Sensors & Systems

Europe's Future Depends on Cities Resilient to Climate Change

May 14, 2012

Around three quarters of Europeans live in cities. Most of Europe's wealth is generated in cities, and urban areas are particularly at risk due to climate change. Europe should seize the opportunity of improving quality of life while adapting to climate change in cities, according to a report from the...

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Floating Robots Use GPS-enabled Smartphones to Track Water Flow

May 11, 2012

A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The smartphone-equipped floating robots demonstrated the next generation of water monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies monitor one of the state’s...

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Bluesky Launches Solar Mapping Marketing Service

May 10, 2012

Aerial mapping company Bluesky has launched a new solar power marketing service that pinpoints properties with the greatest potential for solar power generation. Pre-addressed postcards sent directly to home owners show their property from the air and include predicted power generation from solar panels. These customisable mailing campaigns can be...

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GSDI 13 Conference Connects Government and Industry

May 09, 2012

Government, commercial businesses, community leaders, nongovernmental organizations, and the academic community will gain an understanding of the breadth of geographic information system (GIS) solutions available for implementing a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) at the Global Geospatial Conference 2012 (GSDI 13) being held May 14–17, 2012, in Québec City, Canada.

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ESA Declares End of Mission for Envisat

May 09, 2012

Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure scenarios, the end of the mission is being declared. A team of engineers has spent the last month attempting...

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Mapping Carbon in the Forests: Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees

May 08, 2012

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First Civilian Photogrammetric UAV Flight Over Singapore

March 26, 2012

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Tuning the BALLADE Geospatial Infrastructure for Plug-in Electric Vehicles

March 12, 2012

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Mapping Carbon in the Forests: Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees

First Civilian Photogrammetric UAV Flight Over Singapore

Tuning the BALLADE Geospatial Infrastructure for Plug-in Electric Vehicles

BPSI Launches Inexpensive Toxic Chemical and Dirty Bomb "Smart Sensors"

Building Protection Systems, Inc. (BPSI) announced today the release of two new Chemical Sensor Arrays and two new Radiation Area Detectors which continuously monitor the air circulating within a facility for dangerous chemicals or radiation. These new Sentry One "Smart Sensors"...

May 16, 2012

Esri Canada to Bring Together Public-Private Collaboration to Build a Geospatial Data Exchange Infrastructure for Canada

Esri Canada today announced that the company has been selected by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to lead the GeoFoundation Exchange project. The project, which is partly funded under NRCan's GeoConnections program, focuses on developing a prototype for an open, Web-based system...

May 16, 2012

Fugro to Survey in Vicinity of Krenitzin Islands, Alaska for NOAA

Fugro was awarded a task order under it’s five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to survey around the Aleutian chain’s Krenitzin Islands, Alaska in summer 2012.

May 16, 2012

URISA Offers LiDAR Webinar Series

URISA, the Association for GIS Professionals, is offering a three part LiDAR webinar series for all members of the geospatial community. Part two of the series, Project Planning, is scheduled for Wednesday, May 23rd. Part three, Data Quality Control, will take place on Wednesday,...

May 16, 2012

Photo Science Teams with RapidEye forming an International Geospatial Partnership

Photo Science, Inc. (Photo Science) has partnered with RapidEye - the only satellite image provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites - becoming an official reseller of RapidEye imagery. The Agreement empowers Photo Science to resell...

May 15, 2012

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The Fusion of ERDAS and Intergraph is Just the Start for Hexagon

Over the past year, there has been a great deal of work on the integration of ERDAS and Intergraph software offerings to make a more complete geospatial platform. Matt Ball recently spoke with Mladen Stojic, Vice President – Geospatial at Intergraph, about this ongoing work…

Apr 15, 2012 678

Collaborative Visualization to Advance Landscape Planning

Recently the University of British Columbia unveiled a decision theatre, an interactive and immersive computer visualization lab for collaborative advancement of landscape planning. Special correspondent Matteo Luccio spoke with Stephen R.J. Sheppard, the project lead and…

Mar 05, 2012 1369

Vast Sensors, Big Data: Big Opportunities

Every ten years or so, we achieve a technological breakthrough that drives innovation for the next decade. We are…

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GeoDesign as a Teaching Concept

I recently had the good fortune to attend a GeoDesign workshop presented by Bill Miller, who is the Director of…

Global Monitoring Introduces Messenger Remote Monitoring Unit

Global Monitoring (http://www.globalmonitoring.com) offers the Messenger GMU8120 Remote Monitoring Unit (RMU) for...

