NREL Develops Online Renewable Energy Atlas

January 31, 2012

The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has released an online atlas that shows the potential for renewable energy across the country. The atlas allows users to display the types of resources that are of interest to them, including hydro, geothermal, biomass, concentrated solar power, solar photovoltaic, wind offshore, wind onshore, and wave power density. The [...]

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The FBI Wants a Geospatial Social Media Monitoring App

January 30, 2012

The FBI today released a public document that outlines a social media application that would harvest information from social networking sites and then map and analyze that information. The call is for a “geospatial alert and analysis mapping application” to search publicly available social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for national security threats. [...]

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The Islands Trust Launches Online Mapping System

January 30, 2012

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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Farmers Embrace UAVs for Crops and Livestock

January 30, 2012

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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Geospatial Analyst Goes Rogue with Street Signs About Drones in NYC

January 27, 2012

There’s an interesting story today in Forbes about hoax signs placed in the streets of New York by an unnamed geospatial analyst. The signs warn, “ATTENTION: Drone Activity in Progress,” and “ATTENTION: Local Statute Enforced by Drone.” The perpetrator is an Iraq veteran who has grown concerned about the use of drones for domestic purposes. [...]

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The USGS NetQuakes Web-enabled Earthquake Sensors Looks for Volunteers

January 26, 2012

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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A Webmap I’ve Been Waiting On

January 25, 2012

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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Government Cuts Hit Copenhagen’s Mapping Agency

January 25, 2012

The Copenhagen Post reports that the Environment Ministry is set to lay off 115 positions from three different agencies, including 25 from their Mapping and Surveying Agency. The cuts come as the ministry works toward a 2.5 percent reduction in their budget that will double to 5 percent in 2015. The entire Environment Ministry is [...]

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Modeling Wildlife Habitat with Lidar

January 24, 2012

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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Quantifying the Value of a National Enhanced Elevation Dataset

January 23, 2012

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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