One of the top stories yesterday was how NASA and Japan have released the data from their ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) satellite on the Internet – for free.

NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth June 29 that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft.

The fields of Digital Terrain Modeling (DTM) and LiDAR data processing have evolved rapidly, providing critical methodologies for accurately representing the Earth's surface. By integrating advanced ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Maxar Intelligence, the leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, today launched Raptor, a powerful software suite that enables autonomous drones to ...

Terrain-aware flight planning is among the most versatile forms of automated missions planning. With the latest update, the Drone Harmony platform now offers the most advanced terrain-aware planning ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has extended its contract with Maxar Technologies to provide 3D geospatial data used to create immersive digital environments, the company announced Feb. 27. Maxar was ...

The Keweenaw Research Center (KRC) is a multidisciplinary research center of Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) that is active across a broad spectrum of vehicle development. Originally ...

Since its discovery 85 years ago, Pluto has been nothing more than a tiny dot of light. Thanks to NASA’s New Horizons mission, this is no longer the case. After a 9.5 year, 3.5 billion mile journey, a ...

The second in an occasional series of articles about the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) support to multidomain operations. The first is ...