I spent a couple of of very worthwhile days in Washington DC this week attending GeoBuiz Summit. A top highlight of the sessions was the presentation by Greg Turetzky, Principal Engineer in the GNSS and […]
The electricity industry is undergoing a transformation. With utilities embracing geospatial technology and turning into data driven enterprises in the Smart Grid scenario, the sector is staring at an innovative future. The National Academy of […]
At the beginning of May Elon Musk gave a presentation is which he offered his vision of an alternative to fossil fuels as the future of humanity’s energy sourcing and delivery. Musk’s long term objective […]
Prashant Shukle, Director General of Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) at Natural Resources Canada, invited the Canadian geospatial community to a pre-release discussion of the just released Canadian Geomatics Environmental Scan and Economic […]
According to a recent article in Science, 132 CubeSats were launched in 2014. The original 1U CubeSat, designed in 1999, was a 10 cm cube weighing less than a kilogram. They could be launched on […]
A new open journal Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards provides an advanced forum for the science and technology of open data, crowdsourced information, and sensor web through the publication of reviews and regular research papers. […]
Registration for the FOSS4G 2015 Conference in Seoul has opened. There is only one week left to submit your abstracts for presentations (closing April 24th). Some ideas for topics include Development: new development in projects. […]
In November, 2012 Navigant Research released a report on building optimization and commissioning services in which it estimated that the global market for these services amounted to $2.2 billion annually in 2012. Navigant predicted that […]