Archive for the ‘utilities’ Category
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
The exhibits at GEOINT Symposium 2015 this past week in Washington D.C. reflected the direction the government is heading with regard to new products, technologies and services.
The new government initiative of doing more with less has generated interest among a group of vendors in partnership with the Centralized Super Computer Facility (CSCF) program. Lockheed Martin, one of the vendors, has developed a Multilevel Secure ecosystem (MLS) using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5+ for both single system image and for a cluster configuration. The focus of this system is to use MLS to enable data fusion and/or consolidate hardware systems rather than promote duplication.
The companies partnering in this endeavor include Lockheed Martin (Multilevel Secure Ecosystem), Seagate (Multilevel Secure HPC Storage), Red Hat (Open source operating system), SGI (Secure high performance computing solutions), CRAY (multilevel security (MLS) capability), Bay Microsystems (global high-performance fabric extension), Mellanox ( 100 Gigabit per second scalable networking), 35ViON Years (MLS-Ecosystem for Mission Data), Altair (PBS Professional, – job scheduling and management) and new at the conference this year, Crunchy (open source Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL extends PostgreSQL with Multilevel Security support), and Splunk (universal machine data platform).
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, geointelligence, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, imagery, iPhone, location, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, navigation, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery, USGS
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2015
Recently, GISCafe Voice spoke with R.J. Talyor, vice president of Product Management at Geofeedia. Geofeedia is a patented, cloud-based platform, which searches, analyzes and monitors real time social media posts from any geographic location globally.
 Recording analytics and sentiiment
In a couple of recent GeoFeedia case studies, the platform has been used to uncover drug use and distribution among teens at parties in the Los Angeles area, involving the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the FDA. In one other instance, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s Division Basketball Tournament was already very active in social media, but needed a better way to cut through the noise on social media and discover and engage with social media users posting at specific locations of interest across Indianapolis. They were able to get up and running quickly on the GeoFeedia platform and draw perimeters around key locations, from which they gathered rich geo-tagged social media data in a matter of minutes. Consequently, the team was able to use GeoFeedia to make sure the fans had a good fan experience, and that counterfeit passes were aborted, as well as that tournament title sponsors receive high returns on their investment.
Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, imagery, intelligence, lbs, location, mapping, mobile, smartphones
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Monday, June 15th, 2015
Next week GISCafe will be flying to GEOINT 2015 Symposium held June 22-25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, iPhone, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, Microsoft, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, remote sensing, Safe Software, satellite imagery, social media, USGS
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
Ubisense Group plc, a leader in enterprise location intelligence solutions, announced the launch of its new inspection and survey solution at the American Gas Association (AGA) Operations Conference & Biennial Exhibition in Grapevine, Texas in May. At the conference, Ubisense’s vice president of networks industry strategy, Jay Cadman, presented and Ubisense demonstrated the capabilities of its new solutions.
 Jay Cadman, vice president of networks industry strategy, Ubisense (more…)
Tags: cloud, geospatial, GIS, GPS, Infrastructure, lbs, mapping, maps, mobile, Ubisense
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
The result of a collaboration between Esri and Intergraph Security Government and Infrastructure (SG&I) announced in March is the release of I/Map Editor for ArcGIS, a new product that works directly with Esri’s ArcGIS Platform to migrate geospatial data into Intergraph’s Computer-Aided Dispatch Software (I/CAD), allowing tighter integration between those two products. The new product was unveiled at this week’s HXGN LIVE 2015 in Las Vegas. Vice president of Public Safety Products, Intergraph SG&I Kalyn Sims, talks to GISCafe Voice about the announcement.
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Tags: cloud, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, intelligence, Intergraph, mapping, maps, mobile
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
In an interview with Todd Steiner, marketing director, Geospatial Imaging and Optical Solutions and Tim Lemmon, marketing director, Geospatial Software Solutions, GISCafe Voice discussed the recent announcement from Trimble announcing an expanded portfolio of geospatial solutions for surveyors, engineers and mapping professionals. Highlights include new total stations, a new GNSS receiver and new field and office software features. According to company materials, the solutions save time, reduce costs, streamline workflows and produce high-quality geospatial deliverables across a wide range of industries.
 Trimble S9 Total Station (more…)
Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, remote sensing, Trimble
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
Over the weekend, a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal near the city of Kathmandu, followed by aftershocks that also resulted in many deaths and structural damage. Simultaneously, climbers on Mount Everest’s base camp were buried in an avalanche, precipitated by the quake.
The following are some sites that provide some geospatial insight into the events. I’m leaving the links whole in most cases so that they are easy for people to access and will add others as I learn about them. If anyone has any other links that should be added to this list, please contact me at susan.smith@ibsystems.com.
 Dharahara Tower, Kathmandu April 2014 before the earthquake, courtesy DigitalGlobe (more…)
Tags: climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, Mount Everest, Nepal Earthquake, NOAA, remote sensing, social media, USGS
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Technology for electric utilities is not always particularly exciting, but Space-Time Insight raises the bar for the industry in terms of providing virtual reality to actually access and analyze situations arising in utility facilities.
 Oculus view of a Circuit Breaker (more…)
Tags: data, geospatial, GIS, imagery, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, situational intelligence, Space-Time Insight, utilities
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Friday, March 20th, 2015
In recent years, Emergency Response and Recovery has been tasked with addressing the growing number of natural disasters and manmade disasters worldwide. When a disaster happens, the role of GIS and geospatial is front and center in the identification of location and the location of individuals impacted in the event, as well as the clarification of the physical damage to vital structures. It is also fundamental to the provision of medical care and utilities during a time when those things may be scarce or non-existent.
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Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, iPhone, lbs, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, navigation, satellite imagery, smartphones, social media, TomTom
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Thursday, March 5th, 2015
What has been an un-announcement in the geospatial industry is the fact that Google Maps Engine and Google Earth Enterprise are to be discontinued by Google. It’s possible that Google didn’t send out a press release about this because their customers, who are mainly consumers, may mistake the message to mean that Google Maps and Google Earth will be discontinued by Google, which is absolutely not the case.
 The Esri/Google architecture in the post Google Earth Enterprise World (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, climate change, cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Earth Enterprise, Google Maps, Google Maps Engine, imagery, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, navigation, remote sensing, satellite imagery, smartphones, social media
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