Author: Sue

• February 2, 2006VirtualEnvironments

  Yes, even you can afford Virtual Reality

  This NY Times article from back in January takes a look at some of the ways people are creating Virtual Reality setups without having to spend a million dollars to […]

• February 1, 2006Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  “One Planet, Many People” – New Atlas using Landsat imagery

  The United Nations Environment Programme recently published One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, using 30 years of before-and-after Landsat images for 80 sites around the world to […]

• January 31, 2006WebMapping

  Web 2.0 Innovation Map

  The Web 2.0 Innovation Map is a Google Maps mashup that shows a geographic location for many of the most well-known Web 2.0 applications, including Wikipedia, WordPress, MySpace, Friendster, Flickr, […]

• January 30, 2006Physical Geography

  Global Warming debate shifts to “tipping point”

  An article from the Washington Post online edition (free registration required) argues that, now that most scientists agree that human activity is causing global warming, the debate is now beginning […]

• January 30, 2006GIS_Software, LBS

  Mumbai, India deploys GIS and GPS for police operations

  There are many examples of how quickly geospatial technologies are being adopted around the world, especially in the rapidly-growing countries of Asia. This article from The Times of India discusses […]

• January 27, 2006GIS_Software, WebMapping

  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. […]

• January 26, 2006Remote Sensing

  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 […]

• January 26, 2006Remote 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 […]

• January 26, 2006General, Physical Geography

  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 […]

• January 25, 2006GeographyBlogs, WebMapping

  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 […]