Remote Sensing

Google put together this video.

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 435 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that

Indigenous tribes in West Papua, Indonesia, were devastated as they saw Mount Grasberg, one of the largest Sudirman mountain peaks, reduced to a vast hole in the ground due to the rapid growth of the local Freeport mine. The mine's activities had been garnering international attention given its operator was failing to address growing human rights and environmental protection issues. Imagery grants by the GeoEye Foundation allowed Dr. Chris Lavers to document area loss in nearby alpine glaciers, which are very close to the equator and considered to be sensitive markers of climate change.

In 2006, amongst denied claims of human rights violations, researchers Dr. Chris Lavers, Chris Bishop, Anne Lavers, and Samuel Lavers, used GeoEye Foundation imagery to study demolition patterns and prove that widespread human rights abuses had indeed taken place in Porta Farm, Zimbabwe, where an entire community was destroyed.

From NASA, in honor of Landsat 5's 28th birthday (March 1st) here's how the desert city of Las Vegas has gone through a massive growth spurt. The outward expansion of the city is shown in a false-color time lapse of data from all the Landsat satellites.

This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken January 29, 2012 from 10:18:13 to 10:31:28 GMT, on a pass from the North Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,000 miles west of California, to western Quebec. This video begins as the space station is passing over the dark waters of the North Pacific Ocean northeast towards Vancouver Island. The Aurora Borealis can be seen far north, where both the under side and top of the aurora are visible. The pass continues over Canada until the sun begins to come up in the east while over Quebec.

There's artistry to creating the world, according to Rob Simmon, art director of NASA Earth Observatory. NASA's collection of Earth-from-space imagery dates back to the Apollo 8 mission, when astronauts snapped a picture of Earth rising over the moon. Simmon and NASA scientist Gene Feldman explain how the modern

GeoCENS sensor web browser offers you an easy to use and fast way to find the data you want with just a few clicks away. Find more information at http://sensorweb.geomatics.ucalgary.ca

Keynote Presentation by Joel Campbell, Vice President, Intergraph Corporation - November 16, 2011

This is part 2/3 of the keynote presentation by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson on self-driving cars at IROS 2011. Part 1/3 is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ub5Doyapk. Part 3/3 is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOWhu_aa9kM. Read more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-googl... (Recorded using a pocket camcorder; apologies for the poor audio quality.)