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FINAL ARTICLE IN THE SERIES ON Geospatial Processing & Visualization
BY MATTEO LUCCIO / CONTRIBUTOR / PALE BLUE DOT LLC WWW.PALEBLUEDOTLLC.COM FIGURE 1.The Harris Geiger-Mode LiDAR wide-area mapping system captures 3D point cloud information at densities exceeding 100...
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Global Ocean Shoreline
KRISTINA BAUM / WORLDDEM MARKETING AND PRODUCT MANAGER & JOHN COLLINS / RADAR PRODUCTS TECHNICAL SALES MANAGER / AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE DR. HANS C. GRABER / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / CSTARS FIGURE...
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Apogeo Advisors:
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER Myrna James YooPublisher andManaging EditorApogeo Spatialand LBx Journalmyrna@apogeospatial.com DEAR READER, This issue marks 14 years that my company has owned Apogeo...
View ArticleTHE INSIDE STORY: Google Earth Enterprise Goes Open Source
On March 20, 2015, Google deprecated Google Earth Enterprise (GEE), which had contributed greatly to the market for geospatial “Digital Earth” products for large organizations, and announced that it...
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Aeospatial Developments in Open Source, GPS, and Data Downlink Capabilities
Ray A. Williamson, PhDEditor, Apogeo Spatial LETTER FROM THE EDITOR As I Look Back on the half of this year, I am struck with the increasing speed of exciting changes in the Earth observation...
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Extreme Weather’s Tie to Climate
Prof. Hans-Peter Plag, PhDMitigation and Adaptation Research InstituteOld Dominion University Norfolk, Va.www.mari-odu.org Flows in the Earth’s Life-Support System (ELSS) were the subject of my last...
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A Killer App for Sats
DEREK EDINGER / CO-FOUNDER / VP STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS ZACKARY DOWNEY / DATA SCIENTIST Ursa Space Systems Inc. (Ursa) is a satellite imagery analytics company whose focus is on commodities and the...
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Open Source GEOSPATIAL SOFTWARE
MATTEO LUCCIO/ PALEBLUE DOT LLC / WWW.PALEBLUEDOTLLC.COM Open source geospatial software—spatial data management, GIS, and related developer tools and end-user applications delivered with an open...
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Moving Data at the Speed of Light
KAREN NOZIK / FREELANCE WRITER/ WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/KARENNOZIK The amount of data being collected from satellites is extremely high and continually increasing, putting severe pressure on downlink...
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The Future of GPS
MATTEO LUCCIO / CONTRIBUTOR / PALE BLUE DOT LLC / WWW.PALEBLUEDOTLLC.COM More than half a century after a study by The Aerospace Corporation first laid out the design options for it, the Global...
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The Power of Imagery Insights and The Overview Effect
Myrna James YooPublisher andManaging EditorApogeo Spatialand LBx Journalmyrna@apogeospatial.com LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER Dear Readers, In this issue, we begin our new series on the emerging imagery...
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What’s Next for Imagery Insights Providers?
KEVIN M. O’CONNELL / PRESIDENT/CEO OF INNOVATIVE ANALYTICS AND TRAINING, LLC (IAT) / WWW.INNOVATIVE-ANALYTICS.COM MARINA HAGUE / ANALYST IN IAT’S EARTH OBSERVATION STRATEGY AND ANALYSIS PRACTICE As the...
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Geospatial Analytics-as-a-Service & Platforms
MATTEO LUCCIO / CONTRIBUTOR / PALE BLUE DOT LLC / WWW.PALEBLUEDOTLLC.COM FIGURE 1. Suspect Drug Traf cking Air eld in Brazil-Colombia Amazon Border – Drug traf cking is an illegal activity in Brazil...
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Interpreting What We See
Prof. Hans-Peter Plag, PhDMitigation and Adaptation Research InstituteOld Dominion University Norfolk, Va.www.mari-odu.org Our Perception of an object changes depending on how far or close we are and...
View ArticleGeospatial Data Act Exposes Geospatial Community Division
Legislation in congress has exposed a Chasm in the geospatial community that could jeopardize chances to reform and improve the coordination and use of geospatial data. Earlier this year, Senator Orrin...
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An Essential Part of IoT
FRED WOODS / VP MARKETING / GEONEO SAN DIEGO, CALIF. / WWW.GEONEO.COM Energy conservation and sustainability are priorities for governments and businesses in regions throughout the Americas, Europe,...
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The Value of Space-Based Data
Myrna James YooPublisher andManaging EditorApogeo Spatialwww.ApogeoSpatial.comFounderApogeo Advisorswww.ApogeoAdvisors.com Myrna@ApogeoSpatial.com Dear Readers, Let’s start with art. A few months ago,...
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Integrated UAV + Lidar Solutions
MATTEO LUCCIO / CONTRIBUTOR / PALE BLUE DOT LLC / WWW.PALEBLUEDOTLLC.COM LiDAR has been around since the early 1960s. In recent years, it has emerged as a key geospatial remote sensing technology:...
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Atmospheric Terrain
BY FAWN ATENCIO / ARTIST / DENVER, COLO. HTTPS://WWW.MAIWYN.COM/ARTISTS-SUMMARY/FAWN-ATENCIO Atmospheric Terrain presents interpretations of affected and altered bodies of water using the Colorado...
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Geospatial Data Act Exposes Geospatial Community Division
John M. PalatielloPresidentJohn M. Palatiello & Associates, Inc.Reston, Va.www.jmpa.us Legislation in congress has exposed a chasm in the geospatial community that could jeopardize chances to...
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