Volume 2 / Issue 43/ October 28, 2008
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PERSPECTIVES
As scientists contemplate geoengineering, how do geospatial technologies assist in assessing feasibility?
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 "Geoengineering suggests that wide ranging change for the positive
can be applied to large-scale processes, such as climate change, to
reverse and improve upon the current situation. Many geospatial
technologies are new technologies, less than a few decades old, and
only now beginning to provide a glimpse into these processes."
Jeff Thurston, Editor, EMEA and Russia,
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 "There are an increasing number of big
science ideas for reversing the warming course of our planet.
While all of these ideas are an enormous gamble, escalating pressures
placed on our planet by global warming may increase their viability. Any contemplation will require in-depth
modeling and analysis, and geospatial technologies will play a role.
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Matt Ball, Editor, Americas/Asia-Pacific,
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TOP STORIES
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FEATURES
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The Atlas of Sustainability
Indicators for Coastal Municipalities of the State of Rio de Janeiro
has been developed in order to publish the results of the analysis of
40 sustainability indicators, within the six ecodevelopment
dimensions proposed by Ignacy Sachs (spatial, cultural, economical,
ecological, social and political), as to the 34 coastal
municipalities of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
In
Zhejiang province in the southern part of the Yangtze River Delta on
the southeast coast of China, the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of
Zhejiang contributed to the completion of digital line graphs
covering the entire 101,800-square-kilometer province.
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INTERVIEW
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A GIS Guru Explores the BIM Opportunity
 James Fee is well known in the ESRI development community, on the GIS
blogosphere for his own blog, and as the person behind the blog
aggregation site Planet Geospatial. James recently joined an
architectural and engineering firm that is focusing a good deal of
effort on building information models. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with
Fee about the growing opportunity of BIM, and the implications that
this modeling software will have on the GIS industry.
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HEADLINE NEWS
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CALENDAR
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World Urban Forum 4 , Nov 3-7, Nanjing, China
GNSS, DGNSS and Applications Symposium , Nov 11-14, Berlin, Germany
Digital Earth Summit , Nov 12-14, Potsdam, Germany
IAEM 56th Annual Conference , Nov. 15-20, Overland Park, Kansas
Carbon Markets Africa, Nov 17-19, Cape Town
Rocket City Geospatial Conference, Nov 18-20, Huntsville, Alabama
Sensing a Changing World, Nov. 19-21, Wageningen, Netherlands
ICT 2008 , Nov 25-27, Lyon, France
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BOOK REVIEW
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The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model
 The development of a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure requires the integration
of spatial information from a wide number of actors using different technologies
through space and time. This fusion of geoinformation poses unique
representation challenges because the requirements for 3-D representation are
different than traditional 2-D representation. Earl F. Burkholder is the author
of The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model: Foundation of the Spatial Data
Infrastructure. The book explains why a new Global Spatial Data Model (GSDM)
which links both functional and stochastic models together can provide a single
horizontal and vertical data model for global use.
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TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
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An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management (2002)
By Timoty Beatley, David Brower, Anna K. Schwab
This book offers a
comprehensive overview of coastal planning and management issues for
students and professionals in the field.
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Creating Walkable Places (2006)
By Barbel Finkenstadt, Leonard Held, Valerie Isham
Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems presents current
statistical research issues on spatio-temporal data modeling and will
promote advances in research and a greater understanding between the
mechanistic and the statistical modeling communities.
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Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (2007)
By Chen-I Chang
The book's twenty-five contributors represent some of the field's most
important innovators and pioneers from around the world.
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