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At the culmination of Esri’s Forestry GIS Solutions Conference there was a field day that began with a tour of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This facility in Pasadena, Calif. employs more than 5,000 people with the primary mission of robotic exploration of space. The highlight of the event was certainly the chance to overlook the [...]
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Geophysicist David Sandwell, professor of geophysics at Scrips Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, was named to the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to the freshman seminar in the physics of surfing, Sandwell also teaches satellite remote sensing and geodynamics, and is a pioneer in seafloor mapping. “Sandwell’s research focuses on mapping large-scale topographic [...]
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Episode four of the Geospatial Revolution video project has just been released, tackling the ability of the technology to quantitatively track change over time in order to meet our desire to know how the earth works. The episode is broken into four chapter that cover the monitoring of climate, prevention of hunger, tracking disease and [...]
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The Earth Knowledge Portal launched recently as a new way to view global news and information via a Google Earth interface. The Google Earth Outreach Team contributed a large collection of their Google Earth Tours as content. News comes from BBC Earth, World Wildlife Fund, Reuters, NASA, NOAA, Christian Science Monitor, and the Global Heritage [...]
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There have been a lot of geospatial conference changes this year, with the last GITA annual conference just concluded, the GeoWeb Conference canceled, and the GeoTec Event (that I used to manage) planned for only one day this year. While the economy and the high cost of travel are at the root of the problem, [...]
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A team of 18 students in the geography department at the Kansas University launched a weather balloon Saturday. The balloon snapped photos and collected data during its 20-mile flight in a project dubbed Geohawk for the department’s “Remote Sensing II” course. The students will spend the rest of the semester using the images and data [...]
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Carleton’s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre has launched a new interactive online sea ice Atlas as an educational resource to share knowledge, stories, maps and language between the Inuit and the general public. The Atlas condenses some of the knowledge and skills developed by the Inuit to hunt and travel on the sea ice, and [...]
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Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time is a full length documentary of the conservationist that is now being presented in screenings around the country before being shown on public television in early 2012. The film documents the life of the author and conservationist with a focus on land ethics ideas [...]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a $1.25 million grant to the Denver Museum of Nature and Sciences and partners to develop the WorldViews Network to use planetariums to communicate issues of global change, such as biodiversity loss, climate change and ocean acidification. Partner institutions include the California Academy of Sciences, NOVA/WGBH Boston, [...]
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The winners of the eighth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge have just been announced, and the top two spots in the Noninteractive Media category go to geospatial projects. Science and the National Science Foundation are the sponsors of this yearly contest, which also includes categories for illustration, photography, and informational graphics. The winner [...]
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