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Volume 3 / Issue 2/ January 13, 2009
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Will economic stimulus spending provide a launch pad for geospatial innovation?
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 "The United States isn’t the only country
planning to invest
internally in order to improve unemployment figures and economic
growth. While there will likely be many opportunities for geospatial
work, the question is whether that work will lead to innovation in new
tools and approaches that benefit the geospatial market as a whole."
Matt Ball, Editor, Americas/Asia-Pacific, mattball vector1media.com
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Some
50,000 islands and thousands of narrow fjords cut into the
mountainous countryside along Norway’s jagged coastline.
Diesel-fueled ferries have transported people and goods between the
islands and across the fjords for decades, but a new fleet of natural
gas-powered ferries is now improving mobility without emitting
noxious fumes that pollute the marine environment.
Carbon dioxide is not always the villain. It can actually be quite
beneficial for companies like Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum
Corporation, which is using the greenhouse gas for enhanced oil
recovery, a process that involves injecting otherwise tapped out wells
with CO2 to produce additional oil. Anadarko uses GIS to track pipeline
maintenance, view land
reclamation, and keep up with revegetation of native grasses. By
calling up layers on a GIS-based map, they can map every piece of
infrastructure fom flow lines, pipelines, buildings and wells.
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| TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK |
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| Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week |
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 3D has gradually been making inroads into the planning and design
mainstream. It's not unusual in a public presentation or submittal to
see a 3D image rather than an artist’s rendering, and occasionally one
actually sees 3D movie “fly arounds”. However, in today’s reality of
reduced funding for both staff and software, one has to question
whether 3D is a luxury or actually makes a meaningful contribution to
the process of land planning and design.
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 Ecology and Environment, Inc. is a publicly traded company founded in
1970 that has been working on sustainability initiatives, and applying
GIS technology to these problems, for decades. V1 Editor Matt Ball
spoke with Tony Gale, principal consultant, about the company’s use of
GIS and geospatially enabled software-as-a-service applications to
tackle broad problems, and provide measurable metrics, for
sustainability problems.
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 ESRI, the world leading GIS software vendor, recently announced the
addition of an environmental industry manager. Dr. Robin D. Smith has
extensive experience conducting and managing environmental
investigations, and ecological and human health risk assessments. V1
editor Matt Ball spoke with Smith about the current use of GIS in these
areas, and the promise for more integrated and widespread use in the
future.
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Cartography and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and Emergency Management, Jan. 19-22, Prague, Czech Republic
GIS Ostrava 2009 , Jan. 25-29, Ostrav, Czech Republic
Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas, Feb. 2-4, Mainz, Germany
First Global Summit On Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 2008 , Feb. 7-9, Raipur, India
Workshop on High-Impact Weather Predictability and Information System for Africa , Feb 9 - 12, Trieste, Italy
Map World Forum , Feb. 10-13, Hyderabad, India
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 Autodesk University 2008 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Dec. 1-5.
This year's event attracted roughly 9,000 people, with the theme,
"Experts Like You". The current state of the economy was on everyone's
minds, with fewer attendees due to cutbacks in the AEC industry. But as
a result of the economic pressures, it was a very motivated group to
gain skills and learn strategies in order to continue to be competitive.
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| TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK |
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SPATIAL SUSTAIN |
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The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape (2008)
By Harm De Blij
In recent years a spate of books and articles have argued that the
world today is so mobile, so interconnected and so integrated that it
is, in one prominent assessment, flat. But as Harm de Blij contends in
The Power of Place, geography continues to hold billions of people in
an unrelenting grip.
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By Denis Cosgrove
This book is comprised of a series of personal reflections by leading cultural geographer,
Denis Cosgrove, on the complex connections between seeing, imagining
and representing the world geographically.
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By Denis Wood, John Fels, John Pickles
Every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. By drawing our attention to every aspect of map
self-presentation, from place names to titles and legends, the authors
reveal the way that each piece of information collaborates in a
disguised effort to mount an argument about reality.
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