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As 2020 comes to a close, GITA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the newsbrief a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 6.
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Coping with Geospatial Data Overload
GeoData Point
From March 4: By 2020, it is estimated that there will be over 40 trillion gigabytes of data globally.
Managing all of this data is indeed a growing problem. It can be especially impactful for organizations that are storing and using exceptionally large files of data, such as CAD files, photos, videos and drone and internet of things sensor readings.
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Geospatial Data Reveals Where Unexpected Storm Risks Lie
Digital Insurance
From Aug. 12: Every summer, the insurance industry braces for “hurricane season” and the spike in claims that comes with it. Natural disasters, including, but not limited to, winds, rains, hurricanes and floods, batter the U.S. with their destructive forces, destroying nearly everything in their path.
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2020 US Census Data Now Available in Maptitude
GPS World
From April 15: The Maptitude 2020 U.S. Census Blocks Groups data is now available for the entire United States, according to software provider Caliper.
The small-area Census Summary Level is packed with neighborhood information essential for making accurate geography-based decisions. Maptitude users can explore locations by income, income growth, daytime population, age, race, gender, ethnicity, buying power, occupation, employment status, housing characteristics, citizenship counts and more.
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Water Utilities Reduce Expenses with Mobile GIS
GPS World
From Nov. 11: Across North America, the use of high-accuracy GNSS technology has proliferated among water and wastewater service providers. Water utilities are saving time, cutting operational expenses, and definitively improving the accuracy of their asset management systems by capturing survey-grade location data.
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Fundamentals of Surveying: Land Surveying, GIS and Geomatics
POB Online
From Aug. 26: As the land surveying profession evolves to meet the changing needs of a high-tech world, advances in data collection and computing power support increasing demand for comprehensive geographic information. In addition to measuring distances and defining boundary lines, multiple geospatial disciplines are used today to map above ground and underground, inside and outside, in two and three dimensions.
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5 Futuristic Smart Cities to Keep an Eye on Through the 2020S
Digital Trends
From Jan. 29: Smart cities constructed around the latest cutting edge technology certainly has reimagined what is possible in modern city construction. While many cities are just content to retrofit new tech — whether it’s EV-charging roads, pollution-sucking artificial trees or autonomous delivery robots — into existing infrastructures, others are taking a bolder approach.
Here are five of the top smart cities to keep an eye on as the 2020s progress.
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Geospatial and AI Are Able to Assess Disaster Damage Sooner
Geospatial World
From Aug. 19: It wasn’t long ago when people could only dream of AI and geospatial technology, yet it’s here. On top of that, it can do more than folks could have imagined. This technology could also reinvent disaster relief efforts.
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It's Time to Agree on a Universal Location Standard
Geospatial World
From Oct. 14: Addresses are immutable. At least, that’s what the average person believes. Places, we’re taught, are discrete points on a map, as inelastic and permanent as mountains. But mountains aren’t as solid as they seem. Given enough time and energy, even the biggest boulders eventually erode — and so does one’s faith in location data, which crumbles when you realize how amorphous and indefinite addresses really are.
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Drones for Utilities: How AI Is Redefining Utility Inspections
DroneLife
From June 24: Artificial intelligence (AI) boasts a wide range of potential applications across nearly every industry imaginable — healthcare, automotive, retail and even fast food. But it is the utility industry where AI and machine learning (ML) are beginning to demonstrate some of their most impactful effects on many aspects of the business. Power companies are increasingly leaning on AI to improve their electricity delivery and — in places like the Amazon and California — prevent potential wildfires through drone management software and vegetation management.
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GITA Quick Notes:
Check out GITA President Drew Fioranelli's December letter!
Read here: https://bit.ly/3mkGMmK
How GITA Supports the Geospatial Community
In cooperation with our partners at Gulf Interstate Engineering and Lux Modus learn more about the history of GITA and its involvement serving the pipeline and infrastructure industry in this brief and informative video.
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