One of the things that is required to make the vast quantity of satellite imagery easily searchable is a common way to query satellite data. The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog, known as STAC, is an open […]
There is a huge volume of satellite imagery that is being captured and has been captured over the past couple of decades. The challenge is to automatically find objects such as ships, trees, buildings, or […]
Since the formation of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO) in 2006, there has been an annual FOSS4G event that brings together open source geospatial developers, users and supporters from around the world. The first […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a U.S. Government intelligence agency and Department of Defence combat support agency. But it also provides support for disaster relief and humanitarian aid. At FOSS4GNA today in St. Louis […]
In its 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) assigned an overall grade of D+ to U.S. infrastructure. Addressing the problem of bringing national infrastructure up to a standard where it […]
Since first writing about accelerating world wide initiatives to map underground utilities in 2014 there has been increasing acceleration in the U.S. in technology innovation and development. Motivated by the escalating interest in underground infrastructure […]
Investment in research and development of technology for detecting and mapping underground infrastructure is accelerating. The Common Ground Alliance (CGA) has initiated an annual Common Ground Alliance Technology Report. The report not only describes existing […]
Automated feature extraction from satellite imagery has made major progress in the last year. Accurate building footprints extracted from high resolution satellite imagery are available from companies such as Ecopia (which has just announced a […]