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V1 Newsletter-Vol. 2, Issue 33 |
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Written by Vector1Media
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Volume 2 / Issue 33/ August 19, 2008
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PERSPECTIVES
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 "GIS has been waiting for the cloud. GIS was born to exist in the cloud. It will reach its highest potential there. The Cloud is fertile ground for a GIS. A GIS is about much more than location alone. Its truest value and highest potential are exposed through the capability to perform spatial analysis, model and simulate. In a sense GIS is a 5-speed F1 racer that has been operating in second gear. The cloud has enormous potential to change that, shifting spatial gears and accelerating the wider use of GIS functionality. Buckle up - the ride is about to begin."
Jeff Thurston, Editor, EMEA and Russia,
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 "The idea of cloud computing is that software can be delivered online as a service, accessing all functionality online, without the need to service or directly control the underlying technology infrastructure. Previously this was known as an application service provider, and there are plenty of successful examples with probably the most prominent mainstream example of Salesforce. Within the geospatial community, there are plenty of examples of software as a service, with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and ESRI’s ArcGIS Online Services at the top."
Matt Ball, Editor, Americas/Asia-Pacific,
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TOP STORIES
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FEATURES
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 In our last installment on “Sustainable Urban Environments”, we discussed
challenges and opportunities which the AEC industry will face in order to create
sustainable urban environments amid aging infrastructure, with a workforce
constrained by demographic and skill shifts, and in response to client pressure
for highly productive and cost-effective results. Next we look at emerging
opportunities for change and consider how communities and practitioners can
leverage past and present design approaches to increase sustainability of our
buildings and infrastructure.
Cultivating Imagery for Better Crops
Unknown
to the non-agricultural sector, farms are businesses too, and need to
be as efficient as possible. Along with soaring oil prices, farmers
have also had to contend with soaring fertilizer prices – as well as
fierce competition from overseas providers. Farmers in first-world
countries have turned to high-tech precision agriculture to increase
efficiency of production, as well as output yields.
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TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK
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Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week
1)The Global Mechanism - We are a dynamic team of individuals working towards a common goal: promoting
Sustainable development through land management, in the context of the
UNCCD.
2) Virtual Environmental Planning - VEPs successfully developed and demonstrated interactive, 3D web applications to
help people understand proposed planning developments and share their views
about them online.
3) Natural England - Natural England is here to conserve and enhance the natural environment, for its
intrinsic value, the wellbeing and enjoyment of people and the economic
prosperity that it brings.
4) The Wave Power Group - University of Edinburgh
5) Beyond the New Urbanism - City Regeneration - slide show.
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Matt's Top Five Links of the Week
1) FSGeodata Clearinghouse - A gateway to forest service geospatial data sets.
2) Renewable Energy Policy Network
3) The Art of Jacob Charles Dietz - I stumbled across this site, with impressive futuristic artwork for Sci Fi fans.
4) The Trumpeter - An environmental journal dedicated to the development of an ecosophy.
5) U.S. Climate Change Science Program
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Reader´s Links of the Week
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INTERVIEWS
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30 Minutes with Josef Strobl
 Josef Strobl has been directly involved in the Applied Geographic Information
Technology (AGIT) symposium and the UNIGIS International program at the Zentrum
for Geoinformatik at Salzburg University, Austria for many years. He is also an
active researcher and teaches GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, modelling
and applied simulation. V1 Magazine editor Jeff Thurston recently had the
opportunity to interview him on the topics of AGIT, UNIGIS, Energy / GIS and the
new Digital Cities initiative emerging from the Salzburg University program.
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Intergraph’s Focus on Solutions
 Intergraph has been developing industry-specific solutions on top of
its core geospatial platform for some time now, and the benefits of
that focus are translating into strong company performance. V1 Magazine
editor Matt Ball sat down with Mark Doherty, Executive Director,
Technology Architecture and Strategy, for Intergraph’s Security,
Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) division, at the Intergraph
User’s Conference in Las Vegas to discuss the solutions approach and
the plans for the underlying platform.
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HEADLINE NEWS
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CALENDAR
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2nd International Sustainability Conference , August 21-22, Basel, Switzerland
Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate, August 25-28, Umea, Sweden
Map Africa 2008, August 25-26, Cape Town, South Africa
URISA Fourth Caribbean GIS Conference , August 25-29, Grand Cayman
2nd Int'l Wkhp on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality , August 28-29, Quebec City, Canada
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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EVENT COVERAGE
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ESRI/UC 2008: Flexibility Extends Options
 The 2008 ESRI International User Conference took place in San Diego, Calif., from August 4-8. This ever-growing event attracted close to 15,000 people this year, with the theme, "GIS: Geography in Action". Sustainability was a strong theme in the plenary session as well as throughout the conference program.
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TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
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The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model (2008)
By Earl F. Burkholder
Traditional methods for handling spatial data are encumbered by the assumption of separate origins for horizontal and vertical measurements. Modern measurement systems operate in a 3-D spatial environment.
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Handbook of Agricultural Geophysics (2008)
By Barry Allred, Jeffrey Daniels and Mohammad Reza Ehsani
Precision farming, site infrastructure assessment, hydrologic monitoring, and environmental investigations — these are just a few current and potential uses of near-surface geophysical methods in agriculture.
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Creating Spatial Information Infrastructure (2008)
By Peter van Oosterom and Sisi Zlatanova
Initiatives, such as INSPIRE and the US DHS Geospatial Data Model, are
working to develop a rich set of standards that will create harmonized
models and themes for the spatial information infrastructure.
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