Animated heat map of Bruce Springsteen touring locations from 1973-2012. The heat effect is generated by a) the location of the show, b) the size of the venue, and c) the overall population within 40km of the show location (e.g. a single arena show in Omaha, NE generates more "heat" than a single arena show in New York City). An interactive Google Map of this content is available at http://www.maputopia.com/springsteen and was created by Daniel Trone. Show data is from Paolo Calvi's database--http://www.brucespringsteen.it/Showdx.htm Soundtrack courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5hgaIMDNpI

don’t report your whereabouts to Mom, or an authoritarian government or something. Instead, they’ll help you shuffle home if you get lost somehow. The Global Footprint project in Northamptonshire commissioned designer Dominic Wilcox, to create a pair of shoes. The region is known for its shoemaking. Wilcox was inspired by Dorothy's shoes in the Wizard of Oz, shoes that could take one home. His pair includes "a GPS device implanted in the heel with an antenna pointing out the back, and two sets of directional LEDs in the toes. The circular LED display points in the appropriate direction, and the straight one indicates distance." via Gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/youd-never-get-lost-with-a-pair-of-these-gps-shoes/

Chair of Austin Community College's GIS Department Sean Moran spoke to KVUE about the growing field of GIS.

With one of the most distinguished careers in the geospatial intelligence arena, including Director of NGA, Director of Naval Intelligence, Vice-Director for Intelligence of the Joint Staff and now a professor at the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism and on the faculty of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in New York, Bob Murrett is very much at the forefront of geo and multi-int.

Normally, we at DGI would never condone torture under any circumstances, but when it comes to squeezing the maximum information out of your geospatial dataset, then we're all for it!

Typically, geospatial intelligence is most commonly linked to defence and the military. While this may be true, more and more civilian organisations are utilising the power of geospatial information to radically improve their abilities. Unsurprisingly, the police force is one such area getting involved.

Can the HIVE continue to be a leading innovative force of visualization systems, despite up-and-coming technology? DEVELOP's HIVE team at Langley Research Center has made several major improvements to its structure and its user-friendly experience in order to stay at the top of the technological line.

In the past 30 years, the Gishwati Forest in northwestern Rwanda has been all but obliterated. Stripped bare to support the resource needs of the country's rapidly growing population and economy, the Gishwati area now suffers from continual landslides, erosion, and flooding. A DEVELOP team of interns at Langley Research Center and Wise County, Virginia applied NASA EOS to monitoring deforestation and reforestation efforts to enhance policy and decision making in Rwanda.

The newly launched Aquarius sensor, on board the SAC-D satellite, measures the salinity of ocean surfaces. Currently, nearshore coastline data from Aquarius is not accounted for due to land surface interruptions. The Langley DEVELOP team's task is to create a method for testing how close to the coastline Aquarius observations can be made effective through an analysis of the Amazon River Delta's low salinity plume.

This summer, DEVELOP interns at Ames Research Center utilized interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to analyze glacial dynamics with respect to climate in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The project's goal was to examine the size and speed of various glaciers in the Aleutian Archipelago and compare them to temperature and precipitation records.