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LightSquared's Toughest Week So Far
Like a bad week on the stock exchange, LightSquared hit speed bump after speed bump this week.See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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New Congressional Research Reports on Major Disasters and Emergencies
From Secrecy News, September 16, 2011: “Climate Change: Conceptual Approaches and Policy Tools,” August 29, 2011 “Homeland Security Department: FY2012 Appropriations,” September 2, 2011 “Congressional...
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Boy Scouts Replace Maps with GPS
Pirates of the Caribbean use a paper map, beach bums use metal detectors and now the Boy Scouts are using GPS devices to find hidden treasure.See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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Cartography: Thematic Map Design Info & Reviews
Cartography: Thematic Map Design, Product DescriptionThis introductory textbook introduces students to the different types of map projections, map design, and map production.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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South Sudan is now official on Google Maps
Following the Republic of South Sudan's recognition as the UN's 193rd Member State, we have updated Google Maps and Google Earth to reflect the new country borders.Satellite view of the Republic of...
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GIS and the Ill-Structured Problem
Educational research shows that students can learn both about content and about thinking strategies by working through what are known as “ill-structured” problems.See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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Sifting Fact from Fiction: The Role of Social Media in Conflict
Live webcast from the US Institute of Peace: This Blogs & Bullets meeting will bring together the companies that sift through and sell this data with the activists that create it and the...
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Scientists weighs changes of the Greenland ice sheet
ICESat has provided surface elevation measurements of the ice sheets since the launch in January 2003, resulting in a unique dataset for monitoring the changes of the cryosphere. The scientists...
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Green budgets: the potential for economic instruments to power environmental...
The budget is one area where governments can influence our interaction with the environment – encouraging beneficial behaviour, and discouraging environmental destruction.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Hurricane Debbie – 50th Anniversary Of Ireland’s Strongest Storm On Record
Irish weather online has a nice article commenorating the 50th aniversary of huricane debbie landing on Irish shores (though he comes to the conclusion debbie wasnt actually a huricane by the time it...
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Floating city
Credits: European Space Imaging (EUSI)...See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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Quick and simple Street View with the Google Street View Image API
The Google Maps API family includes the Google Static Maps API, which delivers maps as fixed images in PNG, GIF, or JPG format.See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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Behind The Scenes: Geocaching World Episode #32 - FAQ's
What a fun show tonight. This episode of Geocaching World (RVNN.tv) was in that fun and easy style of a Meet and Greet. Here we get away with a lot more. We communicate with the chat room a whole lot...
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New atlas shows extent of climate change
Originally Published by The Guardian – The world’s newest island makes it on to the map as the Arctic Uunartoq Qeqertaq, or Warming Island, is officially recognised.See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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The Center of the Trackable Universe
Trackable Week presents a new story Monday through Friday this week about creative ways to experience Trackables. Geocaching.com Trackables allow people to tag and track an item from location to...
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Several Large Earthquakes in Recent Days Unrelated, Scientist Says
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Speaker Series Podcast: Handling Large Amounts of Motion Analytics Data with...
Alex Philip, president of TerraEchos, discusses Adelos, its sensor knowledge system that combines the ability to collect, process, analyze, and transmit massive amounts of data.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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NASA Satellites Busy at the Peak of Hurricane Season
GOES image of four Atlantic Storms on Sept. 8, 2011. Image Source: NASA/NOAA GOES ProjectDuring the first two weeks of September, and the peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season, NASA satellites were...
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7 Absolutely Free iPhone GPS Navigation Apps
A lot of free GPS apps are present out there but the question is which ones are really really good? Many people use paid apps which are quite popular too, but today we have a list of free GPS apps...
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Charting Ground Zero
New York professor's mission after September 11th...See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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What Was the Second Most Important Year in Geospatial?
The Open Geospatial Consortium’s chief technology officer, Carl Reed, wrote an editorial titled “What Was the Most Important Year in the History of the Geospatial Industry?” for us back in 2006.See it...
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September 11, 2001: Studying the Dust from the World Trade Center Collapse
RT @USGSNeb: USGS uses remote sensing technology to study the dust cloud at the collapsed Twin Towers after 9/11 http://t.co/4alStl2C...See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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GeoEye and TerraGo Technologies Form Innovation Partnership
Collaboration will accelerate the adoption of advanced digital imagery across organizations and industries...See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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Tracking Happy Feet
National Public Radio (NPR) has been closely following the story of Happy Feet, the penguin who got off course and ended up in New Zealand.See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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Updates to the Metro mean changes to an iconic map
OK, I’ll admit it, one of my favorite things about visiting relatives and friends in the Washington DC area is getting to ride the Metro.See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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CERN Repeats Faster-than-Light Experiment, Gets Same Result
A second experiment clocking the speed of subatomic particles using a GPS timing receiver has reconfirmed the revolutionary September results — the neutrinos moved faster than the speed of light,...
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JPL - NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light
A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how...
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Street View finally arrives in Russia
Google has just released Street View in Russia, and while it only covers two cities so far (Moscow and St. Petersburg), the coverage in those cities is quite solid.See it on Scoop.it, via Geospatial
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Promise and Concern: The Future of Social Media and Real-Time Awareness
On Feb. 3, 2012, the U.S. State Department hosted its eighth conference in the Tech@State series. The two-day symposium focused on how social media and other internet-enabled data streams are used to...
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HTML5 Canvas: An Open Standard for High Performing GIS Map Visualization in...
The evolution of GIS on the Web has, until recently, been limited by traditional Web mapping technologies. The increase in GIS requirements in the Web and mobile world has necessitated the development...
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