What is the potential of infra-red imagery and sensing as geospatial technology integrates?
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- 17 September 2010 | By Jeff Thurston | 1302
Why don’t we see Bing City Infra-Red, Google Thermal Street View and Nokia Geotagging Spectral Smartphones? Maybe part of it has do with privacy issues, but the technology is already present, only the application is needed. But there can be little doubt that geospatial and geomatic technology integration can tie thermal imaging sensor data to applications where we live and work.
How will the digital capture of place free us from our past?
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- 10 September 2010 | By Matt Ball | 1070
Part of the fascination with history is that lessons can be learned that have relevance to problems today and in the future. The means to convey our recollections has progressed from the story, to the photograph, to the movie, and is marching inevitably toward an immersive model. Geospatial technologies are contributing to our ability to capture our world digitally, and to playback reality in a way that can be explored in multiple dimensions.
What is the value of 3D farming?
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- 03 September 2010 | By Jeff Thurston | 1678
Landscape managers have traditionally depended upon the use of 2D tools and applications for the development and production of food. However, three-dimensional spatial applications are highly oriented to two things — better communication and higher efficiency. Restrictions on Russian grain exports, flooding in Pakistan, climate anomalies in Australia and wetness in Canada will all drive food production inputs up, as well as prices. Much more efficiency will be the outcome.
How creepy does the use of geospatial technology need to get before there’s a major backlash?
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- 27 August 2010 | By Matt Ball | 1442
I can’t help but feeling creeped out about certain combinations of geospatial and sensor technologies these days. One day last week I found news stories about: a school district that was exploring the use of RFID technology to track students; a landmark case in the Ninth Circuit that upholds the right of law enforcement to attach GPS tracking devices on vehicles parked on a suspect’s property without obtaining a warrant; and a large back-scatter sensor (the same technology as full-body scanners) mounted in a van that can see through walls and into vehicles. All three of these technology applications cross a line for me, which got me thinking about larger issues of public acceptance.
Can Useful Intelligence Be Extracted From Visualizations?
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- 20 August 2010 | By Jeff Thurston | 1092
The extraction of useful geo-intelligence can be redily extracted from airborne and satellite imagery. But can we extract useful information from visualizations? In principle, providing a visualization includes a geo-reference of some type, then information could be extracted from them. There are many possible uses for this kind of extraction, since, most visualizations are representations of information made independently. Consequently, they will include high levels of intelligence already embedded into them.
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