Category: Found on the Internet
Surveying, Mapping and GIS Expedition to British Virgin Islands
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FCC Geographer Byrne Receives Medal for National Broadband Map
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As the FCC’s geographic information officer, Michael Byrne helped create online maps and present data in ways that have made enormous amounts of information instantly available to consumers, citizen-activists and policymakers, and provided the business community with facts to make more informed commercial decisions.
Roger Tomlinson Tribute (Excerpt)
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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.
NASA Earth at Night
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In daylight our big blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. But the night - is electric. This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite (Suomi NPP).
The Algorithm Marketplace
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The Algorithm Marketplace provides automated analysis of aerial data acquired by UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). Using sophisticated algorithms, drone operators no longer need a background in geographic information system (GIS) or remote sensing to interpret their aerial data; instead, the marketplace provides an action-based report to improve management of assets.
International Space Station Gets a Ten-Year Extension
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The Global Sensor Network – University of South Australia
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Australia has a combined land and sea territory of more than 8 million square kilometers. Yet most of this is currently out of the reach of affordable communication. Now the University of South Australia's Institute for Telecommunications Research has turned this on its head, with the development of the Global Sensor Network. The Global Sensor Network is an innovative signal processing system which provides low cost, two-way, simultaeneous satellite communications to multiple users.
Atlas V WorldView Launch Broadcast Replay
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Watch a replay as the ULA's Atlas V launches the WorldView-4 launch for DigitalGlobe.
