The GIS Lens 
Skip Levens
Director of Technical Marketing, Quantum. Technology Leader specializing in 'hardware/software/user experience alchemy.' Collecting Oceans Of Data – Problem Or Opportunity?February 24th, 2014 by Skip Levens
Sensor, packet, video and signal data is not only all-digital and collected around the clock but it is also scaling up in size and resolution. The resulting massive surge in storage required to save it all is either a problem for your organization – or a major opportunity. Plotting geophysical trends, tracking industrial changes or monitoring surveillance imagery requires both broad area spectral analysis and high resolution digital images. Ideally, you can combine multiple inputs for richer analysis to help make the most informed decision as close to real-time as you can get. Read the rest of Collecting Oceans Of Data – Problem Or Opportunity? Apple Granted a GPS Patent to Locate Parked VehiclesFebruary 1st, 2014 by Sanjay Gangal
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Read the rest of Apple Granted a GPS Patent to Locate Parked Vehicles Imaging Technology Comes to Emerging EconomyJanuary 8th, 2014 by Don Talend
Mexican university’s surveying department develops national education standards, gains acceptance of scanning By Don Talend The state of Nuevo León in northeastern Mexico is where technological progress and the preservation of historic architecture meet, if we are to judge by the recent imaging of a historic museum building with a high-speed laser scanner. Starting in January 2013, the Civil Engineering Institute’s Department of Surveying at the University of Nuevo León scanned the exterior of the Regional Museum of the Bishopric—previously a palace for the bishop of the state of Nuevo León. Originally built by order of the Franciscan Bishop Fray Rafael Jose Verger in 1787, it was converted into a history museum in 1956. By the end of the year, the department was expected to scan the interior of the building, according to Angel Ervey Martínez, the department chair. Read the rest of Imaging Technology Comes to Emerging Economy How Micro-Location, Geofencing and Indoor Location Are Driving The Retail RevolutionDecember 17th, 2013 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: Christian Carle, CEO and Co-founder of Pole Star Indoor Location has become the holy grail of location based-marketing, bringing consumers from their home to the closest shopping mall or retailer, greeting them with a message as they enter the mall or the store, helping them navigate indoors, send product information and special promotions as they get closer, and finally allow them to pay for the items right from their mobile. With the hype surrounding the launch of iBeacon in the Apple retail stores, proximity sensors, also called proximity detection devices or micro-location, increasingly feels like a revolution. HP ZBook15 Mobile Workstation Review – Is Beauty More Than Skin Deep?December 2nd, 2013 by David Heller
HP recently introduced its ZBook series of mobile workstations. After attending the product launch in NYC, I was fortunate enough to get a top of the line HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation to evaluate and discover if this sleek new beauty’s performance promise was more than skin deep. My evaluation unit was über equipped with the highest performing NVIDIA GPU, included a built-in HP DreamColor Display system and came with the following specifications as supplied: O/S: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Service Pack 1 Read the rest of HP ZBook15 Mobile Workstation Review – Is Beauty More Than Skin Deep? 3 Ways GIS is Powering Civic Engagement InitiativesSeptember 20th, 2013 by Steve Ressler
The following post highlights GovLoop’s latest guide on GIS, The Mapping Revolution: Incorporating Geographic Information Systems in Government. The report features case studies and best practices from the Census Bureau, Geoplatform.gov and United States Department of Agriculture and insights from Esri President, Jack Dangermond. (Download PDF or view online below). This blog post is an excerpt from the section, 7 Ways GIS is Powering Civic Engagement Initiatives. Mobile programs connect dynamic working environments and increase efficiency by providing real-time information to entire agencies. However, mobile is not just useful inside of an agency, but it is also beneficial for connecting government agencies with citizens. Monica Pratt, Editor of ArcUser magazine, states that two types of civic engagement apps are emerging. Pratt states, “The first type complements existing government services and makes them more accessible. The second, more intriguing type, encourages people to work closely with government to do things no one had thought of doing before, like rounding up volunteers to clean beaches after a holiday weekend.” Read the rest of 3 Ways GIS is Powering Civic Engagement Initiatives HP‘s Big Workstation Launch Wows ‘em In the Big AppleSeptember 12th, 2013 by David Heller
