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Hexagon Geospatial Supporting the SIDE II Contract in EU

Hexagon’s Geospatial division has become an approved supplier for the Software for Innovation, Diversity and Evolution II (SIDE II) contract in the Europe... (read more)

Trimble Launches Single Version of Business Center Software for Survey and Civil Construction

Trimble has announced version 5.0 of Trimble Business Center, which merges two products, Trimble Business Center and Business Center - HCE, to provide both surv... (read more)

Ordnance Survey Releases First Fully Automated Geospatial Dataset

Ordnance Survey (OS) has released its first fully automated product derived from large-scale source data. This means that users can now create a premium nationa... (read more)

PASCO Introduces InSAR Package Based on the ALOS-2 EO Satellite

PASCO, a Japanese provider of satellite-based geospatial information, has signed an agreement to distribute data and images acquired by the ALOS-2 Earth observa... (read more)

WorldDEM Now Entirely Edited and Available via Streaming

Airbus Defence and Space has announced that the entire edited WorldDEM database, together with the already available WorldDEM4Ortho dataset, is now available vi... (read more)

Successful Completion of Urban BVLOS UAV Project in Calgary

IN-FLIGHT Data, one of Canada’s leading commercial drone operators, has – in collaboration with senseFly, a leading provider of fixed-wing drone sol... (read more)

Delair Acquires Key Airware Assets to Expand Role in UAV Industry

Delair, a leading supplier of commercial drone solutions, has announced an agreement to acquire the key assets of Airware, a developer of innovative software an... (read more)

Airbus and Ursa Continue Radar Satellite Data Partnership

Airbus Defence and Space will continue to provide Ursa Space Systems (Ursa), a data fusion and analytics company, with access to its radar satellite data.... (read more)

UAV & UAS News

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Insitu ScanEagle UAS Helps Suppress Wildfires

Next-generation Mapping UAV Raises Capital for Further Expansion

YellowScan Crosses the Ocean with UAV-Lidar Solutions

Leica Geosystems Combines New UAV Technology with DJI Aerial Platform

Sphere Drones and Delair Sign Australia-first Distribution Partnership

Accurate Georeferencing for UAV Surveying without Base Station

Mapping News

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Sentinel-1 Radar Satellites Map Hurricane Florence Flood

SimActive Enables South Korean Government's First Drone Mapping Project