Newsletter V1 Newsletter-Vol. 3, Issue 47
Written by Vector1Media Tuesday, 01 December 2009 00:00
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Volume 3 / Issue 47/ December 1, 2009
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How will geospatial technology help us adapt to climate change? |
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"Even with rising awareness and actions, the global rise in carbon emissions appears to be a losing battle. The amount of carbon already in the atmosphere, and what’s coming along behind it, mean that the Earth’s climate will be warmer for the next thousand years. Tapping existing technologies, and creating new solutions, will become essential to combat coming changes. Geospatial technology contains the ideal tools for the four M’s that are building blocks for climate change adaptation– measuring, modeling, monitoring and mitigating." |
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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.
The TCU Place conference hall in the center of Saskatoon, Canada was the location of the Agri-Trend 2009 Farm Forum Event held November 18 and 19. With about 1200 leading farm producers from across the Canadian prairies in attendance, this year's theme was 'Harvest A World of Ideas.'
Photogrammetry continues to evolve and today the study of photogrammetry remains important. Armin Gruen has previously served as Head of the Chair of Photogrammetry at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zuerich, Switzerland. V1 Magazine editor Jeff Thurston interviewed him recently to learn about his life long passion of photogrammetry, the beginnings of what would become the CyberCity company and his work as one of the original members of the Board for Digital Earth.
