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SSSC2013 hot spots
The Surveying & Spatial Sciences Conference 2013, held 15-19 April at the National Convention Centre in Canberra, aims to focus on all five commissions’ interests.
SSSI Networking Drinks
Networking drinks will be held after the Remote Sensing & Earth Oberservation Fields Seminar. WHEN: 2013-01-30 to 2013-01-30WHERE: Cafe Lounge, 277 Goulburn St, Surry Hills.STATE: NSWCOUNTRY: AUS After the Remote Sensing & Earth Oberservation Fields Seminar being held at ISNSW Office from 1:30pm to 5pm we will be having SSSI Networking Drinks at Cafe Lounge […]
Best of the Blogs 11/12/12
IEEE Spectrum talk of highlights from a recent drone games competition, where competitors were invited to hack existing drones. The winner was a drone that infected other drones with a virus, which then spread to other drones they came across. Other notable drones included one that would “behave itself on the end of a leash, […]
Best of the Blogs 8 May 2012
The ever-interesting O’Reilly Radar has a great piece on the history of data journalism. If you don’t know what it is, it’s worth a look, but even if you do, you should take a look anyway, as the practice is works hand-in-hand with geospatial data. GIS Café has an overview of GeoEye’s public […]
Worldview-3 satellite announced
Walter Scott, the founder and chief technical officer of DigitalGlobe has used the 28th Annual National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs to announce the go-ahead of his company's WorldView-3 spacecraft. According to a set of specifications released for the new spacecraft, it will carry pan, multi-spectral and short-wave infra-red (SWIR) sensors, with a […]
Real -Time Humanitarian Imagery
In an effort to support humanitarian relief and human security activities around the world, DigitalGlobe has formed an alliance with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) using FirstLook. UNOSAT aims to use satellite imagery for relief efforts, security, and strategic territorial and development planning within and outside of […]
Best of the Blogs 20th September 2011
Fuzzy Tolerance has posted a simply incredible time-lapse video taken as the ISS passes over Earth. Maybe while you’re watching it you can pretend you’re in a spaceship preparing to touch down on planet Earth (not that I did that or anything…). Keep your good eye out for the lightning in the clouds. Spectacular! […]
Best of the Blogs 1st March 2011
The All Points Blog tells us about Digitalglobe’s new CEO. Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft, according to All Things Spatial. A new report from the US Geological Survey tackles the topic of Landsat and other sources of satellite imagery, according to GIS-user. A new study sponsored by Microsoft found the most important […]
Estimating company profits by satellite
Wall Street analysts have used satellite imagery of Wal-Marts to help them estimate the company's sales, according to a report on CNBC. The analysts concluded that there was enough correlation between activity in the satellite pictures of Wal-Mart’s parking lots and the chain’s quarterly earnings that they included the data in a UBS company […]
