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Layerscape is a cloud-based earth visualization tool built by Microsoft Research on the same technology as their WorldWide Telescope. The focus is on scientific visualization, with the ability to create three-dimensional virtual tours of the earth and ocean, with transparency of layers to go above and below the Earth’s surface, and to plot spatial data [...]
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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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Google just announced the launch of Google Earth Builder this morning at the Where 2.0 Conference, outlining a cloud-based ecosystem for hosting and creating geospatial data. The new tool will be available in the third quarter of this year, and will harness Google’s impressive computing power to enable enterprises to store and access terabytes of [...]
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Corning, makers of electronics-ready glass surfaces, has a new video out that displays glass touch-screen and large display surfaces as a vision for the future. The day starts with windows losing their tint to let in sunlight, and with a touchscreen bathroom mirror, refrigerator, and even kitchen counter surface. Woven into this are social connections [...]
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An agreement with the Planning Commission of India will tie the measurement of the country’s GDP to losses or gains to natural resources, biodiversity and overall environmental health starting in 2015. If economic growth is deemed to have risen 9 percent, but loss to biodiversity is factored at three percent, then the overall growth would [...]
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The game-changing impact of model-based designed for large engineering projects took the stage at Autodesk University. Seattle’s Alaska Way Viaduct replacement project took a model-based design with a focus on safety, mobility and sustainability. Creating models allowed the team to see into the future, making more informed decisions with multiple stakeholders, visualizing all alternatives while [...]
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Autodesk’s Project Galileo promises an easy-to-use planning tool for creating 3D city models from civil, geospatial and building data, and 3D models. This new offering will start its life in Autodesk Labs, and will allow users to sketch conceptual infrastructure ideas within the 3D city model. The focus market for Galileo is on communicating plans [...]
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Intergraph will launch a new 3D capability within their GeoMedia product in the fourth quarter of this year. The 3D capability is an add-on component that will add the capability to view and manipulated 3D models via another desktop window. The tight integration with GeoMedia means that the learning curve will be very quick for [...]
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The Community Earth System Model (CESM) is a new climate model that will allow scientists to study the climate in more detail. The CESM is one of just a dozen whole-earth models that have been developed over the past 30 years that can simulate Earth’s climate system, including oceans, atmosphere, ice and land cover. This [...]
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