Forward-thinking organizations are embracing next-generation mobile solutions to empower geospatial workflows. By Mladen Stojic, vice president, Geospatial, Intergraph (www.intergraph.com), Norcross, Ga. Mobility has reached near ubiquity. This year, Gartner Group...
Meet the New Remote Sensing Professionals
New job titles provide employment structure and related skills in this expanding sector of the geospatial industry. By John Johnson, GIS Workshop (www.gisws.com), Encinitas, Calif. In 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (DOLETA)...
Demystifying CLOUD COMPUTING for Remote Sensing Applications
Cloud computing is a powerful, unique value proposition that can transform massive Earth imagery datasets into useful information for users worldwide. Â By Kumar Navulur, Dan Lester, Amanda Marchetti and Greg Hammann, DigitalGlobe (www.digitalglobe.com), Longmont,...
USGS UAS Program Does More with Less
By Michael E. Hutt, U.S. Geological Survey UAS Project Office (http://uas.usgs.gov), Denver. The Department of the Interior (DOI) manages more than 500 million acres of surface land, or about one-fifth of U.S. land. Within DOI, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)...
Image Intelligence Opportunities Plentiful for Commercial Providers
By Adam Keith, director, Space & Earth Observation, Euroconsult (www.euroconsult-na.com), Montreal. Ongoing global unrest continues to stimulate the defense and security communities’ appetite for satellite imagery. Geographically tense areas demand continuous...
Driving Analysis Closer to Data through Information Partnerships
By Drew Esson, director, Information Partner Program, DigitalGlobe, Longmont, Colo., www.digitalglobe.com. Today’s imagery market largely comprises do-it-yourself users. Imagery providers capture an image that’s shipped to a user or reseller partner where it may...
Civil Unmanned Aircraft Forecast: A Touch of Gray
“I feel about the airplane much as I do in regard to fire. That is, I regret all the terrible damage caused by fire. But I think it is good for the human race that someone discovered how to start fires and that it is possible to put fire to thousands of important...
Global Experts: It's Time to Address Space Debris
There’s an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments, according to experts at Europe’s largest-ever space-debris conference. According to findings from the Sixth European Conference on Space...
Landsat Eyes Fragile Coral Reefs from Space
Landsat satellites were designed to gather images of Earth’s land surfaces. During the last four decades, however, the satellites also have been useful for observing blue parts of the planet. Landsat particularly has enriched the study of coral reefs. Scientists...
Black Forest Fire Colorado's Most Destructive
Colorado wasn't forecast to have an unusually high wildfire risk this year, but when temperatures soared above 100°F in Denver on June 11”the earliest ever for triple digits”all bets were off. On the same day, the Black Forest fire erupted. A week later, more than 500 homes were destroyed and two lives lost northeast of Colorado Springs.
