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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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
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Archaeologists Map Lost Medieval Suffolk Town of Dunwich Under the Sea
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Climate Change 'Will Make Hundreds of Millions Homeless'
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Industry to Pay for Oilsands Monitoring Under New Law
Toolbox
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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
Google, There's No Such Thing as 'The Perfect Map'
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- 20 May 2013 | By The Guardian | 50
Throughout history, mapmakers have promised "perfect" world maps that give us what we want, when and where we want it. The question is: what is it that we really want, and how does a map help us get it? World maps are always made with the subjective and ideological beliefs and prejudices of their makers. What they usually do is give us security, by confirming where we are in the world. For the Greek geographer Ptolemy, a perfect world map showed the Mediterranean at its centre, because anywhere beyond it was "barbaric", and in contrast to Greek culture, "uncivilised". Read More
How Google Made Maps Human, Savvy, and Monetizable
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- 20 May 2013 | By Fast Company | 49
Bernhard Seefeld, a product director for Maps, and Jonah Jones, user experience director for Maps, said in an interview with Fast Company that the inspiration was the kind of map you might draw for a friend if they asked you to, say, map out the best restaurants in a city. So that's what the Maps team did: They drew each other physical maps, with points of interest noted, of their favorite and hometown areas. "Every map should look as if it had been drawn and designed specifically for you," Seefeld says. "You could think of the search box as a title, more than a keyword." Read More
A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southeast Asia
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- 20 May 2013 | By Yale Environment 360 | 79
The fate of the forests around Khe Sanh exemplifies what is happening today in Vietnam and the greater Mekong region, which also includes Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Although some large blocks of forest remain intact, the pace of deforestation is dizzying, threatening the region’s remarkable biodiversity, which includes more than 1,700 species discovered in the last 15 years alone. Many of the forests in Vietnam have been cut down for the furniture export market and the trees replaced by coffee bushes; in less than 10 years, Vietnam has gone from zero to number two in global coffee production. So much forest has been cleared to feed the growing number of sawmills that loggers have moved across the borders into neighboring Laos and Cambodia, where they are illegally razing forests there. Read More
More Articles...
- 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
- Google Maps Updated with Improved Navigation, Earth Integration
- Google Recruits Divers, Developers for Underwater Street View
- Nepal Forest Fire Alert System Launched
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