From the category archives:
The Islands Trust, which focuses on preserving island communities in British Columbia, have just launched MapIT as a means to explore island properties and ecosystems for better land-use planning and resource management. The Islands Trust Area covers the islands and waters between the British Columbia mainland and southern Vancouver Island, including Howe Sound and as [...]
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In a recent feature in Farm and Ranch Guide, the accessibility of unmanned aerial vehicles is promoted for both crop and livestock producers. The piece emphasizes the benefits, and the fact that in the very near future it will become commonplace for farmers to obtain a lot of data about their crops and livestock very [...]
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The U.S. Geological Survey’s NetQuakes project is rolling out a new network of seismograph sensors that will form a denser network of readings to better measure ground motion during earthquakes. The new type of digital seismograph connects to a local network via WiFi and transmits its data direct to the USGS after an earthquake of [...]
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If you’re like a lot of skiiers, you’ve found it hard to best navigate the snow conditions and weather of your favorite place. Being a spoiled skiier in Colorado, with a lot of local options, just compounds the problem. Chris Helm (@cwhelm) and Brendan Heberto (@bheberto) — both Coloradans — have just created an elegant [...]
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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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Safe Software continues to innovate far beyond the extract, transform and load of different spatial data formats. The company takes its role of being an aid to workflows seriously, and has recently added functionality to their FME Server that provides a conduit between sensors and systems. I spoke to Dale Lutz, co-founder & VP Development, [...]
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White Pages Neighbors provides a map-based view of your neighborhood with the names and phone numbers appearing on top of the houses that surround you. This interactive map-based view launched this summer, with the goal of creating closer community ties through the interactive exploration of your neighborhood. As related by the company’s launch message, we [...]
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Environmentalist Ma Jun of the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs, giving a speech recently in the Mary Robinson Speaker Series, discusses the data-driven advocacy he pioneered to hold China’s government and businesses accountable for air and water pollution. In this presentation Jun outlines water pollution, increased coal burning, and the inevitable health impacts that [...]
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