This year’s HP workstation product launch event was the biggest I’ve ever attended, and the most exciting in terms of the revolutionary new product offerings presented and the people I met and interviewed. We gathered early on Wednesday morning in a large hall in the NYC Sheraton Hotel, right in the midst of bustling Times Square, and to get the ball rolling were treated to speeches by some heavy hitting HP workstation users. The Appetizer  Mark Russell – Director, Producer, and Vfx Expert First at bat was Mark Russell, and he hit it out of the park. Mark is an independent Vfx creator and supervisor who headed up the special effect team during filming and now working post production on the upcoming Martin Scorsese film ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ that’s destined to become a blockbuster when it hits the theaters later this year. We were treated to some video outtakes from this production that showcased the VFx work that Mark produced for this film that was primarily shot and produced on Long Island and in Manhattan, just a quick subway ride to Brooklyn where Mark lives. When you watch the film you won’t know where reality ends and CG takes over, it’s done that well. One series of fly-over shots were taken of a mansion in the Hamptons with multiple takes from a 4-bladed radio controlled miniature helicopter equipped with a super high-definition camera that transmitted the video wirelessly to an HP workstation on the ground for processing and viewing in real time. The mini-copter stays in the air for less than a minute before running out of juice and the ground crew had to plop in new batteries fast to get this small bird back in the air before the ‘magic’ light evaporated. The perfect lighting conditions occur close to sunset and the perfect light window lasts only around thirty minutes, so the film crew had to be super organized to shot this series in the allotted time, and keeping everyone and everything organized was a major part of Mark’s job. Oh, and they did make a rendered CG Model of the mansion that you can’t tell from the real thing for shots that the mini-copter just couldn’t cope with. Read the rest of HP‘s Big Workstation Launch Wows ‘em In the Big Apple Invitation for a video interview at Intergeo & GEOINTJuly 24th, 2013 by Sanjay Gangal
GISCafe.Com is exhibiting at the Intergeo 2013 conference in Germany on October 8-9 and at the GEOINT Symposium in Tampa, Florida on October 14-15. We are recording video interviews at our booth at each conference. Any conference attendee can book a time slot for an interview. Each interview is typically 3 – 7 minute long. We typically ask the following questions and a few follow up questions:
The questions can be customized for each company or attendee. We charge a nominal fee to cover our expenses. Contact Sanjay Gangal if you are interested in booking a 15-minute time slot for an interview. You can see past interviews here. To add a little fun to the conference, we are asking the conference attendees to share a joke in front of the video camera. The best jokes will be edited together in a video montage. The jokes have to be clean and funny. You can see a Joke Reel from Esri User Conference here.
Here is one of the interviews we recorded last year which has received more than 2,000 views:
Indoor Location: the mobile revolution starts nowJune 6th, 2013 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: Christian Carle, CEO and founder of Pole Star The future of mobile location-based services lies in its rapid adoption of indoor technologies For more than 20 years, the use of global positioning system, or GPS, has been the gold standard for outdoor navigation. The satellite-based navigation system has become the indispensable tool for anyone to determine their location outside of a building, in a car, on motorways, in the street… More recently, cell-phone manufacturers have added GPS capabilities to mobile devices which in turn, created new opportunities for existing location-based services (LBS) such as mapping and navigation. While the quick rise of smartphones, and the easy access to more context-aware information, has changed forever the way people live, travel and shop. But as we rely even more on our smartphone for everyday life, the physical limitations of GPS, which doesn’t work in indoor environments or between tall buildings in dense urban areas, are becoming a real challenge for the next generation of LBS applications. Simply put, for GPS to work, it requires a clear view of the sky, where a receiver has an unobstructed line of sight to satellites, meaning that all the mobile location-based apps, like navigation for example, won’t work indoors, inside airports, malls, museums, subways, etc., which is where we actually need them the most, as we spend a majority of our time indoor. It also happens that 80% of smartphone usage is done inside buildings, making an even stronger case for bringing location technologies indoor. Read the rest of Indoor Location: the mobile revolution starts now 1Spatial Planning to Acquire Star-ApicMay 23rd, 2013 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: 1Spatial 1Spatial plc (AIM:SPA), the Spatial Big Data Company, announces today that the Company has conditionally raised £18 million (before expenses) through the Placing of 300,000,000 new Ordinary Shares at the Placing Price of 6p per share with certain institutional investors, in accordance with the terms set out in the Circular to be published by the Company and posted to shareholders today (the “Circular”). The net proceeds of the Placing will be used to finance the aggregate consideration for the Acquisition of Star-Apic, provide additional working capital for the Enlarged Group, open a sales and support centre in the Middle East and provide funds for product development, marketing and further potential acquisition opportunities. The Placing Shares when issued will rank pari passu with the Existing Ordinary Shares and will, following Admission, rank in full for any dividends and distributions paid or made thereafter in respect of the Ordinary Shares. |
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