Featured News

Harvard Researchers Publish Satellite Imagery-Based History of Conflict in Sudan

ByHarvard Humanitarian Initiative |
22 May 2013 | 178

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Signal Program on Human Security and Technology (Signal Program) today released an unprecedented study of the ongoing conflict in Sudan based entirely on a fusion of archival satellite imagery and data in the public domain, most often the statements of the armed actors themselves. Sudan: Anatomy of...

Indonesia and Korea Establish Cooperative Mapping Effort for the North Coast of Java

ByBadan Informasi Geospasial |
22 May 2013 | 158

The northern coast of Java is important for the Indonesian people, with the north coast road forming the lifeblood of transportation on the island. Improved road infrastructure and growing manufacturing centers along the coast, are making the region the region an important driver for the national economy. Manufacturing industries...

New Approach to Improve the Integration of Earth Observation Data

ByMatt Ball |
21 May 2013 | 303

One of the fundamental challenges in the 21st Century is to achieve a greater understanding of the complex interactions between environment and human society. To meet this challenge, the social and environmental sciences need to be better integrated, to move from disciplinary to multidisciplinary research and close the gap between...

BAE Systems to Provide Advanced Data Management Capabilities to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

ByBAE Systems |
21 May 2013 | 241

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded BAE Systems the iSToRE XP contract to provide advanced data management capabilities in support of National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) sites and users. The software solution is built on BAE Systems’ commercial product, GXP Xplorer, which enables analysts to easily access their local data...

Location Forum Releases Groundbreaking Data Privacy Guidelines

ByThe Location Forum |
21 May 2013 | 145

The Location Forum’s Privacy Council released the public version of their Location Data Privacy: Guidelines, Assessment Recommendations today. These groundbreaking Guidelines represent the first industry created set of best practices for improving how location data is gathered, used and managed along with a ‘scorecard’ for quantitatively measuring ...

Perspectives

What does Google’s Timelapse effort say about the geospatial big data challenge?

10 May 2013 | 2479

Google gave the world a gift yesterday with the release of the global timelapse viewer (http://earthengine.google.org/#intro) that aggregates Landsat imagery...

What are some of the disruptions of digital imagery, and their implications?

30 April 2013 | 523

The legacy of film imagery spans just 150 years, although it still continues to some degree today, from its start...

How does geospatial technology help lessen the footprint of humans on Earth?

22 April 2013 | 647

Today is the 43rd Earth Day, providing an important touchpoint of our planet’s health. The widespread and non-partisan embrace of...

What are some of the parallels between the brain mapping initiative and mapping in general?

09 April 2013 | 812

Last week, the Obama administration announced a plan to invest $100 million to begin mapping the brain. While much of...

Are we ready for the oncoming capacity to see the unseen?

26 March 2013 | 1198

Remote sensing has its foundation in observations that provide unique viewpoints to enable greater insight. The data explosion that is...

Features

Sensing the Forest for Fuel, Fire and Recovery

Using Geospatial Solutions for Effective Environmental Monitoring

What and Where: The Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS

Interviews

Spectral Calibration Unlocks Untold Knowledge

Spectral Calibration Unlocks Untold Knowledge

07 May 2013 | 479

In order to make use of multispectral remote sensing, fieldwork called ground truthing is required to calibrate the spectral returns...

Spreading the Inspiration of Earth Observation

Spreading the Inspiration of Earth Observation

08 April 2013 | 671

Research scientists continue to add to our understanding of Earth systems, thanks to the global earth observation capacity. Waleed Abdalati,...

TerraGo Rebrands and Raises Funds with a Focus on Location Intelligence Innovation

TerraGo Rebrands and Raises Funds with a Focus on Location Intelligence Innovation

25 March 2013 | 708

TerraGo has long offered one of the more interesting portable means of capturing map data through their GeoPDF offering. The...

Columns

Sensor Sensibility: Communications Design Considerations for Energy Efficiency

Sensor Sensibility: Communications Design Considerations for Energy Efficiency

ByErik Shepard |
15 April 2013 | 574

One of the key design constraints in the deployment of a sensor network is the optimization of power consumption and...

Making Sense of Geospatial Intelligence

Making Sense of Geospatial Intelligence

ByDerek Ireson |
08 January 2013 | 1815

For the past decade – especially in the wake of the devastating 9/11 attacks – the provision of real-time, actionable...

Speaking to Mapmakers About Our Social Machines

Speaking to Mapmakers About Our Social Machines

ByBruce Joffe |
06 December 2012 | 1925

Good data, more data, more accurate data; these are not sufficient to solve our world's social and environmental problems. With...

Tag Cloud