Monthly Archives: October 2014
Kleinfelder Interview – Dick Wells, Transportation Market Manager
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Informed Infrastructure spoke with Dick Wells, transportation market manager and chair of the American Council of Engineering Companies at the opening of Kleinfelder’s new office in downtown Denver. The conversation touched on some of the major projects the company has underway, the rise of public-private partnerships, mission of the American Council of Engineering Companies with a view on the health of the infrastructure business, and working on leadership development.
URISA’s GIS-Pro 2014: Big Results in Big Easy
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URISA's GIS-Pro 2014 was held Sept. 8-11, 2014, in New Orleans. Todd Danielson, GeoSpatial Stream publisher, was at the event and created this video recap.
10_16 Asia-Pacific Broadcast (Tsunami Preparedness, NASA/India Partnerships and More)
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This Asia-Pacific-focused GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses several reports indicating that tsunami preparedness is improving in the region; a space-mission partnership between NASA and India's ISRO; the first images from China's Gaofen-2; a video from the University of South Australia's Global Sensor Network; industry news from MDA Information Systems, Esri, Xiaomi, Careland, Innovyze and Nobel Systems; and more.
Kleinfelder Interview – Bill Siegel, CEO
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Informed Infrastructure spoke with Bill Siegel, CEO of Kleinfelder, at the opening of the company’s new office in downtown Denver. The conversation touched on the company’s growth through the recession, the trend toward mega-mergers in the AEC industry, and the need to address aging infrastructure.
Make It Wearable Finalists: Meet Team Nixie
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Team Nixie (http://flynixie.com) is developing the first wearable drone camera, which can be worn around your wrist. The team will be presenting their prototype for the Intel Make It Wearable Challenge Finale on November 3, 2014 in San Francisco. Learn more about Make It Wearable and follow the race to the finish line at http://makeit.intel.com. To find out more about Team Nixie, see their work at http://flynixie.com or follow them on https://www.facebook.com/flynixie.
Kleinfelder Interview – Rod Eisenbraun, National Dam and Levee Segment Manager
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Informed Infrastructure spoke with Rod Eisenbraun, national dam and levee segment manager, at the opening of Kleinfelder’s new office in downtown Denver. The conversation covered dam creation and rehabilitation, the need for more storage with increasing droughts, the more environmentally friendly approaches these days, and hydro power as a clean power source.
10_9 Earth Imaging Broadcast (Land-Cover Change, Seafloor Maps and More)
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This GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses Earth Imaging news, including new USGS land-cover change models; new maps of the world's seafloor; NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement satellite; industry news from Rapidlasso, Sewall and Optech; an imaging drone from Intel's wearable technology contest; and more.
Earth Images from ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst
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This timelapse video was made from images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. The video is offered in Ultra High Definition, the highest available to consumers. Be sure to change the settings in YouTube if your computer or television can handle it for the full effect. The montage is made from a long sequence of still photographs taken at a resolution of 4256 x 2832 pixels at a rate of one every second. The high resolution allowed the ESA production team to create a 3840 x 2160 pixel movie, also known as Ultra HD or 4K. Playing these sequences at 25 frames per second, the film runs 25 times faster than it looks for the astronauts in space. The artistic effects of the light trails from stars and cities at night are created by superimposing the individual images and fading them out slowly. Alexander Gerst is a member of the International Space Station Expedition 40 crew. He is spending five and a half months living and working on the ISS for his Blue Dot mission.
Fully Integrated RiCOPTER UAV in Flight
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RiCOPTER is a high-performance UAV which can be equipped with the RIEGL VUX-1 survey-grade LiDAR sensor to offer a fully integrated turnkey solution and marks the first complete UAS LiDAR solution from one manufacturer.
Joe Berry’s “Eye-Witness to GIS’s 40-Year Evolution/Revolution” Presentation
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In the 40 years since the development of the digital map, what a map is (and isn’t) has greatly evolved. This presentation describes Joe Berry’s personal journey in geotechnology as a student, professor, consultant, software developer and entrepreneur. The insight is as relevant for the next generation of GIS’ers as it is to GIS cohorts who moved beyond mapping to “thinking with maps” and the boundless opportunities for integrating the new spatial paradigm into science, workplaces and daily lives.
