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The Natural Research Council has just released a detailed report that cautions about a decline in U.S. earth observation capacity. In a time of tightened budgets, many of the long-running missions are coming to a close, with follow-on missions delayed or canceled. The report follows a similar effort five years ago, with the title, “Earth [...]
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The president of Iceland met with Google at a world oceans event in Singapore this year, and dialogue was started regarding the integration of fish monitoring data with Google Earth. The president sees information technology as a key to sustainability, and has been a proponent of the Iceland IT sector that have developed a number [...]
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There was a presentation today at the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam by Eduardo Dias, with the SPIN spatial information laboratory also with Geodan, developers of tools to support crisis assessment, reconstruction and recovery. The company developed tools for Deforest Action, to incorporate satellite imagery, citizen sensors, collective intelligence and distributed computing to help keep track [...]
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An Eye on Earth mobile-based application from the European Environment Agency (EEA) gives individuals an opportunity to sense the noise level around them, and aggregates all the citizens as sensors to derive broader noise maps of specific geographies. This addition of noise to existing Water Watch and Air Watch, gives citizens a suite of pollution [...]
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Safe Software is embracing event-driven architectures, and the possibilities of sensors informing workflows, through their latest FME Server 2012. The details of this new capability were one of the highlights of the FME World Tour stop in Denver today. The new capability moves processes much closer to real-time with more direct connections between data providers [...]
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Vancouver-based UrtheCast aims to commercialize high-resolution video from space by installing HD cameras aboard the International Space Station. The cameras are in production now, with plans to install by the end of 2012. The company has recently signed a $4.2 million contract with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to build some of the hardware and data [...]
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A special themed issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine focuses on six GIS-based studies that make the connection between geographic location and human health. The issue takes a global view, with studies from the United Kingdom and elsewhere that take a strong look at behaviors, neighborhood environments, and health. A study titled “Spatial [...]
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News today that Trimble has acquired Belgium-based unmanned aerial vehicle maker Gatewing marks an important milestone in the commercialization of drone-based map data collection. There’s a growing interest in these low-cost mapping platforms, particularly given the FAA’s relaxation of laws that have prohibited their expansion in the United States. This continued industry consolidation by Trimble [...]
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