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GISCafe Voice Industry Predictions for 2022 – Part 3

Thursday, February 3rd, 2022

In this third installment of the GISCafe Voice Industry Predictions for 2022, our respondents look at fascinating and timely topics such as startup collaboration in the remote sensing and “new space” industry from Ellipsis Drive. Hexagon brings in the historical perspective and what could help or could’ve helped in certain disasters – automation, new uses for augmented and virtual reality, and remote sensing in space. There is not a day that goes by that one doesn’t hear something about the supply chain – and geospatial can definitely help with that. Geodecisions is working on the supply chain as a new element of location analytics.

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Esri User Conference 2021 Virtual

Thursday, July 15th, 2021

In the plenary session held on Monday at the Virtual Esri User Conference 2021, Esri President Jack Dangermond spoke of focusing on creating a more sustainable environment for our planet. Users of Esri software and services come from 130 countries and different fields.

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2020 – The Year of Natural Hazards

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

Irvine, California company CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released at the end of January its annual Catastrophe Report highlighting the value of modern insurance and mortgage solutions in addressing the increase in climate change-induced hazard events and impact on the real estate economy.

Figure 1. Redefining Risk: CoreLogic Combined Peril Score (Graphic: Business Wire)

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GISCafe Voice Industry Predictions for 2021 – Part 3

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

Geospatial has responded to the past year’s calamitous changes with what it already had in place as well as shifted gears at the spur of the moment. GNSS advancements, bring-your-own-data, geospatial data acquisition, location analytics, supply chain logistics, Covid and dashboards, tracking trends, turning data into actionable information – all took front and center stage as far as technologies that surge forward into 2021 and beyond.

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GISCafe Voice Industry Predictions for 2021 – Part 2

Friday, January 22nd, 2021

This week, our Geospatial Industry Predictions includes Linda Loubert, Interim Chairperson and Graduate Coordinator, Economics Department, Morgan State University; Seb Lessware, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of 1Spatial; and George Mastakas,  Vice President of Enterprise Solutions & Corporate Partnerships at Cityworks. These industry spokespeople cover where they see the industry going – and how to apply geographic knowledge to economics, politics, data sharing, visualization, city and country planning using sensors, Digital Twins, machine learning and artificial intelligence and much more. With GIS and geospatial, the matter of being able to provide accuracy and validity in data is paramount. The technology is already there; yet finding the ways to use the technology in even more promising ways is the way of the future.

 

Nearmap Aerial Image of the Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2021

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USGIF GEOINT Community Forum Aims to Deliver Information “At the Speed of Need”

Friday, November 20th, 2020

On Monday November 16th, 2020 the opening Keynote Address of the USGIF GEOINT Community Forum was presented by Stacey Dixon, Ph. D., Deputy Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The theme of the conference “The Convergence of Commercial Content with AI/ML to Provide Clarity” shaped the narrative for the week ahead. Dixon said that Covid-19  provided an unexpected opportunity to reimagine their mission very quickly.

 

Stacey Dixon, Ph. D., Deputy Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

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ENVI Virtual Analytics Symposium: “Geospatial Vision for the Next Decade”

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

Tammy Owen, Global Director of the Defense and Intelligence business area for L3Harris Geospatial, introduced speakers on the first day of the 6th annual ENVI Analytics Symposium held August 25-27th, which for the first time, was held virtually rather than in person in Boulder, Colorado as had been initially planned.

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GISCafe Industry Predictions 2020 – Part 2

Friday, January 10th, 2020

Every January GISCafe Voice publishes blogs of industry predictions from our readers. This is the second installment of those predictions. This year we have extended the deadline for submissions to January 14th for entries.

 

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GISCafe Year In Review 2019

Thursday, December 19th, 2019

The year in review is defined in large part by what drives the technology sector. Natural phenomenon such as fires and floods, earthquakes and hurricanes require continual vigilance to be able to record, predict, respond to and recover from. The effort of Digital Cities is an effort to maintain cities in a more efficient manner, with heightened emphasis on people and data.

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Industry and Climate Change and Six New Europes

Friday, November 22nd, 2019

Keith Clarke, CBE, FREng, FICE, RIBA, Chairman, speaking on “Forum for the Future,” at the Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2019 thought leadership conference in Singapore in October, pointed out that recycling bins throughout the convention center have a sign above them stating, “the greatest threat to the planet is that we think somebody else will save it.”

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