Author: Barb

• February 23, 2011Environmental, Remote Sensing

  New Jersey’s lost acres

  It’s amazing how often life immitates blog. For a class on qualitative GIS, I put together a Google Earth narrative history of growing up in north west New Jersey. I […]

• February 16, 2011Contest, Data, Remote Sensing

  2011 DigitalGlobe – IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

  Until I got an email today, I had forgotten I’d signed up for the 2011 DigitalGlobe – IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest which is due by by May 31, 2011. […]

• February 14, 2011general, Political Geography

  2012 Federal Budget: A Visual

  You have to love Facebook because many times friends will post news articles that you might have missed. Everyone is talking about the new 2012 U.S. Government Budget that just […]

• February 2, 2011general

  The spatial sound of the NY Subway

  Treehugger has a an article that demonstrates the nexus of spatial technology, visualization, art, and travel. It was an interactive art piece crated by artist Alexander Chen turning the New […]

• January 30, 2011Contest, Environmental

  The MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize

  If you are a student team or professional start-up anywhere in the world, The MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is now open. According to their website, “MIT […]

• January 16, 2011Cartography

  Gough Map of Britain:Linguistic Geographies research project

  The interdisciplinary linguistic geographies research project funded by the Arts & Humanities Council (AHRC) conjures up all the “old school” components of geography as a romantic, intellectual discipline but with […]

• January 11, 2011AAG, Education, ESRIUC

  The Integration of Geospatial Technologies in Professions

  I have noticed lately that increasingly conferences outside of the geospatial sphere are specifically requesting geospatially related topics. I think it shows the integration and acceptance or growing need for […]

• January 4, 2011Environmental, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography

  Australian Flood Maps

  Like many recent weather-related disasters, the media and on-line websites have started to increasingly use interactive maps to explain disasters such as Guardian UK and other news outlets coverage of […]

• December 30, 2010Environmental, WebMapping

  Sustainable Seafood App

  There are many restaurant apps around that rely on users to input location on their locale or sites they visit to create a national or international database. The most recent […]

• December 26, 2010general

  Forensic modeling: then, now and on TV

  While searching to find out how closely Bones TV show 3D rendering is to real life forensics, I ran across the history of Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies […]