Mapping the floor of a retail store has been discussed for many years. I’ve discussed this before in an article as have others. Now comes word about Path Intelligence, a company that tracks the movement of consumers without having them wear any special device or equipment. The company’s FootPath technology consists of installing a small number of monitoring devices within stores that detects cell phone signals from shoppers and locate them to within 1-2 meters. The technology is being used to help retailers to determine staffing levels within stores or by mall developers to help them determine rental rates.
by Joe Francica on 07/01 at 07:06 AM |
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NASA awarded $3.29 million to a five-year project led by professor David Roy of South Dakaota State’s Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence. The project is in collaboration with USGS. The two key parts of the project:
(1) Process “Landsat observations every 16 days for all the contiguous United States and Alaska for a seven-year period and process those data so that they’re available to the user community over the Internet in a seamless manner.”
(2) “The project also sets out to fill in gaps in the data. Since 2003, Roy said, there has been a problem with the Landsat sensor so that it has been unable to record the data for about 22 percent of each image. In addition, an average of about 35 percent of the Landsat data is obscured by clouds.” The team will fill gaps using MODIS data.
- SDSU News
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/01 at 06:33 AM |
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Skyhook announced a hybrid location determination software solution that can tap into GPS, Wi-Fi, and cell towers to locate devices. What does that mean for knowing where you are anytime, anywhere? Is this step forward accompanied by an increased sense of location privacy comfort? Our editors explore the new technology and offer a suggestion for tackling the privacy bugaboo.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/01 at 01:00 AM |
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