the Swiss Alps

Sep 27, 2012 (ESA)

Archived radar data from the Envisat mission are playing an important role in mapping landslides in Switzerland. The mission's vast archives continue to prove u...

Radar altimetry gains altitude in Venice

Sep 26, 2012 (ESA)

Scientists have gathered in the 'floating city' this week to talk about radar altimetry - measuring the heights of the global sea surface, freshwater bodies, la...

Knight Foundation invests to accelerate data projects

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Six media innovation ventures that make it easier to access and use information on local communities, air quality, elections, demographics and more received a t...

First Images from SPOT 6 Satellite

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Astrium Services has posted the first images from the SPOT 6 satellite, just 3 days after its launch on 9 September. SPOT 6 will assure continuity of data from ...

Apple fans complain of missing landmarks in new map system

Sep 20, 2012 (AFP)

Apple faced growing criticism on Thursday from users around the world who complained that the tech giant's new mapping system is riddled with errors. A day afte...

Pioneering UK project to improve land carbon intelligence accuracy and reliability

Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)

British satellite imaging company DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) is launching a ground-breaking project with support from the UK's innovation agency, the...

More satellite launches planned for upgrading maritime monitoring

Sep 10, 2012 (XNA)

China plans to launch eight more satellites by 2020 to further improve the country's maritime monitoring network, a national English-language newspaper reported...

Astrium installs new terminal in Mexico to receive SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 imagery

Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)

Astrium Services and the Mexican federal government's Ministry of agriculture, livestock farming, rural development, food and fisheries (SAGARPA), signed an agr...

Remote Sensing Satellite Sends First Earth Imagery

Sep 03, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

Russia's remote sensing satellite Canopus-B, launched a month ago, has taken its first photos of the earth's surface, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on...

Suomi NPP Captures Smoke Plume Images from Russian and African Fires

Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)

Powerful fires currently scorching parts of Russia and Africa sent up plumes of smoke into the atmosphere, images captured on Aug. 2, 2012, by the nation's newe...

Proba-2's espresso-cup microcamera snaps Hurricane Isaac

Aug 30, 2012 (ESA)

An experimental camera smaller than an espresso cup on ESA's Proba-2 microsatellite caught this view of soon-to-be Hurricane Isaac as it moved west of the Flori...

$3.7 Billion Reasons Why GIS Technology is The Future

Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)

Want a reason to enroll in an online geographic information systems (GIS) degree program? Consider this: When technology historians look back on 2012, they migh...

Expert Analysis of Energy Infrastructure Using HiRes Satellite Imagery

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

Genscape and DigitalGlobe have announced the launch of their new jointly produced Energy Infrastructure Development Report. Published monthly, each report featu...

Landsat Data Continuity Mission Environmental Testing is Underway

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Observatory Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC) testing is underway at Orbital Science C...

Vecmap tracks the Asian bush mosquito

Aug 22, 2012 (ESA)

Under the watchful eye of ESA's Vecmap initiative, the Asian bush mosquito is about to get bitten in Belgium. First observed in Belgium in 2002, the Asian bush ...

NASA Selects Combined Data Services Contract For Polar Satellites

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

NASA has selected the Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) of Oslo, Norway, for combined data support services for NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Program. T...

Proba-1 microsat snaps Olympic neighbourhood

Aug 16, 2012 (ESA)

This Olympics has been watched from all over the world - and beyond. Benefiting from a cloudless sky, this view of London's Olympic Park was captured by the sma...

NASA Finalizes Contracts for NOAA's JPSS-1 Mission

Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)

NASA has completed negotiations and finalized the contracts for the spacecraft and instruments that comprise the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) Satelli...