PERSPECTIVES

How do you think the current world financial situation will impact the geospatial industry?

"The current world financial situation involved a significant amount of over-leveraging - derivatives. The wild fluctations we currently see, and the continuing downturns, are attributable to world wide de-leveraging. As painful as the current financial situation is, the correction will build the foundation for operating down the road. The geospatial industry has historically provided solutions to everyday, real problems in society. As stability in the financial markets sets in later, a veritable dam of cash will flood the market looking for real investment opportunities, many of which will be infrastructure related and oriented toward providing basic human needs."

Jeff Thurston, Editor, EMEA and Russia, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

"Overall, the geospatial marketplace will continue to hum with reasonable yearly growth. Large public geospatial companies have long operated at a profit, with some cyclical variance depending upon their focus.The opportunities in the geospatial market sector are very broad and diverse, but evolve largely around better decision making. As long as geospatial technology contributes to better decisions, meaning greater efficiency, there will be no better place to weather out economic downturns. "

Matt Ball, Editor, Americas/Asia-Pacific, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

TOP STORIES

FEATURES

• Bentley Launches Building Performance Group
• Kopernikus to Take Environmental Monitoring One Step Further
• DMCii Pioneers New Framework for Satellite Imaging Quality Control
• PCI Geomatics Expands Offering With PostgreSQL Support
• Munsys announces support for Google Earth and Google Maps
• ESRI and EuroGeographics Platinum Sponsors of GSDI 11
• Garmin Introduces the GWS 10
• Western Australia’s Department for Planning & Infrastructure Implements ERDAS Solutions
• Encom Enhances GIS Package for Geoscientists
• TNRIS Selects FME for Efficient Data Translation During Emergency Response

TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK 

Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week

1. The Energy Service Network Association - ESNA is an an association formed by a group of companies who recognized the need for establishing an organization to promote the application of advanced energy management systems, including AMR/AMM, based on the NES platform and to build and expand the interoperability standard for utility networks.
2. Topographic Engineering Center - A distributed geospatial services experimentation environment that supports investigations and analysis focused on the distribution and synchronization of data and information across the network vertically up/down echelons including intelligence agencies, and Joint Forces and horizontally with particular emphasis on tactical users.
3. DLESE - Digital Library for Earth System Education.
4. Information Aesthetics - some very interesting visualisations based on data.
5. PRELUDE - Environmental land use scenario's for Europe. 

Matt's Top Five Links of the Week

1. Australian Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
2. NOAA 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook and Update
3. OOSTethys - Members of the ocean-science community are using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards to implement an earth-observing "system of systems."
4. One Planet Future - Campaign by the World Wildlife Fund - UK for a world where everyone has their fair share of the
5. Living Green - A lifestyle Blog on for the Los Angeles Times.

   
Reader´s Links of the Week

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MIT SENSEable City - This project showcases real-time mapping.

Essays on GIS and Geography - An e-book useful for learning and education.

Russian Cartography of The Baltic Sea : The Eighteenth Century

INTERVIEW

Exploring ESRI’s Science Initiatives

The geographic information system approach of ESRI has long had ties to science. Recently, ESRI placed more emphasis on this role by designating senior executive David Maguire as chief scientist. V1 editor Matt Ball sat down with Maguire at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego to speak about the science initiatives at the company, both in terms of technology frontiers and research and development priorities

HEADLINE NEWS

CALENDAR

• Google Mapping Public Transportation
• Universities Act to Develop a More Sustainable Future
• United Kingdom: Planning Gain In Scotland - What Next?
• Ireland's Tallest Building Opens
• Report to Look at Major U.S. Infrastructure Challenges
• New Australia Population Forecasts Forces Need to Rethink Urban Planning
• Dubai Municipality Undertakes Coastal Zone Monitoring
• Sept. 18 Starts Month of Monitoring Water
• Fuel Emissions From Marine Vessels Remain A Global Concern
• The DARPA of Geospatial
• Air Quality Map Shows Elevated Cancer Risk Near Ports
• Weather History Offers Insight Into Global Warming
• Korean Government Unveils Massive New Infrastructure Plans
• Drivers Could Have Speed Limited by Satellite Device

REVIEWS

Book Review: Cultural Landscape: Assessment, Protection, Shaping

Cultural Landscape: Assessment, Protection, Shaping is the first monograph volume in a series as part of the international project “Protecting Historical Cultural Landscapes to Strengthen Regional Identities and Local Economies” and is partially funded by the European Union Programme INTERREG III B CADSES. The volume is edited by Jozef Hernik and Jacek M. Pijanowski and provides an overview of projects and research related to understanding landscapes from a cultural perspective. The work is unique because it also includes spatial considerations that contribute to landscape developments and change within cultures.   

TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK 

VECTOR ONE

SPATIAL SUSTAIN

1. GIS Visualisation 20' Storm Surge: Hurricane Rita - Hurricane Ike
2. Argentina Environment Indicators
3. Photosynth as a Platform for Digital Cities
4. Teens & Wireless: Social Location Out - Artificial Intelligence In
5. Time in GIS Data Processing: Lessons from the Stock Exchange
   

1. Exploring the CAD/GIS Divide with ESRI
2. Mapping Redefines International Borders
3. GE and Google Team Up on Energy
4. Imagery Analysis Raises Doubts About Surge Success
5. San Francisco's "Foodshed" Examined

BOOKSTORE

London: A Life in Maps (2007)

By Peter Whitfield

A fascinating history of London organized around some 100 of the countless maps, panoramas, and plans created of the city over the last 500 years, going back to the earliest extant map

Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (2007)

  By Brian Hayes

We are surrounded by the hardware of the modern world, but how much of it do we even notice, much less understand? This unique and fascinating book covers the parts of the landscape that are often overlooked despite their ubiquity.

Google Earth For Dummies (2007)

  By David A. Crowder

This guide helps you install and customize the Google Earth software, create specialized maps, tour almost any city on earth, and more!