URISA wants your input on its proposed Geospatial Management Competency Model (GMCM).  The model is a list of 74 essential competencies and 17 competency areas that geospatial managers should have. The GMCM builds upon U.S....

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is accepting applicants for its 2012 Scholarship program until April 20, 2012.  Open to high school seniors, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, the...

An independent study conducted by mapping analytics firm PetersonGIS shows that locations with the highest obesity rates contain the fewest farmers’ markets. To produce the analysis, data from the US Department of Agriculture...

Unmanned vehicles are becoming more widely available both in the military and civilian sectors for their usefulness for remotely acquiring a variety of data.  Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), previously referred to as Unmanned...

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What areas of the United States contain the densest amount of woody biomass?  Showing the conterminous United States, the intensity of biomass (a measure of the amount of organic carbon—stored in the trunks, limbs, and leaves...

Pulling real time data from the city government of Madrid, Into the Air is a project led by Nerea Calvillo (along with a team of architectural students, anthropologists, and designers) to map out air pollutants over the Spanish...

Francesco Cutruzzula has created LGML, a GML minimal parser in Java (licensed under LGPL).  LGML parses GML files in order to output as Postgis WKT/EWKT.  2D and 3D GIS data inputs are both handled but files can not be of mixed...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system that was developed by the U.S. Department of Defence in the early 1970s as the next generation replacement to the Transit system*. It consists of a constellation of 24 operational satellites with subgroups of 4 satellites ope

Esri has announced the availability of ArcGIS on the Android platform: Google Android users can now access data and mapping capabilities on their smartphones with the ArcGIS for Android application. ArcGIS for Android lets...

AmericanMapmaking.com is a virtual exhibit of American maps from the late 18th century.  Created by antique map dealer, Boston Rare Maps, the  virtual tour is styled after the Harvard Maps Collection exhibit is entitled “Toward...

A common complaint I hear is how difficult it can be to find a job in GIS.  The search for a job in GIS can be challenging so the following are things to consider to make sure you are prepared for a successful career in GIS....

You can be an armchair archeologist and help National Geographic with tagging satellite photos of unexplored areas in Central Asia.  The Valley of the Khans Project is being led by Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin who is compiling a...

Dr. Christopher Sutton, professor of geography at Western Illinois University, was the speaker at the ninth annual John Hallwas Liberal Arts Lecture.  His talk was entitled, “Geography Matters! The Importance of Geographic...

Esri and Google have embeddable hurricane maps for those that want to add hurricane tracking to their web sites.  Now that Hurricane Irene has passed, stormwatchers have their eyes on tropical storm Katia which is gathering...

Scale is the relationship that the depicted feature on map has to its actual size in the real word.  All maps are modeled representations of the real world and therefore the features are reduced in size when mapped.  In other...

Projected to make landfall tomorrow first along the coast of North Carolina before traveling up the eastern coast towards the Washington and New York areas, Hurricane Irene has a lot of residents on edge as areas along the...

Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni was a great Persian Muslim scholar of the 10th and 11th centuries. Like many of the Muslim scholars, he believed that he could get closer to God if he understood his creation. Although his life and his contribution to science could be the focus of entire books, we will approach

Summary: Esri is offering a free seminar on creating map books, Safe Software has launched a seminar series on Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) data products, URISA announces two inductees into its GIS Hall of Fame, and...

Introduction From its beginning remote sensing has served for military purposes and has always been attractive to the military field while taking different configurations throughout History. Starting by aerial photograph on a balloon, remote sensing in the military has evolved to being today “sat