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Written by Vector1Media Monday, 26 January 2009 17:00

Volume 3 / Issue 4/ January 27, 2009
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PERSPECTIVES
  
What are some of the ways that geospatial technology helps assess and mitigate risk?   

"While we can’t know every issue that leads to a calamitous occurrence, all of the inputs to these events are spatial in nature, and by amassing information and regularly measuring change, we can make significant improvements in reducing loss of property and loss of life."  

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

TOP STORIES

FEATURES
 
Electric utilities face serious challenges. As normal demand continues to rise, the transportation sector looks to electricity to answer fuel concerns. Should a significant increase in the use of electricity for transportation materialize as it likely will, demands and electric energy usage will soar. Meanwhile, the existing electric infrastructure continues to age.
 

Some 50,000 islands and thousands of narrow fjords cut into the mountainous countryside along Norway’s jagged coastline. Diesel-fueled ferries have transported people and goods between the islands and across the fjords for decades, but a new fleet of natural gas-powered ferries is now improving mobility without emitting noxious fumes that pollute the marine environment.  
TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK  
Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. Royal Institute of Navigation
  2. Finland - Watershed simulation and forecasting system (WSFS)
  3. BayernInfo - Traffiic, road and cycling information web mapping
  4. Int'l Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
  5. European Geosciences Union
Matt's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. GIS for Equitable and Sustainable Communities
  2. Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
  3. Apps for Democracy - An innovation contest championed by Vivek Kundra, candidate for CTO for the Nation.
  4. NOAA Office of Coast Survey - GIS products, services, data portals and resources.
  5. U.S. Foreclosure Heat Map
Reader´s Links of the Week

Submit suggested links to anything you would like to recommend that fellow readers do, see or read via e-mail to mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Vector1 Media Announces V1 Energy a new Energy publication.

COLUMN  
  GIS is a Means of Communication
thumb_basic_communication_model80.jpg A GIS-user looks for information that makes it possible for him to solve an actual task. If the GIS-user feels that the information allows correct, safe and fast task-solving, then the producer has gained the user’s favour. Then the good question will be, what the GIS-producer needs to be capable of for the purpose of ‘being good in GIS’, so that the GIS actually delivers that information that allows the user to solve his task?
 
INTERVIEWS  
Greater Transparency at EPA Has Geospatial Implications
johnston_photo.jpgThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long been a user of geospatial technology, and they’ve created many web-based applications to improve communication with constituents. A new agency-wide initiative for better information management and transparency in now underway, and there are implications for greater integration of sensor and geospatial systems to aid this effort. V1 Editor Matt Ball spoke with Jerry Johnston, the agency’s geospatial information officer (GIO), about his vision for greater GIS use at the agency.
The Concept of Ecology Returns to Prominence
gale_tony.gifEcology and Environment, Inc. is a publicly traded company founded in 1970 that has been working on sustainability initiatives, and applying GIS technology to these problems, for decades. V1 Editor Matt Ball spoke with Tony Gale, principal consultant, about the company’s use of GIS and geospatially enabled software-as-a-service applications to tackle broad problems, and provide measurable metrics, for sustainability problems.
Bentley Sustaining Infrastructure
HEADLINE NEWS
CALENDAR

WSCG 2009 , Feb. 2-5, Univ. West Bohemia, Czech Republic

Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas, Feb. 2-4, Mainz, Germany

International Workshop of Experts on Global Environmental Change , Feb. 9-11,  Pretoria, South Africa

First Global Summit On Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 2008 , Feb. 7-9, Raipur, India

The Arabian World Construction Summit , Feb. 9-11, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Map World Forum , Feb. 10-13, Hyderabad, India

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TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK  
VECTOR ONE SPATIAL SUSTAIN
  1. Europe: Urban Atlas
  2. National Energy Policy - National GIS
  3. Thinking Spatially - Open University
  4. Geospatial Infrastructure Transformation
  5. First A-Level GIS Text Book for UK
  1. Why Shoot for Faster?
  2. Mapping and the Omnibus Public Land Management Act
  3. NYT Interactive Inauguration Map
  4. Mayors Prioritize GIS for Economic Recovery
  5. Terrestrial GPS?
BOOKSTORE  
 

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (2007)

  By Paul Hawken

Hawken traces the formation of the environmental and social justice movement from the beginnings of natural science across years and continents in this rousing and "inadvertently optimistic" call to action. Though

  By Energy Business Reports

The power industry, trailing behind other economic sectors already revolutionized by computerization (e.g. retailing and manufacturing), will see inexpensive computing power and low cost bandwidth infuse every element of the grid with digital intelligence in coming decades.

By NanoScience & Technology Inst

Proceedings from the 2008 CTSI conference provide the most prestigious forum in the world for leading clean tech scientists.

 

 

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