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V1 Newsletter-Vol. 2, Issue 34 |
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Written by Vector1Media
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Volume 2 / Issue 34/ August 26, 2008
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PERSPECTIVES
“What is the business value of environmental applications and where do CAD and GIS fit?”
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 "The business value of environmental applications is growing
significantly and will become the dominant economic force for
generating wealth in the near future - efficient land use and effective
infrastructure solve environmental problems and is good business. Some
geospatial leaders understand this and are investing in these
applications and technologies and are already beginning to capitalize
on initial projects. Environmental applications are inherently spatial
and GIS and CAD are necessary tools for planning, creating and
operating them."
Jeff Thurston, Editor, EMEA and Russia,
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 "Environmental applications are a very broad category, but mainly deal
with the research and analysis of the natural world and the natural and
human-induced impact upon it. Environmental applications can involve
forward-looking assessment to avoid harm, the monitoring of current
conditions or remediation after something has gone awry. The typical
purpose of the effort is simply to avoid, prevent or resolve conflict
between humans and nature. There are varying business values to each of
these three motivations."
Matt Ball, Editor, Americas/Asia-Pacific,
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TOP STORIES
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FEATURE
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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) Wireless Science - To probe nature's deepest secrets and gather data, scientists sometimes
have to trek into remote and forbidding places. But once there –
they've got another problem - getting all that data home.
2) EFORWOOD - The aim of the project is to provide methods and tools that will, for
the first time, integrate Sustainability Impact Assessment of the whole
European Forestry-Wood Chain (FWC), by quantifying performance of FWC,
using indicators for all three pillars of sustainability;
environmental, economic and societal.
3) Design Quality Indicator - The Design Quality Indicator (DQI) is a pioneering process for
evaluating design quality of buildings, it can be used by everyone
involved the development process to contribute to improving the quality
of our built environment.
4) IRIS Seismic Monitor
5) South Australia Spatial Information Day & South Australian Spatial Excellence Awards 2008 - download presentations.
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Matt's Top Five Links of the Week
1) Virginia Farm Link Program - Assists the transition of farms from retiring farmers to active farmers.
2) Go Green Tube - A green-focused video sharing website.
3) The Daily Render - Features geospatial art from Nikolas Schiller.
4) Gold Medals through the Years - A New York Times interactive map of gold medal winners.
5) Environment 360 - Opinion, analysis and reporting from Yale University.
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Reader´s Links of the Week
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INTERVIEWS
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GIS Provides Tools for Optimism
 Peter Raven, noted botanist, environmentalist and president of the
Missouri Botanical Garden, gave the keynote speech at this year’s ESRI
International User Conference. Raven’s talk centered on the need for
biodiversity and species preservation, and he praised the GIS toolset
for contributing greatly in these causes. V1 Editor Matt Ball spoke
with Raven following his talk on subjects ranging from population pressures, to
species extinction, to the role of GIS to speed our understanding of
nature.
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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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Underground Spaces 2008, September 8 - 10, 2008, The New Forest, UK
GIS in the Rockies , September 10 - 12, Loveland, Colorado
European Forest Institute Conference Week , September 15 - 20, Orvieto, Italy
RS Techniques for Mediterranean Emergency , September 22 - 24, Zadar, Croatia
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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 Atlas of African-American History and Politics (1997)
By Arwin D. Smallwood and Jeffrey Elliot
More than 150 originally produced maps which trace the African experience throughout the world and in America.
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Measuring the User Experience (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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Thinking in Sets (2008)
By Joe Celko
Seventeen chapters explore the details of remote sensing as a tool for measuring plant growth and assessing plant stress.
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