Throughout media day at the Year in Infrastructure 2017 (YII2017) conference I was on the edge of my chair because there were such tanatalizing hints of spatial technologies that might address major challenges of 21st […]
The EU has set three goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the catch phrase 20-20-20 by 2020 Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% from 1990 levels by 2020 Increase the share of renewable […]
A new datum or geospatial reference system is being introduced in the United States to become the official datum in 2022. At GIS in the Rockies, Pam Fromhertz of the NOAA National Geodetic Survey gave […]
An very interesting report on the geospatial imagery analytics market in 2017 and its growth through 2022 has been released by MarketsandMarkets. The analysis looks at different types of imagery analytics (imagery analytics, video analytics), […]
Geospatial technology – spatial data management and analytics – is being used in many industries outside of the traditional GIS sector. Analysts and IT folks in these industries may be surprised to find that the […]
At a GITA-sponsored webinar yesterday John Wertman, responsible for government relations at the American Association of Geographers (AAG), gave an insightful presentation about the Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2017 (S.1253) which has been introduced […]
The Sydney Light Rail Project is a $2.1 billion PPP project for 12 km of light rail to be completed by 2019. Prior to awarding the contract for construction the Department of Transport for New […]
Last week at a Goldschmidt conference in Paris it was reported that ice cores captured in Antarctica have been dated to 2.7 million years ago. Previously the oldest ice cores from Antarctica from the Dome […]