A reminder from the folks at the USGS that Landsat 8 data products are now available
Feature – Industry Pioneers: Alastair Jenkins, CEO GeoDigital International
At 43 years of age Alastair Jenkins thought it might be time to retire. After all he had been on quite a roll. In the previous fifteen years he had taken two companies public and had just sold one of them– Mosaic Mapping which had its roots in a garage in Hamilton, Ontario Canada to […]
Feature – LiDAR Supports Post Tornado Response in Mississippi
This article was originally published in LiDARnews, our sister publication devotes to all things LiDAR and Laser Scanning
5 Things on Friday #12 – GeoGeek Edition!
I realize it’s been some time so once again I’m pleased to share a fun and hopefully useful 5 Things on Friday.. enjoy and sorry about the delay! ;0) This edition gets a little geeky for our developer friends…
Making a Difference: Why MAPPS Conferences are a “Can’t Miss”
A special feature via our sister publication at LiDARnews… In today’s economy, partnering with other firms is crucial to business success. Understanding the impact new technologies, the workforce and government policies will have on the market and business is essential for geospatial firm decision makers. MAPPS conferences provide a forum unlike any other in the […]
GIS Application Story – Statistical GIS
Scenario GIS Center at Academia Sinica is in charge of planning and advancing GIS related basic researches and integration of resources, building cross-domain integration based on time and spatiality, and creating application environment for analysis and map metaphor. Moreover, this GIS center also has diverse groups of researchers who are responsible for further research aiming […]
Innovation and Integration from Hexagon Global Network at HxGNLive
Well, the dust is now settling on this year’s third annual HxGNLive event – think Hexagon AB Global Network). A number of themes and crucial take-aways are worthy a quick mention when recapping this record-setting event. Like many tech conferences, common themes and hot buzz topics that emerged included: The Cloud, the crowd, mobile, […]
Live Esri Map Shows Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Track, Schools, and Relief Locations
Esri’s interactive Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Public Information Map is available for the media to embed or share as part of ongoing tornado and severe weather coverage. View the tornado’s path and damage radius, schools in the area, and where the general public can dropoff relief supplies. You can also explore geotagged social media from Twitter, […]
GIS Applications Feature – TGOS Cloud
Scenario To provide citizens, governments, academic institutions in Taiwan to obtain the spatial data and web services and integrate and apply the data with ease, Ministry of the Interior, ROC (Taiwan) planned to promote “TGOS Cloud Development Plan.” The perspective of TGOS Cloud is to collect, store, and process the spatial data from government departments […]
Feature – GIS Enhances Safety + Efficiency at Dow Corning’s Midland Plant
The following article first appeared in The American Surveyor Magazine , April 2013