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Volume 27 :: Number 3

[ Summer :: 2012 ]

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From DigitalGlobe and Astrium Geo-information Services
Astrium's Geo-Information Services and DigitalGlobe
The public is familiar with satellite imagery through consumer applications — most notably, Google Earth. GeoEye (Herndon, Va.) and DigitalGlobe (Longmont, Colo.) sell their ... read on
The Green Belt Movement
From Maps to Healthy Ecosystems
Founded by the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate Prof. Wangari Maathai in 1977, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) works at the grassroots to promote environmental conservation, empower ... read on
Crowdsource Mapping
Bridging Space and Disaster Response Communities
THE CARIBBEAN REGION, WHERE HAITI IS LOCATED, IS ANNUALLY EXPOSED TO HURRICANES and tropical storms, some of which trigger disasters that prompt requests for humanitarian ... read on
Legal Handbook
For Community Remote Sensing
Community remote sensing (CRS) is becoming a powerful tool with many important applications. CRS means that the community of users contributes data points to certain projects, ... read on
Mapping Seafloor Habitats
NOAA Uses Sonar, Lidar, and Optical
NOAA COLLECTS AND ANALYZES DETAILED SONAR, LIDAR AND OPTICAL IMAGERY DATA TO DETERMINE the best regulations and practices to preserve vital habitats. They are using ENVI image ... read on
Innovation in the Energy Industry
Earth Imagery for Solar, Oil and Gas
Due to unprecedented energy needs around the world, governments, corporations, NGOs and consumers are grappling with a number of difficult issues as they seek affordable and ... read on
The Future of Counterinsurgency
Altogether Quantitative, Scarcely Analytical ...
Richard Heiman,Computational Spatial Social ScientistData Tactics CorporationMcLean, VAMr. Richard Heimann (@rheimann) recentlyreturned from Afghanistan where he supported the ... read on
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NASA's "Blue Marble"
Our cover image is a "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s recently launched Earth-observing satellite, Suomi National Polar-orbiting ... read on
Secure World Foundation Forum
Report from the Space Conference of the Americas in Mexico

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