Friday, November 20. 2009

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Jay Tilley, Senior VP, Sanborn

Adena Schutzberg interviewed Jay Tilley, Sanborn's Senior Vice President about why 3D data is important and how the industry is overcoming challenges such as cost, data fusion and the integration of real time data. Tilley also speaks to the future growth of 3D data development and its use in augmented reality applications. This interview is part of a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing, 3D, 3D Perspective, Hallway Conversations at 17:33 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, November 10. 2009

Celebrity Address/Aerial Website Resource for Burglars?

celebrityaddressaerial.com is about two years old. It offered its addresses and images for free for a while, but now charges $9.99/month for what its webmaster calls entertainment.

Last Friday, a search warrant unsealed in Las Vegas points to the site as a resource for thieves. Also used: TMZ.com and Google Maps. The ring would use the sites "to gain intelligence on" celebrity properties and to search for a "mode of entry," LAPD investigators said.

- LA Times

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing at 08:44 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Monday, November 9. 2009

Schmidt: Google Will Not Publish Real Time Satellite Imagery

Just in case you were wondering:

Schmidt said Google only publishes satellite data that is a month old, indicating that Google would consider it creepy to publish real-time satellite data.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing, Real-Time/Dynamic Data at 06:00 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) |

Thursday, October 29. 2009

"AmericaView" Bill Passes House

The House passed the bill (2489, "To authorize a national cooperative geospatial imagery program through the United States Geological Survey to promote use of remote sensing data.") that would provide $10 million a year for a national grant program to make geospatial imagery more available and usable. The funds would go to the Dept of Interior and be distributed until 2019.

- FCW

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing at 07:56 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0) |

Friday, October 23. 2009

Podcast: Press Conference of Vice Admiral Robert Murrett at the #GEOINT Symposium 2009

This podcast is a recording of a press conference by Vice Admiral Robert Murrett, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at the GEOINT Symposium 2009 on October 21, 2009 in San Antonio. Murrett discusses the new NGA charter, the situation with aiding and supporting both domestic and military missions and other issues related to the agency's work.

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Posted by Joe Francica in Remote Sensing, Location Intelligence, Special Topics Podcast, GEOINT 09 at 14:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, October 21. 2009

Liquid Galaxy: An Immersive, Multi-screen Version of Google Earth

If you had six, 42" flat screen monitors what would you do? If you are unsure, you may want to configure something like Liquid Galaxy, Google's immersive environment that takes Google Earth from impressive website application to simulation environment. Stepping in side a small booth at the GEOINT Symposium, the user is surrounded by flat screens, and a small podium mounted with the SpaceNavigator joystick from 3DConnexion. Yes, it's very cool, and everyone should have one for their game room (see below and click for larger image).

Posted by Joe Francica in Remote Sensing, Google Earth, GEOINT 09 at 21:04 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |