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Google Glass Explorer Story: WWF’s Sabita Malla
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WWF's Sabita Malla is exploring how Glass can help protect rhinos.
Happy GIS Day 2019: A Message from Jack Dangermond
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Jack Dangermond wishes the world a happy GIS Day 2019. Jack thanks all the event organizers and participants and explains the importance of their events in this 20th year celebration of GIS.
Arctic Traffic
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As climate change melts sea ice and opens the Arctic Ocean to more shipping and oil exploration, marine mammals and native people in small boats are at risk. Watch this video from This American Land and then read a related article from Earth Imaging Journal at http://eijournal.com/print/articles/monitoring-polar-changes-scientists-deploy-many-tools-to-measure-sea-ice-thickness to learn more on this topic.
“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.
NASA Langley Celebrates 100 Years
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Something happened 100 years ago that changed forever the way we fly, the way we explore space and how we study our home planet. That something was the establishment of what is now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, which commemorated its 100th anniversary on July 17, 2017.
Why Attend Bentley Systems YII 2016
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This video from Bentley Systems shows highlights of the 2015 event and what attendees can expect if they convene in London in 2016.
Earth from Space: Seville
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Seville in southern Spain, where ESA's next Ministerial Council will soon take place, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space program.
9_18 Climate Change Broadcast (CO2 Mapping, Open Data and More)
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This GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses new research on greenhouse gas emissions worldwide; open data and sustainability innovation; a lost Russian satellite; a geospatial search engine from the U.S. Library of Congress; industry news from Cadcorp, Bentley Systems, Esri and Innovyze; opinions on the recent URISA GIS-Pro conference; and more.
Taking Earth’s Temperature from Space
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Climate change exacerbates droughts by making them more frequent, longer, and more severe. This can have a wide range of impacts on the environment, agriculture, ecosystems and communities including water scarcity, cr...
10_15 Earth Imaging Broadcast (Hurricanes, Wildfire Mapping and More)
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This Earth Imaging-themed GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses satellite imagery used to track and understand hurricanes, including the Atlantic's Joaquin and the Pacific's triplet hurricanes of Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena; remote sensing used to map and characterize capuchin monkey habitat; a Re/Code video news story about smallsats helping with wildfires; industry news from MDA, Blue Water Satellite, NASA and Esri; clips from a V1 Media video interview of Patrick Meier, founder of the Humanitarian UAV Network; and more.
