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Volume 4 / Issue 3/ January 19, 2010
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PERSPECTIVES

How does the evolution of geospatial technology impact the future approach of a land developer?

"The demand for new housing will not go away anytime soon. However, new development plans are under increasing scrutiny regarding the value that they bring to communities, and the impacts that they’ll have on quality of life. This growing sentiment of more reasoned development plays neatly into the hands of evolving design and planning approaches as well as supporting geospatial technologies."
-- Matt Ball, editor - The Americas / Asia Pacific
TOP STORIES
FEATURES
Like a lot of small towns, the effects of time and growth compromised Culver City’s public works data, especially the city sewer system. In 2007, a committed collaboration between the Public Works Department and the Culver City Information Technology Department began to update citywide sewer maps. The redevelopment of the sewer data is ongoing using geographic information system (GIS) technology from ESRI.

The World Forestry Congress (WFC) took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 18 to 23 October 2009. We have attempted to identify a number of trends and to indicate what their significance may be for us as forestry specialists. We conclude that ideas, attitudes, and methods in the forestry sector need to change if that sector wishes to remain an interesting, relevant, and effective partner in the development and implementation of the global and local forestry agenda for sustainable development.


TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK
Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. GNSS Data Centre - service of the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) (Federal Agency of Cartography and Geodesy- Germany).
  2. Japan for Sustainability - latest information on sustainability from Japan.
  3. Open Data Edmonton - City of Edmonton, Canada opens data for citizen use.
  4. New GIS - Visual Tools for Design - new community tools for design and decision making.
  5. Cartagen - framework for dynamic mapping.
Matt's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. Global Climate Change Sea Level Viewer -- An application develped by the Jet Propulsion Lab to see the effects of various events on sea level change.
  2. Green Footstep -- An assessment tool for reducing carbon emissions from building construction projects.
  3. Policy Map -- An easy way to explore geographic information through maps, tables and reports.
  4. Physical Map of the World -- A free map of the world with detailed 3D topography, natural environment colors, and thousands of place name labels.
  5. Geologic Maps of US States - Digital geologic maps of the US states with consistent lithology, age, GIS database structure, and format from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Reader´s Links of the Week

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Ceylon Map -- An interactive and multilingual internet mapping system for Sri Lanka.

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    BOOK REVIEW
    Land Administration for Sustainable Development

    landadmin_cover75Land 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.

    International LiDAR Mapping Forum

    EVENTS
    The First GeoDesign Summit Promises a New Approach
    GeoDesignLogoThe 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
    thumb_earth_from_space100 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.

    SPAR 2010 Conference
    INTERVIEWS

    ESRI Enables the Intelligent Query and Analysis of Virtual Cities

    Dangermond_Jack_thumb2ESRI, the leading mapping software company, was started more than forty years ago. As a pioneer of geographic information systems, the company has been at the forefront of new technology developments that have broadened the use of the geographic approach. V1 editor Matt Ball shared the following questions with Jack Dangermond, ESRI's founder and president, at the GeoDesign Summit in Redlands, Calif. This event marked a growing emphasis on the broader use of geospatial technology for design and planning, and the following questions focus primarily on these aspects of ESRI's operations.
    Mapping the Plastic Problem
    Stephens_Drew_thumbThe 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.
    HEADLINE NEWS
    CALENDAR
    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.

    Spatially Enabled Information Services, Feb. 18, Midrand, South Africa

    GIS World, Feb. 21-24, Dubai, UAE

    5th Intl Conf on Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage, Feb. 22-24, Vienna, Austria

    Redlands GIS Week, Feb. 22-26, Redlands, Calif.

    International LiDAR Mapping Forum, March 3-5, Denver, Colorado

    2010 Where 2.0 Conference
    TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
    VECTOR ONE SPATIAL SUSTAIN
      1. SDI - Canadian Spatial Data Infrastructure 2005 - 2009
      2. Editorial: Putting Your Finger on the Spatial Pulse of Design
      3. Satellite Imagery for Crop Loss Insurance
      4. U.S. National Soil Survey 2009
      5. PSMA - Delivering Spatial Data Across Australia
                1. Geo Community Pours Effort into Haiti Quake
                2. A Call for a Coordinated and Conflated Effort
                3. Vancouver Embodies GeoDesign
                4. The Fresh Start that GeoDesign Offers
                5. India Reports Loss of Land to China
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                  BOOKSTORE

                  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

                  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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