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GPS World
As the popularity of drones for personal use continues to increase, most of the people who have bought them are sensible folks who have registered their vehicles with the FAA (in the U.S.) and other authorities elsewhere. They respect the rules that have been laid down for them to operate — fly below 400 feet (recently increased by the FAA from 200 feet), don't fly over populated areas or people, and especially stay away from airports and the departure and approach paths for regular aircraft.
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National Geographic
The new David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University feels like a secret clubhouse for map lovers. To get there, you pass through a nondescript door in the library and climb two flights of stairs. But it's not just any stairwell: The walls are painted floor to ceiling with colorful maps.
At the top, glass doors etched with George Montague Wheeler's 1883 topographical map of Yosemite Valley open into a large room where slowly spinning globes sit atop wood bookcases stuffed with ancient atlases.
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Sensors & Systems
Computers have helped revolutionize the commercial world and transformed the lives of the general public through the development of the Internet and mobile technologies like the iPhone. But, practically speaking, they have done little for the good of our planet.
This troubled Carla Gomes, a computer science professor at Cornell University, and led her to embark on an effort to develop computational methods that can help cultivate a more sustainable world.
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Solve real-world GIS problems and explore cutting-edge technology like UAV at the University of Denver, where you can earn a graduate certificate or a Master of Science in Geographic Information Sciences entirely online. Watch the video to see the latest technologies being used in GIS at the University of Denver!
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Directions Magazine
Most professional data workflows include converting coordinates. Does converting points and working with projections ever make you feel like you're back in that math class that you were certain wasn't going to be useful in life? Whether you have a big stack of points or just one or two, we've found some options that may make life easier for you.
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Point of Beginning
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International has released an interactive report that finds 38 types of business operations have been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly unmanned aircraft systems commercially in the National Airspace System.
According to the report that analyzed more than 3,000 FAA exemptions, aerial photography received the most, followed by real estate and aerial inspection.
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CoreLogic
As a GIS professional, you understand that robust and quality data is at the heart of every business decision including land-use planning, mineral exploration, tax compliance, transportation, as well as infrastructure development and management. However, collecting data from various local government and other resources can be expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. Sadly identifying a single and trusted provider of quality data is not always easy. Until now.
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xyHt
Most of us are still working from individual workstations that have been purchased off the shelf from a retailer. A few of us are using work stations that were built and customized to each person's specific needs based on the types of work he or she is currently performing. This scenario causes the end user to forecast the types of work he or she will be doing in the future, along with the amount of that work, and from there select a workstation that will cover that predicted need.
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Smart Grid News
According to the latest research report released by Technavio, the global low voltage power cable market will likely reach more than $150 billion by 2020.
This prediction could also mean growth for electric vehicle charging and renewables integration.
Rising investment in smart grids in APAC, EMEA and the GCC countries is expected to be a significant factor in the market's growth during the forecast period.
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Information Management
A lot has been written about the interest in real-time data, but it turns out that many attendees to the recent Strata & Hadoop World conference in San Jose, Calif., want an experience that is even faster than that.
At least that is the take of Dennis Duckworth, director of product marketing at VoltDB. Duckworth shared his thoughts with Information Management with what this really means and how vendors must respond.
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Inside GNSS
The European Union has reached a deal with the British Ministry of Defense resolving a patent issue that could have limited the adoption of signals from the EU's Galileo satellite navigation constellation.
"The European Commission has secured access to UK-owned patents related to Galileo signal in space technologies which will allow for their use by chipset and receiver manufacturers on a royalty free basis," according to a joint UL/EC statement.
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