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CoStar Buys Vexcel for $730 Million and Takes Over One of the Biggest Commercial Aerial Imagery Archives

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CoStar Group has agreed to buy Vexcel Group for about $730 million in cash. CoStar is best known for commercial real estate data and the Homes.com and Apartments.com listing sites. Vexcel flies one of the largest survey-grade aerial imaging programs in the world. For open-source analysts, this is a change in who owns a major non-satellite imagery source. What CoStar is … [Read more...] about CoStar Buys Vexcel for $730 Million and Takes Over One of the Biggest Commercial Aerial Imagery Archives

Locana Location Intelligence Experts Will Be Featured Speakers at the Project Controls Expo UK

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Speakers Will Discuss How Spatial Technologies Have Been Used to Breakdown Departmental Data Silos, Improving Large Capital Project Decision Making, Lowering Costs, and Reducing Risks LONDON - Mario Sanvitale and Dan Culli, from Locana, the international leader in spatial and project controls technologies, will be featured speakers on the Innovation Stage at the Project … [Read more...] about Locana Location Intelligence Experts Will Be Featured Speakers at the Project Controls Expo UK

Esri Recognizes Italian Rail Agency for Modernizing Infrastructure

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Rete Ferroviaria Italiana to Receive Award at Esri User Conference REDLANDS, Calif., July 06, 2022 - Last year, the Italian rail agency Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) built an application using geographic information system (GIS) technology from Esri, the global leader in location intelligence. Called StationLAND, the application is designed to make railway stations the … [Read more...] about Esri Recognizes Italian Rail Agency for Modernizing Infrastructure

Maxar Awarded $26M Contract to Continue Development and Support for NGA’s Open Mapping Platform

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WESTMINSTER, Colo. - Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, today announced it has been awarded a five-year contract worth up to $26.4 million by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to sustain and enhance the National System for Geospatial Intelligence Open Mapping Enclave … [Read more...] about Maxar Awarded $26M Contract to Continue Development and Support for NGA’s Open Mapping Platform

SpotCrime Enlists Woolpert to Deliver Google Maps Platform Services, Technical Support

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The goal of the public facing crime alert service is to improve safety and promote transparency in police data. BALTIMORE — Woolpert has been contracted by SpotCrime to provide Google Maps Platform services and technical team support for its independent, public facing crime alert service. SpotCrime, which is based in Baltimore, tracks incidents of crime across the U.S. and in … [Read more...] about SpotCrime Enlists Woolpert to Deliver Google Maps Platform Services, Technical Support

Complimentary World LNG Map at Gastech 2021 and World Gas Conference (WGC 2022) by Mudrock Media

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Mudrock Media will present at Gastech 2021 exhibition, the first major energy event to take place live & in-person from September 21-23, 2021 at Dubai World Trade Centre, United Arab Emirates, and the 28th World Gas Conference (WGC2022) from May 23-27, 2022 in Daegu, South Korea. Mudrock Media will hand out 3,000 complimentary copies of printed Oil & … [Read more...] about Complimentary World LNG Map at Gastech 2021 and World Gas Conference (WGC 2022) by Mudrock Media

Esri Provides Open Access to Key Federal Geospatial Data

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NGDA Datasets Will Now Be Widely Available for Anyone Online REDLANDS, Calif. - Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that in collaboration with federal agencies, it is opening up access to dozens of high-priority, high-demand national data layers, referred to by government users as National Geospatial Data Assets (NGDA). This development is … [Read more...] about Esri Provides Open Access to Key Federal Geospatial Data

BlackSky’s Technology Leveraged to Monitor Secretive Iranian Nuclear Facility

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Stanford researchers use geospatial imagery and machine learning technology to gain real-time insights</strong HERNDON, Va. - BlackSky Holdings, Inc. (“BlackSky”), a leading technology platform providing real-time geospatial intelligence and global monitoring that has announced a planned business combination with Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: SFTW), today … [Read more...] about BlackSky’s Technology Leveraged to Monitor Secretive Iranian Nuclear Facility

Esri Releases New 2020 Global Land Cover Map

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Project Joins Startup Impact Observatory and Microsoft to Deliver Map to Worldwide Users REDLANDS, Calif. - Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced it is releasing for the first time ever a new high-resolution, 2020 global land cover map as part of the company’s Living Atlas. The map was built using European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite … [Read more...] about Esri Releases New 2020 Global Land Cover Map