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• January 12, 2006General, Physical Geography

  Alaskan Volcano webcam

  The Alaska Volcano Observatory website has a webcam located on Augustine Island in Alaska, monitoring Augustine Volcano, which had a small ash eruption yesterday and continues to show signs of […]

• January 11, 2006General

  Google Maps mash-up to track your packages

  Ok, so I admit, I’m probably more excited about this than most people, but whenever I order something, I obsessively track its progress via the handy tracking feature on most […]

• January 11, 2006General

  Update on National Geospatial Technical Operations Center review

  Adena over at the AllPoints blog posted a link yesterday to the USGS site, where the final report on the review of the decision process that led to the selection […]

• January 11, 2006General, Hardware

  New Matrox card and opinions on stereo viewing

  We received a press release on Matrox’s new Parhelia Precision SDT which is intended for specific applications and hardware such as the Planar SD1710.  While I am a fan of […]

• January 10, 2006General, WebMapping

  Google Earth for Mac OS

  According to OgleEarth it should run on any G3 or higher with at least 600 Mhz.  I will be loading it on my Mini tonight to see how it does.  […]

• January 10, 2006General

  Do Geographers Need More Sleep?

  Here’s an interesting article about the effects of sleep deprivation. The interesting note is that sleep deprivation appears to most aversely affect spatial learning and spatial tasks! So if you’re […]

• January 10, 2006General

  Want to do your part for science?

  on Sunday at approximately 1:56am Pacific Standard Time, the Stardust capsule will be re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere on its way back from space with its precious load of comet dust […]

• January 10, 2006General

  The changing US commercial remote sensing industry

  According to an article in yesterday’s Rocky Mountain News, 2006 is going to be a year of change for the US commercial remote sensing imagery, as new high-resolution satellite are […]

• January 9, 2006avsp, General

  AVSP in AAG Newsletter take 2

  I know I mentioned this the other day, but I have been busy working on a file server in Sue’s lab so that they can get to their data and […]

• January 8, 2006General

  Landsat 8?

  One of our listeners, Michelle, emailed us with a link to an article in the Sioux Falls, SD Argus Leader online newspaper, which states that an announcement was made quietly […]