Collins Aerospace has joined the GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA). The aerospace and defense products supplier joins founding-member companies John Deere, Garmin and Trimble as well as 11 national organizations in GPSIA’s affiliates program.  The GPS Innovation Alliance seeks to protect, promote and enhance the use of GPS. GPSIA Executive Director J. David Grossman said that…

Farmers Edge is now offering satellite imagery and mapping technology for specialty crops. Growers gain access to FarmCommand, an integrated farm data management platform that includes a set of imagery-derived map layers, automatic crop health change detection, field-centric weather conditions, and digital scouting tools. The company said that with rapid data processing, high-resolution imagery is…

Agricultural analytics company CropX has partnered with Costa Rican agroforestry equipment vendor FarmAgro to provide satellite-powered precision agriculture tools to farmers in Central America. The partners will deploy applications such as automated irrigation, soil- and crop-specific management, and Geo-tagging to more than 205 million hectares of banana, coffee, sugarcane, pineapple, melon, and mango plots. The…

Acme AtronOmatic, the makers of the MyRadar Weather Radar app, have launched a non-commercial, experimental communications satellite aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket with launch provider Alba Orbital. The launch event, dubbed "Running out of Fingers," lifted off on Dec. 6.  The cubesat will monitor aircraft tracking signals from orbit and relay the data to the…