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RapidEye Kicks off 2013 North American Agricultural Imaging Campaign

ByRapidEye |
13 May 2013 | 373

RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of five satellites, announced today that its 2013 North American Ag Imaging Campaign will begin May 15th. This is the second year for the campaign, which will task 2.9 million square kilometers covering most major agricultural...

White House Launches a MATCH Search Engine to Correlate Climate and Health

ByThe White House |
10 May 2013 | 288

The interagency US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) launched a new online tool that promises to accelerate research relating to climate change and human health—the Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (http://match.globalchange.gov/), or “MATCH.”

AAM Launches Shallow Water Survey Practice

ByAAM |
10 May 2013 | 267

Leading geospatial services company AAM has today announced the launch of a dedicated Shallow Water Survey Team, with world-renowned hydrographic surveying expert Andy Waddington appointed to lead the team.

New Public Application of Landsat Images Released

ByNASA |
10 May 2013 | 428

Google released more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space Thursday compiled into an interactive time-lapse experience. Working with data from the Landsat Program managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, the images display an historical perspective on changes to Earth's surface over time.

Google Provides a Picture of Earth through Time

ByGoogle |
09 May 2013 | 511

Today, Google makes it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time. Working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME, we're releasing more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space,...

Perspectives

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

10 May 2013 | 1563

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 | 481

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 | 603

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 | 772

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 | 1153

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 | 360

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 | 608

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 | 667

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 | 524

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 | 1750

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 | 1864

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

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