PERSPECTIVES
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What will promote model-based digital realities from nice-to-have to need-to-have?
This may be a perennial question, as certainly the rise and promise of universal 3D geovisualization keeps coming in waves that are similar to the promise of location-based services. With each wave, we all ride the crest, and perhaps a few move toward the ongoing capture and visualization of our geographies beyond just a project scope. It's an evolution that is plagued by fits and starts, with declarations of breakout years continuing to fall a bit short of reality.
- Matt Ball, editor, Americas and Asia/Pacific
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FEATURES
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HABITATS – Towards the Interoperability through Social Validation
The HABITATS project (Social Validation of INSPIRE Annex III Data Structures in EU HABITATS) focuses on adoption of the INSPIRE standards through a participatory process to design and validate data, metadata and services specifications with citizens and businesses. According to the HABITATS user-driven approach to standardisation, the full impact of the results is sparked off by the pilot service scenarios and the ability to attract new participants to the communities of adoption.
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TOP 5 LINKS OF THE WEEK
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INTERVIEWS
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Exelis VIS Continues to Offer Robust and Flexible Imagery Solutions Under New Name and Leadership
 ITT Corporation has spun off its three business units into three standalone, publicly traded companies. ITT Defense & Information Solutions became Exelis, Inc. when this change officially took place on October 31 of this past year. As a part of the change, ITT Visual Information Solutions became Exelis Visual Information Solutions (VIS). With this new organization, Richard Cooke was promoted from president of ITT VIS in Boulder, Colorado to lead a larger business within Exelis that oversees the Exelis VIS business. Exelis VIS promoted from within to appoint Jaye Lampe, a 14-year company veteran, as president. V1 editor Matt Ball recently spoke with Lampe about the transition, and the company’s ongoing technology approach within the imagery analysis and image delivery segments.
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C-NAV Delivers Precise GNSS Performance
 C-NAV is an international surveying and mapping firm that aims to provide high-accuracy GNSS positioning solutions to the offshore and hydrographic surveying community. The company is involved in seismic exploration, land surveying and flood mapping, geotechnical engineering and a host of other applications. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston interviewed Ed Danson of C&C Technologies’ C-Nav Division to learn more about the company.
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TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
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BOOK REVIEW
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Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation
 Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation is the 7th edition of a popular cartographic reference for professional and student use. This edition includes a focus upon the interpretation of maps and the information within them. Map accuracy and learning how to read maps is also included. The ability to read and understand what a map is expressing and representing helps to formulate questions, causing readers to wonder, query, imagine, understand and to investigate how and why the map data exists. |
EVENT COVERAGE
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The International Lidar Mapping Forum Tracks Progress in Denver
 The 12th International Lidar Mapping Forum drew a record attendance of more than 750 attendees to their annual gathering last week in Denver. The event took place from Jan.23-25 at the downtown Hyatt Regency. The busy program schedule was well balanced by booths representing 60 companies. The program placed both an emphasis on research and innovation as well as application, with a mix of process oriented sessions, the strategies and hurdles of collection, and innovative LIDAR applications.
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TOP STORIES
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HEADLINES
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A Satellite to Feed the World?
Costa Rica - Land Registry Overhaul Advances
African Land Grabs Hinder Sustainable Development
Deloitte Tech Trends 2012 Includes Geospatial
MoD Awards Lockheed Martin Geospatial Intelligence Contract |
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EVENTS
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Association of American Geographers, Feb. 23-28, New York, New York
GeoNext Conference, Feb. 29, Sydney, Australia
GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference, March 12-15, San Antonio, Texas
Verge - Converging Energy, Information, Buildings and Transportation - March 14-16, Washington, D.C.
Planet Under Pressure, March 26-29, London, UK
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Visualizing Earth Science (2009)
By Zeeya Merali and Brian J. Skinner
This accessible format, coupled with the assumption that students have little knowledge of earth science, allows students to navigate through the material with greater ease – the goal being to help them understand the world around them and interpret what they see in a meaningful, accurate and exciting way.
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By Gary Sherman, Tyler Mitchell
This book provides a foundational level of knowledge for understanding GIS and the open source desktop mapping applications that are available for use, for free, today.
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The Sympathy of Things (2012)
By Lars Spuybroek
The author argues that we must "undo" the twentieth century--the age in which the eighteenth-century ideal of the Sublime (the aspiration towards overwhelming awe) became a technological reality.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
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