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EXCERPT: Senate Select Intelligence Committee-Hearing on Worldwide Threats and EnhancedView Program

The following is an excerpt from the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and a hearing on worldwide threats, January 31, 2012. Specfically, it is a discussion between Senator Mark Udal (D-Colorado) and Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper about the...Read more

U.S. to Trim Commercial-Satellite Use - Wall Street Journal

According to a February 17th article in the Wall Street Journal: The Pentagon's latest spending plan marks a little-noticed but important shift for the space industry, scaling back a push to use commercial satellites to supplement the military's communication...Read more

DigitalGlobe, GeoEye on Rollercoaster Stock Ride

Yesterday I noticed that DigitalGlobe's (DGI) stock was getting creamed but couldn't find any reason why. And concurrently, GeoEye (GEOY) took it on the chin as well. Both were down yesterday, yo-yoing between 10-20%. Today both have rebounded up 6%-7%. The bad...Read more

Land Cover Classification Contest and other GIS Competitions

Land Cover Classification Competition: Join Now! First  Prize: The top ten validators will become co-authors of the paper: Generation of a global hybrid land cover dataset. Other Prizes • Best Classifier – highest quality with  the  highest number...Read more

Namibia Municipal GIS and other International GIS News

Namibia Ephraim Katjatjena, the spokesperson of the Omururu Municipality, said the town recently launched its Geographical Information System (GIS) in conjunction with the Polytechnic of Namibia and the Tavastia Vocational Training College in Finland.  This...Read more

ROI for Chicago’s Tree Trimming GIS Use and other Government GIS News

[Chicago  Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Tom] Byrne said the blitzing now permits crews to trim 20 trees a day instead of 14. The maps are based both on observation by city employees and by callers to the city’s 311 non-emergency line. Byrne said that...Read more

NOAA’s Resolution Restrictions Survey - Feedback Requested

Global Marketing Insights, Inc. is collecting information for NOAA focused on restrictions on the resolution of electro-optical (EO) imagery collected from US satellites that commercial companies may sell and the ways in which this may impact YOUR sector. Proposed...Read more

Emergency Management GIS Certificate and other Education GIS News

 What's wrong with the geospatial workforce? Victor Valley College (California) adjunct professor Fon Allan Duke  knows: There’s not a good enough pool of trained individuals to step up and work in these catastrophic events. And the problem you have in...Read more