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Newsletter for Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012


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Today's Stories
Do you need imagery of an area taken on a common sensor and platform at a uniform resolution with standard specifications? Then DigitalGlobe’s Precision Aerial product might be just what you need. Product Manager Kevin Bullock explains.
It’s a fair question as discussions continue about a new rail line from San Bernardino, CA into Redlands. The first phase of a planned line has three stops for the passenger rail service in Redlands: one near Esri, one near the 14-screen cinema, and one near the University of Redlands. The proposal is from the county transportation planning authority, the San Bernardino Associated Government (SanBAG).
All Points Blog
The AAG, through the Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education (EDGE) project funded by NSF, announces a grant program to support outreach, professional training, and related activities aimed at improving [student] awareness of and preparation for business, government, and ... Continue reading
Now the Washington State Department of Agriculture offers tools on its website that make crop location information more accessible to farmers, agencies, ag groups and the public. Perry Beale, senior crop mapping specialist, is the main developer of the WSDA's website ... Continue reading
Orange County, CA released the Request for Information on April 13. Questions were due by April 23 and final responses are due May 7. GovWin notes: The county believes that the cloud would increase the level of customer care in its GIS by creating easy public access to basic ... Continue reading
The USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge, aka CLICK, will shut down its bulletin board May 9 due to securty mandates from the Deparment of Interior. You might remember CLICK had a near brush with death last fall (APB coverage). - via LiDAR ... Continue reading
The AAG has announced that the Association of American Geographers (AAG) will undertake one of the most ambitious and potentially far-reaching publication projects in the recent history of the fields of geography and GIScience. This will be a 15-volume work, to be published ... Continue reading
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Are Defense Cuts Good for the Geospatial Sector?
For the past 10 years, the geospatial sector has experienced what many believe was bubble-like growth. Some would attribute the growth to the U.S. federal government’s support of our military... Continue reading
Smart Pavement and other LBS News
I continue to be skeptical of solutions that start with "all you have to do is install our infrastructure..." That's an uphill battle! A Spanish company is hoping to put the word on the street... Continue reading
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Eonfusion enables quick and easy creation of geospatial visualizations using dynamic modeling and analytical methods that can move seamlessly through the time dimension as well as X, Y, Z and other user-defined dimensions. Useful for any geospatial problems needing flexible...
Developments achieved in the Netherlands, including use cases from the city of Rotterdam The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), in cooperation with Directions Magazine, invites the international geospatial community to participate in a webinar. Speakers will describe how...
How the city of Charlotte, North Carolina is improving response time to citizen requests with geospatial technology City of Charlotte staff needed a holistic, real-time view of information to respond to residents’ requests for information, many of which pertain to...
The growing demand for accessible geographic information is a constant challenge to GIS departments everywhere. Now, with Esri’s new ArcGIS Online subscription, organizations will have the ability to store, manage and host their mapping services in Esri’s cloud and easily...
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Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS)
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Lockheed Martin Corp
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