Friday, December 17th, 2010
Last week three GLONASS satellites were launched from Baikonur, Russia and failed to achieve orbit. A quick review of the international media showed a wide variation in response. Some were downright negative, seeing the failure as the...
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
The use and application of aerial and satellite imagery plays an important role in planning for and mitigating the impacts of disasters. This includes flooding, earthquake, tsunami, desertification and other extreme events. This technology depends upon adequate...
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Coming satellite launches among the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) promise new and stronger signals, with the greater number of satellites resulting in better accuracy, faster position acquisition, and more ubiquitous use in such problematic areas as...
Friday, December 10th, 2010
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico will wrap up this weekend. This round of debate and discussions follows on the events of Copenhagen last year, and so far has not brought any major agreements...
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
At this year's Autodesk University event Autodesk unveiled their next-generation 3D city modeling tool with the working name of Project Galileo. This large-scale modeling tool will be available soon as a working beta software release via Autodesk...
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Vietnam is to receive almost $8 billion in investment for infrastructure from outside agencies it was reported this week. This money will be used to accelerate the country's infrastructure construction and help to connect climate change efforts...
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Crowdsourcing involves the data capture and collection efforts of many people who each contribute a smaller piece to a larger geospatial data and geoinformation puzzle. OpenStreetMap is perhaps the most well-known crowdsourcing project internationally, and serves to...
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
As promised last year at the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen, the Google Earth Engine launched today at the COP16 Climate Change Conference in Cancun. Earth Engine is a dynamic digital model of our planet that is...
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
China has begun construction on a national Geographic Information Industrial Park that will cover 66.7 hectares in Beijing. An investment of 15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) is being made with funds from the State Bureau of Surveying...
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
This past week saw North Korea launch live ammunition into South Korea. The event has raised tensions in the region. While the original border between these two countries was mapped when the Armistice was signed in 1953,...
