Archive for the ‘sensor web’ Category
Hexagon’s “GIS with Activity” Vision #Intergraph2010
Media and analysts had a chance to sit down with Ola Rollén, CEO of Hexagon, at lunch today at the Intergraph 2010 conference. Rollén was very forthcoming regarding the company strategy and vision for what a model that is integrated with sensors might look like. When asked about interests in the agriculture market, Rollén shared [...]
How creepy does the use of geospatial technology need to get before there’s a major backlash?
With the school year started, I embellished a description of the parent web portal at my sons’ school, indicating that in addition to providing us feedback on assignments and tracking their performance, there were also sensors throughout the school that would track and report their movements and could tell if they were paying attention. My [...]
Avatar Director James Cameron Promotes NASA Earth Observation
Avatar director James Cameron filmed a series of short one-minute video clips for NASA touting the importance of earth observation to “help us see how interconnected our ‘real’ planet is.” He discusses the fact that we now know that we are part of the global network called Earth,” and encourages viewers to, “take a look [...]
Iridium Sensor Program May Lead to Earth Observation Payloads
The Iridium Communications satellite constellation has been used to observe and report on space weather phenomenon through partnership with Boeing and the John Hopkins Applied Research Lab (APL). The success of this program that uses sensors already aboard the satellites has Iridium thinking about adding earth observation and remote sensing sensors on the next-generation of [...]
India Gains a Platform to Advocate Effective Governance
The open source mapping and reporting platform Ushahidi has spawned a customized hosted service for India that aims to promote effective governance through awareness and citizen engagement. The site is called kiirti, which is Sanskrit for report or reputation, combines mapping functionality with reporting tools through phone, sms, emal and the Web. Ushahidi, Swahili for [...]
American Museum of Natural History Offers an Augmented Experience
You’ve likely traveled through a museum exhibit listening to a canned narration through headphones. The experience adds a good deal of context and background to what you see, but you’re forced to walk through and view the exhibit by the numbers, and there’s no easy way to extend this capability beyond a special exhibit to [...]
IBM to Open a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon
IBM is opening a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to develop sensors and systems to monitor the state of infrastructure. The intent is to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure. The software and systems will be tuned to process, monitor and analyze the data from [...]
WikiLeaks Releases Afghanistan War Data with Location
WikiLeaks has released a document set of more than 91,000 reports from soldiers that detail military actions, intelligence information and meetings with political figures in Afghanistan on this website. The detailed and now open nature of these reports with their geolocation is unprecedented, and offers a rich set of geospatial data to be mined for [...]
The Possibility for Open Environmental Monitoring Across Borders
This week the foreign ministers of Brazil and Uruguay held talks about a “real time, open environmental monitoring” of the River Uruguay. These talks are important from many aspects.
sensor and open Web-based monitoring platforms now make it possible to make this vision a reality
the movement for more open data access and government transparency can be [...]
How the U-City Concept will Impact the Geospatial Industry
The following is an advance summary of a talk that I’m giving this Friday at the Nevada GIS Conference in Las Vegas. The title is, “Can U-City be Our City?: How South Korea’s Vision for a Wireless Sensor City Will Impact Geospatial Practice.”
You’ve likely heard of South Korea’s U-City concept, where the u [...]