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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Satellite Imagery
GeoEye Imagery of Haiti Earthquake
http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/Default.aspx
DigitalGlobe Haiti Crisis Event Coverage
DigitalGlobe is now offering full resolution GeoTIFF imagery over Haiti free. http://www.digitalglobe.com/
RapidEye has completed imaging of all of the regions in Haiti that have been most affected by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the area on January 12. http://www.rapideye.de
RADARSAT-2 space-based imagery is being used to assess damage and direct relief efforts to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince from the January 12, 2010 earthquake.www.mdacorporation.com
Maps
USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/290_20.php
FortiusOne has created a news dashboard with the latest volunteered and official source data. http://news.geocommons.com/haitiquake
Google Maps
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/haiti/Haiti-Earthquake-nl.kml
DeLorme has developed a free GPS-accurate dataset to assist in the Haitian relief efforts.
The company was contacted by numerous aid groups following the earthquake. A team of employees worked through the past weekend preparing a custom dataset utilizing the GPS-accurate DeLorme World Base Map along with aerial imagery, all of which can be displayed within the company’s XMap software and on Earthmate PN-Series handheld GPS units.
Communities
OpenStreetMap
OSM and MapMaker data discussion, CrisisCamp Haiti discussion http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/
Ushahidi http://sitroom.ushahididev.com/
CrisisCommons http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/index.php?title=.php&title=Haiti/2010_Earthquake
Web Services
ERDAS has updated their Online Web Services to incorporate the GeoEye imagery collected January 13, 2010 (made available for free download). Users can also access the image in ECWP in ArcMap, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, many other thick client packages and web clients by downloading the ECW Plug–in freely available for download on the ERDAS website
Tags: earthquake, Haiti
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
“The problem with data is there is more of it coming from more sources. Organizations have to do more with it to make their whole organization run more efficiently.”
–Dale Lutz and Don Murray, Safe Software
Tags: data, Safe Software
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
A shining example of collaboration comes from Max Samfield, deputy director of the Houston Planning and Development Department, who chose a hybrid approach that requires city agencies to add basic data to a new enterprise GIS, but lets them choose whether to publish more specialized data to the system.
The goal was to “create a repository of newly accurate GIS data delivered to end-users from a central server farm. Agencies then use that scrubbed enterprise GIS data as a foundation on which to build more layers of data using their own specialized information.”
Government Technology, January 6, 2010
http://www.govtech.com/gt/736224?topic=117673
Tags: GIS, Houston
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
“A volunteer-led project to create an open-source map of the entire earth, calledOpenStreetMap, has amassed over 200,000 contributors since its inception, the founder announced in a blog entry.”
-PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/article/186096/openstreetmap_attracts_200000_volunteers.html
Tags: OpenStreetMap, volunteer
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
According to an article in today’s New York Times, Americans are using their cellphones and social media like Facebook to make a donation to the Haiti relief effort.
The American Red Cross said it had raised $5 million this way as of Thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/technology/15mobile.html?th&emc=th
Tags: Haitian earthquake, social media
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Here’s where to find USGS maps of the Haiti Earthquake:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/290_20.php
Tags: Haiti earthquake, USGS maps
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
“Google’s celebrated algorithms may power the Web’s most popular search engine, but they have not yet been programmed to answer a call when a customer has a problem.”
—The New York Times, January 13, 2010
Owners of the new Nexus One touch screen smartphone from Google are complaining that they can’t call the company for help and the company warns that it may take up to 48 hours to respond to emails.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/technology/companies/13google.html?th&emc=th
Tags: customer service, Google, Nexus One
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
The technology sector is poised for a comeback in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday morning by Forrester Research, an industry analysis group. IT firms will benefit as companies and governments restart their spending on tech infrastructure and software, the firm predicts.
–Daily Finance
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/tech-spending-set-to-rebound-in-2010/19313261/
Tags: comeback, IT, tech
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
The C.I.A. and climate scientists are collaborating to maximize the use of the federal government’s intelligence assets, which include spy satellites and other classified sensors, to gain knowledge into environmental change. Imagery of natural phenomena such as clouds and glaciers that have up until now been considered classified information have been declassified in order to aid in scientific analysis.
C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists by William J. Broad, The New York Times, (registration required), January 4, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/science/earth/05satellite.html?th&emc=th
Tags: C.I.A., climate scientists, data sharing
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Mumbai’s civic body to map city’s underground Sandeep Ashar, DNA, January 4, 2010
Up Front: NGA Supports Samoan Island Recovery Efforts, by Susan Meisner, Doing Business with the Intelligence Community, January 2, 2010
Brentwood wants to register wireless numbers, by Bonnie Burch, The Tennessean.com, January 1, 2010
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