Let the Drone Mapping Race Begin

April 6, 2012

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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ESA’s NightPod Automates Space Station Imaging

April 5, 2012

The European Space Agency designed and developed, along with  with Dutch company Cosine, a motorized tripod  called NightPod to take nighttime images of the Earth. Prior to this device, the speed of the space station made picture taking difficult due to the speed of the Space Station and the low shutter speeds required to capture light [...]

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Google’s Project Glass AR Specs Now in Testing

April 4, 2012

Google’s Project Glass augmented reality glasses are now in testing, with geolocation and wayfinding a key component. The glasses hit the streets today, with a cadre of Google employees testing the specs on the street. This Google+ thread asks for feedback, and provides contact from key developers. Here’s a video with a demo of how [...]

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Mexico City Issues Earthquake Alert App

April 4, 2012

Mexico City has made available an earthquake application that sends alerts direct to phones as soon as a tremor happens. Aplicación Alerta Sismica del DF is tied to remote monitoring stations that detect and send signals up to a minute before the tremors reach the capital. The capital is plagued by earthquakes, with one or [...]

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Dynamic Real-time Wind Map Provides Insights Into Weather

April 3, 2012

A dynamic real-time wind map for the continental United States provides interesting insight into local weather by modeling data from the National Digital Forecast Database. The near-term forecasts are updated once per hour, and the site reflects trends in a mesmerizing way. The site was created as a personal art project by data visualization experts [...]

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Five-Year New Hampshire Land-Use Study Underway

April 3, 2012

The National Science Foundation has funded a five-year, $20 million research project led by the University of New Hampshire Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space that will take a detailed look at land-use in the state. The project will bring together researchers from across the state to assess the complex interactions of [...]

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Ikea Could Build a Neighborhood Near You

April 2, 2012

The Swedish furniture maker Ikea has recently launched a new property development branch called LandProp Services to build neighborhoods. The company kicks off this effort with a 11-hectare development in East London called Strand East that isn’t far from the 2012 Olympics site. The site is to have 1,200 homes and apartments, with office, retail [...]

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How have sustainability approaches evolved to address different scales?

April 2, 2012

There has been a great deal of maturity in the tools and approaches to sustainability problems over the past four years since V1 Magazine was launched. At the global and regional scale, we’ve seen an increasing application of sensors and systems to monitor, analyze and adapt to global change. At the local and city scale, [...]

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Eco Counters Track Park Patrons

April 2, 2012

The French company ECO Counter has created and deployed sensor networks to count pedestrians and cyclists in urban and natural environments. The system is made up of three parts that include a sensor to detect pedestrians or cyclists, a data logger that saves detection data, and software to analyze and share the data. The system [...]

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Planet Under Pressure Conference Fosters Future Earth Initiative

April 1, 2012

This past week in London, scientists from a broad range of disciplines convened at the Planet Under Pressure Conference. Global environmental change was the topic of the event, with new integration of behavioral and social science into a research initiative dubbed Future Earth. The Future Earth initiative acknowledges the human domination of Earth systems or [...]

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