Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Jeff Thurston — ” CAD, GIS and GPS are strategic tools for building, operating and maintaining sustainable cities and rural areas and quantifying the many sustainable and operating processes in them. They support our decision making needs, guide our policy development and assist to identify and calculate what we understand and how we understand it.”
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Jeff Thurston — "Building upon the primary functions of geographic information systems (GIS) is the key to unlocking the door toward greater spatial process modeling and geo-processing. We have barely entered this phase of development and there is immense opportunity ahead. Immediate needs that come to mind for furthering this goal include : building on the
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Jeff Thurston — “Business has a primary role in the development of Global Spatial Data Infrastructure. It brings innovative technology to the table, an understanding of spatial information processing and distribution as well as the willingness and passion to risk and invest. All of these are tempered with a genuine concern to solve problems ranging
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Jeff Thurston — "Mobile mapping is all about convergence. It not only brings together technologies, field solutions are increasingly designed to connect-the-dots between professionals all along the spatial information chain. Furthermore, mobile technologies shorten the distance between the office and the field with field personnel directly linked to data warehouses." Matt Ball — "When we
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Jeff Thurston — “Sustainability and environment issues are centrally connected to healthy living on our planet and ‘green’ technologies play an integral role. Geospatial technologies are uniquely positioned to support this role because they act as the glue which binds the understanding of environmental processes to the decision making systems driving our economy.” Matt Ball
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Jeff Thurston — ” It is vitally important that we not lose track of the fact that human markup on imagery or maps, is intelligence of the highest quality and most useful. This is why maps, in the truest sense, are the highest forms of geospatial intelligence. They contain both GEOINT derived information and, as
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Jeff Thurston — "A multi-dimensional approach involving numerous energy sources, changed business processes and responsibilities, initiatives in city living and infrastructure and a need to to continuously assess, monitor and communicate sustainability factors will cause electrical utilities to connect more closely with the geotechnology industry. The future is bright." Matt Ball — "Like many industries,
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Jeff Thurston — “Maps are not only hard copy records, full of personal intuitions, text, marking and interpretation, but, they are also a mode of communication – both from the creator to the user, and through discovery and analysis.” Matt Ball — “The time-tested method for communicating map data is paper, yet the digital advantage offers
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Jeff Thurston — “For me, maps are representations of processes. They provide information and clues not only about what is happening and where, but those factors involved in their occurrence.” Matt Ball — “A map is a powerful tool, and the age of digital representation of map data coupled with handheld navigation and tracking devices,
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Jeff Thurston — “If we take 10 geospatial professionals and ask them to define geospatial analysis, I would be willing to bet 10 Euro that we would get at least 5 different answers. It is difficult for many to define.” Matt Ball — “Analysis certainly takes place with all GIS systems, and with most GIS
