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Putting the Pace of Change in Perspective at GIS in the Rockies

by Matt Ball on August 31, 2011

This morning the GIS in the Rockies event kicked off in Denver with a keynote titled, “Geospatial Now” by Dr. Jan Van Sickle, who has 40 years of experience in the geospatial industry. Van Sickle began by discussing the rapid pace of business change in the geospatial industry with a quote from Alice in Wonderland, [...]

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Counting Crowds

by Matt Ball on August 19, 2008

There’s an interesting feature in the Chicago Tribune about remote sensing techniques used to count crowds for last weekend’s Air and Water Show. The feature points to the difficulty of counting crowds, and the work done by the Boston University Center for Remote Sensing to capture the crowd count using aerial imagery. The feature indicates [...]

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Are geotechnologies adequately addressing the need for the better management of our planet?

by Matt Ball on April 24, 2008

Geotechnologies have come a long way toward enabling the better stewardship of our planet, but there’s considerably more that can be done. The public profile of sustainability issues is creating political will for better monitoring and management of resources and our environment. How geotechnology companies respond to these growing green opportunities will largely shape the [...]

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If you were a customer, how would you approach the purchase of new geotechnology for your organisation?

by Matt Ball on April 18, 2008

This column is sponsored by ESRI Deciding on the purchase of new geotechnology is something that I’d do by looking at the cost, expected lifecycle and maintenance expenses weighed against the contribution of the purchase toward the organization’s insight, efficiency and bottom line. Geotechnology purchases require a varying scale of commitment because there are multiple [...]

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