The USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge, aka CLICK, will shut down its bulletin board May 9 due to securty mandates from the Deparment of Interior. You might remember CLICK had a near brush with death last fall (APB coverage).
- via LiDAR News
TerraServer, that great Microsoft Research Project to show off the power of SQL Server, has been shut down since its been overshadowed by Microsoft and other mapping services. As the annuncement makes clear, this service did a lot to move online mapping ahead:
The site was originally launched as Microsoft TerraServer on June 22, 1998 as a demonstration of the scalability of Microsoft SQL Server database product. At the time, it was the first web site to successfully host high resolution satellite and aerial data. Later we added USGS topographic maps (DRGs) and the USGS Urban Area
natural color imagery. In addition to imagery, Microsoft Research Maps pioneered the use of SOAP/XML to build a mapping web service and deployed an OpenGIS compliant mapping service.
I recall seeing it used via WMS in an open source implementation way back in my GIS Monitor days. And, I recall the first time I heard Microsoft invite local govenrments to host their imagery on its site. We've come a long way.
- Microsoft Research Maps via @howardbutler
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/01 at 12:43 PM |
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Zebra Imaging is launching the 3D Geospatial Challenge "to encourage participants from the GIS community to use Zebra Imaging's software tools and print services to portray their GIS data using holographic technology."
Participants in the Zebra Imaging 3D Geospatial Challenge will compete by framing their 3D data set using Zebra Imaging's ZScape(TM) Preview or ZScape(TM) Exporter software.
http://store.zebraimaging.com/download.aspx
Each entry will be reviewed by a panel of Zebra Imaging judges for the following:
Creativity
Design efficiency
Technical complexity
Usefulness of application
Zebra Imaging will select three winners from the following industries: Public Safety, Planning, and Defense.
Winners of the challenge will receive a 24" x 24" 3D holographic print of their data and an illumination stand. The winning concepts will be displayed at the Zebra Imaging Booth at the Esri International User Conference the week of July 23, 2012 in San Diego, CA.
For more information regarding the challenge:
http://www.zebraimaging.com/challenge
- press release
The AAG announced the winners of its Geography Matters video contest.
The Royal Geographical Society along with Geographic Magazine is hosting the 12th Young Geographer of the Year competition.
The topic: What are the connections between your local area and the 206 Olympic and Paralympic participating nations and how do they influence the geography of your local area?
Younger students draws maps/diagrams older ones write essays. Contest entries due Oct 5, 2012.
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GeoDigital has announced the second edition of the LIDAR as Art contest. Prize for top invididual is an i-Pad, with donations being made to top three organizations' charities of choice. Images due March 11 with winners to be announced at ASPRS 2012. "All images become the property of GDI."
- contest website
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What's wrong with the geospatial workforce? Victor Valley College (California) adjunct professor Fon Allan Duke knows:
There’s not a good enough pool of trained individuals to step up and work in these catastrophic events. And the problem you have in industry is either you have people with master’s degrees that are overqualified doing work that they don’t really want to do and you’re overpaying for it, or you have people that have been trained on the job who don’t really understand all the specifics and so you get poor product.
He was quoted as the school launches a new certificate program, moving on from courses focused on geo use in agriculture:
VVC’s new GIS for Emergency Response and Management certificate aims to equip community college students with skills needed to develop GIS tools for governments or private companies.
There are still openings for the new program which begins the week of Feb 13.
- Victorville Daily Press
The Univeristy of Minnesota has some great, inexpensive courses in LiDAR coming up. Some are full already.
- Montevideo American News
Huntington High (WV) teachers and students attended the White House Science Fair to show off their geospatailly themed project.
Their project involved gathering data about how cloud cover affected the temperature of different surfaces such as pavement and grass, and it captured the attention of NASA. The students were asked last week if they wanted to attend the science fair, hosted by President Barack Obama. They jumped at the chance, and the school system worked hard to make it happen, Sharpe said.
The school is part of the GLOBE program.
- Herald Dispatch
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/10 at 07:08 AM |
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A plane will be scanning the island to build a three-dimensional map that will allow the planning authority to monitor environmental changes over the years.
The photographic map will carry information such as on air and water quality and noise levels. All data will be available online for free, explained Saviour Formosa, who is heading an EU-funded environment project being carried out by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority.
I guess it's LiDAR + other sensors?
- Time of Malta
The Philippine government has made geo-hazard maps, which outline areas prone to natural disasters, publicly available in a bid to reduce vulnerability at community level.
They are jpegs.
- IRIN Asia
February 1 is the cut-off for companies with onine mapping websites to have a license from the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. Google has applied for one, but does not yet have approval. That suggests its ok to keep running as is, but can't launch anything "new."
- China Daily
Google is guilty of abusing its dominant position with Google Maps per a court in France. It was ordered to pay €500,000 in damages and interest to the plaintiff and a €15,000 euro fine against Bottin Cartographes. The company, until it was put out of business, offered online maps.
- GPS Biz News
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3D data capture and gesture recognition are hot and that' what Vivek Goyal, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and his group at MIT’s Research Lab of Electronics are working on. Two of his colleagues Kirmani and Colaco were selected as one of eight winners (out of 146 university applicants) of a $100,000 grant through its 2011 Innovation Fellowship program. The detail of how the sensors can be made small enough and cheap enough are worth reviewing if you want the gory details.
- MIT
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/06 at 03:00 AM |
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