Free GIS Course: Skills for the Digital Earth

Skills for the Digital Earth
The Use of Location Technologies for All

Elmhurst College’s Skills for the Digital Earth MOOC (massive open online course) is a 4-week, online course designed to introduce how location technologies are used in society. The Digital Earth MOOC is being offered through Desire2Learn (D2L) Open Courses.

Run Dates: March 30 - April 26, 2014 (4 weeks)
Registration Opens: March 3, 2014
Cost per student: Free

Webinar: Portray Your Geography to the World

Geospatial organizations need to use and distribute volumes of geospatial data, but disparate legacy information systems may hinder data sharing. When departments use different geospatial software and data formats, data silos result, forming obstacles to effective collaboration within the enterprise. Additional problems arise when trying to share data with outside organizations.

Geospatial Revolution Project (Episode 4)

Το τέταρτο και τελευταίο επεισόδιο της σειράς κυκλοφόρησε και θα το βρείτε εδώ. 

 

Το επεισόδιο αφορά τη χρήση των Γεωγραφικών Συστημάτων Πληροφοριών (GIS) σχετικά με την παρακολούθηση της παγκόσμιας αλλαγής του κλίματος, την πρόληψη της πείνας, την παρακολούθηση των ασθενειών και τη χαρτογράφηση κοινοτήτων.
 

Πηγή: Αθανάσιος Δημ. Σαπανίδης,
http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/
 

Webinar: Geographic Business Intelligence at Walmart

How an associate at the world's largest retailer develops data-driven analyses for informed strategic decisions

Join us on April 20th for a webinar about "Building High-Impact Presentations and Geospatial Reporting" – and discover how a senior manager at Walmart is unlocking the full power of his team's geospatial data.

In recent years, associates at Walmart have found unique ways to integrate and automate business intelligence (BI) workflows with geospatial insights. Like most organizations, associates at Walmart face the traditional obstacles in analysis and decision making: silo bottlenecks, slow data integration and processing, and tradeoffs between accuracy, speed and insight. They also have an urgent need for detailed, up-to-date reports that are easily understood, widely available and immediately actionable.

Walmart's Store Innovations & Sustainability team tackled these challenges with an open mind and the company's legendary focus on process- and cost-efficiencies. Using their existing IT infrastructure, they were able to leverage the many benefits of geographic business intelligence: “no-limits” access to data, rapid integration and processing, powerful analytics with ease-of-use, and on-demand reporting across the enterprise.

Geospatial Revolution Project (Episode 3)

Το πανεπιστήμιο The Pennsylvania State University, παρουσίασε το project Geospatial Revolution. Πρόκειται για ένα ντοκιμαντέρ που θα ολοκληρωθεί σε 4 επεισόδια. Τα δύο πρώτα επεισόδια κυκλοφορούν ήδη και εδώ θα βρείτε το 3ο επεισόδιο που μόλις κυκλοφόρησε! Σκοπός του project είναι η δημόσια προβολή της δύναμης που κατέχει η χωρική πληροφορία. H Penn State Public Broadcasting είναι υπεύθυνη για την υλοποίηση του project.

Essays on Geography and GIS (ESRI Press)

The popular “Essays on Geography and GIS” e-book series brings together a broad range of ArcNews articles written by academicians and scientists dealing with trends in geography, geospatial matters, and GIS. Today, ESRI released Volume 3 in this series, which features the following articles:

 

 

Webinar: on the APOS Location Intelligence Solution

There is significant interest within the Teradata and Esri user communities concerning the access and use of spatial data stored in the Teradata enterprise data warehouse with Esri and other business intelligence (BI) tools. The APOS Location Intelligence Solution for Esri: Teradata Edition is set to become a key factor in helping organizations realize the full potential of geospatial business intelligence. 

ESA unveils latest map of world’s land cover

ESA’s 2009 global land cover map has been released and is now available to the public online from the ‘GlobCover’ website. GlobCover 2009 proves the sharpest possible global land cover map can be created within a year.
 

 

Webinar: How to Quickly Load Spatial Data into SQL Server

This free webinar demonstrates practical techniques to help you more quickly and efficiently load spatial data into SQL Server. Join us to learn how you can automate spatial data conversion, transformation, and loading processes to gain more value from your SQL Server environment and data assets. We’ll also highlight how you can extract and distribute SQL Server spatial data within your web mapping applications.  

 

Esri Offering Technical Certification

The Esri Technical Certification Program recognizes qualified individuals who are proficient in best practices for using Esri software. Esri Technical Certifications are awarded in different areas of expertise at both an Associate and Professional level. The program is open to Esri users worldwide. 

Registration opens January 17, 2011

 

 

Directions Magazine Webinar: A Paradigm Shift in Geospatial Intelligence? Challenges for a New Generation of Analysts

Is the GEOINT paradigm shifting from the technologically centric “find, fix and finish” warfare to a more anticipatory posture focused on human interests? Is today’s GEOINT community prepared for the analytic challenge of including cultural, population, economic and political geographies? What are the implications for the tradecraft and the geospatial intelligence professional? We believe changes are underway, and this webinar addresses what those changes mean to those who work in, support or are training in this field. USGIF and a panel of experts dive into this topic in a webinar taking place December 9th at 2 p.m. Read more about it in this post. 

Remote Sensing UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)

Currently the Gatewing X100 is only offered with a metric digital camera. As you will see in the video the focus is on digital terrain modeling and orthophotos, but can anyone doubt that this system will not be used for LiDAR in the near future.

The pace of innovation seems to be accelerating lately. Perhaps this is a result of the challenging economy. It would not take that many projects to recover the $50k investment in the X100 – incredible.

Visual Fusion 5.0: New Release

Yesterday we released the latest version of our flagship product, Visual Fusion. Visual Fusion 5.0 is a very exciting milestone for us—and for our customers. The new visualization, contribution, and SharePoint integration features break new ground in business intelligence software.

I thought I’d show off some of the highlights of the release:

OSGeo-Live 4.0.1

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Xubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.

  

1st Conference on Spatial Statistics 2011

Spatial statistics is a rapidly developing field which involves the quantitative analysis of spatial data and the statistical modelling of spatial variability and uncertainty. Applications of spatial statistics are for a broad range of environmental disciplines such as agriculture, geology, soil science, hydrology, ecology, oceanography, forestry, meteorology and climatology, but also for socio-economic disciplines such as human geography, spatial econometrics, epidemiology and spatial planning.

The aim of the meeting is to present interdisciplinary research where applicability in other disciplines is a central core concept.

Understanding the Changing Planet (Video)

Alexander B. Murphy, professor of geography at the University of Oregon, chaired a national committee that looked at how his field could provide a roadmap to a variety of challenges facing the planet, including climate change. In this video, Murphy provides us with a brief overview of his committee’s report: “Understanding the Changing Planet.

Geospatial Revolution Project (Episode 1+2)

Το πανεπιστήμιο The Pennsylvania State University, παρουσίασε το project Geospatial Revolution. Πρόκειται για ένα ντοκιμαντέρ που θα ολοκληρωθεί σε 4 επεισόδια. Τα δύο πρώτα επεισόδια κυκλοφορούν ήδη. Σκοπός του project είναι η δημόσια προβολή της δύναμης που κατέχει η χωρική πληροφορία. H Penn State Public Broadcasting είναι υπεύθυνη για την υλοποίηση του project.