Bloomberg's Sheila Dharmarajan reports that GPS jamming devices used by truckers to prevent their employers from locating them are up to 1 billion times more powerful than GPS transmissions, blanking out airport landing systems and endangering air traffic navigation.

Procative location intelligence as described by Asaf Adi from IBM Research in Haifa, Israel.

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.

Apple Tries to Keep Edge With New iPad - a report by Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Vascellaro.

From TechCrunch, "I shot 3 different videos yesterday that describe Metaio’s new Creator Mobile software which allows you map real environments to hold augmented, digital content. Of all those videos (shot in well-lit, more stabilized sound environments) the best example to describe the system, of course, shows up at an off site event in a loud, dark room. Yet again, I busted out the “Rogue Ghetto Cam” (aka iPhone 4S) to capture the content. My apologies for the shakiness."

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.

How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.

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 "Blue Marble" images are made and how they relate to scientific study of the Earth.