A team of scientists and environmentalists Friday is set to announce a sweeping new citizen-science effort that aims to enlist thousands of members of the public -- armed with cellphones and digital cameras -- to build a vast new catalog of the world's redwoods.
The project, spearheaded by Save the Redwoods League in San Francisco and dubbed "Redwood Watch," will create a detailed map showing where individual redwoods live so that over the next century, as the climate continues to warm, scientists can track how the trees react and how their range shifts.
- Mercury News
PhillyTreeMap.org is a crowd-sourced way to maintain geographic data on urban forest
- @rcheetham
Company using social media to help fight bike thefts:... http://fb.me/AlFgmfmi
Kryptonite is offering tag kits to track stolen bikes. Ideally the public can scan a bike with a smartphone to report it looking suspicious.
- @PanMassChallenge
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/29 at 10:46 AM |
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MSNBC publishes NOAA time lapse visualization.
NYTimes interactive maps.
MapTD has an interactive, categorized map of storms.
WSJ tornado landing map.
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/29 at 03:30 AM |
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USGS is excited to report both the workshop (USGS GIS Workshop) and The National Map User Conference have filled to capacity. The event is May 10-13 in Denver, Colorado. Follow event related tweets at #tmnuc on Twitter or follow The National Map @usgstmn.
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/29 at 03:00 AM |
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The U.S. government has closed 39 computer data centers and plans to shut down 98 more by the end of the year, the federal government’s top technology officer said today.
The Obama administration plans to consolidate 137 facilities in all, or 325,000 square feet (30,193 square meters) of space that is filled with servers, networks, routers and switches, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said at a White House event. The meeting was held to promote administration efforts to better manage the government’s $80 billion information technology budget.
And, systems valued at $20 billion are on their way to the cloud. The hope is that startups will be able to provide some of that work alongside Google, Amazon and Microsoft. An open competition will launch May 10 for $2.5 billion in cloud contracts to serve federal agencies.
- Bloomberg
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/28 at 11:43 AM |
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Turkey
Archaeologists in Turkey are making a detailed survey of the famous World War One battle of Gallipoli. Using period military maps and GPS technology, they're mapping the old trenches and redoubts used by both sides.
- Gadling.com
Thailand
The Thai government has laid down plans to launch the country’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) portal by 2012 which will serve as the national gateway for spatial information and pave the way towards “Spatially Enabling” Thailand.
- Future Gov
The Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) forest department in collaboration with the Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing today launched a customised software for efficient forest management. ...
The software, Aranya — a spatial decision support system — is envisaged to help forest department managers in routine activities and decision-making process.
This is one of its kind of system, based on the use of geographical information system (GIS) data for monitoring and modelling the forest department.
It's open source.
- The Telegraph
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/28 at 03:00 AM |
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archeology,
forestry,
gallipoli,
gps,
history,
india,
nsdi,
open source,
state and local government,
thailand,
turkey
