1. RESTEC - Remote sensing technology centre of Japan
2. ALOS - Advanced land observing satellite
3. GEO FCT - Global forest carbon tracking portal
4. Climate Change - Department of Climate Change - Government of Australia
5. NIES - Japanese national institute for environmental studies

1. Diagram of Geek Culture - A humorous drawing of how geek topics interrelate.
2. Ecosia - An ecological search engine, where search engine profits benefit the environment.
3. Ashoka Tech - A non-profit aimed at social enterpreneurship.
4. Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) - A global greenhouse gas emission dataset.
5. Landvote Mapping System - Tracks land conservation ballot measures.

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Institute of Geography - University of Leipzig, Germany
AuScope - Organisation for a natural earth science infrastructure program

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, even though their actual implementation can differ from country to country. Our relationship to the land includes both physical and cognitive factors and these connect to wider topics related to law, regulation and legislation. The authors of this book provide a wealth of information for understanding land administration systems and how future spatial data infrastructure may incorporate new processes leading toward sustainability.

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.

EVENTS AU 2009 Urges Model-Based Opportunity Autodesk University 2009 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Dec. 1-3. This year's event attracted roughly 6,000 people to the live event, and 16,000 to a simultaneous online broadcast of the content. The event theme, "Learn. Connect. Explore," highlights some of the advantages of the in-person experience, but with the economic and environmental benefits, the online version is likely to grow in subsequent years. With economic pain widespread among the AEC community, the emphasis was placed on the benefits of innovation and for a revamped design/build process that moves us further toward integrated design. Agri-Trend 2009 Farm Forum Event 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.'

INTERVIEWS

HEADLINE NEWS Berlin Debates Revitalization of City Center ESA Signs New Contracts Worth Over 500 Million Euros Can China Do Transparency? Americans Mapping Sensitive Info Coming Soon: An 'International Environmental Organization'? Idaho State University Professors Land NOAA Funding to Develop Tools for Watershed Management Kenya - Lost in the City? Arctic 2009: Year in Review ESA and World Bank Move Towards Closer Collaboration UK Science Faces Funding Cutbacks U.S. Pledges $1B Towards Rainforest Conservation Indian Map Could be Redrawn Climate Change Makes Arctic Ocean Economically Feasible Park’s Giant Magma Plume Eating up Mountains

CALENDAR 6th Intl Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Jan 5-7, Cuenca, Ecuador GeoDesign Summit, Jan. 6-8, Redlands, Calif. Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India Second EuroSDR Workshop on INSPIRE Atlas of Implementation Methods , Jan. 14-15, Brussels, Belgium All Ireland Symposium on Built Environment Education [AISBEE], Jan. 22, Ulster, N. Ireland Remote Sensing And Geo-Information For Environmental Emergencies, Feb. 2, Torino, Italy Imagina, Feb. 3-5, Monaco SPAR 2010, Feb. 8-10, The Woodlands, Texas ESRI Federal User Conference, Feb. 17-19, Washington, D.C.

The Works: Anatomy of a City (2007) By Kate Ascher The book combines text, maps, and other graphics to tell the story of the systems that keep New York City running smoothly The Smart Growth Manual (2009) By Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon This resource not only explains the overarching ideals of smart growth, but is a manual that takes the time to show smart growth principles at each geographic scale (region, neighborhood, street, building). Remote Sensing for Biodiversity and Wildlife Management: Synthesis and Applications (2009) By Steven Franklin This book emphasizes transdisciplinary collaboration, technological innovations, and new applications in this emerging field. Landmark case studies and illustrative examples of best practices in biodiversity and wildlife management at multiple scales are featured.

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