New Zealand’s emergency services are now able access to spatial data and aerial imagery online to assist with the clean up of the devastating earthquake last week. The earthquake reached 7.0 on the Richter scale and caused NZ$2bn of damage, though nobody was killed. The online service, developed by the Australian Research Collaboration Service […]
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FBI has an eye in the sky
US charity Consumer Watchdog is conducting an investigation into how the FBI and the DEA are making use of Google Earth images. Federal contracting records reviewed by the organisation show that the FBI has spent more than US$600,000 on Google Earth since 2007, while the Drug Enforcement Administration has spent more than US$67,000. John […]
US Gets First Female Geo-Spy Chief
The US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has appointed Letitia Long as its new director, the first woman to head up a US major intelligence agency. The Agency collects and analyses satellite and airborne imagery and provides map-based intelligence for military, national security and humanitarian efforts. Speaking at Long’s appointment ceremony, US Secretary of Defense […]
International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Congress
Eight exciting days of tutorials, workshops, presentations and technical tours. WHEN: 2012-08-25 to 2012-09-01WHERE: MelbourneSTATE: VICCOUNTRY: AUS The theme for the Congress is Imaging a Sustainable Future. Images, whether of the visible or non-visible spectrum, whether aerial or satellite, or whether of agriculture or cultural heritage, are a fundamental resource for sustaining the future of humankind. […]
Google and e-GEOS
E-GEOS has become a Google enterprise imagery partner in Italy. The company is a subsidiary set up by the Telespazio Group and the Italian Space Agency. It will develop and distribute geospatial solutions based on Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) technology. E-GEOS is the exclusive distributor of the COSMO-SkyMed radar satellite constellation. Its clients will now […]
GeoEye Web Mapping Service
GeoEye will provide web mapping services under the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 's Rapid Delivery program. This is an extension of an earlier contract with the NGA. The imagery provider’s dissemination system can provide secure access to unclassified, high-resolution colour imagery of an entire country over the web. Images are acquired by the GeoEye-1 […]
Earthquake Prediction After Sichuan
PAUL GRAD A massive earthquake hit China’s Sichuan Province on 12 May. As aftershocks and landslides threatened further loss of life and property damage, a team from the University of New South Wales joined several other organisations to provide detailed satellite images of the affected area. The earth tremor was of magnitude 8.0 on the […]
Iran’s Space Ambitions
PARVIZ TARIKHI On 4 February the Islamic Republic of Iran successfully launched a sub-orbital rocket called Safir ('Envoy' in Farsi) from its newly-opened domestic launch site in the northeast of the country. The rocket is also called Kavoshgar-1 or Explorer-1. On-board instrumentation sent telemetry back to the control centre from an altitude of about 250 […]
Designing Maps for the Web
JOSE DIACONO Good cartography for online mapping is about what you show, how you show it and how fast. No matter how current and correct your GIS information, such distractions as slow display, spidery fonts, obscure icons or cluttered symbology will turn off an increasingly demanding public. They just need answers. Unfortunately, however, it is […]
Inside GEOSS
PARVIZ TARIKHI At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, delegates highlighted the urgency of co-ordinated Earth observation. The following year, the meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrialised countries (the G8) in Evian, France, gave shape to this urgency by setting priorities for Earth observation. These meetings recognised that international […]
