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Palantir's data platform, Gotham, enables data integration, search and discovery, knowledge management, secure collaboration, and algorithmic analysis across a wide variety of data sources.
According to a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) the geospatial services industry in the United States generates annual revenues of $75 billion annually. That is about 0.5 % of the US GDP. The report breaks the geospatial services...
Transforming ArcGIS into a Platform, One of the primary drivers of the ArcGIS as a platform initiative has been making GIS easier not only for new users but for advanced users, as well. In addition, the platform is open, extendable, and can be leveraged by others, facilitating both the integration of other geospatial technologies, as well as other enterprise IT and web services of many origins. Looking to the future, we see our platform strategy as being of great benefit and value to our users, partners, developers, and ultimately the world itself. It is already creating an ecosystem and community of GIS users who are leveraging each other’s resources and knowledge.
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I'm a bog fan of Geoff Zeiss's blog Between the Poles - H ehas a great review of the Eclipse Foundation Locationtech teleconference presentation by Matt Ford of Cesium Cesium is an open source 3D, 2.5 D and 2D globe visualisation toolkit written in webgl. Planned support for Openlayers is ont he roadmap which will make it a very interesting customizable alternative to Google Earth or WorldWind for specific applications. Click on the image or title to learn more.
Dubai Municipality to apply open geospatial standards for enterprise-wide GISAME InfoThe GIS Department at Dubai Municipality has recently organized a joint session for the project to apply the open geospatial standards of Geographical Information...
In what is rapidly becoming one of the most anticipated games releases in the simulation community - a little more info on the forthcoming SimCity release. IN this article and interview with Ocean Quigley of EA/Maxis quicly explains how the new SimCity simulation engine combines micro and macro simulation elements with each person, building and object will be simulated by the game's engine including individual sims that now have routines and lives and respond to the local events. Click on the image or title to learn more.
Having grown up relying on Ordance Survey maps for climbing and hill walking and hiking - I have a fond spot for the Ordanace Survey and their products. So this caught my eye from September 2012, the UK geospatial information agency, Ordnance Survey, will be launching a new international organisation, Ordnance Survey International. The aim is to provide advice and services across the full spectrum of Ordnance Survey’s expertise, including data collection and maintenance, product development and geospatial data management. Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, director general and chief executive at Ordnance Survey added that “for some time the organisation has been approached by other national mapping agencies to provide guidance and share their expertise. Following encouragement by Ministers to export the skills, Ordnance Survey International has been set up to facilitate working with overseas customers who wish to seek our assistance. Click on image or title to learn more.
Zebra chip (ZC, also known as papa manchada and papa rayada) is a disease that is affecting potato production in the southwestern United States and in other countries, and which has been linked to potato psyllids (Bactericera cockerelli, which infests both potatoes and tomatoes) that harbor the bacterial plant pathogen ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’. Until recently, the epidemiology of ZC was unknown, motivating research to elucidate the spatial and temporal patterns of ZC infections in potato fields. Studies were performed in multiple commercial potato fields located in the Texas Panhandle, wherein locations of ZC-affected potato plants were georeferenced or counted within large plots and along belt transects consisting of contiguous 10-by-10-m quadrats. The frequency of ZC infections within belt transect quadrats was well described by negative binomial and zero-inflated negative binomial distributions, in agreement with observed clustering of infections and distance-based spatial statistical results. Plant Disease, Volume 96, Issue 7, Page 948-956, July 2012. By D. C. Henne, F. Workneh and C. M. Rush, Texas AgriLife Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-09-11-0805-RE
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Whirlpools, or eddies, swirl across the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean sustaining phytoplankton in the ocean’s shallower waters where they can get plenty of sunlight to fuel their growth, keeping them from being pushed downward by the ocean’s rough surface.The result is a burst of spring and summer color atop the ocean’s waters. How important is the bloom to the North Atlantic Ocean and beyond–to the global carbon cycle? Springtime blooms of microscopic plants in the ocean contributes to the oceanic uptake of carbon dioxide, amounting globally to about one-third of the carbon dioxide humans put into the air each year through the burning of fossil fuels. Click on the image or the title to learn more.
SINGAPORE - The Housing and Development Board will soon be able to make better and more informed decisions on sustainable urban planning initiatives - such as which public housing blocks should have green roofs or solar panels. A Memorandum of Understanding to test-bed a new complex systems modeling tool was signed between the HDB, Electricite de France and VEOLIA Environement Recherche et Innovation yesterday at the World Cities Summit. The complex Systems Model simulates the built environment of a city and its impact on resource use, environment, people and costs. Click on the headline to learn more...
