Perspectives
Should the geospatial industry improve their location privacy self-policing?
Our collective notion of privacy, whether via mobile or online interactions, took a giant hit a few weeks ago with...
Must map monetization mean guiding rather than enabling exploration?
The latest reveal of Google Maps takes a more proactive approach to creating maps around customer queries for a ‘personalized’...
What role does modeling and simulation play in disaster response?
GIS has proven itself time and again as an integral tool in planning and responding to disasters, and we’ve come...
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 photogrammetry, and their implications?
The legacy of film imagery spans just 150 years, although it still continues to some degree today, from its start...
Headline News
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Building a New Google Earth... for Firefighters
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Beidou Experienced Past Interference
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Earth Observation Startup Skybox Promises to Upend Industries
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Intelligence Community Seeks Input on Geospatial Model Change
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Mapping All The Security Cameras That Are Watching You
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How Smart Farming is Gaining a Foothold
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Linking Agriculture and Biodiversity Can Help Feed the Planet
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The Smart Citizen Kit Open Environmental Monitoring Platform
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Ottawa, Alberta Ink Deal on How Oilsands Monitoring Agency will be Run
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Snow Sensing Helps Predict Water Shortages
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Mapping The Money: FEMA Irene Aid Tops $185 Million
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11 Influential Companies that Bought Spy-invested Startups
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US Researchers Explore Deep Caribbean Reefs
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DigitalGlobe Gets Tax Incentives for 505 New Jobs
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Yosemite's Iconic El Capitan Mapped in High-Res 3-D
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Drones in Science: Fly, and Bring Me Data
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The Key to Delivering GIS to Non-GIS Users
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Cuts to FEMA's Flood Plane Mapping Program Could Impact Accuracy of Flood Insurance Maps
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Peering Into the North Korean Economy Via Satellite
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Satellite Image Tells Twisted Tale of the Deadly Oklahoma Tornado
Toolbox
- Trimble Announces New TerraFlex Software and Cloud Services for GIS Applications
- PCI Geomatics Releases Service Pack 2 for Geomatica 2013
- Supergeo to Release SuperGIS Server 3.1a Advanced Edition
- Trimble Releases its Next Generation Unmanned Aircraft System for Photogrammetric Aerial Mapping
- Raven Introduces New Viper 4 Field Computer
Features
Top Stories
Interviews
Intergraph to Combine Sensors and Software for Solution Advantage
Intergraph has placed a greater importance on software platform development under the leadership of Hexagon, and this software from Intergraph...
The Group on Earth Observations Transitions to Greater Outreach
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is working to build the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) by coordinating...
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...
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
- Hexagon Leads with Solutions that Integrate Sensors and Software
- 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
Building a New Google Earth... for Firefighters
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- 19 June 2013 | By Aspen Public Radio | 23
For firefighters, each new blaze presents different challenges. Where to get water... the boundaries between private and public property.. access roads and other details can be crucial to getting control of a fire. To make that easier, the Forest Service and other agencies are building their own Google Earth program. Read More
Beidou Experienced Past Interference
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- 19 June 2013 | By China Daily | 18
A Beidou systems satellite is now believed to have experienced past interference from a complex electromagnetic environment, which cut off signal transmissions in 2007, People's Daily reported. Since 1994, Beidou has grown into a Chinese-made satellite navigation system consisting of 14 satellites, and covering the Asia-Pacific area as of late 2012. The further development of its navigation system will see the planet covered by 2020 with at least 16 new satellites joining the group. Read More
Earth Observation Startup Skybox Promises to Upend Industries
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- 18 June 2013 | By Wired | 26
A Silicon Valley startup named Skybox is launching a fleet of imaging satellites that are cheap, small, and ultra-efficient. Their up-to-the-minute snapshots of the planet will give us data that could upend industries, transform economies—even predict the future. Read More
More Articles...
- Intelligence Community Seeks Input on Geospatial Model Change
- Mapping All The Security Cameras That Are Watching You
- How Smart Farming is Gaining a Foothold
- Linking Agriculture and Biodiversity Can Help Feed the Planet
- The Smart Citizen Kit Open Environmental Monitoring Platform
- Ottawa, Alberta Ink Deal on How Oilsands Monitoring Agency will be Run
- Snow Sensing Helps Predict Water Shortages
- Mapping The Money: FEMA Irene Aid Tops $185 Million
- 11 Influential Companies that Bought Spy-invested Startups
- US Researchers Explore Deep Caribbean Reefs