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| Estimating Vehicle Emissions in Response to Urban Sprawl
| As modern development places homes and workplaces ever farther apart, commute times lengthen — which means more exhaust in the air, and more negative impacts on the environment. The VERTUS (Vehicle Emissions Related To Urban Sprawl) simulation tool was developed to help urban planners quantify the amount of vehicle emissions generated, given a particular level of urban sprawl at the township level. | | | What is the Value of Green?
| | GIS aids organizations in assessing U.S. urban forests and planning for their future. | | | Keeping Watch Over the Cascades
| | The Cascade Range, which traverses Washington, Oregon, and California, comprises several links in the long chain of volcanoes encircling the Pacific Ocean — the "Ring of Fire." These volatile peaks formed where the boundaries of the Pacific plate grind against other tectonic plates, causing earthquakes and releasing magma from far below the surface | | | Monitoring Mount St. Helens
| | Since September 2004, a new lava dome inside North America's most active volcano has grown as high as a 35-story building and as broad as 29 football fields; and scientists are using a cadre of geospatial technologies to monitor the volcano's deformation. | |  MORE ARTICLES
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| Understanding Tropical Deforestation with Remote Sensing and GIS Modeling
| | More than 60 percent of the primary forest of tropical ecosystems has already been lost, and government agencies are struggling to prevent further destruction. In Honduras, GIS techniques, lifestyle surveys, and satellite imagery of forested areas all helped to determine the variables that predict deforestation behavior among rural families. | | | Satellite-Based Crop Management
| | All stakeholders in agriculture — including producers, processors, resource managers, the marketing and finance sectors, and the government economies — need timely and reliable information on crop acreage, yield prediction, and production estimation for tactical and strategic decision making. Early prediction of crop yield is important for planning and making various policy decisions. In India, a remote sensing and GIS-based approach proves to be an accurate method for estimating yields and monitoring the health of sugarcane crops. | | | Using Mobile Mapping to Manage Wildfires
| | The application of geospatial technologies to wildfire management is not a new phenomenon. As a 30-year veteran of public service land management, I've taken an active role in using the latest mobile GIS technology during and after firestorms. Most recently, I've put to use an important technological development that's one the best tools for fire management since the shovel: the handheld computer. | |
| Forest Fuel Management
| | A spatial decision-support system developed by the Rocky Mountain Research Station provides forest managers with the tools to effectively remove a build-up of fuels while adhering to principles of ecological multiple-use forest management and responding to public interests. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| NOAA Names First Woman to Direct National Geodetic Survey
| | The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has picked Juliana P. Blackwell as director of the Office of National Geodetic Survey, making her the first woman to oversee the nation's spatial reference system. | | | DMCii Launches Free Satellite Imaging Initiative
| | Satellite imaging provider DMCii has announced that it will provide free DMC constellation satellite imagery for scientists to support global environmental monitoring projects. | | | PenBay to Provide Application Development, Data Storage for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
| | The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Region, has awarded Penobscot Bay Media (PenBay) a phased contract to provide geospatially enabled application development support to its Lands Resources Program staff in that region.
| | | Oklahoma Natural Gas Selects ITT for Pipeline Mapping, Leak Detection
| | Oklahoma Natural Gas has awarded ITT Corporation a three-year contract for its Airborne Natural Gas Emission Lidar (ANGEL) Services. The contract is for pipeline corridor mapping that includes new geospatial services (structure identification, pipeline class location analysis, and high consequence area calculations), along with traditional aerial photography and pipeline leak detection services. | | | SPADAC Developing Data Management Solution for Panama's MIDA
| | SPADAC has been awarded a contract by the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA) of Panama to develop and implement an enterprise solution for spatial data management in partnership with Google Earth through its Latin American reseller Gtt NetCorp Latin America. | | | NAVTEQ Inks Brazilian Distribution Deal with SANTIAGO & CINTRA
| | Digital map data supplier NAVTEQ has established a reseller agreement with SANTIAGO & CINTRA CONSULTORIA, a Sao Paulo, Brazil-based GIS consulting company. | | | Zekiah Tech Brings In PBS&J, U.S. Army GIS Vet
| | Software development and geospatial services provider Zekiah Technologies Inc. has hired Marshall Worthey to be in charge of business development, program management, and staffing of Zekiah's system integration, intelligence, geospatial, and other business operations in the Western United States. | | | Maptek, MinLog Team Up for Mining Execution System
| | Maptek has entered into a strategic partnership with fleet management and management information systems specialist MinLog, which will improve Maptek's global marketing, delivery ,and support capability, according to the company. | | | Google.org Offers Geo Challenge Grants
| | Google.org has launched a new grants program that includes Geo Challenge Grants for nonprofit organizations around the world. The program will help NGOs working with global development, climate change, and global public health to create projects using online mapping tools, such as Google Maps and Google Earth. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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Building Connections between
Canada's Water Data
| | How can a country that's almost 10 million square kilometers in area and has a large percentage of the world's freshwater — and disparate jurisdictions responsible for that water — integrate water data collected at myriad source points? Canada's ResEau initiative is attempting to do just that, as it prototypes a new way of accessing and managing water information across jurisdictions through the use of open geospatial standards. | | | Springfield, Oregon's Waterway Inventory
| | With the equivalent of only two full-time employees, a small contractual services budget, and a six-month time frame, the Technical Services Division of the City of Springfield, Oregon, has successfully implemented a robust surface waterway inventory system as part of an enterprisewide facilities management system. | | | Advancing the Sensor Web
| | What will a global tsunami-warning system look like? It will be a Sensor Web, a collection of sensors on buoys in the world's ocean earthquake zones, wirelessly connected to a network. The sensors will continuously report their three-dimensional location as well as vertical motion and vibration. The network connecting the sensors will almost surely be the Internet, so that the sensors' real-time and stored outputs will be discoverable and accessible via Web browsers and other tools that use standard Web technologies. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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