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I recently conducted an interview with Paul McRoberts, vice president of the infrastructure product line group at Autodesk. The company has steered away from using the term geospatial in their approach, although they clearly have the design and management of broader geographies within their sites. In fact, they’re taking a multi-scale approach in how they [...]
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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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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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Corporate executives love the iPad for its ease of use, visual display, and always-on connectivity that helps feed their roles as information filters and vision brokers. The elevated status of this device in the corporate world has in turn led to new ways of presenting and condensing enterprise systems, often within a geospatial context. This [...]
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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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R. Halsey Wise, chairman, president and CEO of Intergraph kicked off the company’s weather-delayed user conference with an emphasis on turning their innovations into opportunities for economic success during challenging times. The high production quality of the main stage, with multiple screens, lights and booming bass sounds, drove home a presentation of customers “that see [...]
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The push to define community remote sensing (CRS), with real-world project examples, will culminate at the IEEE International Geoscience Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) in Honolulu, Hawaii this July. The event will feature a plenary session on, “Remote Sensing: Global Vision for Local Action,” that discusses the combination of citizen science with social networks and remote [...]
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