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The standard line for dreams of upcoming technology that hasn’t yet materialized has become, “Where’s My Jetpack?” The fondness we have for projecting technology’s promise into tomorrow has left many dreams yet to be fulfilled. Where are our robotic assistants and hassle-free travel, not to mention our increased leisure time? This wishful thinking hasn’t escaped [...]
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HP and Shell are working on a Mega Channel Seismic Survey System that will wirelessly connect millions of sensors ten meters apart from one another for oil and gas exploration. The system promises a highly detailed 4D image of oil and gas reservoirs below the earth’s surface. The sensor networks will be comprised of HP [...]
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Microsoft Research demoed an impressive hack of their Kinect hardware at the Siggraph conference yesterday that was highlighted on TechCrunch. The research project uses the Kinect to map interior space, intuitively building a 3D model with texture mapping. A truly compelling element is that moved objects are updated in the model, and moving objects can [...]
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The Places & Spaces Mapping Science exhibit aims to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on ways to communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. This ten-year National Science Foundation-backed outreach effort began in 2005, with 10 maps added each year that will culminate in 100 maps in 2014. In addition to a traveling exhibition [...]
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Lightsquared Technology, a visual effects developer for film and television, and ABC Surveying have worked together to add GPS and intertial measuring technology to Lightsquared’s system in order to track cameras at centimeter-level accuracy. The precise tracking of the cameras is necessary for real-time virtual backgrounds and CGI characters, speeding the production process greatly and [...]
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Historypin is a map-based web application for geotagging historical photos, and viewing them in the context of today using Google’s StreetView. The site got its start in the UK, and marked its global launch in the United States in early July with its latest release of the website that was accompanied by an Android mobile [...]
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has a thought-provoking piece by Rob Nixon about the need, and the difficulty, of visualizing and communicating the impacts of slowly evolving crises. He outlines the challenge of conveying the impacts of climate change, deforestation, oil spills, ocean acidification and a host of other slowly evolving issues of global impact [...]
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As part of the Geography Collective’s outreach about place and the importance of geography, they have created URBAN EARTH as a means to document and visualize some of the word’s biggest urban areas. The project is a video documentary of an urban transect, with photos taken every eight steps across each city. To date the [...]
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Esri’s Applications Prototype Lab has just stood up Your Future Coastline?, an online map visualization application that lets you see the coastline impact of mean sea level rise for the United States. While the application has a disclaimer that it’s not science or meant as a predictive tool, it is a useful exercise to see [...]
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