November 2008:
GDA will be attending and presenting at the 17th Annual William T.
Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium in Denver, CO from November
18th-November 21st.
October 2008:
GDA Corp. wins a USDA SBIR Phase 2 Award for "An Advanced
Information System for Timely Assessments of International Crop Market
Opportunities"
October 2008:
GDA Corp. map of Iraq 2008 small grain areas gets published in Earth
Imaging Journal within the GEOINT 2008 Applications Showcase Section. Click here for the insert (3 MB).
October 2008:
GDA Corp. technology is featured in the October 2008 issue of
Military Geospatial Technology Magazine. For the "Eye on the Farm"
article, click here (10 MB).
September 2008:
GDA will present 2 papers at ASPRS 2009 in Baltimore, MD in March
2009 and will be co-exhibiting with our business partners ASRC MS and
Global Marketing Insights, Inc.
September 2008:
GDA to present at the 3rd Annual Resourcesat-1 Data Seminar,
sponsored by ASRC MS and the USDA FAS. This year’s Seminar theme is:
"Integrating ResourceSat-LISS and AWiFS Data into Multi-Sensor
Solutions" and will take place Monday, October 20, and Tuesday, October
21, 2008, Greenbelt Marriott - Greenbelt, MD. GDA's presentation is
titled "The use of ResourceSat imagery for regional analysis." [Agenda]
September 2008:
GDA to present at the Soya Summit 2008 Luncheon on September 18
sponsored by Dow AgroSciences. The presentation is titled “The Use of
Remotely Sensed Data for Agribusiness Intelligence”. [http://www.soyasummit.com]
August 2008:
GDA Corp. is awarded a joint SBIR Phase III contract from the USDA
Forest Service and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to continue
development of a GIS Expert System for Land Cover, Impervious Surfaces,
and Urban Tree Cover mapping and inventory, and Riparian Buffer
delineation with high resolution imagery. The new version will expand
the Remote Sensing datasets to include color infrared (CIR)
orthophotography and pansharpened satellite imagery. Previous contracts
utilized high resolution imagery to resolve stream networks, delineate
stream buffers and perform within buffer land cover mapping.
August 2008:
Press Release: GDA provides Myanmar flood severity and recovery maps
to UN organization to aid in humanitarian flood relief efforts. GDA has
signed a Product Use Agreement with UNOSAT to allow UNOSAT a non
commercial use and distribution of GDA spatial data products on recent
2008 Myanmar Cyclone Nargis Flood. GDA data will contribute to UNOSAT
humanitarian flood relief efforts in Myanmar. GDA made free-of-charge
donation of its flood map data products depicting impact of Cyclone
Nargis (May 02, 2008) on the country of Myanmar to the Northwest
Response Team, of Seattle, WA in order to aid in the analysis of pre-
and post- event ground conditions and flood impact on the rice areas.
The donation includes three Flood Severity maps for (1) May 07, 2008,
(2) May 23, 2008, and (3) May 30, 2008 and three Flood Recovery Maps
for the time period from (1) May 07 to May 23, 2008, (2) May 07 to May
30, 2008, and (3) May 23 to May 30, 2008. GDA flood products are
derived from sophisticated analysis of multi-temporal satellite
imagery. GDA offers rapid flood mapping services and detailed
assessments of flood severity, post-flood recovery, and flood impact on
croplands. GDA products provide spatially explicit information on flood
events and conditions in timely, reliable, and cost effective manner
for better decision making, emergency response and reduction of human
and economic losses.
August 2008:
GDA will be attending the Annual ESRI International User Conference,
August 5-8, 2008, at the San Diego, CA Convention Center. Find us at
booth #1900 where we will be co-exhibiting with Global Marketing
Insights, Inc. and ASRC MS. Live demos on the Plasma screen of
ResourceSat imagery applications!
July 2008:
GDA will be providing the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Office
of Global Analysis (OGA), International Production Assessment Division,
IPAD (formally known as PECAD) with an annual online yield forecast
service. To accommodate the various informational and usage
requirements of USDA FAS, GDA will offer two efficient and easy-to-use
interfaces to its online yield forecast service: a website interface
that allows clients to run customized yield forecasts at any time on
demand, and a yield forecast reporting service that delivers
consolidated executive-summary yield forecasts on a pre-determined
schedule. [Press Release]
May 2008:
GDA to give three presentations at ASPRS in Portland OR titled
"Automated extraction of predefined features from the imagery", “A GIS
Expert System for Mapping Invasive Species with High-Resolution
Imagery”, and “An Advanced Web Information System for Timely
Assessments of International Crop Market Opportunities”
January 2008:
GDA Corp. is awarded a one year contract to develop a GIS Expert
System for Mapping Invasive Cordgrass (hybridized Spartina
alterniflora) in the San Francisco Estuary by the Invasive Spartina
Project (ISP). The ISP is funded by the CALFED Bay-Delta Program,
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program, National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation, and the California State Coastal Conservancy.