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The BioWeatherMap initiative looks to uncover insight into the geographic and temporal distribution of microbial life through an distributed and volunteer environmental sensing effort. The intent is to gather environmental samples from around the world that will be DNA sequence for ongoing discovery and surveillance. This effort teamed with Autodesk to explore the visualization aspects [...]
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Over the weekend, NPR highlighted the work of researchers in Baltimore that are following addicts and their behavior very closely to track movement as well as the behaviors that coincide with their drug use. Researchers in the methadone program that serves addicts are studying specifically what makes addicts relapse with a smartphone program that requires [...]
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The application of Web-based GIS mapping to track food in order to minimize the impact of foodborne illness was the focus of a talk by Stacy Supak from North Carolina State University at today’s FOSS4G event in the educational track. A framework of web mapping is in development for North Carolina’s food protection program based [...]
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With drought, conflict and food price increases giving rise to famine conditions that are affecting more than 13 million people in the Horn of Africa, the World Food Programme (WFP) has put the crisis on a map to help communicate the scope. WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations, and the map [...]
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Perhaps you’ve seen billboards or seen recent news coverage about a growing hunger problem in America due to the current state of the economy. Feeding America, which bills itself as the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, puts the problem in perspective with their interactive map showing the level of food insecurity in each county in [...]
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There’s a feature in today’s Denver Post about the sickest 1% that spend nearly 30 percent of healthcare dollars. The feature outlines efforts with pilot programs and modeling experiments that are underway to understand where these patients live, and how to drive down the cost of their care. Dr. Jane Brock, medical officer of the [...]
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Episode four of the Geospatial Revolution video project has just been released, tackling the ability of the technology to quantitatively track change over time in order to meet our desire to know how the earth works. The episode is broken into four chapter that cover the monitoring of climate, prevention of hunger, tracking disease and [...]
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The United Nations has released a new report that analyzes how humanitarian aid to areas struck by natural disaster can better use new volunteer communities and technologies in their response. The document takes a close look at the response to the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, and recommends ways to improve the coordination of these [...]
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The U.S. Air Force is flying two Global Hawk drones over Japan from a base in Guam to collect imagery related to both the massive earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. These airborne sensor platforms are the latest iteration of these Northrop Grumman-made drones, carrying Raytheon’s Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite (EISS) that include [...]
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