Remote Sensing and GEOINT

The Army has opportunities including set asides for small businesses. The Installation Geospatial Information Services program will provide basic installation, energy and environment geospatial capability across the Army. Awardees will develop standard data and functionality, increase...

Three year old UrtheCast (pronounced "earthcast"), with 22 employees, has raised $11.5 million from angel investors and expects to raise another $25 million in a reverse takeover slated for this summer. The timing is good since data from its sensors should start coming down to earth from the...

As TechCrunch just reported this morning, we are teaming up with Skybox, the microsatellite and analytics company, to design new interfaces for visualizing rapid satellite imagery collection. The timing of this collaboration is perfect - later this year, Skybox will be launching the first two...

An enormous volume of photographic imagery from the KH-9 HEXAGON intelligence satellites was quietly declassified in January and will be transferred to the National Archives later this year for subsequent public release. The KH-9 satellites operated between 1971 and 1984. The imagery they...

Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado, 5th District), has introduced H.R. 1604 on April 17th that, according to Congress.gov: To establish the National Geospatial Technology Administration within the United States Geological Survey to enhance the use of geospatial data, products, technology,...

What: Geo for Higher Ed Summit 2013 When: July 22-24, 2013 Where: Google Headquarters, Mountain View, California   Google will be hosting a special three-day hands-on technical workshop at the Googleplex in Mountain View. This Summit will bring together instructors and researchers in GIS and...

According to UNOOSA, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs:  Kazakhstan National Space Agency, Kazkosmos, has announced the launch of its first domestic Earth observation satellite for the fourth quarter of 2013 from the Yasni launch site in Russian Federation.  According to...

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Maryland, the Chesapkeake Bay, has pollutions problems. So EPA madated limiting stormwater runoff into the Bay, a project that would cost $14.8 billion. How to pay for it? The state is implementing what's being called the Rain Tax in ten counties. Faced with the EPA's orders, the state has...

This from DigitalGlobe's blog: We are pleased to officially announce that we have acquired crowdsourced intelligence pioneer Tomnod (www.tomnod.com.) While the transaction is not material to our financials, it does support our vision of being the indispensable source of information about our...