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Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri, addressed the start of the company with the audience at the Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference today. He discussed that many of the company’s first customers were in the forestry industry with an open source stack of software, where they sold it, and people went off with the [...]
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The government of Canada has announced a $7.6 million repayable investment to support research and development by PCI Geomatics on next-generation earth observation technology. The government’s investment is part of a $25.5-million research and development project that PCI Geomatics is undertaking. The R&D project at PCI Geomatics will involve developing a high-speed computing framework and [...]
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A recent post on the Dot Earth blog asks some questions of Obama’s incoming science team. An aside here is the historical federal spending on R&D with some revealing details (see image above). The chart doesn’t include the more than $80B level of spending on defense R&D, which dwarfs all other spending. Health spending has [...]
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The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) just released an in-depth report titled, “Government Issues R&D Agenda for “Net-Zero” Energy Green Buildings” (PDF). The primary objective of the report is to spur technology development to reduce consumption of energy, water and other natural resources while improving building performance. This is a high-level R&D outline that [...]
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I’ve just posted the second segment of the interview that I conducted with Jack Dangermond, founder and president of ESRI, back in May at the American Planning Association’s annual conference. The first part of our discussion focused primarily on sustainability issues. This second segment focuses largely on research and development priorities for GIS technology advancement. [...]
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