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Despite ceremony cancellation, USGIF honors 2020 award winners

April 22, 2020By Tracy Cozzens

The USGIF Awards Program annually recognizes the exceptional work of the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) tradecraft’s brightest minds and organizations pushing the community forward. Award winners are usually recognized at the annual GEOINT Symposium. This year’s event, scheduled for April 26-29 in Tampa, Florida, was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Unfortunately, you will not see the awardees recognized on the... read more

This article is tagged with awards program, defense, Department of Defense, GEOINT, geospatial intelligence, Lockheed Martin, NGA, North Korea, USGIF and posted in COVID-19, Featured Stories, GIS News

U.T.SEC 2019

March 6, 2019By Allison Barwacz

U.T.SEC provides a platform for the forward-looking topic of unmanned vehicles, with a focus on their use by security agencies. The emphasis is on the technical, legal and practical opportunities to improve security, with a focus on both the use of drones and defense against them. read more

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Hexagon Geospatial releases Luciad Portfolio update

January 15, 2019By Allison Barwacz

Hexagon’s Geospatial Division has released V2018.1 of the Luciad Portfolio. According to the company, V2018.1 focuses on further expanding 3D capabilities and includes additional data formats and standards for users in military and maritime domains. To accomodate organizations’ expanding geospatial data, LuciadFusion added a RESTful API to automate the entire process of data crawling. As a part of the update,... read more

This article is tagged with 3D, defense, Hexagon, Hexagon Geospatial, Luciad Portfolio, LuciadFusion, LuciadLightspeed, LuciadRIA, military domain, Mladen Stojic, V2018.1 and posted in GIS News, GIS Software, Technology

BAE Systems demonstrates XTS Guard 5 for military cyber security

October 17, 2018By GSS Staff

BAE Systems’ XTS Guard 5, equipped with the company’s Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP), has successfully demonstrated its ability to provide U.S. intelligence organizations with access to geospatial imagery and data from BAE Systems’ GXP Platform, ensuring secure sharing between networks of various security classifications and sections. The innovative software demonstrated secure information sharing between government agencies and networks at the... read more

This article is tagged with BAE Systems, cyber security, defense, EC-18, GXP, XTS Guard 5 and posted in GIS News

GEOINT 2018 features top US defense speakers

March 13, 2018By Tracy Cozzens

The GEOINT Symposium, hosted annually by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), returns to Tampa, Florida, April 22-25. The annual symposium gathers the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities as well as other users and producers of geospatial information for keynote speakers, panel discussions and breakout tracks offering the opportunity to learn from senior leaders and subject matter experts. Confirmed... read more

This article is tagged with defense, GEOINT, GEOINT 2018, symposium, USGIF and posted in GIS News

Esri acquires ClearTerra location data extraction technology

February 23, 2018By Geospatial Solutions Sponsor

The LocateXT extension for ArcMap is used to extract locations from unstructured data (messages, reports, briefings) into a geodatabase feature class. (Image: ClearTerra)

New Capabilities Provide Support for Unstructured Data in the ArcGIS Platform Spatial analytics company Esri has acquired technology from ClearTerra, a company that offers geospatial and activity-based intelligence tools. The acquisition will provide ArcGIS platform users the ability to easily discover and extract geographic coordinates from unstructured textual data like emails, briefings and reports, instantly generating intelligent map-based information. This capability will make... read more

This article is tagged with acquisition, ArcGIS, ClearShark, ClearTerra, defense, Esri, location data, public safety, unstructured data and posted in Featured Stories, GIS News, GIS Software, Technology

South Korea defense agency selects SimActive’s Correlator3D

January 17, 2018By Tracy Cozzens

The Republic of Korea Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has selected SimActive’s Correlator3D software. The agency’s use of the software will include processing UAV and satellite imagery. The transaction was facilitated through a SimActive partner in the region, GeoFocus Inc. “The software was originally developed for military clients, which is reflected in the processing speed and rigorous mapping standards the technology adheres... read more

This article is tagged with Correlator3D, defense, SimActive, South Korea and posted in GIS News, GIS Software, Imagery, Technology, UAS/UAV

Boundless partners with global special forces foundation

September 6, 2017By Tracy Cozzens

Boundless has partnered with the Global SOF Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that aims to build and grow an international Special Operations Forces (SOF) network of military, government, commercial and educational stakeholders. The foundation fosters SOF objectives and partnerships to confront both global and networked threats. “We’re honored to partner with an organization that supports national and international Armed Forces... read more

This article is tagged with Boundless, defense, military, non-profit, open GIS, special forces and posted in GIS News, GIS Software, Technology

LizardTech certified by US Army for GeoExpress and Express Server

January 10, 2017By Tracy Cozzens

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, has received Certificates of Networthiness (CoN) for GeoExpress 9.x and Express Server 9.x from the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM). The CoN signifies that GeoExpress and Express Server are configured to the current Army Golden Master (AGM) baseline and comply with all U.S. Army and Department... read more

This article is tagged with defense, GeoExpress, LizardTech, U.S. Army and posted in GIS News, GIS Software, Mapping, Technology

Incident software honored with Intergeo award

October 21, 2016By Tracy Cozzens

Hotspot Map: Hotspots indicate some form of clustering in a spatial distribution. In this Incident Analyzer screenshot, the map layers are toggled on, showing how the hotspot layer provides insight into distribution and frequency of incidents. (Image: Hexagon)

The Incident Analyzer Smart M.App, by Hexagon, won the Wichmann Innovations Award 2016 for Best Software on Oct. 13 at Intergeo in Hamburg, Germany. The Smart M.App helps a variety of industries visualize trends and identify correlations in mapping incident data. Incident Analyzer provides an intuitive, user-friendly environment for consuming incident data in a dynamic information experience, according to Hexagon.... read more

This article is tagged with defense, emergency response, GIS software, operational incidents and posted in Featured Stories, GIS News, Products/Services Showcase

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