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Crowdsourcing Adds Capability
Many assume that digitalglobe and other satellite providers have automated tools to search through the massive number of images taken each day by satellites circling the Earth, but that’s not quite the...
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QUARTERLY LOCATION BUSINESS NEWS Here are the most interesting or important articles from the web, according to Location SmartBrief readers: LOCATION ECOSYSTEM 1. Microsoft’s GeoFlow tool creates...
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Running in Fog
Prof. Hans-Peter Plag, PhDClimate Change and Sea LeSea Level Rise InitiativeOld Dominion UniversityNorfolk, Va.www.odu.edu/research/ initiatives/ccslri On a bright summer day in 1979, four people...
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Interviews with 18 Women in Location
Apogeo’s sister publication, LBx Journal published a Special Feature on Women in Location, which uniquely tells the story of location-based technologies like never before. You may recognize some of the...
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Environmental Monitoring
Organizations responsible for environmental monitoring, especially when it comes to ‘smart development’ in environmentally sensitive areas, are increasingly using some powerful geospatial data, tools...
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Space System for Sustainable Development
The space environment is being used by more and more State and private sector entities for an increasingly diverse range of outer space activities. The long-term sustainability of these activities is...
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Mapping Disasters
Geospatial solutions need a shift in focus to reach the next level of acceptance and impact for disaster relief. What has been applied to incidents in the immediate aftermath of disasters can be...
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GIS + RS = A New World
T he Sciences, Technologies, and practices of remote sensing and of geographic information systems (GIS) arose separately, developed in parallel, intersected, and are now inextricably linked. Nearly...
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Water
Fresh water is humanity’s single most critical resource. According to a recent United Nations report, stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts, and...
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No Boundaries from Space
Above Featured Image: The eastern side of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula juts into the Pacific Ocean west of Alaska. In this winter image, a volcanic terrain is hidden under snow-covered peaks and...
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