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Written by Vector1Media Monday, 09 March 2009 17:00

Volume 3 / Issue 10/ March 10, 2009
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PERSPECTIVES
  
What are some areas of market growth for the geospatial industry?

"All of the areas of growth that I’ll explore will require an expansion of the current geospatial toolset, and will likely involve new players. Given the focus of Vector1 Media on sustainability, I’ll look primarily at areas that stand to gain greatly by balancing the needs of the economy, the environment and society."  

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TOP STORIES
FEATURES

 The European Urban Atlas -
Supporting City Habitability

 Consumption of natural land for settlements, industry and transport infrastructure proceeds with an alarming pace in Europe and disagrees with the stagnating population. Every three years we lose a surface area equivalent to the size of Luxemburg.

Pour a glass of water out of a kitchen tap throughout the Canterbury region of New Zealand and chances are you’ll be staring at what many consider the finest drinking water in the world. Cool, clear and untouched, it’s originated in the mountains of the Southern Alps, travelled across the Canterbury Plains in the large braided river systems and then filtered slowly through the alluvial shingles before settling in large natural aquifers.

  WHITE PAPER: Extending 3D Models Beyond Application Dead Ends

We are quickly moving toward a world where intelligent 3D models will interface with sensor systems for a realistic, up-to-date picture of our world. But for this vision to become a reality, we need compatibility and connectivity between different tools, data types and data models. Vector1 Media has partnered with Safe Software to explore this interoperability between 3D data formats.
 
Download the full white paper here. 
TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK  
Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies - The Netherlands
  2. Web Trend Map 4 - from information architects Japan.
  3. Russian Cartography of the Baltic Sea - 18th Century
  4. Foster and Partners - London, UK
  5. MapScroll - place, measure, heritage and importance of land.
Matt's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. Planetary Skin - A NASA and CISCO collaboration for the creation of a globally trusted mechanism for measurement, reporting and verification of climate change.
  2. Web Soil Survey - soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of U.S. counties.
  3. Met Geo Info - creators of the CityGRID system for creating, managing and using digital 3D city models.
  4. nibipedia - an archive of web videos compiled by educators
  5. NEON - the National Ecological Observatory Network
Reader´s Links of the Week

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COLUMNS  
 Micro-Location Overview: Beyond the Metre...to the Centimetre
thumb_steven_feldman60.jpgAdvances in tracking and location technologies are enabling new application development. These applications can be found in environmental, utility, transport and other industrial applications. Many new approaches are being developed for more personal and local use and these applications include in-store location, hospitals, airports and inside buildings. In this column Steven Feldman takes a look at some of these applications and provides his unique views on some of the recent developments.

GIS, Sustainability and the Winds of Change

gale_tony.gifAmerica’s first-ever climate change president, Barrack Obama is making substantial changes in the way we approach energy, the environment, and our economy. These changes will impact how we manage where our energy comes from (the supply side) and how we use it (the demand side). This will not only affect the future of our economy and our national security, it will also have tremendous influence on the sustainability of our country and planet.
 
INTERVIEWS  
WA-Trans Provides a Vision for Road Data Integration
griffin_tami.jpgThe state of Washington is coordinating an ambitious effort to normalize transportation data from multiple counties into a common repository called the Washington State Transportation Framework (WA-Trans). V1 Magazine editor Matt Ball spoke with Tami Griffin, WA-Trans project manager, about the technical and collaborative hurdles that she is addressing in order to provide the best up-to-date data on roads, railways, ferries, aviation, ports, and non-motorized transportation infrastructure in her state.
Autodesk Integrates Sustainable Design
danby_dawn.jpgAutodesk has embraced the concept of sustainable design and is working to integrate these principals into tools to facilitate wider application. V1 Magazine editor Matt Ball spoke with Dawn Danby, sustainable design program manager at Autodesk about how these concepts are being applied, and the future promise of this approach that considers the environment and the community as guiding design criteria.
Smart Geometry Conference
HEADLINE NEWS
CALENDAR

Imaging Spectroscopy , March 16-19, Tel Aviv, Israel

5th World Water Forum , March 16-22, Istanbul, Turkey

Association of American Geographers , March 22-27, Las Vegas, Nev.

ESRI Developer Summit , March 23-26, Palm Springs, Calif.

Sustainable Scandanavia , March 30-April 5, Copenhagen, Denmark

Water Berlin , Mar.30-Apr.2, Berlin, Germany

SPAR 2009, March 30 - April 1, Denver, Colo.

Offshore Survey '09 , April 1-2, Southampton, UK

GITA Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions , April 19-22, Tampa, Fla. 

Cities 3.0 , April 22-25, Sitges, Spain

EVENT REPORT
  
  Map World Forum: Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Planet Earth
mwf_logo.jpg The Map World Forum took place in Hyderabad, India from Feb. 10-13. This second biennial event drew an international audience of more than 2,000 people, with the theme, "Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Planet Earth". The theme was explored in many different sessions that drove home the power of geospatial technology for the stewardship of our planet.
TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK  
VECTOR ONE SPATIAL SUSTAIN
  1. Visual Nature Studio 3.0 - Part 1
  2. 3D - Why Not Image Extraction Over Laser Scanning?
  3. Sony Geo-Enabled Television?
  4. Abu Dhabi Metro Study Invites Bids
  5. Berlin Wall with GPS Guide
  1. LandScope Wins Thematic Map Award and Launches Beta Website
  2. 2009 BE Conference Goes Virtual
  3. NASA and CISCO Team on 'Planetary Skin'
  4. Vivek Kundra Becomes Nation's CIO
  5. The Urban EcoMap Leads CISCO's    Connected Cities Program
BOOKSTORE  
 

Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources Engineering (2008)

  By Lynne E. Johnson

With an introduction to primary remote sensing as well as methods of interpretation and analysis, the text focuses on how GIS data can be applied to water resource analysis models.

  By Edward H. Isaaks and R. Mohan Srivastava

This book is remarkable in the statistical literature and unique in geostatistics in that concepts and models are introduced from the needs of data analysis rather than from axioms or through formal derivations.

By Russell G. Congalton and Kass Green

The field of accuracy assessment of maps derived from remotely sensed data has continued to grow since the first edition of this groundbreaking book published in 1999. This much anticipated update is significantly expanded and enhanced.
 

 

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