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Application Domains: WWJava on Multi-Touch Wall

posted by lxnyce on Friday May 09, @01:29PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the upcoming-technology dept.
Visual Simulation
The Earth Is Square blog has a nice summary and movie showing off WorldWind Java running on a multi touch surface. There isn't much of a summary, as the video speaks for itself, so head on over there to check out the video. The concept itself isn't really new, as it was presented here in February 06 using WW. Check out the related stories for posts we've done in the past relating to multi touch.

Application Domains: National Geographic Unveils Greendex

posted by lxnyce on Friday May 09, @01:20PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the making-the-web-greener dept.
Environment
Here is an excerpt of the announcement via the Spatial Sustain blog : "The National Geographic Society has teamed with the international polling firm GlobeScan to conduct a survey that measures and monitors consumer consumption patterns by country. The Greendex is aimed at giving consumers a better understanding of how people across the globe are adapting their consumption habits to make the world a more environmentally sustainable place."

For more information, please visit the Spatial Sustain blog.
Application Domains: Geospatial Web Services And Why Use Them

Industry: Microsoft Sued Over Terraserver

posted by lxnyce on Thursday May 08, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the trademarks-will-get-you dept.
Microsoft
All Points Blog reports that Microsoft is currently being sued by TerraServer.com over the use of the Terraserver name. From their summary : "Microsoft's TerraServer-USA satellite imagery project has been slapped with a trademark lawsuit from a small North Carolina company with a confusingly similar name.

Terraserver.com filed the suit on Friday in North Carolina federal court, seeking monetary damages and asking that Microsoft be stopped from using the TerraServer name."

For more information, please visit the All Points Blog.

Industry: FAA Aeronautical Charts In WorldWind Coming Soon

posted by lxnyce on Thursday May 08, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the mapping-the-skies dept.
NASA
The Earth Is Square blog brings us news about this new WorldWind layer. From their summary : "WorldWind forum member nlneilson and FEF are working to bring the FAA Aeronautical Charts to the masses. It is getting closer to becoming live, the data just needs to be processed and put online. Here is a sample of how it will look in WorldWind (screen shots are from WWJava)."
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For more information and a better preview, please visit the Earth Is Square blog.

Technology: Satellite images available for Disasters in both Canada and Myanmar

posted by gignacnic on Thursday May 08, @01:06PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the Geo-Disaster-Watch dept.
Satellites & sensors
The International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" founded by the European Space Agency has been activated for the heavy flooding in Fredericton (Canada) and the Cyclone Nargis in Yangon (Myanmar). Images are available for both events here for Fredericton and Yangon.

Industry: NASA Shows Knowledge Planet at JavaOne Conference

posted by Satri on Thursday May 08, @10:11AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the applied-knowledge-leading-to-decision-making dept.
Research
ecoresearch writes "At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, NASA developers showed that virtual globes are not only suited to explore geographic maps, but can also serve as rendering engines for other types of imagery. Tom Gaskins, who leads the NASA World Wind engineering team, demonstrated the first public Knowledge Planet prototype, a Java applet developed by the Austrian IDIOM Research Project that visualizes large document collections using a landscape metaphor. The peaks of the virtual landscape indicate abundant coverage on a particular topic, whereas valleys and oceans represent sparsely populated parts of the information space. The applet draws upon the extensive news archive of the Media Watch on Climate Change, which provides a continuously updated account of media coverage on climate change and related issues." Some related stories below.

Technology: China to Deploy Secure GPS by 2010

posted by Satri on Thursday May 08, @09:12AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the dragons-in-the-sky dept.
GPS
Slashdot discuss a Space.com article on the upcoming Chinese GPS/Glonass/Galileo competition named Beidou. Their summary: "Unsatisfied by the reliance of American GPS navigation system and not feeling much security joining the European Galileo system, China will expand its 4-satellite Beidou navigation system to a full-fledged, competitive, and encrypted system by 2010." See related stories below, Beidou, also known as Compass, was discussed several times before.