A good review of Open House: Smarter cities, smarter thinking meeting on the 28 June, 2012 . This year’s conference centred on the cohesive development of our cities. Delegates from BDP, Hawkins Brown, Nicholas Hare Architects, Pick Everard and Foster + Partners were among those present at the second day of the Open House Worldwide Conference 2012 hosted by CBRE in London. Worth reading. Click on image or headline to learn more.
Showing that nothing is ever new, Mike Batty posts an example of an early flow map from 1906 and gives links to earlier examples by Charles Minard in the 19th century.
I loved sim city - it was a marvelous game and it got me seriously hooked on the design approaches used by Will Wright. For the latest game in the series, known simply as SimCity (EA, you’re only making things more confusing for us all), Maxis has built an entirely new and incredibly impressive simulation engine called Glassbox to power the game. It made for one of the most impressive demonstrations at E3, so read on to find out why and get a glimpse of future city teaching tools. Learn more...
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Learn GIS for free online from these university and institution based resources. Learn GIS on your own or supplement your existing geospatial education.
Research based implementation of development programs is mainly assisted with Geographic Information System (GIS) and disseminated through Public Relations (PR).
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With the combining increasingly of the Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) technologies with the modern network communication technology, some unique advantages have been displaying in the monitoring, forewarning and disaster...
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Found this interesting: MongoDB has native support for geospatial indexes and extensions to the query language to support a lot of different ways of querying your geo spatial documents. We will touch on a all of the available features of the MongoDB geospatial support point by point as including:
Query $near a point with a maximum distance around that point
Set the minimum and maximum range for the 2d space letting you map any data to the space
GeoNear command lets you return the distance from each point found
$within query lets you set a shape for you query letting you use a circle, box or arbitrary polygon, letting you map complex geo queries such as congressional districts or post code zones.
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Curious where NASA's Curiosity is going? Then this is just he resource - a fantastic blog post from Mapbox.com on using open source mapping tools to create online maps of Mars. If you are into using map based services - this is a must read both for the technology covered, the processes described and because its awesome. Enjoy. Click on the image or the link to learn more.
The Next-Generation of Geospatial Technology and the World Bank’s Role in Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to enhance Development Outcomes. Many work programs within the World Bank are now embracing the use of ICT tools for engaging citizens, gathering data, disseminating information, improving transparency and accountability, and ensuring better communication and collaboration. These tools have been employed both in country-level work as well as through efforts to open up the World Bank’s processes. Esri president Jack Dangermond and World Bank staff discuss future possibilities of geospatial technology and how they can use those technologies to meet various development goals. Click on headline to see video of event.
Cities have long been the world’s economic dynamos, but today the speed and scale of their expansion are unprecedented. Through a combination of consumption and investment in physical capital, growing cities could inject up to $30 trillion a year into the world economy by 2025. Understanding cities and their shifting demographics is critical to reaching urban consumers and to preparing for the challenges that will arise from increasing demand for natural resources (such as water and energy) and for capital to invest in new housing, office buildings, and port capacity. Report|McKinsey Global Institute
Urban world: Cities and the rise of the consuming class
June 2012 | by Richard Dobbs, Jaana Remes, James Manyika, Charles Roxburgh, Sven Smit and Fabian Schaer
Via Complexity Digest, Frédéric Amblard
A predictive data analytics team in the Mayor's Office of New York City has been quietly using data science to find patterns in regulatory data that can then be applied to law enforcement, public safety, public health and better allocation of resources. In a good interview Michael Flowers explains why applying data science to regulatory data is necessary to use city resources better. This is the other aspect of smart cities - better analytics and models informing policy and practise. Worth readig. Click on the image or headline to learn more
Insightful blog post from the – university of washington's Ryan Burns on the realtionship between BigData and GeoWeb and its implications.
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be ‘self-organized’. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that ‘top-down’ approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a ‘bottom-up’ approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities.
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The results of a public voting process have confirmed that the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has decided to adopt WaterML 2.0 as an official OGC standard for hydrological time series encoding. This helps pave the way for better integrated geo-hydro simulation models and open exchange of different of kinds of hydro-meteorological observations and measurements. Very Cool. Learn more by clicking on the title.
Games and games technology often inspire and sometimes lead the simulation industry. Over the years Sim City has been instrumental in many people learning about simulations, urban planning and land use in and outside of a class room. The next generation of Sim City is likely to do that and set expectations on what City Simulations should look like. :-) Great article at Gamasutra on the design and aesthetic of the new version and how it relates to the underpinning simulation. Learn more...
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