PERSPECTIVES

  As scientists contemplate geoengineering, how do geospatial technologies assist in assessing feasibility?

"Geoengineering suggests that wide ranging change for the positive can be applied to large-scale processes, such as climate change, to reverse and improve upon the current situation. Many geospatial technologies are new technologies, less than a few decades old, and only now beginning to provide a glimpse into these processes."

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

"There are an increasing number of big science ideas for reversing the warming course of our planet. While all of these ideas are an enormous gamble, escalating pressures placed on our planet by global warming may increase their viability. Any contemplation will require in-depth modeling and analysis, and geospatial technologies will play a role. "

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

• Wallingford Software Releases Version 9.5 of InfoWorks, FloodWorks and InfoNet
• France: UNESCO Publishes 1st World Map of Underground Transboundary Aquifers
• Transport Study Proves Quality Matters When It Comes to Road Routing
• Siemens Helping City of Houston Save Energy in City Buildings
• Leica GeoMoS Web: Visualizing Real Time Monitoring Data via Internet
• Graphisoft MEP Modeler
• Submit an Abstract for the 2009 ESRI International User Conference
• SARscape 4.1 Available Now
• 1Spatial Enables Time-savings for Local Government Boundaries Commissioner Review
• ERDAS Releases Map2PDF for IMAGINE

In Zhejiang province in the southern part of the Yangtze River Delta on the southeast coast of China, the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of Zhejiang contributed to the completion of digital line graphs covering the entire 101,800-square-kilometer province.

TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK 

Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week

1. EU AGRINET Portal - a European portal dedicated to EU-funded research in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and rural development.
2. mappery blog - mappery is a diverse collection of real life maps contributed by map lovers worldwide.
3. eko-net.pl - a site designed to provide professional advice to environmental managers in Polish companies and public administration.
4. Republic of Cyprus - Dept. of Lands and Surveys
5. WBDG - Whole Building Design Guide

Matt's Top Five Links of the Week

Reader´s Links of the Week

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EURO Cities

INTERVIEW

A GIS Guru Explores the BIM Opportunity

James Fee is well known in the ESRI development community, on the GIS blogosphere for his own blog, and as the person behind the blog aggregation site Planet Geospatial. James recently joined an architectural and engineering firm that is focusing a good deal of effort on building information models. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Fee about the growing opportunity of BIM, and the implications that this modeling software will have on the GIS industry.

HEADLINE NEWS

CALENDAR

• Seoul Turns to Bicycles to Combat Global Warming
• Oil&Gas: 20 Finds So Far This Year
• Protected Land Exploited
• Birdwatcher Heaven on the Baltic Sea Coast
• Big Storms Fight Global Warming by Burying Land at Sea
• US Forgives Peru Debt for Forest Protections
• Kuwait Selects Entity for Environment Master Plan
• Russia Set to Invest Heavily in Space Industry
• Pacific Hydro Awards Contract for 111 MW Chile Plant
• Wind Energy "Made in Germany" Is an Export Hit
• Congress Cancels Imagery Satellite Program
• China Launches Nationwide Survey of Energy Conservation Measures
• ESA Leads the Way to Map Boreal Forest
• US EPA Administrator Seeks Greater Environmental Cooperation in Visits to Jordan and Israel
• Environmental Failure: A Case for a New Green Politics
• Energy Efficiency Target for Housing

BOOK REVIEW

The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model

The development of a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure requires the integration of spatial information from a wide number of actors using different technologies through space and time. This fusion of geoinformation poses unique representation challenges because the requirements for 3-D representation are different than traditional 2-D representation. Earl F. Burkholder is the author of The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model: Foundation of the Spatial Data Infrastructure. The book explains why a new Global Spatial Data Model (GSDM) which links both functional and stochastic models together can provide a single horizontal and vertical data model for global use.
 

TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK 

VECTOR ONE

SPATIAL SUSTAIN

1. Remote Sensing of Afghanistan More Complete than U.S.
2. Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools
3. GPS Revolution
4. GIS Need Background 'Change Over Time Function
5. Site of 17th Century River Thames Warship Protected

1. Interview with James Fee
2. Australia Launches Online Renewable Energy Site
3. Avoid Magical Thinking
4. Forgiving Debt for Conservation
5. Who Owns Neighborhood Data?

An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management (2002)

By Timoty Beatley, David Brower, Anna K. Schwab

This book offers a comprehensive overview of coastal planning and management issues for students and professionals in the field.

Creating Walkable Places (2006)

  By Barbel Finkenstadt, Leonard Held,  Valerie Isham

Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems presents current statistical research issues on spatio-temporal data modeling and will promote advances in research and a greater understanding between the mechanistic and the statistical modeling communities.

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (2007)

  By Chen-I Chang

The book's twenty-five contributors represent some of the field's most important innovators and pioneers from around the world.