Technology: Google Maps and Google Earth Sightseeing

posted by Satri on Thursday May 08, @08:36AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the look-how-special-your-world-is dept.
Web Mapping
Brett Meyer writes "Introducting http://www.satellitesights.com, a Google Maps and Google Earth sightseeing project. The locations are completely community driven and maintained, displayed in a fresh and clean interface utilizing embedded Google Maps. Images are also viewable through downloadable Google Maps KML files." This new site is not the only one in its category, which ones do you also suggest?

Technology: GISCorps Update and Existing Similar Initiatives?

posted by Satri on Wednesday May 07, @06:54AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the best-of-all-worlds dept.
Ask Slashgeo
Over two years ago we mentioned the GISCorps program. My question for you is if you're aware of similar initiatives elsewhere in the world? A colleague informed me about the Geomatique: Projets sans frontieres association (Geomatics: projects without borders) at Laval University, Canada, but is there more? Meanwhile, the GISCorps seems to successfully attract enthusiasts, from their website: "A program of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), GISCorps coordinates short term, volunteer GIS services to underprivileged communities worldwide. Our services support humanitarian relief, community development, local capacity building, health and education. GISCorps is run by a Core Committee who e-meet monthly but e-communicate daily. As of February 2008, GISCorps counts over 1,195 enlisted volunteers. They reside in 63 countries over five continents and are natives of 72 countries. The US volunteers come from 50 states. To date GISCorps has implemented 30 missions around the globe, deployed 77 volunteers who have contributed over 5,500 working hours."

Industry: 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial AR

posted by Satri on Tuesday May 06, @07:25PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the steps-closer-to-the-omega-point dept.
New Event
Dr. Thierry Badard writes "The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality (http://regard.crg.ulaval.ca) will be held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, from the 28-29th of August 2008. It follows the great success of the first edition that took place in Banff, AB, in 2006. This second edition will be the opportunity to pursue the discussions and reflections initiated between the geospatial and augmented reality communities. This year, the mobile game community will also be targeted by the workshop." The rest of the announcement below.

Industry: Line Of Sight In WWJava

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 06, @03:20PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the I-can-see-the-light dept.
NASA
The Earth Is Square blog informs us that there is a ray casting and line of sight implementation in WWJava by way of Patrick Murris's blog. Here is an excerpt from Patrick's blog : "It is a common issue to be able to find out where in the world does a line intersect the terrain surface. The WorldWind Java SDK allows to resolve the intersection from the eye point of view using the pick process - based on drawing objects in unique colors, but that does not help much when you need to compute such intersections from another perspective, like for line of sight calculations."
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Please visit the links above for more information.

Application Domains: California Adopts GISCI

posted by Sunburned Surveyor on Tuesday May 06, @03:14PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
Education
The California GIS Council (CGC), the primary geographic information systems coordinating council for the state, has formally endorsed the GIS Certification Institute's (GISCI) certification program for GIS professionals.

You can read the full announcement at Directions Magazine.

Industry: NASA is Everywhere!

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 06, @11:28AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the yes-we're-important dept.
NASA
The VerySpatial blog points us to an article and flash demonstration site showing things in our daily lives discovered or advanced by NASA. It's worth a look to see how space technology trickles down into our everyday life. From their summary : "NASA has posted a pretty cool new site to help people understand how they have impacted everyone’s life in so many ways. It’s called NASA @ Home and City. They’re want to remind everyone that they’re not just about “space”. While a lot of their technologies really aren’t spatial (cosmetics, for example), there is an impressive display of geographic related materials they have impacted. Stuff from environmental cleanup and monitoring to simply travel technologies."

Please visit the VerySpatial blog for more information and a link to the NASA demonstration.

Industry: NASA Time Animation of Ionosphere

posted by lxnyce on Monday May 05, @11:34AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the your-tax-money-at-work dept.
NASA
The Google Earth Blog has an article with this new animated layer for Google Earth from NASA. Along with this layer, the GE Blog also points out a couple of other layers that NASA has recently released. Here is a summary excerpt of this layer from the blog : "The ionosphere is used to bounce radio signals over the horizon for long distance communication. But, when storms occur on the sun's surface they can mess up parts of the ionosphere and disrupt ionosphere-based communications."

Check out the article for more information.
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