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A story in today’s Wall Street Journal outlines an ambitious surveillance project in the city of Chongqing. The ‘Peaceful Chongqing’ project is planned to span a 400-square-mile area with 500,000 cameras to keep track of traffic and crime among the city’s 12 million inhabitants. The companies participating and interested in the project are Cisco, Intergraph [...]
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Today, NASA launched its 14th earth science satellite into space with the launch of the Aquarius/SAC-D Sea Surface Salinity satellite. The satellite will provide a monthly map of sea salt movement and data that will help understand global climate change and ocean currents. The $287 million satellite measures the microwave energy emitted from the ocean [...]
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San Francisco has added sensors to their streets, and has provided an app, to help citizens find open parking spaces. The city invested $20 million on the project called SFPark, with funding from the Federal Highway Administration and the Transportation Department. More than 7,000 sensors have been installed in metered spots, and 12,250 in city [...]
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Clemson University has deployed sensors and corresponding system software for the Intelligent River project along the Savannah River in upstate South Carolina. Researchers are monitoring 120 miles of river with wireless sensor motes that monitor a wide variety of parameters associated with water quality, pollution and environmental impacts. The way that Clemson approached this problem [...]
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Power Tagging is an interesting new start-up company that has created hardware and software to monitor and map the grid. With backing from Dominion power company and Lockheed Martin, the company’s sensor network is poised to make an impact. The unique use of modules that hug the power line, and amplification devices to boost signals, [...]
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The annual GeoWeb Conference won’t take place this year. This technical conference about information sharing and collaboration in a geospatial context has had a great run in Vancouver, BC, Canada since 2002, starting as GML Dev Days. The focus on the Geography Markup Language (GML) continued as integral element, even though the event officially changed [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding research on systems that will allow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to refuel one another in flight to stay aloft for extended periods of time. While drones have to date been launched from a base, completed a mission, and returned, the new area of interest is in [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Analysis (DARPA) program is developing a visual intelligence capability with cameras that analyze patterns, movement and speech and record and relay that information. The program called Mind’s Eye aims to take the analytical power of human ground surveillance into unmanned systems to take troops out of harm’s way. From the [...]
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Earth Networks, the operator of WeatherBug products and services, just announced yesterday an expanded focus on broader environmental observations and measurements. The organization has teamed with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to expand their observations, first taking a closer look at global greenhouse gas (GHG). Earth Networks will invest $25 million of its private capital [...]
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Interestingly, there are two features about the coming artificial intelligence (AI) revolution that caught my attention today. The first in Wired deals with the use of artificial intelligence for efficient use of robots in warehouses, “using machine learning, massive data sets, sophisticated sensors, and clever algorithms to master discrete tasks.” The second in the New [...]
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