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Robotic Fish Prototype Presented

May 24, 2012

The Port of Gijón presented the latest prototype of a robotic fish designed to ensure marine environmental monitoring in El Musel as part of the EU SHOAL R D project, whose budget amounts to EUR 4.2 million.

Bluesky Launches Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

May 23, 2012

Aerial survey company Bluesky has launched a fast response aerial survey service using state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones. The technology, originally developed by the military, includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) guided autopilot, high resolution integrated camera and environmentally friendly rechargeable propulsion system. Autonomous take-off and landing...

Features

Mapping Carbon in the Forests: Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees

First Civilian Photogrammetric UAV Flight Over Singapore

Tuning the BALLADE Geospatial Infrastructure for Plug-in Electric Vehicles

Interviews

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May 08, 2012 218

The Fusion of ERDAS and Intergraph is Just the Start for Hexagon

Over the past year, there has been a great deal of work on the integration of ERDAS and Intergraph software offerings to make a more complete geospatial platform. Matt Ball recently spoke with Mladen Stojic, Vice President – Geospatial at Intergraph, about this ongoing work…
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Collaborative Visualization to Advance Landscape Planning

Recently the University of British Columbia unveiled a decision theatre, an interactive and immersive computer visualization lab for collaborative advancement of landscape planning. Special correspondent Matteo Luccio spoke with Stephen R.J. Sheppard, the project lead and…

Columns

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Vast Sensors, Big Data: Big Opportunities

Every ten years or so, we achieve a technological breakthrough that drives innovation for the next decade. We are…
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GeoDesign as a Teaching Concept

I recently had the good fortune to attend a GeoDesign workshop presented by Bill Miller, who is the Director of…

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Perspectives

What do sensors add to a decision support system?

Written byMatt Ball
on May 22, 2012

An often-quoted Business Week article from 1999 stated that, “In the next century, planet Earth will don an electric skin…”...

Is it time for focused publications that aim to make sense of change at both the global and local scales?

Written byMatt Ball
on May 15, 2012

Change is a constant that is inevitable, but what isn't inevitable are disruptive impacts. The more we know about our...

GeoEye Proposes to Purchase DigitalGlobe

Written byMatt Ball
on May 04, 2012

The mergers and acquisitions within the geospatial technology space are white hot right now, with news Friday that GeoEye approached...

Why did Trimble buy SketchUp, and why did Google sell?

Written byMatt Ball
on April 29, 2012

It’s funny, my first reaction to the Trimble buys SketchUp news was that it was some kind of spoof, and...

If Enhanced View cuts come, why not remove resolution restrictions?

Written byMatt Ball
on April 22, 2012

A feature in the New York Times outlines the battle that is brewing in Congress to defend the use of...

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