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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has signed a nine-year $317 million contract with Computer Sciences Corp. to build a supercomputer to model weather patterns. This supercomputer investment contract also includes an effort to integrate some existing systems, and to speed the timeliness of forecast models to existing conditions. Read more about this plan via [...]
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The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a summer program at the University of Arkansas for high school and college students to train in 3D recording and visualization as part of the CI-TRAIN Project. The program will train students on the scanning of structures for architectural, engineering and historic purposes using terrestrial laser scanning and photogrammetry, [...]
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture have announced a joint research program to produce high-resolution models for predicting climate change and its resulting impacts. The program is called Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction Using Earth System Models (EaSM), and is designed to generate much higher resolution models to [...]
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The concept of GeoDesign involves a more interactive interface to geospatial layers with the means for sketching and design upon those layers in a collaborative way while contributing and interacting with an evolving intelligent model. The concept itself isn’t new, but various technology pieces have been missing, and the enabling software is now being worked [...]
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The fusion of both LIDAR and hyperspectral imagery for the creation of realistic urban models for simulation purposes was the focus of a presentation this morning at ILMF by Raul Campos-Marquetti, senior hyperspectral scientist at Merrick & Company. The ultimate purpose of this model was a simulation for military training purposes by the U.S. Army’s [...]
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NASA has made a $600,000 commitment to build a grid-based approach for the modeling of climate change. The move toward a software-as-a-service approach will free up resources and provide greater access for researchers to explore global temperature rises and the impacts of increasing carbon emissions. Parabon Technologies won the award to build out the new [...]
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Google.org has contracted with Clark Labs to adapt their Land Change Modeler application to run on the Google Earth Engine interface in order to support the evaluation and monitoring of REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) projects. The collaboration is complimentary to the forest monitoring application that Google collaborated on with the Carnegie Institute [...]
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Researchers have completed a study that found that almost all changes in land cover that removes vegetative cover results in increased surface temperatures. The findings are already adding significant weight to the recognition that land use change needs to be incorporated into computer models that are designed to forecast climate changes. The team was made [...]
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Researchers in the UK are busy digitizing more than 300 Royal Navy captains’ logs for clues about climate change. Some of the logs date back to 1760s, and include recordings of the voyages of Captain Cook and Darwin on the HMS Beagle. They are being transcribed for their detailed recordings of weather in order to [...]
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The creator of the Where’s George? website set out to track the pattern of money distribution in the United States by stamping bills with a note asking the recipient to log the ZIP code where they received the bill. The project, which started more than 10 years ago, has amassed the history of more than [...]
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