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I was just checking out the new interface to Google Maps Street View by looking at my neighborhood, and I was mysteriously teleported to a rural road in Boulder County. I just clicked to travel down the street that I was on, and I made an inexplicable jump. It was rather surreal, as it happened [...]
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Having recently attended both ASPRS and SPAR, I feel immersed in remote sensing and geospatial data collection. Both events included much information about 3D data creation, storage and visualization, and I saw many impressive presentations that showcased software tools that are making inroads into navigable digital realities at a high degree of realism. It’s quite [...]
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Yesterday at SPAR 2009, earthmine, Inc. launched a new street-level 3D mapping platform and an innovative business plan to leverage partners for the data collection process. The earthmine plan is to create a 3D geospatial data mine of urban environments with much more detail and accuracy than current street-level data providers such as Google’s StreetView. [...]
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Satellier-Screampoint has just launched a three-dimensional digital city solution for the construction industry in India. The solution aims at modeling projects in 3D on a real-time basis. The corporate website for the company promotes a 4d/5D digital city management solution, but my attempts to access the site today met with broken links. Read more here [...]
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There was much press this fall when India announced that they were developing their own version of Google Earth. The site that is in development is called Bhuvan, Sanskrit for Earth, and is meant to be a web portal to the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) imagery from their seven remote-sensing satellites, along with other [...]
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The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a project proposed and sponsored by the National Science Foundation that will create a new contintent-scale infrastructure for ecological observation and analysis. The plan is to link existing ecological observatories with new communications technology so that observations from planes, satellites, ground-level sensors, and field scientists can be combined [...]
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The GlobalSoilMap.net launches today at a ceremony at The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Jeffrey Sachs, noted economist and Director of the institute will be on hand, as will Pedro Sanchez, director of the Africa Soil Information System. This global system fills a need for accurate, up-to-date and spatially referenced soil information, and was made [...]
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You get a good sense of the importance of geospatial technology in a region based on the level of government support at its conferences. The Map World Forum that takes place next week in Hyderabad, India will be opened by the Vice President of India, Shri M Hamid Ansari, accompanied by the Governor of State [...]
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We have a new columnist on V1 Magazine today. Jeff Winston is the principal of Winston Associates, a Boulder, Colorado-based urban planning, landscape design and visualization company. Winston and his firm have tackled whole-city visualization projects for a number of different municipalities, and he will be sharing his knowledge in a series of columns throughout [...]
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The magazine Common Ground has an excellent feature on the work of computer scientist Rebecca Moore that was the impetus for Google Earth Outreach. Moore realized the power of Google Earth visualizations back when the product was known as Keyhole, and used the tool very effectively to help hault a utility’s planned logging efforts in [...]
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