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V1 Newsletter-Vol. 2, Issue 27 |
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Written by Vector1Media
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Volume 2 / Issue 27 / July 8, 2008
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PERSPECTIVES
What if a global modeling environment were to offer compatibility with multiple file formats?
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 "I consider this situation already exists today since we can buy or gain
high levels of interoperability between different data sources and
their file formats. Global modeling progress is challenged by matters
relating to governance, semantic interoperability, language barriers,
suitable data availability, data quality and our level of understanding
about complex processes at different scales."
Jeff Thurston, Editor, EMEA and Russia,
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 "There’s much investment in large global modeling environments, such as
Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer and
NASA’s World Wind. The prevailing wisdom in the marketplace seems to
favor multiple competing globes for different purposes. But what if the concept of a digital globe were to be sold on
the basis of universal access and interface to all data types?"
Matt Ball, Editor, Americas/Asia-Pacific,
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TOP STORIES
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FEATURES
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The Constitution of the United States requires a census to be taken
regularly to determine congressional apportionment, Electoral College
voting and government funding. With the information gathered, the
Census Bureau seeks to be the leading source of quality data about the
nation's people and economy, and the need to understand and
geospatially represent the growing quantities of data requires adequate
data management.
Two of the fundamental questions
natural resource managers should pose to themselves from time to time
are: “What is it that is being managed and over what time frame?”
In this article I will delve into these questions using the boreal forest
as an example and consider the consequences of the answers for
natural resource data management.
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TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK
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Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week
1) The Once and Future City - an MIT OpenCourse - What is a city? What shapes it? How does its history influence future
development? How do physical form and institutions vary from city to
city and how are these differences significant?
2) Cultivate - living and learning centre green map from Ireland.
3) ERA-NET Bioenergy - The European strategy for renewable energy sources identifies bioenergy as the most important renewable energy source for the future: a source of cleaner, more secure and sustainable power for Europe.
4)' India Environment Information Center - The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), India has set up the Environmental Information Centre (EIC) to function as a professionally managed clearing-house for environmental information.
5) University of Papua New Guinea Remote Sensing - The creation of the UPNG Remote Sensing Centre was a
collaborative exercise between the University of Papua New Guinea,
the National Department of Planning and Monitoring (NDPM) and the
United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
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Matt's Top Five Links of the Week
1) Sustainable Sites Initiative - A partnership to develop guidelines and standards for landscape sustainability.
2) ICF International - A global professional services firm delivering solutions in energy, climate change, environment, transportation, etc.
3) Urban Habitat - Builds power in low-income communities by educating, advocating and coalition building for social justice.
4) Thermal London - Thermal images of English cities.
5) Mongabay - Environmental science and conservation news.
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Reader´s Links of the Week
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RailNetEurope
Grimshaw Architects
Snowflake Software
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INTERVIEW
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Autodesk Embarks on a Digital Cities Initiative
 Autodesk has outlined a vision for highly detailed 3D digital cities
that would become collaborative environments for secure integration of
CAD, building information modeling (BIM), and geospatial information.
V1 Magazine editor Matt Ball sat down with Doug Eberhard, Autodesk’s
senior director and industry evangelist for digital cities, to discuss
the digital cities idea, and how these systems could help foster a
holistic approach to city management.
COLUMN
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Breaking the Accuracy Mold
 Imagine a scenario in which street centerlines are stored in a GIS
database with an accuracy of ±5 feet. In the same database, parcel
data are stored with an accuracy of ±0.10 feet. And what if
environmental data are stored at ±50 feet? Is that doable? As a matter
of fact, presently this scenario is more the rule than the exception.
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HEADLINE NEWS
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CALENDAR
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37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly , July 13-20, Montreal, Canada
MAPPS Summer Conference , July 19-23, Sun Valley, Idaho
GeoWeb , July 21-25, Vancouver, Canada
ESRI Intl Users Conference , August 4-8, San Diego, California
4th Marine Survey Course , August 13-18, Isle of Wight, UK
Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate, August 25-28, Umea, Sweden
Environmental Services Workshop , August 28-30, Ciudad del Saber, Panama
Caris2008 , September 22-26, Bath, UK
AGI GeoCommunity '08, September 25-26, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK
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TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
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Green Infrastructure (2006)
By Mark A. Benedict and Edward T. McMahon
An excellent resource for physical planning in relationship to environmental sustainability.
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Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods (2005)
By Cynthia Girling and Ronald Kellett
Good urban design and sound environmental design can coincide at a neighborhood level to create healthy communities.
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Unlocking the Census with GIS (2005)
By Alan Peters and Heather MacDonald
This guide explains how GIS can significantly ease data management, allowing for new ways to analyze and present relationships among variables.
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