Floating Robots Use GPS-enabled Smartphones to Track Water Flow

Monitoring Key to Optimal Environmental Water Management

Australia's National Water Commission CEO Mr James Cameron today called for the improved and systematic monitoring of water plans to provide confidence that they are effective in meeting their environmental...

First Satellite Tag Study for Manta Rays Reveals Habits and Hidden Journeys of Ocean Giants

Using the latest satellite tracking technology, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Exeter (UK), and the Government of Mexico have completed a ground-breaking study...

Satellites Stay Current on Ocean Currents

Satellites offer a frequent overview of our entire planet – covered mostly by water – and provide valuable data to monitor and understand global ocean circulation. Understanding water currents at the...

Indian Ocean Fishing Commission Begins to Embrace Sustainability

After more than a decade lagging behind all of the worlds other Regional Fisheries Management Organisations, the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) has begun to move towards sustainable management of...

WWF Living Planet Report Warns of Biodiversity Loss

We may not recognize it, but virtually every decision we make comes with a price to our planet—a small, but not insignificant, withdrawal of the earth’s resources. Added together, these withdrawals...

Elephants and Rhinos Act as 'Gardeners' of the Forest

The progressive disappearance of seed-dispersing animals like elephants and rhinoceroses is putting the structural integrity and biodiversity of the tropical forest of South-East Asia at risk, researchers...

Banking on Biodiversity: A New Commitment to Conserve Nature

In the 1990s, the London-based Forum for the Future developed the idea of the “five types of sustainable capital from where we derive the goods and services we need to improve the quality of our lives.”...

Energy, Land and Food

With 1.3 billion people around the world currently lacking access to electricity and a further 2.7 billion unable to enjoy clean and safe cooking facilities, the need to radically expand access to sustainable...

Mastering Global Energy Changes Through Technology

The current trend in global energy policy of lessening dependence on fossil fuels requires more than just political will -- one of the key factors for successful implementation will be modern technology....

Online Energy Map Set to Reduce Household Bills in Nottingham

A pioneering new online energy tool has been launched in Nottingham, England that can help residents make big savings on their energy bills. The Nottingham Energy Calculator allows residents to select...

U.A.E Ministry of Interior/Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for Security Joins the OGC as a Principal Member

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that the U.A.E. Ministry of the Interior, represented by Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for Security, has become a Principal Member of the OGC to chair a new,...

Top Officials to Confront Interface of Environment and Security in January Conference

Administrators and directors of government agencies, leaders of global nonprofit institutions, international diplomats, military admirals, and international foundation and development communities are tasked...

Japan, ASEAN Leaders Meet to Pledge Closer Maritime Security Ties

Leaders from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met Friday to boost cooperation over maritime security and safety at a time when China is becoming increasingly assertive at sea. Prime...

Water & Ecosystem Goods and Services

The aim of this meeting will be to accelerate the practical application of ecosystem goods and services thinking into workable procedures throughout the wider water sector, in order to meet the urgent...

The Countries of the Congo Basin are Using Geo-spatial Technologies for the Sustainable Development of Forest Ecosystems

The partnership established in 2010 between the AFD and Astrium aims, in the long term, to freely distribute SPOT satellite images to governments, public institutions and NGOs that work for the sustainable...

Manila Dialogue Tackles Ecosystem, Biodiversity

Senior environment officials, and finance and economic experts from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore will hold this week a two-day high-level dialogue in Manila on the issues...

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Event Coverage

The European Location for the Geospatial World Forum Increases Its Profile

Created on April 29, 2012

Written by Matt Ball

GWF_logo The Geospatial World Forum took place this past week in Amsterdam, drawing an international crowd of more than 1,000 geospatial technology leaders from 78 countries. This is the fourth event in a series, and the first time the event has taken place outside of India. The European location served well to elevate the participation and the program, with a high degree of sessions aimed at cutting-edge policy and technology frontiers, including the sustainable development of the developing world. The conference drew CEO-level participation from many geospatial organizations, representation from mapping agencies worldwide, and top-level participation from the Indian government, including an integral role for India's 11th president, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.