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GITA Quick Note:
GITA-Japan will host its annual conference Nov. 5-6 in the Tokyo metropolitan region.
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Directions Magazine
The U.S. Government Accountability Office released an important report that underscores the need for funding K-12 geography education in the United States. The Association of American Geographers provided substantial input to GAO during their process of developing this report.
"The GAO report is another clarion call for the need to support geography education in the U.S.," said AAG Executive Director Douglas Richardson.
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Getting a drone in the U.S. for the holidays? Plan on registering it with the Department of Transportation and the FAA.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the creation of a task force that will develop a process for registering drones, also known as unmanned aircraft systems.
"The registration will reinforce the need for unmanned aircraft users, including consumers and hobbyists, to operate their drones safely," Foxx said.
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Inside GNSS
The U.S. Department of Transportation is finalizing its blueprint for long-awaited tests to determine the power limits needed to protect GPS receivers.
The Adjacent-Band Compatibility Assessment is part of a plan to develop masks — a set of power limits by frequency — for the bands near the GPS L1 signal. Eventually covering all GPS civil receivers present and future, the masks are a way to give potential users of frequencies neighboring the GPS frequencies clear limits against which to measure their plans and proposals.
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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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Sensors & Systems
The barriers to our understanding of land change and interactions with Earth systems are on the cusp of coming down, thanks to the many ways that our ability to sense are improving and becoming more accessible and affordable. There are so many new (and coming) sensing abilities that it's a difficult time to chart the path forward in terms of technology investments and sensor and system architecture.
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Business Insider
Sometimes all it takes is a little perspective to see how our actions are affecting the planet.
And what better perspective than from space?
Climate change due to human activity is causing visible shifts on our planet, and NASA is uniquely positioned to observe these effects. "If we continue on our current course, it's going to be hard to feed this planet because it's so hot," Ellen Stofan, NASA's chief scientist, told Business Insider.
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GIS User
A new algorithm for automated landslide inventorying, named the Contour Connection Method, has been developed that relies on simplified morphological features for analysis. Previous landslide mapping techniques have included field inventorying, photogrammetry, and use of bare-earth lidar Digital Elevation Models to highlight regions of instability. However, many of these techniques do not have sufficient accuracy, resolution or consistency for inventorying landslide deposits on a landscape scale — with the exception being use of lidar bare earth digital elevation models.
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Smart Grid News
During the last year, partnerships between solar photovoltaics companies and energy storage system providers have increased rapidly, with their synergies giving way to a related nanogrid market, according to Navigant Research.
In fact, Navigant predicts global solar PV plus energy storage nanogrid revenue will grow from $1.2 billion in 2015 to $23.1 billion in 2024.
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GPS World
The International Technical Symposium on Navigation and Timing takes place Nov. 16-17 in Toulouse, France, bringing together experts in positioning, GNSS and air navigation. Registration is free, but mandatory, and the number of seats is limited.
Site of the symposium is the Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile. The symposium is organized by ENAC in cooperation with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales Communautés de Compétences Techniques Positionnement et Datation par Satellite.
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