Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Effective spatial data management is essential to government administration at all levels from local to national. The City of Springfield and NASA Ames Research Center have begun collaboration on the technology and framework needed for sustainable spatial data management across all levels of government. This technology is open source and purposed to enhance the sharing
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Recently, a national CORS network, called CORS-TR network has been established by Istanbul Kultur University in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. The project was sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). The network was designed to fulfill several important tasks ranging from geodetic measurements, crustal deformation studies to modeling the atmosphere (troposphere
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
That GIS products and technologies will adopt 3D for visualization and analysis is a foregone conclusion. Possibly the biggest clue that geospatial 3D is going to be perceived in the future as just another flavor of the map interface is the simple one-click toggle between Google Maps and Google Earth that was introduced a couple
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
One of the biggest issues or discussion subject within the whole geographic information domain at the moment is the ever-changing demands for handling information in a better and more efficient way. The domain is expanding in all kinds of directions. What remains is geo-referenced information handled with a computer. We are seeing applications and demonstrators
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
In 2010, an innovative technology began assisting with the assessment of existing forest conditions as well as establishing a viable approach to long-term monitoring to support the management of natural forests in Indonesia. With the ability to rapidly collect highly accurate three-dimensional information of the forest from aircraft flying at three-quarters of a kilometer above
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Cicada Design Inc. recently won a 3D Award for Territory Management at the imagina conference in Monaco in the Urbanism and Landscape section. Their work for the Mount Pleasant Secondary Plan located near Toronto, Canada included restoration of a natural heritage system for the area including woodlands, wetlands, watercourses and valleys. This effort included a high
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Over the past decade, green building has gone from the fringe to the mainstream of the building industry. In many communities, buildings have “gone green” by adopting strategies such as integrative design, energy modeling, commissioning, enhanced energy efficiency, renewable materials, attention to daylight and views, water conservation measures, and on-site renewable energy generation. Use of
Friday, February 4th, 2011
Geological information is useful for many purposes in the mining industry and environmental monitoring – improvement programs. Technological innovation is now providing 3D and 4D geodata useful for visualisation. GeoVisionary, a visualisation 3D stereographic software produced by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and Virtalis company incorporates spatial data for geological mapping projects.
Monday, January 17th, 2011
We can easily imagine the whole picture, if a particular problem is sketched on a sheet of paper, or when the observed area is illustrated with a painting, in conjunction with understandable symbols. A map is therefore a visual representation of particular portion of space by means of symbolic delineation of properties and relations between
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), possibly the first scientist who devised a wireless world, looked at Science as a common service, a way to improve the lot of mankind, not just a means for enhancing wealth (less than ever, the wealth of the few), or to bend to compulsions of market economy. Geomatics and Geoinformation can give
