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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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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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Data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been processed, and a highly detailed and nearly global topographic map of the moon has been released. The topographic map was created at the Arizona State University in Tempe, at a pixel-scale resolution close to 100 meters. The Global Lunar DTM 100 m topographic model (GLD100), was [...]
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‘“What is a Map?” is More Relevant than Ever’ was the title and topic of The National Map Conference keynoter Frederick Reuss, author of five novels, including his recent “A Geography of Secrets” that addresses secrecy in public and private life in present-day Washington. Reuss provided a layman’s perspective as a user of maps, a [...]
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This morning Bentley held a press briefing regarding the release of Bentley Map V8i product lineup with Richard Zambuni, global marketing director, and Bob Mankowski, vice president, software development. The new three-tiered offering of Bentley Map products simplifies the product offering and adds a number of new features and improved workflows from desktop to enterprise [...]
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Paul McRoberts, Autodesk’s vice president of the infrastructure product group, addressed press today at the AEC Media Day. The focus of McRobert’s group has been on the porting of model-based design to bring BIM workflows and concepts to infrastructure. At the center of this approach is the capability to start with as-built and existing conditions, [...]
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There’s a well-written story that profiles the Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University in the San Angelo Standard-Times. It’s the eighth anniversary of that tragic large-scale disaster, and the piece profiles this center that rose from the positive awareness of geospatial technology that resulted from the event. [...]
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Canadian researchers at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, have created a global map of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) that can get past the body’s normal defenses and penetrate deep into the lungs. The researchers bridged the lack of surface-based air pollution sensors in the developing world by using satellite data from NASA’s Multi-angle Imaging [...]
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