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The Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., will open a new exhibit titled, “Earth Lab: Degrees of Change,” next Thursday, Sept. 16. The exhibit focuses on the visualization of climate change, along with its impacts. The exhibit has at its center a simulation game where visitors take on the [...]
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GeoTime is a data visualization and analytic software product from Occulus that displays movement over time in an intuitive manner. The software was on display at the recent Esri International User Conference, with their latest release adding a number of impressive features to investigate trends over time as well as interactions. The software meshes nicely [...]
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The province of British Columbia is the first in Canada to launch an open data portal that allows both developers and citizens to download and explore large volumes of government information. The impressive data catalog includes 2,500 sets of data, tools to conduct research and analyze statistics, as well as tools to develop custom applications. [...]
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Geoweb 3d has entered into the geospatial visualization space from roots in the gaming industry, providing impressive 3D visualization performance that takes full advantage of the processing power of today’s video cards. I visited the company within the NAVTEQ booth yesterday at the Esri International User Conference, and was impressed by their powerful processing and [...]
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According to a story in Information Week, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has created a real-time, 360-degree, 3D holographic display called the Urban Phototonic Sandtable Display (UPSD) to help military better visualize and plan battles. The technology lets up to 20 people simultaneously view holographic images, through technology developed by Zebra Imaging, without [...]
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The winners of the eighth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge have just been announced, and the top two spots in the Noninteractive Media category go to geospatial projects. Science and the National Science Foundation are the sponsors of this yearly contest, which also includes categories for illustration, photography, and informational graphics. The winner [...]
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IBM has launched CityOne, a game that aims to raise awareness, and help address some of the challenges and solutions for building a smarter city. The mission is to solve business, environmental and logistical challenges. The challenges involve energy, water, banks and retail, with the aim to highlight IBM’s business process management, collaborative technologies, and [...]
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Virtual construction is a movement that is gaining ground in today’s tight economy. Using 3d modeling tools and collaborative workflows, a team of architects, engineers, facility manager, and even workers, construct a building virtually before any hammers are swung. In this way, they ensure that they make maximum use of time and materials. The advantage [...]
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Media and analysts had a chance to sit down with Ola Rollén, CEO of Hexagon, at lunch today at the Intergraph 2010 conference. Rollén was very forthcoming regarding the company strategy and vision for what a model that is integrated with sensors might look like. When asked about interests in the agriculture market, Rollén shared [...]
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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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