Discovering and Derailing Asymmetric Threats

The Earth Imaging Journal staff has watched geospatial technology evolve for nearly two decades, and we long have recognized the important contributions the industry has made across a host of critical disciplines. But never before has the power of “where” been...

Making Discoveries in Virtual Worlds Via the Cloud

By Frank Pabian, senior geospatial information analyst, Los Alamos National Laboratory (www.lanl.gov), Los Alamos, N.M. Socrates expressed the sentiment more than 2,400 years ago to “rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond” to capture a full...

Crowdsourcing Leverages Free Talent, Knowledge

By Tim Little, Office of Corporate Communications, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Bethesda, Md. Despite the usefulness of technology, the human element remains vital to intelligence gathering, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency...

Examining the Potential of CIVIL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT

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.  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)...

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