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GITA Quick Notes:
GITA Annual Business Meeting online, TODAY, Dec. 9, 2 p.m. CST. Connect information.
GITA Announces UMGEOCON 2016 Call for Presentations and Workshops. Details here.
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Sensors & Systems
Some truly incredible and immersive virtual reality experiences are reaching the masses this year. The advent of realistic and believable environments has the near-term possibility of allowing us to experience and navigate our planet in new ways.
Think of yourself wading through the shoreline or a coastal city or flying through a national park. This kind of awe-inspiring experience has been the subject of movies for some time, and soon you may strap on goggles and be able to experience the same thing under your own direction.
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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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GPS World
The late, great, oft-quoted Yogi Berra, in an interview shortly before his passing, was quoted as saying, "I never said most of the things I said." For our purposes, let's concentrate on one of his most famous quotes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
On to GPS. I use the term GPS in a ubiquitous PNT (position, navigation and timing) sense for simplicity, because most people today use the term in a universal sense, similar to how we say "Google It" no matter which search engine we're actually using.
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ZD Net
The Australian Geocoded National Address File and Administrative Boundaries datasets will be openly available from February next year following on from the Australian Government Public Data Policy Statement.
Under the policy statement, Australian government entities will make non-sensitive data open by default; where possible, create "free, easy to use, high quality and reliable" application programming interfaces; ensure that data is enduring and updated frequently; where possible, make non-sensitive publicly funded research data available for use and reuse; only charge for specialised data services; and, where possible, publish resulting data by default.
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Global Construction Review
The UK's University of Nottingham has teamed up with the huge construction conglomerate China Railway Group to develop and commercialize advanced satellite techniques to monitor the structural integrity of bridges.
The MoU triggers a direct investment of €600,000 from China Railway Group to support the project, which earlier received €2.3 million from the European Space Agency.
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Blackbird PR News
Over the last eight-plus years, I've been fortunate to work with many of the top innovators in the geospatial industry (in both the public and private sector) who have been working towards bringing geospatial data and analytics into everyone's daily lives. In my former role(s), I have had the privilege of working to bring products to market that enabled organizations to collaborate and interact with spatial information in simple and easy ways designed for "the rest of the world" (translation: not just GIS power users).
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Inside GNSS
The constant growth and evolution of the positioning, navigation, and timing market generate demands for more and more added-value applications and services relying on GNSS signals, with expectations for improved accuracy and availability. Some services may also rely on added-value content other than navigation messages, for example, higher data volume with less latency, such as the data carried by satellite-based augmentation system services and the Galileo Commercial Service.
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St. Louis Public Radio via Missouri Business Alert
As the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency looks for a new home, developer Paul McKee, who owns the majority of the land within the proposed north St. Louis NGA site, continues to drive a hard bargain with the city for his land.
McKee was instrumental in getting the St. Louis site on the NGA's short list, but continued disagreements over the land eventually forced the city to include McKee and 19 property owners in an aldermanic resolution to authorize eminent domain, the court process for forcing land sales.
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Inside Unmanned Systems
When firefighters arrive at a wildfire, they know the dangers involved. These complex fires create their own weather, and it's very difficult to predict what direction they might take. The brave people battling these blazes must often make decisions despite considerable uncertainty in situations where the wrong choices could lead to more damage and even death.
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Smart Grid News
A Dutch architect has developed a new technique to generate free energy in a sustainable way at home, whereby energy is released by perpetually unbalancing a weight — offering an alternative to solar and wind technology.
"Intuitively, I thought that gravity must have something to offer, given that everything is drawn to earth," co-creator Janjaap Ruijssenaars of Universe Architecture said.
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GIS User
Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Well, don't get your hopes up too high. To help confirm your wishes, NOAA developed this fun map last year showing the probability past on historical data of places having more than one inch of the white stuff on Dec. 25
Minnesota. Maine. Upstate New York. The Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Practically anywhere in Idaho. And of course, the Rockies or the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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