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Volume 3 / Issue 4/ January 27, 2009
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"While we can’t know every issue that leads to a calamitous occurrence,
all of the inputs to these events are spatial in nature, and by
amassing information and regularly measuring change, we can make
significant improvements in reducing loss of property and loss of life."
Matt Ball - Americas/Asia Pacific
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Electric utilities face serious challenges. As normal demand continues
to rise, the transportation sector looks to electricity to answer fuel
concerns. Should a significant
increase in the use of electricity for transportation materialize as it
likely will, demands and electric energy usage will soar. Meanwhile,
the existing electric infrastructure continues to age.
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.
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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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WSCG 2009 , Feb. 2-5, Univ. West Bohemia, 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
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 Paul Hawken
Hawken traces the formation of the environmental
and social justice movement from the beginnings of natural science
across years and continents in this rousing and "inadvertently
optimistic" call to action. Though
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By Energy Business Reports
The power industry, trailing behind other economic sectors already
revolutionized by computerization (e.g. retailing and manufacturing),
will see inexpensive computing power and low cost bandwidth infuse
every element of the grid with digital intelligence in coming decades.
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By NanoScience & Technology Inst
Proceedings from the 2008 CTSI conference provide the most prestigious forum in the world for leading clean tech scientists.
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