Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Urban planning can achieve many gains through closer connection to the remote sensing community and use of modern remote sensing technologies. While some projects, such as the European Urban Atlas extensively use remotely sensed data, the gradual commercialization of satellite or airborne earth observation since the 1970s and its prospects on performance and effectiveness have
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
The Europe Union has been actively engaged in spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for many years. Author Ian Masser wrote about the earliest efforts in the first edition of this book. Since that time the EU INSPIRE Directive has come into law and is being implemented across Member states. This book updates the previous work and
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
We are witnessing what may be one of the worst man-made environmental disasters of all time. As devastating as Chernobyl and even more catastrophic than the Exxon Valdez, the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico increasingly appears to be the result of deliberate decisions to cut cost, and save time.
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
In the last 20 years many western ideas have been adopted in Poland, among them the idea of sustainability. However, the idea is often misunderstood, because the English word “sustainable development” is difficult to translate into Polish; the most common translation actually means „balanced development”. In spite of that, „sustainable development” (balanced development?) has become
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Today, GIS is becoming more part of business processes, and the consequence of this change is that there are many more users with much higher requirements regarding the availability of GIS services. This column describes the path from a workgroup to an enterprise GIS.
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Earlier in the month I was asked to present at the British Cartographic Society conference on the issues of accurately representing “place” in a 3D model. The concept of ‘place’ (as opposed to simply ‘location’) has been gaining prominence in recent years, with the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) 2009 conference focusing on place as
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Water supply continues to be a pressing concern in developing countries around the globe. The World Health Organization maintains that 884 million people—one of every eight people on the planet—do not have access to safe water, and that 2.5 billion people—two-fifths of the world’s population—do not have access to adequate sanitation. Polluted water is estimated
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Visualization of three-dimensional spatial data is a challenging task which can be efficiently solved using various kinds of oblique views. Oblique views are common in 3D computer graphics: for instance, a perspective view is an intuitive and illustrative way of presenting, for example, architectural or land use plans. Perspective has also been used for years
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The 4th annual Central Asia GIS Conference at the Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience (http://www.aca-giscience.org/) was opened on May 27 by Rector Abdykalykov from the Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. He was assisted by the Austrian ambassador to Central Asia, HE Ursula Fahringer and the representative of the
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Looking at the world through spatial eyes is the smart way to see into the future. Spatial connections are everywhere, in everything we do and plan – we just need to know how and where to look for them.
