Author: Sue

May 1, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

Traveling Exhibit of EarthWorks virtual reconstructions

Continuing my theme today of virtual reconstructions of cultural and archaeological resources, I just saw a press release on ScienceDaily that EarthWorks, a ten-year-old project to virtually reconstruct Native American […]
May 1, 2006general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

Preserving China’s past in digital form

3PointD linked to this article from CRIEnglish.com about several projects under way to digitially recreate a number of China’s endangered or destroyed cultural resources. Among the projects are stuctures at […]
April 30, 2006general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

CloudSat and Calipso satellites successfully launched

I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier because of our slow internet connection in San Juan, but NASA’s 2 new cloud monitoring satellites, CloudSat and Calipso, were successfully […]
April 26, 2006general, General

US Senate Inquiry concludes FEMA should be abolished

CNN is now reporting that a US Senate inquiry has concluded that FEMA cannot be fixed, and should be abolished in its current form. A report will be released on […]
April 25, 2006Events, general

Off to San Juan to mingle with some Archaeologists and talk about GIS

The next stop on this spring’s whirlwind tour is sunny San Juan, Puerto Rico, where we will be attending the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology and presenting […]
April 24, 2006general, Programming/Dev

Google Summer of Code 2006

Google’s Summer of Code 2006 is program that gives “student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a […]
April 23, 2006Cartography, general, WebMapping

Mapping gas prices across the US

Gasbuddy.com has put together an interactive map of gas prices by county around the US. Just right click on the county you want to check out. Of course, it might […]
April 22, 2006Events, general

Happy Earth Day!

Just thought I’d do a quick post on Earth Day. Hope some of you are out there enjoying events that are going on all over the US and other countries. […]
April 21, 2006general, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping

NASA World Wind 1.3.4 released

NASA has just released World Wind 1.3.4, with some cool new features, including Mars with full 3D terrain and imagery from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I haven’t really played […]
April 21, 2006Events, general

Google Earth and Google Map Hacks theme of upcoming multimedia art display

We-make-money-not-art recently posted about an exhibition that will be part of the upcoming Sonar festival in Barcelona, Spain. Sonar showcases advanced music and multimedia art called Digital Art a la […]