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Google.org unveiled the Earth Engine concept at the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen, with a focus on monitoring tropical forests to assess their ecosystem services. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Rebecca Moore, the Engineering manager of Earth Engine and Google Earth Outreach, about the design and functionality of Earth Engine, and the overall aims of this...
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The Open Geospatial Consortium has been hard at work on many fronts to realize the full promise of geospatial technology. David Schell, the organization's founder and chairman of the board, spoke with V1 editor Matt Ball about the organizations inroads with the AECOO community and the promise of greater software interoperability.
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Fred Limp has been on the forefront of spatial technology research and development projects as the founder and past director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas. Limp has written several prescient articles about the growing importance of 3D in the geospatial sphere, and continues to work on interesting research projects...
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SDIs are being developed to help address environmental concerns, disaster preparedness and emergency responsiveness there are other possibilities for benefiting from SDIs, namely regional competitiveness. This could mean public sector organisations who are currently experiencing budget cuts across the board could use activities relating to geospatial data...
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When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments.
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Good planning is critical to achieving sustainability. The success of international, national, regional, and organizational plans for climate resiliency, energy management, supply chain optimization, facility management, and transportation efficiency depend on a defined purpose, need, and process to achieve sustainable performance.
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The Spatial Turn - Inter-disciplinary Perspectives The Spatial Turn is a collection of writings by 13 scholars about geography and space. The term Spatial Turn finds it's origin in the turning of geographical pursuit toward social and historical narratives....
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Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas A chronology of 15 years of research and documentation in northwest Mongolia, this book spans the 12,000 year history of the region and the cultural heritage of the people that live there. The location...
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Land Administration for Sustainable Development Land administration plays a unique role in solving sustainability issues. It involves an integrated approach that includes several common factors that can be applied around the world,...
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Global Conference Rejects Ban on Trade in Bluefin Tuna adn Polar Bear WASHINGTON POST -- In the contest between commerce and conservation, a global conference this week aimed at protecting imperiled wildlife seems to be giving commerce the upper hand. Delegates gathered in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday rejected proposals pushed...
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India, China Lead in Lifting People out of Urban Slums, UN ays CHRISTINA SCIENCE MONITOR -- A new United Nations report on the state of the world's cities indicates that 227 million people have been raised from slum conditions around the world over the past 10 years. China reduced their urban population living...
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Africa Could Join High-Speed Science Network ALL AFRICA - African science ministers are hoping to extend a high-speed fibre optic network - currently linking Egypt to the northern hemisphere - to other countries in Africa. The Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD) connects...
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China and India Called on by Scientists to Collaborate on Conservation China and India could together decide the future of the global environment, a team of senior scientists warn today in a call for closer collaboration on conservation by the world's two most populous nations. Writing in the journal Science, the eight...
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Germany - 8.4 % Decline in 2009 Greenhouse Gas Emissions The industrial sector and manufacturing industry in Germany marked emissions reductions of 20 percent – owing largely to the economic crisis. Carbon dioxide emissions decreased by 8.2 percent (68 million tonnes). Primary energy consumption shrank...
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