PERSPECTIVES
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What value does a city gain by adopting a sensored infrastructure approach?
We’ve long used sensors to track performance of networks, but the smart city that is comprised of a network of networks that inform and report on infrastructure is a relatively new concept that is taking hold. We’re seeing whole cities built around the concept of constant monitoring and feedback, with central control for increased efficiency. With this next wave of system of system integration, there may well rise a distinct “have” and “have not” dichotomy.
- 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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Jeff's Link
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- EWN - Australian Early Warning Network
- BBC - spying on Europe's farms with satellites
- AUVSI - assoc. for unmanned vehicle systems international
- Animation - national migration patterns in Norway
- JGCRI - Joint Global Change Research Institute
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INTERVIEWS
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Nexteq Navigation Advances Global Precise Point Positioning
 Nexteq Navigation is a leading developer of Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technology. This GNSS approach aims to provide high-accuracy positioning through the use of a single receiver involving satellite derived global corrections. The company's 'Freedom' technology provides improved results, with a 50% increase in accuracy - using internet communicated corrections in real-time. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston interviewed Dr. Yang Gao, CEO of Nexteq Navigation Corporation in Calgary, Canada recently.
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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 techimagina 2012 Monaco: Bentley Extends 3D Integration
nology approach within the imagery analysis and image delivery segments.
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TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
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BOOK REVIEW
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Strategic Spatial Projects: Catalysts for Change
 Strategic Spatial Projects: Catalysts for Change is focused upon the transformative nature of strategic spatial change for urban planning. The book weaves between design and strategic potential, with a goal of achieving sustainable systems in urban planning. The material asserts that technological plannig alone is not enough, nor urban planning based on competitive business outcomes. Instead, it suggests that spatial quality in terms of how urban areas function is the central force of success. Toward this end, socio-economic benefits must emerge through strategic planning efforts - and these need to take significant new ways of thinking. |
EVENT COVERAGE
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imagina 2012 Monaco: 3D Visualization, Architecture & Urbanism
 imagina 2012 - The European 3D Simulation and Virtual Technology Event was held in Monaco February 7-9, 2012. This annual event brings together pioneering indivudals and organisations developing a wide range of 3D related products in the areas of design, processing, diagnostics, decision making, consultation, demonstration and communication. Architecture, urbanism and landscape design are key roles in the conference, and several workshops in a 'Industry and Virtual Technologies' forum were held. This year, 3D & Augmentaiton Reality for Mobility was also a popular theme.
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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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Creating Nautical Maps with Open Data
Precautions to Save Wetlands' Biodiversity Stressed
'Electronic Eyes' Monitor Tuna Fishing in Atlantic Ocean
Soil Erosion Increasing Global Warming Threat: UNEP
Seabird Conservation Helped by Computer Tracking Model |
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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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Remote Sensing Image Processing (2011)
By Gustavo Camps-Valls
Remote sensing image processing is nowadays a mature research area, and the techniques developed in the field allow many real-life applications with great societal value. For instance, urban monitoring, fire detection or flood prediction can have a great impact on economical and environmental issues.
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By Stephen M. Ervin
Digital landscape models, whether made for purposes of ‘visual inference’, or for simulating and understanding behavior or other invisible aspects of the landscape, require abstractions and simplifications.
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Social Entrepreneurship (2010)
By David Bornstein and Susan Davis
In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems.
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