Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Aerial imagery and GNSS technologies are gaining popularity for use by agricultural producers. While precision farming has been a primary reason for introducing these technologies into many operations, other factors also play an important role - namely...
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
The Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) has recently published a paper entitled 'Setting up a Spatial Industry Statistics Program —A Discussion Paper'. As the Discussion Paper points out, there is currently no means for collecting spatial statistics...
Friday, December 31st, 2010
The Digital Earth Symposium comes to Perth, Australia in 2011. Along with this event comes continued discussion on topics related to living in a digital world. Already we are experiencing many of the...
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Communicating important messages can be triggered through geographic information systems (GIS) activities. Using mobile devices, short message service (SMS) occur as text messages and often originate automatically. Deteriorating weather forecasts, tsunami alerts, flood events and pollution impacts...
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...
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...
