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International Geospatial Briefing Jan 31st: 1. Exploring the World’s Food Sources; 2. Tracking Sinkholes with Satellites; 3. New Map Shows 2016 Methane Emissions Worldwide; 4. AI and McDonald’s Locations; 5. Satellites Proving Useful in Aftermath of Tonga Eruption
New Interactive Map Explores World’s Food Sources A new application recently published by Visual Capitalist allows users to explore food…
International Geospatial Briefing August 30th: Climate Change Atlas from the IPCC; Space Junk Collisions Tech to Prevent; Chinese Team is 3rd to Create Carbon Flux Models; A Facelift for Antarctic Maps; Open Source Data is Putting the World’s Slums on the Map; Visualizing the World’s News – Mapping the Taliban’s Capture of Afghanistan
An Incredible New Interactive Atlas from the IPCC for Visualizing Climate Data Worldwide this summer, we have seen devastating wildfires…
Book Review: Two Trees Make a Forest
Written by: Jessica J. Lee We can’t travel at the moment but this book might just be the next best…
International Geospatial Briefing for November 2nd: Scottish Geospatial Network Integrator; Tracking Banana diseases using aerial imagery; Lidar data for faster building engineering and architecture; China’s 31st launch of 2020
New support to grow Scottish geospatial sector Although Scotland location-based sector is thriving, Scottish Enterprise’s research has revealed that further…
International Geospatial Briefing for Sept 28: Chinese launch failure; HERE Data access; Free Aerial Imagery basemap of New Zealand; SpaceX internet 700 satellites; GIS is powering solutions; Teaching disaster management through GIS games
China’s launch of new satellite fails Jilin-1 Gaofen 02C, the new Chinese satellite failed to enter the preset orbit on…
Your International Geospatial Briefing for September 14th: Where the GISP’s are; China’s new Earth Observation Sattelite; COVID-19 push to aerial surveying; Interdisciplinary data-driven approach; Interactive historic map that shows your hometown’s location 750 million years ago
A Look at where the GISPs are Dr Dapeng Li, an assistant professor at South Dakota State University, and a…
Your International Geospatial Briefing for August 31st: Trimble and Totalmobile Awarded HS2; Everest survey succeeds; Underwater heat blob growing in the Arctic; China Launches Beidou; Amazonian Tribe Applies Location Intelligence
Trimble and Totalmobile Awarded HS2 Contract from Civil Engineering Contractor EKFB Trimble and Totalmobile have developed the first cloud-based vehicle…
Your Global Geospatial Briefing for July 29th: China launches new remote sensing satellites; Arming IoT with geospatial analytics; Ordnance Survey hits legal dispute; Location Analytics & Business Intelligence advisory board announced; Classifying Urban Poor Areas with Satellite Imagery
In Xichang on July 26th2019, a group of new remote sensing satellites were sent into orbit. The satellites have entered…
Your Global Geospatial Briefing for March 11th: Autonomous cars; Hong Kong spatial data; smart phone data; YGP Award
Who will own the data collected by autonomous vehicles? Who will own the data collected by autonomous vehicles? That is…
Your Global Geospatial Briefing for December 3rd: Chinese data collection; Digital Globe and AWS; Open Data Institute; UK Geospatial Commission
China collects data from foreign car firms More than 200 car makers selling electric vehicles in China — including Tesla,…
Your Global Geospatial Briefing for June 4th: Free Sentinal-2 images; GEO Business; Hexagon and Klau Geomatics; Gaofen-6; Galileo second generation
ESRI users will receive Sentinel-2 Image Services free Imagery from the Earth Observation Satellite Sentinel-2 is available through the Living…
Your Global Location Technology Briefing for May 8th: Copernicus, Smart Cities, Cambridge Analytica, EarthTime, Landsat & half a quarter of a billion dollars of geospatial contracts
These stories are making waves in world geospatial news. The dark side of smart cities, a possible pay-wall for Landsat…
