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• Another Google Maps Gaffe

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  I live in Stapleton, the redevelopment of the the previous Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colo. I was taking a look at Google Maps today and came across a label in my neighborhood for Denver International Airport (above screen shot has my enhancement). Needless to say, I was a bit surprised by the label, and wondered ...
  21 hours ago

• Smoking Bunny Productions releases [hantera]

  
  rekkerd.org — Authority: 448
  Smoking Bunny Productions has released version 1.1 of [hantera] , an audio manipulation tool for hardware synths. [hantera] is an all-in-one program that was originally created to expand on my machine drum sps-1uw, so then i could expand on effects and so forth. Sooner or later it grew and grew from a simple ...
  22 hours ago

• Sleep Noise Helps Memory

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 553
  A new study of memory discovered sounds introduced during sleep can improve learning. Northwestern University research participants were in a deep sleep when sounds, such as a teakettle whistle and a cat’s meow, were introduced. Researchers presented 25 sounds during the nap and upon waking, memory tests showed ...
  1 day ago

• Mapping the Green Infrastructure at UVM with LiDAR

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 125
  I want to highlight a presentation that Jarlath O’Neil Dunne at UVM SAL has posted on his blog. This was from the 2009 eCognition User Summit where he demonstrated the power of  the Definiens software. The enterprise scale and object-based image analysis approach are the keys to success. I borrowed most of the ...
  1 day ago

• International expedition investigates climate change in Arctic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, November 22 (ANI): A team of scientists organized and led a team of university and government researchers on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contribution to Arctic climate change.The team was from the Marine ...
  3 days ago

• Cool views of the International Space Station with Photosynth

  
  VerySpatial — Authority: 470
  Two things that are definitely high on my cool list – space stuff and Photosynth – have come together to allow you to take a virtual tour – inside and out – of the International Space Station. Microsoft and NASA have partnered on the synths of the space station on NASA’s website. It’s a great way to get ...
  4 days ago

• Maths model explains remarkable features of mosquito hearing

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, November 20 (ANI): In a new research, scientists from the University of Bristol, UK, have used a mathematical model to explain some of the remarkable features of mosquito hearing.Insects have evolved diverse and delicate morphological structures in order to hear the naturally low energy of a transmitting ...
  5 days ago

• Oak Ridge’s Jaguar Supercomputer Moves Ahead

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  The Jaguar Supercomputer, a Cray XT5 system, at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has just undergone an upgrade that puts it ahead of IBM’s Roadrunner to make it the world’s fastest supercomputer. The machine has a peak speed of 2.33 petaflops (over two thousand trillion calculations per ...
  5 days ago

• ESRI LiDAR Training Course

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 125
  ESRI is offering a free introductory seminar on Lidar and ArcGIS. The course is for beginners, providing an intro to the technology and its use within ArcGIS. Two follow on courses are being developed. ESRI is now offering a LiDAR training course entitled, “ Getting Started with Lidar in ArcGIS” . This 60 ...
  6 days ago

• Starting Trishy’s Winter Portfolio

  
  Homeschool Journal Dot Net — Authority: 154
  I’m having another go at these learning notes. I am frightfully disorganized and inconsistent , but at least I’m tenacious. These notes are for Patricia (age 5). Monday (11/16/09) I was loading the dishwasher just before taking Trishy to school. She decided she wanted to play “I Spy” with me, so we did ...
  6 days ago

• New Report Available Regarding Understanding Landscape Change

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  The National Research Council has just completed a new report about landscape change, and have identified nine research challenges and four research initiatives to better understand how Earth’s landscapes change. The research could advance our understanding of environmental issues, from coastal erosion to ...
  6 days ago

• FDO Toolbox 0.9.0 Released

  
  Between the Poles — Authority: 130
  Jackie Ng has announced the release of a new version 0.9.0 of the FDO Toolbox.
  6 days ago

• Debunking ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  If we build a bunch of wind turbines near communities, people are going to start dropping to the ground in pain because infrasound is affecting their inner ear. Or, at least, that’s what one New York doctor wants us all to believe. She’s wrong – but the problem is, opponents of wind power are seizing onto her ...
  6 days ago

• More Rural Prison Debate: Thomson, IL

  
  Legal Ruralism — Authority: 133
  Todays New York Times ran a story about the small rural town of Thomson, Illinois faced with the prospect of housing Guantanamo Bay inmates in its local prison. Thomson is located in Carroll County , right on the Mississippi River. Map of Thomson, IL Map of Carroll County, IL Much like the ...
  1 week ago

• Ordnance Survey Maps Will Be Free

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  Today Gordon Brown made an announcement alongside Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, that Ordnance Survey maps will be freely available online beginning in April. Lee is working on a report for Brown alongside Nigel Shadbolt, a professor at Southampton Univeristy, and opening OS data was the ...
  1 week ago

• All the flights of the world

  
  Leonardo Monasterio's Blog — Authority: 115
  24 hours in 72 seconds . (I can not even guess the size of the W matrix!) Ideas that I am not going to carry out: do the same thing with Eltis data on slave trade.
  1 week ago

• EPA Makes NAVTEQ Purchase

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 473
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a purchase of NAVTEQ data. The agency will use the data for their internal analysis, and also as a means to improve their Web mapping applications.Of significant note is the use of this data for the large-scale pilot program called the Texas Ecological Assessment ...
  1 week ago

• Chile: Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Data

  
  Between the Poles — Authority: 130
  I have been in Chile most of last week in Santiago, where I gave a presentation at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2009).  This is my first time in Chile, and I am extremely impressed by the natural environment, the Andes on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other, and secondly by the quality of ...
  1 week ago

• 2012: the End of the World

  
  IENACE — Authority: 142
  Many people seem to believe that the year 2012 end of the world disaster is truly going to happen. Will it? And what will it bring? There are many theories that occur about this. Some people believe that the earth is going to be torn apart by some sort of spatial object. This could be a so-called black hole coming ...
  1 week ago

• Webcast: From Here to There, You Can Find it Anywhere: Building Local/Geo-Search with Apache Lucene and Solr sponsored by Lucid Imagination

  
  Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition — Authority: 113
  Webcast: From Here to There, You Can Find it Anywhere: Building Local/Geo-Search with Apache Lucene and Solr sponsored by Lucid Imagination . I’ll be doing a webinar on spatial search with Sameer Maggon of ATT Interactive and Ryan McKinley of Voyager GIS this coming Wednesday.  We’ll talk about how Lucene and ...
  1 week ago

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