GIS_Software

• 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 31, 2006General, Navigation

  Live in the SouthCentral US…Make some cash

  Engadget points out a money making venture that they feel in perfect for geocachers…I think that we (geospatial professionals) are just as well suited (if not better) for the task. […]

• January 31, 2006GIS_Software

  GeoSpeech – Speech Integration in ArcGIS

  This seems like it could be a very useful tool for those of us who utilize spatial multimedia/Multimedia GIS in their research. This would be great, for instance, if you […]

• 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 30, 2006Education, WebMapping

  Step-By-StepTutorial: Open Source Web GIS

  mapz posted a link to an article titled “Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your health maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and […]

• January 29, 2006GIS_Software

  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 […]

• 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 […]