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Today, Trimble broke ground on a new operations center in Westminster, Colo., with Gov. John Hickenlooper one of many to turn a shovel. The event was presided over by Steven Berglund, president and CEO of the company, who asserted that while the company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif., most of their organic growth would [...]
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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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Wubbo Ockels, former astronaut and professor of Aerospace for Sustainable Engineering and Technology at the Delft University, Netherlands spoke this morning at the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam. As a former astronaut for The Netherlands, he has a unique perspective regarding the responsibility that we have for our planet, having gone beyond the bounds of [...]
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Ingrid Vanden Berghen, administrator general, National Geographic, Institute of Belgium and President Eurogeographics, Belgium presided over a session on capacity building and the expansion of the global geospatial marketplace to a billion plus people. Leading off this session was an address by Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri. The fact that our world is [...]
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APJ Abdul Kalam, the 11th president of the Republic of India, gave a keynote this morning at the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam. The address related a wide number of applications of the technology across all sectors of society, yet lamented that the technology still does not reach all citizens. With that goal in mind, [...]
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Steve Berglund, CEO of Trimble, gave a morning address at the Geospatial World Forum today in Amsterdam. Contrary to a call for greater promotion of the industry, Berglund stated that geospatial is everywhere as a foundation for business now, embedded in everything we do as a society going forward. With an aside that perhaps this [...]
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The coincidence of Shuttle Discovery flying over Washington monuments to be retired and go on public display, with today’s 28th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, provides a good contrast regarding the country’s plans and ambitions with space and earth observation. Most of the speakers at this opening day of the symposium made some mention [...]
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Today at the ILMF event in Denver, Wesley Newton from the U.S. Geological Survey discussed the use of lidar for wildlife habitat modeling. The USGS works to assess the quality of habitat, population demographics, species survival, and why wildlife are found in specific habitats. The group works to model and explain the mix of wildlife [...]
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To lead off the 12th International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) in Denver this week, we heard about the rigorous work that has gone into the National Enhanced Elevation Assessment. Presenters were Greg Snyder, lidar development at USGS; David Maune, senior product manager, Dewberry (author of the DEM User Manual published by ASPRS) and Larry Sugarbaker [...]
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