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Aerial mapping company Bluesky has produced a prototype map showing where it may be unsafe or even illegal to fly UAVs. It has combined an expertise in flight planning…

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The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is investigating measures to augment the navigational capacity of the River Ganges, under the Jal Vikas Marg project.

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EuroGeographics has signed a contract to provide pan-European geographic information and related services to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union…

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Caliper Offers Updated Germany Data for Maptitude

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The tremendous amounts of data produced by the European Earth observation programme Copernicus and its Sentinel satellites hugely benefit science and public authorities and open the door to countless products and applications in a wide array of business sectors…

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Chinese search engine titan Baidu and two private equity firms have invested $11.5 million in a public transport advertising network and free Wi-Fi service on buses and metro systems across China. The funds will go toward an affiliate of VisionChina…

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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Version 2 Interface Standard. It provides rules for standardizing how inputs and outputs….

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The Environmental Protection Bureau of Taichung in central Taiwan has decided to deploy cameras attached to drones in its efforts to catch those damaging air quality and jeopardizing road traffic…

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China has launched a high-resolution optical Earth observation satellite recently. The Gaofen 8 satellite lifted off from the Taiyuan space center in northern China’s Shanxi province…

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Congressman Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J., flipped a switch at a decommissioned Loran-C station in Wildwood, New Jersey, to begin transmission of an enhanced Loran or eLoran signal…