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Open Access to State-collected Geodata
I was pointed by Tim, one of our listeners, to a manifesto for open data access in the UK. If any of you work in the UK regularly or have […]
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BBC NEWS | Sea level rise ‘is accelerating’
It has been a while since the BBC gave us something bloggable. This gem is definitely worth blogging and chuckling about. Sea level is rising…OK. The last 50 years moving […]
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Carbon Project Becomes ESRI Business Partner
The Carbon Project, which focuses on development of Open-Geospatial .NET applications, announced it has become a member of the ESRI Business Partner Program, and will develop interoperability extensions for ArcGIS. […]
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Landsat 5 has resumed operations
Tim Warner here at WVU just forwarded us the good news that Landsat 5 has resumed acquisition operations for the continental US and international data acquisition will be coming back […]
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Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
Japan Launches Mapping Satellite
The Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite (nicknamed “Daichi’) was launched on January 24th, after two delays for technical problems. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), The satellite will […]
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Pleistocene Park
A project is underway in Russia to return a portion of Siberia to the landscape and ecosystem that existed 10,000 years ago during the late Pleistocene. The initiative is led […]
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West Virginia fully adopts Dance Dance Revolution fitness program – Engadget
This is a little too close to ‘home’ to not mention. I think the new slogan for WV should be “Dance Dance Revolution in every classroom and a lottery ticket […]
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Most Earth-like Planet Detected
Continuing last week’s podcast “space theme”, CNN has this story about astronomers using new techniques to discover the most Earth-like planet found yet. From the story, “an international team has […]
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Platial
Adena over at AllPoints Blog posted an entry on Platial, an online friend site which uses Google Maps and tagging to add information about place to a spatial location on […]
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Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor
Want to add your favorite 3D game character to GoogleEarth? Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor allows you to capture and re-use 3D geometry data in other 3D graphics applications, basically a “screen […]
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