Perspectives
What does Google’s Timelapse effort say about the geospatial big data challenge?
Google gave the world a gift yesterday with the release of the global timelapse viewer (http://earthengine.google.org/#intro) that aggregates Landsat imagery...
What are some of the disruptions of digital imagery, and their implications?
The legacy of film imagery spans just 150 years, although it still continues to some degree today, from its start...
How does geospatial technology help lessen the footprint of humans on Earth?
Today is the 43rd Earth Day, providing an important touchpoint of our planet’s health. The widespread and non-partisan embrace of...
What are some of the parallels between the brain mapping initiative and mapping in general?
Last week, the Obama administration announced a plan to invest $100 million to begin mapping the brain. While much of...
Are we ready for the oncoming capacity to see the unseen?
Remote sensing has its foundation in observations that provide unique viewpoints to enable greater insight. The data explosion that is...
Headline News
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Infrared Sensors Used Along ‘Entire Border of the United States'
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Beyond Surveillance: Envisioning the Future Drone Workforce
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Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust
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Google, There's No Such Thing as 'The Perfect Map'
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How Google Made Maps Human, Savvy, and Monetizable
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A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southeast Asia
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Maps and the Geospatial Revolution MOOC
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Geophysicist Made Canada a World Leader in Remote Sensing
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Population Growth and Climate Change Explained by Hans Rosling
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Forty-eight Hours After Launch, Astrium Delivers First VNREDsat-1 Images
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The Revenge of Geography: Why Mexico Matters
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Pacing 88% Higher than Last Year
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Frederick J. Doyle, Photographic Mapping Specialist for NASA, Dies at 93
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Google Maps Updated with Improved Navigation, Earth Integration
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Google Recruits Divers, Developers for Underwater Street View
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Nepal Forest Fire Alert System Launched
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The Enduring Power of Maps: ‘You Find Where You Are On It’
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New Breed of Satellite will Monitor Water Quality of Wisconsin's Lakes
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Satellite Images Show 'Double Jeopardy' Wildfire Danger
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Experts Warn of Queensland Land Clearing Law Change
Toolbox
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Features
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Interviews
Spectral Calibration Unlocks Untold Knowledge
In order to make use of multispectral remote sensing, fieldwork called ground truthing is required to calibrate the spectral returns...
Spreading the Inspiration of Earth Observation
Research scientists continue to add to our understanding of Earth systems, thanks to the global earth observation capacity. Waleed Abdalati,...
TerraGo Rebrands and Raises Funds with a Focus on Location Intelligence Innovation
TerraGo has long offered one of the more interesting portable means of capturing map data through their GeoPDF offering. The...
Columns
Sensor Sensibility: Communications Design Considerations for Energy Efficiency
One of the key design constraints in the deployment of a sensor network is the optimization of power consumption and...
Making Sense of Geospatial Intelligence
For the past decade – especially in the wake of the devastating 9/11 attacks – the provision of real-time, actionable...
Speaking to Mapmakers About Our Social Machines
Good data, more data, more accurate data; these are not sufficient to solve our world's social and environmental problems. With...
Event Coverage
- The Geospatial World Forum Achieves Global Geospatial Objectives
- DigitalGlobe Focused on Creating a Time Machine for the World #GWF2013
- Countdown to GEO-North Exhibition Commences
- Mapping the Future as an Intelligent 3D Image #ILMF
- The GeoDesign Concept Goes Global
- Trimble Addresses Radical Change at 6th International User Conference
- URISA Marks 50th Anniversary with Strong Showing in Portland
- Esri Takes GIS Online to Open Our World
Infrared Sensors Used Along ‘Entire Border of the United States'
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- 22 May 2013 | By Government Security News | 24
In a procurement document in which it disclosed its plans to purchase additional GS-100 Passive Infrared Sensors for use along the U.S.-Mexican border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicated that the existing surveillance system that deploys these PIR sensors spans “the entire border of the United States.” That disclosure may constitute greater specificity about the widespread use of these infrared sensors, which can detect a pedestrian passing up to 100 feet away, than CBP has previously made public. Read More
Beyond Surveillance: Envisioning the Future Drone Workforce
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- 21 May 2013 | By Wired | 39
Airware doesn’t build drones; it builds in software and hardware the brains that fly the machines and a platform on which others can build. Think of Airware as an operating system with some hardware thrown in. Wired Business caught up with Downey to talk the commercial case for robotic planes, and whether we’re going to see pilotless planes before driverless cars. Read More
Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust
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- 21 May 2013 | By New York Times | 42
Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland. He struck an artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the surface every minute. Last year, Mr. Yost was coaxing just 300 gallons from the earth, and pumping up sand in order to do it. By harvest time, the grit had robbed him of $20,000 worth of pumps and any hope of returning to the bumper harvests of years past. Read More
More Articles...
- Google, There's No Such Thing as 'The Perfect Map'
- How Google Made Maps Human, Savvy, and Monetizable
- A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southeast Asia
- Maps and the Geospatial Revolution MOOC
- Geophysicist Made Canada a World Leader in Remote Sensing
- Population Growth and Climate Change Explained by Hans Rosling
- Forty-eight Hours After Launch, Astrium Delivers First VNREDsat-1 Images
- The Revenge of Geography: Why Mexico Matters
- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Pacing 88% Higher than Last Year
- Frederick J. Doyle, Photographic Mapping Specialist for NASA, Dies at 93
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