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DigitalGlobe Receives Early Commitments for WorldView-4 Satellite Capacity

Agreements demonstrate demand for high resolution, high accuracy 30 cm imagery from international defense & intelligence customers WESTMINSTER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 27, 2016– DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider

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Training For Thailand Officials at Indian Institute of Surveying & Mapping, Survey of India

The Indian Institute of Surveying & Mapping (IISM), Survey of India, Ministry of Science & Technology, GOI will be inaugurating a training programme for Thailand officials from February 1, 2016.

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Hyperspectral Narrowband and Multispectral Broadband Indices for Remote Sensing of Crop Evapotranspiration and its Components

Hyperspectral narrowband and multispectral broadband indices for remote sensing of crop evapotranspiration and its components (transpiration and soil evaporation) By: Michael T. Marshall, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Trent Biggs, and Kirk Post

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Aditya – L1 First Indian mission to study the Sun

The Aditya-L1 mission was conceived as a 400kg class satellite carrying one payload, the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) and was planned to launch in a 800 km low earth

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Russian Space Systems to Launch Resurs-P No. 3 Remote Sensing Satellite

MOSCOW- According to recent news by the Sputnik, Russian Space Systems company said that launch of Russia’s Resurs-P No. 3 remote sensing satellite has been scheduled for March 12. The Resurs-P

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Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb create OneWeb Satellites Company – the Next Stage of the OneWeb Adventure

– OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture equally owned by Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb – Company to design and build 900 satellites for OneWeb, as well as satellites

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New Mexico Lidar Data Status Map

Increasingly, New Mexico’s key geospatial data needs must be met with high-quality, high-resolution, and current elevation data. Enhanced elevation data are essential to a broad and cross-cutting range of applications,

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Updated US Topo maps for Iowa and Kansas released; add Census Bureau road data and PLSS

New US Topo maps for Iowa and Kansas are now available in the USGS Store for free download. The new maps of these Midwestern states feature the inclusion of the

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ESA Selects Airbus Defence and Space for Two New Sentinel-2 Satellites

 Airbus Defence and Space is prime contractor for the €285M order Additional Sentinel-2 satellites will join Europe´s Copernicus Earth observation programme Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second-largest space company,

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OGC Announces Simplified Web Mapping Standard

The OGC announces that the OGC membership has adopted the OGC® WMTS Simple Profile, which defines a simplified profile of the OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Interface Standard (see