Remote Sensing

Caitlin at GIS Lounge broke the story of an online auction of goods with the GeoEye brand. The silent online auction of 31 items runs until January 23 at 6 pm EST. Per the website: Get your piece of GeoEye’s heritage by bidding on the premium branded gear in this silent auction. 100%...

Cornell researchers have created a method that uses geospatial algorithms, foodborne pathogen ecology and Geographic Information System (GIS) tools to predict hot spots where these pathogens may be present and spread on farms prior to harvest. Many of the recent outbreaks of foodborne...

Another motion was made to increase the GIS director’s salary by $1,500. That vote passed 3-1 with all three commissioners voting in favor and Scotto voting against. There were several motions before that one, including the exact same one as I read it, but the GIS director of Clearfiled...

Most readers know Pictometry, the company that provides oblique imagery with enough detail and tools to be used for measuerement. It did very well in the public sector in past years via many homeland security and other grants. I've not heard of EagleView, but here's its description of...

John Taylor, a doctoral candidate working with crop sciences researcher Sarah Taylor Lovell [at the University of Illionois], was skeptical about the lists of urban gardens provided to him by local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).... Using these indicators and Google Earth images, he...

Jim Fallows of the Atlantic interviewed Michael Jones, chief technology advocate for Google in the Jan/Feb issue. Here are the high points for me for those who are too busy to read it: Biggest change in maps in last decade: So a map has gone from a static, stylized portrait of the Earth...

DigitalGlobe needs judges for its annual best satellite image contest. Its internal judges have narrowed the field to 20. To vote, simply go to DigitalGlobe’s Facebook page to see the Top Image Contest – 2012 album. You can “like” as many images as you want, but only the five images with the...

It’s time to clear your cache. Yesterday we added over 50 terabytes of new imagery from DigitalGlobe to the World Imagery map. This release includes 30cm imagery for the continental United States and 60cm imagery for large parts of Western Europe. The cool part, I agree with James Fee, is...

I noted that NORAD had switched from Google tech to Microsoft's Azure and Bing Maps as the backend to its Santa Tracker. Today comes word that Google will host its own version on Google Maps, as an alternative. While we’ve been tracking Santa since 2004 with Google Earth, this year a team of...

I learned that NORAD Santa is changing map platform providers via Pocket Lint and confirmed it in the Norad Santa partners list. Google is not listed but Microsoft, Bing Maps and Azure are! There's also a Windows Phone app this year. Why the change? The Seattle Times reports that while...