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FIRE: An ESA documentary
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The summer fire season is well under way in Europe – countries all around the Mediterranean are experiencing record temperatures coupled with huge wildfires that have led to mass evacuations. In this enthralling new E...
Tracing Demonstration for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
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This is a simple demonstration of what it looks like to trace for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It’s not meant as a full guide, just an example. If I’m too mumbly, please turn on the captions – the CC button below the video.
2_3 Earth Imaging Broadcast (El Niño, Satellite Launches and More)
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This Earth Imaging-themed GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses a crowdsourced effort to monitor coastal erosion in California caused by El Niño; recent satellite launches of Jason-3 for ocean measurements and the first satellite of the SpaceDataHighway; industry news from Aerial MOB, Quantum Spatial, URISA, TerraGo, Eos Positioning, Delair-Tech and SimActive; a video from Peru of vultures being used to monitor garbage; and more.
Space Weather Could Be Worse in the North
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Instead of a symmetrical distribution of energy between the northern and southern hemispheres through the year, scientists have used data from ESA’s Swarm mission, to discover that electromagnetic energy is preferentially channelled to the northern hemisphere.
7_23 Esri UC Broadcast (Video Recap, Exhibitor News and More)
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This GeoSpatial Stream broadcast covers news and events from the recent Esri User Conference in San Diego, including a video recap of speakers and topics; news from Esri on the Special Achievement in GIS Awards, its Tapestry Segmentation system and a partnership with European Schoolnet; exhibitor news from Topcon Positioning Group, Airbus Defense and Space, LizardTech and Scene Sharp; a clip from an interview with Jack Dangermond, Esri's president and founder; and more.
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.
Airbus Defense and Space Dealing with Big Data Management and Delivery Issues
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The V1 Video team interviewed Jessi Dick, Senior Marketing Manager of Online and Software Partnerships at Airbus Defence and Space, at the 2015 Esri User Conference in San Diego. We spoke about the growing volumes of data and the company’s tools managing data via portals, systems, streaming services and custom solutions.
Location Tracking and Advertising
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A video from The Economist describes how location technology is used to track online viewers.
Ron Roth and Anders Ekelund Interview
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Matt Ball interviews Ron Roth, product manager, Airborne LiDAR, Leica Geosystems, and Anders Ekelund, managing director, Airborne Hydrography AB. They discuss Leica's acquisition of Airborne Hydrography AB and the bathymetric products the company creates, including its Chiroptera system.
First Data from ESA’s Gaia Mission
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The first intermediate data release, containing, among other things, three-dimensional positions and two dimensional motions of a subset of two million stars, demonstrates that Gaia’s measurements are as precise as planned, paving the way to create the full map of one billion stars to be released towards the end of 2017.
