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The Hexagon year-end report for 2011 just came out, and there is a recorded webinar with slides and an overview from Ola Rollen, president and CEO, that is available online. Rollen’s commentary highlighted many different areas of performance and business change, including: The blended Intergraph (software) and Hexagon (hardware) business has a favorable effect on [...]
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A detailed map of block-by-block energy use has been created by the Columbia University Engineering School with data from the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. The interactive map demonstrates the energy used to heat and cool buildings, which accounts for two-thirds of the energy used in the city. The research built a statistical [...]
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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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The UK-based risk analysis and mapping company Maplecroft has just released their fourth Climate Change Vulnerability Index that takes a look at climate impacts and a country’s ability to adapt. There are 193 countries profiles in the study, with a look at population concentration, development, natural resources, agricultural productivity, and conflict. There are 30 countries [...]
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EarthCube is an ongoing effort to frame the research benefits of an integrated cyberinfrastructure to house data and information across the geosciences. The group has just released a white paper under the auspices of the Open Geospatial Consortium to outline seven data-intensive and cross-disciplinary science scenarios that would benefit from such a robust and adaptable [...]
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A repeated theme in many sessions at the GeoInt 2011 Seminar in San Antonio this week has been the need to understand local social, tribal, religious and cultural context both in today’s conflicts and in those to come. What the people think and do has been central to current nation-building mission, and there is much [...]
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Dr. Greg Smith, deputy director of Innovision and chief scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), gave the keynote at this morning’s Pre-Symposium Science and Technology Forum as a pre-cursor to the GeoInt Symposium in San Antonio. He began by highlighting the 15th anniversary of NGA that was celebrated last month with the opening of [...]
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Esri has created a time-searchable map that shows emissions of CO2 between 1960 and 2007 with data from the World Bank. This is the latest in a series of map stories that explore timely topics and convey the power of GIS as a communication medium. The animation and time slider tells a story of growing [...]
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Researchers at IBM have been working on a cognitive computer chip of a different design than current sequential methods. The new approach involves parallel microprocessors with one linked to memory modules and the other linked to memory synapses with the design called a “neurosynaptic core.” With the new approach the computers are well-suited to pattern [...]
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New Zealand-based Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions has developed the Waiora (meaning pure water in Maori) Earth Monitoring Software to integrate environmental sensors, web mapping and data processing for real-time maps and models of water contamination. The tool allows users to monitor and analyze such things as the dispersion of pollutants in groundwater, monitoring aquifer storage [...]
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