St. Paul, Minnesota, May 16, 2022 – The Great Lakes Alliance for Remote Sensing (GLARS) is pleased to announce Digital Surface Model (DSM) strips and mosaics covering 85% of the Great Lakes Basin are now available for use by researchers, conservationists, natural resource managers and the public for free. An example DSM mosaic view for northern Michigan is shown below.

Produced by GLARS partner SharedGeo^[1] in collaboration with the University of Minnesota’s Polar Geospatial Center^[2] (PGC), these DSM strips and mosaics for the first time provide a uniform, three-dimensional understanding of upland watershed and coastal regions of the Great Lakes at 2-meter resolution.  To create these products, SharedGeo requested and received more than 70 TBs of DigitalGlobe stereo imagery through the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) NextView program. SharedGeo staff then generated the DSMs by applying fully automated, stereo auto-correlation techniques to overlapping pairs of the high-resolution optical satellite images using open-source Surface Extraction from TIN-based Search space Minimization (SETSM) software as modified by PGC and SharedGeo. This processing used over one million node hours on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) “Blue Waters” at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The resulting derived product DSM strips and mosaics create a foundation for monitoring and better understanding of a wide range of Great...

INCHEON, South Korea, May 16, 2022 — (PRNewswire) —PABLO AIR^[1], a South Korea-based drone solution and service company and a member ofBorn2Global Centre^[2], has been named a second-place winner in the Operation category of theXCELLENCE Awards^[3]by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI). PABLO AIR was selected for the second consecutive year from a pool of accomplished applicants for their work in unmanned systems technology. Winners including PABLO AIR were publicly congratulated during the Technology Innovation XCELLENCE awards ceremony during AUVSI XPONENTIAL on Wednesday, April 27 at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, May 16, 2022 — (PRNewswire) —Fortem Technologies^[1], leaders in airspace security and defense for detecting and defeating dangerous drones, has announced a new, smaller portable counter-UAS system in direct response to the crisis in Ukraine. Working closely with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Fortem provided Ukraine with a number of the Fortem SkyDome man-portable counter-UAS solutions, as well as on site training and support. The solution includes the FortemDroneHunter^[2], which removes drones from the sky autonomously day and night.

SANTA ANA, Calif., May 17, 2022 — (PRNewswire) —DATAMARK^[1], the public safety geographic information systems (GIS) team ofMichael Baker International^[2], announced today that the Ark-Tex Council of Governments (COG), serving Bowie, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Morris, Red River and Titus Counties in Texas, as well as Miller County in Arkansas,  has selected the firm to provide Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) GIS validation services leveraging VEP Validator, the only cloud-native data management solution built for public safety GIS.

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 12, 2022 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR^[4]) (TSX: MAXR^[5]), a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, today announced the voting results from its annual meeting of stockholders, held on May 11, 2022.

Holders of a total of 58,491,005 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value (“Common Shares”) representing approximately 79.71% of the Company’s...

(May 11, 2022 – Des Plaines, Illinois USA) URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet^[4] is proud to host the sixth annual Digital Competition to promote the GIS profession and the attendance of students and young and emerging professionals at  GIS-Pro 2022^[5] in Boise, ID (October 2-6, 2022). The competition will be held virtually this summer, and the participants selected...

May 13, 2022 -- Open Maps for Europe has released an Open Cadastral Map prototype which provides large-scale coverage for four countries. 

The data is now available via the  Open Maps interface^[1] and this first iteration includes Poland, The Netherlands, Czech Republic and Spain. 

The map takes INSPIRE open data and allows the user to find out what is available from national sources in one place before obtaining the data from the official provider. The cadastral map comprises four data types: Administrative Units, Cadastral Parcels (and Cadastral Zones), Buildings (and Building Parts) and Addresses.

The Open Maps For Europe project, which is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union, is coordinated by EuroGeographics in partnership with the National Geographic Institute (NGI) Belgium.

Angela Baker, Programme Manager, Data Access and Integration, EuroGeographics  says: “We have used our unique data integration process to produce the Open Cadastral Map prototype using members data, and we expect to add more coverage in the future.”

“The Open Cadastral Map is a service to show the end user what is available from the Cadastral Agencies, it does not replicate the data that our members provide.  Features can be identified via the map interface and can be consumed via the WMS. Links are available to access...