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Volume 3 / Issue 5/ February 5, 2009
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"How many surveyors, GIS professionals or remote sensing
specialists would raise their hand in an audience if asked, “do you
consider yourself to be a designer?” I’m guessing few, but I would
immediately query, “why not?”"
Jeff Thurston - Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia
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Electric utilities face serious challenges. As normal demand continues
to rise, the transportation sector looks to electricity to answer fuel
concerns. Should a significant
increase in the use of electricity for transportation materialize as it
likely will, demands and electric energy usage will soar. Meanwhile,
the existing electric infrastructure continues to age.
Some
50,000 islands and thousands of narrow fjords cut into the
mountainous countryside along Norway’s jagged coastline.
Diesel-fueled ferries have transported people and goods between the
islands and across the fjords for decades, but a new fleet of natural
gas-powered ferries is now improving mobility without emitting
noxious fumes that pollute the marine environment.
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| TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK |
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| Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week |
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 Students and teachers are constantly searching for new and useful
geographical information system (GIS) educational materials. While many
GIS concepts are universal and apply around the world, instructional
material that contains localised content is in greater demand - people
learn more quickly and identify with educational material they are
familiar with. GIS for A-level Geography is written to not only provide
basic GIS concepts, but it also includes a series of applications built
around data originating from the British Isles. |
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 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long been a user of
geospatial technology, and they’ve created many web-based applications
to improve communication with constituents. A new agency-wide
initiative for better information management and transparency in now
underway, and there are implications for greater integration of sensor
and geospatial systems to aid this effort. V1 Editor Matt Ball spoke
with Jerry Johnston, the agency’s geospatial information officer (GIO),
about his vision for greater GIS use at the agency.
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 Ecology and Environment, Inc. is a publicly traded company founded in
1970 that has been working on sustainability initiatives, and applying
GIS technology to these problems, for decades. V1 Editor Matt Ball
spoke with Tony Gale, principal consultant, about the company’s use of
GIS and geospatially enabled software-as-a-service applications to
tackle broad problems, and provide measurable metrics, for
sustainability problems.
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First Global Summit On Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 2008 , Feb. 7-9, Raipur, India
International Workshop of Experts on Global Environmental Change , Feb. 9-11, Pretoria, South Africa
Workshop on High-Impact Weather Predictability and Information System for Africa , Feb 9-12, Trieste, Italy
The Arabian World Construction Summit , Feb. 9-11, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Map World Forum , Feb. 10-13, Hyderabad, India
ESRI Federal User Conference (FedUC) , Feb. 18-20, Washington, DC
3D-ARCH'2009 , Feb. 25-28, Trente, Italy
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| TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK |
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| VECTOR ONE |
SPATIAL SUSTAIN |
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By Steven Teutsch, R. Elliott Churchill
Brings together the theoretical and practical information crucial to
'planning, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating
surveillance information in the context of contemporary society and
public health practice.
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By Michael Bertolotto, Cyril Ray, Xiang Li
The papers span a wide area including but not limited to Geographical search
engines, Web services, 2D and 3D
information visualization, Exploratory cartography and interfaces, Security and usability, Cyber-geography, Semantic geo-spatial web, Ubiquitous GIS, as well as Wayfinding and navigation.
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By Christopher Dickey
Dickey examines the history of terrorism in the city, but poses the
thorny question of surveillance vs. civil liberties (e.g., helicopters
whose cameras can look directly into specific apartments) since the
2001 World Trade Center tragedy and the Madrid and London bombings.
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