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 Land administration plays a unique role in solving sustainability issues. It involves an integrated approach that includes several common factors that can be applied around the world, even though their actual implementation can differ from country to country. Our relationship to the land includes both physical and cognitive factors and these connect to wider topics related to law, regulation and legislation. The authors of this book provide a wealth of information for understanding land administration systems and how future spatial data infrastructure may incorporate new processes leading toward sustainability.
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 When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments. |
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 The inaugural GeoDesign Summit took place in Redlands, Calif. from Jan. 6-8. The invite-only gathering of roughly 250 people included well-connected representatives from academia, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture and planning. The purpose of the event was to outline a new geospatial approach that is being called GeoDesign |
4th International Conference - Earth from Space |
 Over 500 participants from Russia, CIS and foreign countries gathered at the 4th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” convened on December 1-3, 2009 at the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” recreation centre of the RF President Administration. |
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 The growing amount of plastic debris in the world’s oceans and waterways has many scientists and anti pollution activists very concerned. The Great Pacific Garbage patch, a gyre in the Pacific Ocean that is capturing plastic debris and is growing in size has provided a rallying cry for activists that is gaining momentum. Drew Stephens, the founder of the GIS Institute, has long been involved in the application of GIS for conservation, and that work has led to his participation on the Think Beyond Plastic expedition in California that recently took place. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Stephens about the purpose and outcome of this trip as well as the benefits of applying more geospatial analysis to this problem.
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Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India
Second EuroSDR Workshop on INSPIRE Atlas of Implementation Methods , Jan. 14-15, Brussels, Belgium
Coastal Futures,Jan. 20-21, London, UK
All Ireland Symposium on Built Environment Education [AISBEE], Jan. 22, Ulster, N. Ireland
GIS Ostrava 2010, Jan. 25-27, Czech Republic
Remote Sensing And Geo-Information For Environmental Emergencies, Feb. 2, Torino, Italy
Imagina, Feb. 3-5, Monaco
SPAR 2010, Feb. 8-10, The Woodlands, Texas
EuroCOW 2010, Feb. 10-12, Barcelona, Spain
ESRI Federal User Conference, Feb. 17-19, Washington, D.C.
5th Intl Conf on Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage, Feb. 22-24, Vienna, Austria
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| TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK |
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Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World (2006)
By Brian Walker, David Salt, Walter Reid
This book explains the complex ecological and social interactions and changes in a unified framework in language accessible to a wide audience
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer (2008)
By Donella H. Meadows
This book explains the methodology-systems analysis that Meadows used in her ground-breaking work, and how it can be implemented for large-scale and individual problem solving. |
Geovisualization (2010)
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Geovisualization communicates geospatial information in ways that, when combined with human vision and domain expertise, allow for data exploration and decision-making processes.
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