UASs are valuable for a variety of civil and humanitarian uses By David Yoel, founder and CEO, American Aerospace Advisors (www.american-aerospace.net), Radnor, Pa. Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) have proved to be valuable assets for the warfighter. Today, they’re...
Surveying Uncharted Territory
Digital map publishers are breaking new ground in a mobile world. By Ted Florence, president, Avenza Systems (www.avenza.com), Toronto. During the last few thousand years, mapmaking moved from drawings on the ground to cave wall etchings and then to parchment and...
Going Mobile
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...
Geocontextualizing Data Enhances Situational Awareness
By George Demmy, chief technology officer, TerraGo (www.terragotech.com), Atlanta. We live in an era where a continuous stream of information emerges in real time from myriad locations and sources, including online news stories, blogs and social media. The...
NGA Teams Support Homeland Disaster Relief
By Tim Little, Office of Corporate Communications, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Springfield, Va. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is known for its critical support of military and anti-terror initiatives. Often under the...