The precursor to the EU’s Galileo satellite positioning, EGNOS is now live for 27 EU states! The basic idea behind the system is to take the US’s GPS system and make it more accurate – from 60 feet to 6 feet. This will be a big boon to navigation system in the EU since they’re [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 220 October 4, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with MapDiva’s Jill Saligoe-Simmel about Ortelius Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
With the recent devastating earthquakes in the Pacific region, the Great California ShakeOut is a very timely event. On October 15th, at 10:15am local time, millions of Californians are going to be participating in the world’s largest earthquake drill. Although we are powerless to stop natural disasters like earthquakes from happening, knowing what to do [...]
As we begin to turn our attention to Remote Sensing for October we wanted to pose a new question and poll… Do you use remote sensing data? It is an intentionally broad question because there are now so many ways in which you can utilize RS data from image classification to 3D data creation to [...]
