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Volume 3 / Issue 10/ March 10, 2009
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"All of the areas of growth that I’ll explore will require an expansion
of the current geospatial toolset, and will likely involve new players.
Given the focus of Vector1 Media on sustainability, I’ll look primarily
at areas that stand to gain greatly by balancing the needs of the
economy, the environment and society."
Matt Ball, Editor Americas/Asia Pacific
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The European Urban Atlas -
Supporting City Habitability
Consumption of natural land for settlements, industry and transport
infrastructure proceeds with an alarming pace in Europe and disagrees
with the stagnating population. Every three years we lose a surface
area equivalent to the size of Luxemburg.
Pour a glass of water out of a kitchen tap throughout the Canterbury
region of New Zealand and chances are you’ll be staring at what many
consider the finest drinking water in the world. Cool, clear and
untouched, it’s originated in the mountains of the Southern Alps,
travelled across the Canterbury Plains in the large braided river
systems and then filtered slowly through the alluvial shingles before
settling in large natural aquifers.
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WHITE PAPER: Extending 3D Models Beyond Application Dead Ends
We are quickly moving toward a world where intelligent 3D models will interface with sensor systems for a realistic, up-to-date picture of our world. But for this vision to become a reality, we need compatibility and connectivity between different tools, data types and data models. Vector1 Media has partnered with Safe Software to explore this interoperability between 3D data formats.
Download the full white paper here.
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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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 Advances in tracking and location technologies are enabling new
application development. These applications can be found in
environmental, utility, transport and other industrial applications.
Many new approaches are being developed for more personal and local use
and these applications include in-store location, hospitals, airports
and inside buildings. In this column Steven Feldman takes a look at
some of these applications and provides his unique views on some of the
recent developments.
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 America’s first-ever climate change president, Barrack Obama is making
substantial changes in the way we approach energy, the environment, and
our economy. These changes will impact how we manage where our energy
comes from (the supply side) and how we use it (the demand side). This
will not only affect the future of our economy and our national
security, it will also have tremendous influence on the sustainability
of our country and planet.
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 The state of Washington is coordinating an ambitious effort to normalize transportation data from multiple counties into a common repository called the Washington State Transportation Framework (WA-Trans). V1 Magazine editor Matt Ball spoke with Tami Griffin, WA-Trans project manager, about the technical and collaborative hurdles that she is addressing in order to provide the best up-to-date data on roads, railways, ferries, aviation, ports, and non-motorized transportation infrastructure in her state.
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 Autodesk has embraced the concept of sustainable design and is working
to integrate these principals into tools to facilitate wider
application. V1 Magazine editor Matt Ball spoke with Dawn Danby,
sustainable design program manager at Autodesk about how these concepts
are being applied, and the future promise of this approach that
considers the environment and the community as guiding design criteria. |
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Imaging Spectroscopy , March 16-19, Tel Aviv, Israel
5th World Water Forum , March 16-22, Istanbul, Turkey
Association of American Geographers , March 22-27, Las Vegas, Nev.
ESRI Developer Summit , March 23-26, Palm Springs, Calif.
Sustainable Scandanavia , March 30-April 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
Water Berlin , Mar.30-Apr.2, Berlin, Germany
SPAR 2009, March 30 - April 1, Denver, Colo.
Offshore Survey '09 , April 1-2, Southampton, UK
GITA Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions , April 19-22, Tampa, Fla.
Cities 3.0 , April 22-25, Sitges, Spain
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 The Map World Forum took place in Hyderabad, India from Feb. 10-13. This second biennial event drew an international audience of more than 2,000 people, with the theme, "Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Planet Earth". The theme was explored in many different sessions that drove home the power of geospatial technology for the stewardship of our planet. |
| TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK |
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| VECTOR ONE |
SPATIAL SUSTAIN |
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By Lynne E. Johnson
With an introduction to primary remote sensing as well as methods of
interpretation and analysis, the text focuses on how GIS data can be
applied to water resource analysis models.
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By Edward H. Isaaks and R. Mohan Srivastava
This book is remarkable in the statistical literature and unique in
geostatistics in that concepts and models are introduced from the needs
of data analysis rather than from axioms or through formal derivations.
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By Russell G. Congalton and Kass Green
The field of accuracy assessment of maps derived from remotely sensed
data has continued to grow since the first edition of this
groundbreaking book published in 1999. This much anticipated update is significantly expanded and enhanced.
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