By John Amos, president, SkyTruth (www.skytruth.org), Shepherdstown, W.Va., and Elliott A. Norse, president, Marine Conservation Biology Institute (www.mcbi.org), Bellevue, Wash. n the early months of 2010, a technological marvel floated in the Gulf of Mexico, 50...
Motion Video Exploitation
By Robert Mott, Intergraph Government Solutions (www.intergraphgovsolutions.com), Reston, Va. s today’s military, public safety and intelligence organizations fight terrorism and combat weapons of mass destruction and their proliferation, it’s increasingly...
USGS Takes To the Sky
The U.S. Geological Survey’s recent success using drones to observe sandhill cranes in southern Colorado foreshadows the future of using unmanned aircraft for scientific research. By Mike Hutt, U.S. Geological Survey, Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center...
Entering the Point Cloud
By Joshua I. France, Riegl USA (www.rieglusa.com), Orlando, Fla., and Craig Glennie, University of Houston (www.uh.edu), Houston, Texas. A detailed in the last issue of Earth Imaging Journal, a recent mobile mapping project was motivated by a highway paving...
Cataloging Geospatial Data for the Cloud
The emergence of cloud computing in government is reducing geospatial data costs and improving user access. By James S. Blundell, Mike West, Betty Davlin, and Brandon Johnson, Geospatial Products and Solutions, Overwatch Systems (www.overwatch.com), Sterling, Va. Â ...
Defining a Military Strategy for the New Space Environment
By William J. Lynn, III, U.S. deputy secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C. As disaster struck Japan and revolution swept the Middle East, Americans again watched global events unfold in real time through a network of satellites in space that has revolutionized both...
Fighting the Rising Flood of Data Costs
By Michael Ehman, CEO, Cutting Edge Networked Storage (www.cuttedge.com), El Cajon, Calif. Organizations of all sizes and types are struggling to deal with a relentlessly rising flood of data. This challenge is made especially difficult by the shift toward more...
Modern Warfare's Battle Cry: I, Robot
The quest for geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) began with the first skirmishes between rival tribes centuries ago. Today’s warfighter seeks the same edge by having better GEOINT about the enemy than the enemy has about him or her—that hasn’t changed. But the way...
Industry Update
Antarctic Mosaic Comprises More Than 3,000 RADARSAT-2 Images MDA's Information Systems Group released a detailed new image of Antarctica for use in applications such as global climate change, shipping and transportation, exploration and environmental science. The...
Looking Down on a Shooting Star
Many people have spent time outdoors under a dark sky, watching for “shooting stars†to streak across the firmament. While not actual stars, shooting stars do come from outer space in the form of meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere. This astronaut photograph,...
