Category: Found on the Internet
Maker Trailer: A Documentary on the Maker Movement
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"Maker" is a feature-length documentary that looks into the current maker movement in America -- a new wave of Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-Together fueled by passion and powered by the advent of new technologies. The "Maker Movement", sometimes called the "Third Industrial Revolution," subverts traditional manufacturing by building on innovative concepts such as open source, local manufacturing, crowd funding, and digital fabrication. Breaking the hobbyist movement stereotype, "Maker" delves deep into this ecosystem of design and manufacturing in the Internet era. The film explores the ideas, tools, and personalities that are driving the Maker Movement -- and returns with a timely snapshot of one of the transforming influences of the current age.
Making Forest Information Systems Work for REDD+ and Beyond
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Watch this discussion forum from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. More and more countries have established and institutionalized sustainable, long-term and multi-purpose information systems in the context of REDD+ to support well-informed national policy formulation and decision making at different levels, and to meet national and international reporting needs. This panel discusses if they are used beyond estimating carbon stocks, how they improve global estimates and information, and how they can be most cost effective.
Making Forest Information Systems Work for REDD+ and Beyond
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Watch this discussion forum from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. More and more countries have established and institutionalized sustainable, long-term and multi-purpose information systems in the context of REDD+ to support well-informed national policy formulation and decision making at different levels, and to meet national and international reporting needs. This panel discusses if they are used beyond estimating carbon stocks, how they improve global estimates and information, and how they can be most cost effective.
Map Survey (1965)
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"Britain is the world's greatest map making country" announces the narrator. Various shots of maps being crafted. Large optical devices are used - a camera "as big as a fair sized room" is used to take photographs of the maps. We are at the Ordnance Survey Commission headquarters. Various shots of technicians looking at the large photographs.
Mapping an Asteroid with Lasers
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The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) will provide a three-dimensional map of asteroid Bennu’s shape, which will allow scientists to understand the context of the asteroid’s geography and the sample location. OLA is provided by the Canadian Space Agency in exchange for Canadian ownership of a portion of the returned asteroid sample. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space flight Center/Katrina Jackson
Marina Militare – Hydrography explained to kids
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The Navy Hydrographic Institute is the Italian Cartographic Centre designated to the production of official national nautical documents.
Measuring Forest Structure through a Lidar Lens
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Companion video of a New Phytologist paper "Seasonal and drought related changes in leaf area profiles depend on height and light environment in an Amazon forest."
Meet GEDI! The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation Sensor Aboard the ISS
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The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a full-waveform lidar instrument that produces detailed observations of the three-dimensional structure of the Earth’s surface. GEDI precisely measures forest can...
Meet ICON: NASA’s Airglow Explorer
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NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, launched on Nov. 7, 2018, and orbits above the upper atmosphere, through the bottom edge of near-Earth space.
Melting Ice and Rising Seas
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As the planet warms and glaciers and polar ice caps melt, the icy world is fast disappearing, says Julian Dowdeswell from the University of Cambridge. He asks how do we deal with rising sea levels and a changing Arctic?
