Dr. Oz and his crew were in Philadelphia giving 15 minute physicals and compiling the data from them for the mayor. Medigadget did an interview with Oz's medical unit clinical event director, Mike Hoaglin and caught this gem about GIS.
Medgadget: Are there any trends in medical technology or innovation (e.g. quantified self, big data analytics) that you and Dr. Oz are particularly excited about?
Hoaglin: In general, much of the data out there remain untapped and hold a treasure trove of information that can really transform the way we think about health. We’re particularly excited about the potential of decoding unstructured data through natural language processing technology, where we can pull critical data elements from prose writing. Incorporating GIS technology into disease surveillance will allow the earlier intervention in devasting health crises as tell-tale symptoms are reported earlier.
- Medgagadget
Kochi-based NGO, Centre for Advancement of Global Health (CAGH), is using satellite imagery and GIS to help eradicate mosqitos and the diseases they cause. Work like this has been done in Africa, but is now moving to India.
It aims to use satellite images to identify areas with high mosquito density and places where mosquito breeding is extensive. This will help health officials in fixing their target in their anti-mosquito drive to control diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya.
- Times of India
The original implementation of SUPRAMAP, a web-based application that synthesizes large, diverse datasets so that researchers can better understand the spread of infectious diseases across hosts and geography, was built with a single client that was tightly coupled to the server software. Now its gone open source.
"We now have decoupled the server from the original client to provide a modular web service for POY, (poyws.org) an open-source, freely available phylogenetic analysis program developed at AMNH. The web service can be used by other researchers with new ideas, data, and clients to create novel applications," said Ward Wheeler, curator-in-charge of scientific computing at AMNH and a coauthor with Janies and others on a recent article about the project in the journal Cladistics.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/23 at 03:00 AM |
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"The three homes of GIS could be said to be in the office, in the field and on the Internet."
- Dominic McNeillis, Solutions Marketing Manager, Public Sector, EMEA and India, Pitney Bowes Software writing in an article titled Making Geospatial Smarter for India in Information Week India
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/14 at 03:00 AM |
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Guyana
After 800 individuals and businesses applied for land use permits for an economic development zone in Guyana, the local paper reports its time to grow the GIS.
Meanwhile, [Houing and Water] Minister Ali said his Ministry is now focusing on expanding its Geographic Information System (GIS), which would serve as an effective management tool for the Central Housing and Planning Authority.
- CNC Guyana
India
I can't quite figure out who drove and who provided direction in this story of a car rally in India. I do like the inclusiveness, however.
Bhopal: With map in Braille in hands, visually challenged guided cars and drivers followed instructions. Denizens of Bhopal enjoyed this inspiring spectacle as Blind Challenge Car Rally 2012 was flagged off on Sunday.
- Daily Bhaskar
The Survey of India (SOI) has embarked upon a project for creating a national topographic database on a 1:10,000 scale for the entire country and aims to complete it during the 12th plan period, Surveyor General of India S Subba Rao said here today.
- IBN Live News
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/12 at 04:08 AM |
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Who is thinking spatially? Who has put government expenditures on a geographical information system (GIS) platform? In Canada, you can ask for anything and they’ll pull up a GIS map that will tell you, for instance, where the police stations are. We don’t have anything of the sort.
Indira Rajaraman is a fiscal economist and visiting professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. This quote from
Tehelka is part of her concerns about the Indian economy and support her her statement, "The world sees India as a country without a government."
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/09 at 05:12 AM |
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Professor Nagarjuna G from the Gnowledge lab of the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education and hist team are mapping nine villages in Raigad district of Maharashtra Statea in India and adding the data to OpenStreetMap The project grew out of a "one laptop per child" effort in the remote villiages, areas G and his colleague regularly visit. But how to gain access to GPS devices?
It was a year ago that a team led by set out to map these villages in Khalapur taluka of the district bordering Mumbai. With some basic engineering, transparent spectacle cases were turned into Global Positioning System (GPS) devices at a cost of Rs 6,000 each; the contraptions are cheaper than GPS trackers available in the market at Rs 25,000 upwards.
Teachers are developing wikipages about their villages and students are recording stories told by parents and grandparents to document their hometowns.
- India Express
The Mapping Montana lecture series will take place in Helena at 6:30 p.m. on four Thursdays in January and February. Topics run from the historical to the current.
DAT/EM Systems International donated 16 licenses of their SUMMIT EVOLUTION Professional digital stereoplotter to the Geomatics Department in the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) School of Engineering. Valued at over $300,000, this gift forms part of DAT/EM’s on-going initiative to sponsor higher education through software, software support, student training and consultation to the faculty.
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The Geospatial Information Research Center opened in Beijing in early December. It's a partnership between the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping and the U.K. University of Nottingham.
This new joint venture will promote innovation and technology transfer, leadership training, and staff and student exchange. It will explore funding opportunities and new project work, integrating resources to support long-term collaboration; and it will act as a world-leading incubation centre to realise beneficial combinations of research and development, production and commercialisation.
- press release
[Matthew] Huffine, 53, of Victorville [CA] has been teaching for 24 years, including nine years at Hesperia Junior High and the past 11 years at AAE, the Apple Valley charter school run by the Lewis Center for Educational Research. He has three children, ages 26, 22 and 14 — the youngest now an AAE student.
He started his career in the Forest Service and USGS and come to teaching later. Nows he's being honored as a local person who made a difference in 2011 and a great teacher who brings education beyond the walls. Among his students is one studying GIS at the University of Redlands. Lesson learned: we need GIS users to go into teaching to grow more GIS users.
- Victorville Daily Press
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/04 at 04:24 AM |
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