Monthly Archives: March 2015
InsiteVR Takes Virtual Reality Beyond Gaming, into Design
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InsiteVR helps viewers better understand a variety of designs by experiencing them from a realistic perspective. On behalf of V1 Media, Informed Infrastructure and GeoSpatial Stream, Todd Danielson interviewed Angel Say and Russell Varriale, co-founders of InsiteVR, at the Geodesign Summit 2015 in Redlands, Calif.
3_26 Infrastructure Broadcast (Urban Sprawl, Climate Change and More)
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This Infrastructure-themed GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses a new report on the varied negative impacts of urban sprawl; an article in Informed Infrastructure about the effects of climate change on aging infrastructure; a summary of recent infrastructure spending; industry news from Esri, Topcon Positioning Group, Digi-Star, Space Foundation, Taylor Devices and Trimble; efforts from URISA's GISCorp in disaster-stricken Vanuatu; and more.
Living History: The John Feathers Map Collection
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LAPL Map Librarian Glen Creason tells the tale of an amazing hidden map collection that doubled the library's archive in a single day. http://lareviewofbooks.org/av/
Ordnance Survey: Finding a Way
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Ordnance Survey is very proud to be introducing a refreshed visual identity. Take a look at how much we've changed in our 224 years.
Orion: Trial By Fire
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NASA’s newest spacecraft, Orion, will be launching into space for the first time in December 2014, on a flight that will take it farther than any spacecraft built to carry humans has gone in more than 40 years and through temperatures twice as hot as molten lava to put its critical systems to the test.
“Mapping the Universe” with Daniel Eisenstein
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Galaxies are not scattered randomly throughout the universe. Instead, they group into stringy filaments that span hundreds of millions of light-years. How did such structure evolve from the bland primordial soup that followed the Big Bang? New clues are coming from an ambitious mapping project, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has measured the distance to galaxies halfway across the observable universe. Daniel Eisenstein is director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
