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3-D Laser Maps Show How Major Quakes Rend the Earth‎ - Popular Science

Read More About: earthquakes, lidar, remote sensing

"Using lasers to map the Earth following an earthquake could reveal exactly where the planet’s crust ruptured, augmenting other seismological networks that document the destruction. With detailed maps, experts could potentially judge where the Earth might split — not necessarily predicting earthquakes, but pinpointing their likely locations and preparing for the worst hazards associated with them."

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/3-d-laser-maps-show-how-major-quakes-rend-earth

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Privacy and Personal Geographic Data

At the Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society conference in Boston, Kirk Goldsberry, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, gave a fascinatng presentation with the help of two of his students on the topic of personal geographic data and privacy. Geoff Zeiss provides a recap.