Perspectives
Is innovation of geospatial technology destined to always be driven by military budgets?
Many of the roots of innovation in the geospatial toolbox come from military initiatives, including the Global Positioning System...
How does open data spur the economic benefits from sensor and system investments?
Sensors and systems configurations are proliferating whether for satellites with ground-based analysis and service delivery or with the components...
What can be gleaned about today’s technology from the growing mystery of MH370?
Geospatial technologies have been deployed at a grand scale to help track down the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that...
How will the need for geospatial skills change when there’s a search engine for the planet?
There is an explosion of readily accessible imagery and video for the globe that will soon be coming online,...
What impact will Google’s new mapping phone have on our digital realities?
Google has just released details of an initiative dubbed Project Tango that provisions an Android smartphone with the ability...
Headline News
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Russia and China Eye Cooperation of GLONASS and BeiDou Navigation Systems
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Egyptian Sensing Satellite Placed in Orbit
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DMCii CEO: Comfortable Level of EO Satellites at Least Five Years Away
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How Geographical Features Directly Shape Languages
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Police Test 'Live Google Earth' to Track Criminals
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U.S. Could Lift Commercial Satellite Imagery Restrictions
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Google Earth Man John Hanke on Ingress, and Building a Location-based Gaming Platform
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Jane Goodall Launches Online Course in Digital Mapping
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Planet Labs Files Application to Add 39 More Satellites in Addition to Original 28
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Satellite Data to be Used to Locate Best Micro-Hydro Sites in the UK
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SDSU Dean Relates Sense of Urgency About Precision Ag
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Sentinel Satellite's First Day in Space was Unusually Tense
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Open Geospatial Consortium Honors The Ministry Of Interior For Its Excellent Efforts
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Wide-area Surveillance Technology Triggers Privacy Concerns
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Israel Launches Ofek 10 Radar Satellite
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Alibaba to Acquire Mapping Company AutoNavi for $1.5B
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Drones Help World Bank Projects by Mapping the Land
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Online Army Helps Map Guinea's Ebola Outbreak
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Atlas 5 Launches Classified Satellite from Cape Canaveral
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U.S. Navy Fielding Weather-Predicting Sea Drones
Toolbox
- Leica Geosystems Releases the Tridicon APM Trio Solution for Quickly generating highly Matched, Automated Oblique Projects
- Trimble Announces New Software Updates to Simplify Geospatial Analysis and Modeling
- Hyperspec III Software Simplifies Collection and Management of Hyperspectral Data With Integrated Functionality
- Topcon Introduces New Field Controller for Advanced Data Collection
- Topcon Technology Roadshow ‘Kicks off’
Features
Top Stories
Interviews
BlackBridge Expands Niche in Broad Area Mapping and Change Detection
The purchase of the five-satellite RapidEye constellation by BlackBridge has linked earth observation capacity to a cloud-based system. Sensors...
GameSim Finds Fusion Capabilities in Demand
GameSim is a Florida-based company that continues to grow rapidly as a provider of software products and services, with a...
Skybox Looks to Innovate on Ease of Access
Sensors Systems (S S) editor Matt Ball spoke with Dirk Robinson, vice president of Image Systems at...
Columns
Technology Intersection – Geospatial Strategies for Insight from Big Data
Sensing technologies are producing unprecedented amounts of data about the environment and the digital world. The current question is: how...
Saving and Using the Geodetic Control Infrastructure
GIS professionals familiar with the National Spatial Data Infrastructure's seven Framework Data Layers know that these are just the beginning...
Helping Automated Generalisation Come of Age
Traditionally maps were produced using a long and detailed process, which would start at the initial data collection stage and...
Event Coverage
- GeoDesign to Factor Ecosystem Services
- DVW President Thöne: "INTERGEO trains the spotlight on key socio-political issues"
- More than 400 Participants from 28 Countries Took Part in the 6th International Conference "Earth from Space - The Most Effective Solutions"
- Esri Provisions Web GIS to Provide a Living Atlas
- TerraGo Displays their New Vision Platform
- The Exelis and Esri Relationship Expands on Imagery Everywhere
- Dangermond Discusses How GIS is Becoming a Living Atlas
- Dangermond Speaks to a GIS Turning Point
Geographer as First Director of Future Earth Global Sustainability Initiative
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- Jul 03 2013
- by Future Earth
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The International Council for Science (ICSU), on behalf of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, has announced that Professor Frans Berkhout will be the Interim Director of Future Earth. Professor Berkhout will lead the implementation of Future Earth – bringing existing and new research communities and stakeholders together to deliver solutions-oriented knowledge for global sustainability.
DigitalGlobe Shareowners Approve Combination With GeoEye
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- Dec 03 2012
- by DigitalGlobe
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DigitalGlobe, Inc. ( NYSE : DGI ), a leading global provider of earth imagery solutions, today announced that its shareowners voted to approve the issuance of DigitalGlobe common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Share Issuance proposal"), pursuant to the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 22, 2012, as amended, by and among DigitalGlobe, 20/20 Acquisition Sub, Inc., WorldView, LLC, and GeoEye, Inc. The approval of the Share Issuance proposal was required to complete the merger involving DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, Inc. ( NASDAQ : GEOY ).
China Provides Satellite Imagery to Assist Australia in Fighting Against Bushfire
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- Oct 23 2013
- by China Daily
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China has provided satellite imagery to Australia to assist the country's fighting against the latest bushfires in New South Wales. Adam Lewis, Group Leader of National Earth Observation of Geoscience Australia (GA), confirmed with Xinhua on Wednesday that in the past six days, GA has been getting two passes of satellite images from China every day. Those images are used to build up the mapping of the bushfires, which have been ravaging in New South Wales since last Thursday. Read More
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