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Today at the ILMF event in Denver, Wesley Newton from the U.S. Geological Survey discussed the use of lidar for wildlife habitat modeling. The USGS works to assess the quality of habitat, population demographics, species survival, and why wildlife are found in specific habitats. The group works to model and explain the mix of wildlife [...]
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To lead off the 12th International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) in Denver this week, we heard about the rigorous work that has gone into the National Enhanced Elevation Assessment. Presenters were Greg Snyder, lidar development at USGS; David Maune, senior product manager, Dewberry (author of the DEM User Manual published by ASPRS) and Larry Sugarbaker [...]
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Bernie Szukalski, product strategist and technical evangelist at Esri, spoke today at the GeoDesign Summit about ArcGIS Online initiatives and coming capabilities. Web mapping has morphed from sharing maps and geospatial information to a geospatial content management system that supports collaboration. The new iteration allows for the publication and sharing with others, as well as [...]
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Andreas Sevtruk, a researcher with the CityForm Lab that was first at MIT and now at the Singapore University of Technology & Design, discussed the Urban Network Analysis Toolbox today at the GeoDesign Summit in Redlands. This toolbox is an open source tool that works with ArcGIS 10. Not much has been done to understand [...]
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Will McLintock marine scientist at the University of Santa Barbara spoke today at the GeoDesign Summit about marine conservation. The traditional approach for conservation is specialized scientists applying research and knowledge and telling government who draw policy, but stakeholders aren’t included and the approach leads to greater conflict. McClintock discussed the process of the creation [...]
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Jack Dangermond kicked off the 2012 GeoDesign Summit, by giving credit to his old professor Carl Steinitz who contributed the seed to the GeoDesign concept and process. Dangermond said that the concept of GeoDesign has real steam, that is spreading and growing in academic circles as well as in practice in many disciplines. Dangermond marveled [...]
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Dennis Shelden, founder and chief technology officer of Gehry Technologies spoke during one of the Innovation Forums at Autodesk University today in Las Vegas. In addition to displaying sophisticated high-rise housing that is enabled by the BIM process, he highlighted the convergence of CAD and GIS in the planning process at the World Trade Center [...]
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Mark Kauffman, technical lead of project visualization at Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), demonstrated the use of Infrastructure Modeler this morning at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. With their large-scale infrastructure projects, PB has been dealing with geospatial data and the need to visualize their designs in context for a long time, and this new tool fit [...]
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Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk’s vice president of Suites, Web Services and Subscription, spoke this morning about the cloud at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. The aim at Autodesk is to leverage cloud computing to open up new capabilities for their users. – collaboration with large data sets has been a focus for some time, with Buzzsaw [...]
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Jeff Kowalski, CTO of Autodesk kicked off today’s Autodesk University in Las Vegas with a retrospective look to the “good old days” where things were simpler, the rotary phone was technology, and the market was not yet the supermarket. Our world is full of extreme complexity now, and we’re not going back. Complexity theorists talk [...]
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