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Volume 3 / Issue 3/ January 20, 2009
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"People understand and relate to issues and problems that are near to
them more quickly and effectively. This is particularly the case in
Europe. While basic GIS concepts are universal and are needed and
applied in a similar fashion around the globe, a case can be made for
including local / regional data, spatial issues and related background
information into teaching and instructional materials."
Jeff Thurston - Europe, Middle East, Africa & Russia
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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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GIS-user looks for information that makes it possible for him to
solve an actual task. If the GIS-user feels that the information
allows correct, safe and fast task-solving, then the producer has
gained the user’s favour.
Then the good question will be, what the GIS-producer needs to be
capable of for the purpose of ‘being good in GIS’, so that the
GIS actually delivers that information that allows the user to solve
his task?
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 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long been a user of
geospatial technology, and they’ve created many web-based applications
to improve communication with constituents. A new agency-wide
initiative for better information management and transparency in now
underway, and there are implications for greater integration of sensor
and geospatial systems to aid this effort. V1 Editor Matt Ball spoke
with Jerry Johnston, the agency’s geospatial information officer (GIO),
about his vision for greater GIS use at the agency.
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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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GIS Ostrava 2009 , Jan. 25-29, Ostrav, Czech Republic
Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas, Feb. 2-4, Mainz, Germany
International Workshop of Experts on Global Environmental Change , Feb. 9-11, Pretoria, South Africa
First Global Summit On Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 2008 , Feb. 7-9, Raipur, India
The Arabian World Construction Summit , Feb. 9-11, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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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| TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK |
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| VECTOR ONE |
SPATIAL SUSTAIN |
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By Augustin Rodriguez-Bachiller and John Glasson
This book discusses the potential of
integrating these two well known computer technologies to help with the
process of Impact Assessment.
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By Peter Morris
A guide to how EIAs are, and should be, carried out for specific environment components such as air, water and ecological systems
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By Lynn E. Johnson
The text focuses on how GIS data can be applied to water resource
analysis models. Such applications include water supply demand
forecasting, hydrologic modeling watersheds, modeling erosion, and
non-point sources of water pollution.
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