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, […]
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Victoria Fellowship awarded to spatial data engineer
The number of people using online maps for navigation, emergency situations, tourism and public services is growing around the world. Many of these maps are created through Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and contain errors as contributors are often made by people untrained in cartographic methods. The implication of these errors can range from […]
Best of the Blogs 13 November 2012
The unofficial Google Earth Blog has all the details on the massive Google Mars update, made possible by new satellite imagery from the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Go check it out: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2012/11/big_updates_to_google_mars.html GIS Lounge has a post outlining some of the ways that people can learn GIS for free. A great resource for anyone […]
Best of the Blogs 6 November 2012
Very Spatial has published a video made by NASA that explains why Hurricane Sandy behaved the way that it did. Speaking of Hurricane Sandy, Esri has created a map that charts how the hurricane has affected voter turn-out in the US election. I always find it interesting when natural disasters (something the candidates have […]
Best of the Blogs 16 October 2012
Engadget has a post talking of a “space harpoon” created by Astrium that will be used to spear space junk and drag it into the atmosphere, causing it to burn up. With more and more space junk orbiting the planet, the risk of it damaging space infrastructure is only increasing. The BBC have a […]
Best of the Blogs 28 August 2012
GIS Lounge has a fascinating post that talks of research undertaken at TelAviv University and the University of California, Los Angeles, which has created a method for more precisely pinpointing the geographic origin of a person's ancestry, by developing an understanding of the spatial diversity of genes. LiDAR News has a piece on […]
Satellites reveal unprecedented Greenland melting
Greenland's surface ice cover last month melted over a larger area than ever detected in more than 30 years of satellite observations, NASA has said. According to measurements from three separate satellites analysed by NASA and university scientists, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July, the […]
Australia creates world’s first continent-scale mineral maps
A new suite of mineral maps will enable mining companies to increase the efficiency and viability of their exploration efforts. The world-first maps were generated from a ten-year archive of raw Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection (ASTER) data collected by NASA and the Japanese Government’s Japan Space Systems. CSIRO scientists have […]
Best of the Blogs 7 August 2012
This week saw the successful (yay!) landing of the latest Mars rover, Curiosity. If you missed the teary live landing, you can catch up on the mission details here. I don’t know about you, but I prefer this kinda thing to the Olympics. In fact, in the midst of all this space fever, […]
Landsat celebrates its 40th anniversary
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the first Landsat satellite. Landsat 1 was launched on 23 July 1972; at that time the satellite was known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS). It was the first Earth-observing satellite to be launched with the express intent to study and monitor […]
