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Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, was our keynote speaker at our Rocket City Geospatial Conference, here in Huntsville, AL. He was nice enough to take a picture with me, thanks to Marty Sellers, photographer. We had a very sucessful conference, great sessions, wonderful events, and an opportunity to share a GIS Day celebration and Geography Awareness Week with about 140 4th graders from Endeavor Elementary School. Thanks to all the folks that helped plan and of course all who attended this year's conference. www.rocketcitygeospatial.com/index.php
NGA CAMPUS EAST
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes
(RELEASED) July 12, 2010 -- Jim Stickovitch, a Balfour Beatty Construction quality control electrical specialist, inspects electrical components and logs notes on a tablet computer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Campus East (NCE) project site at Fort Belvoir North Area, Va.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District is managing design and construction of the $1.7 billion complex as part of ongoing 2005 Base Realignment and Closure projects at Fort Belvoir.
Regardless of whether you take the boat ride or go down thru the tunnels, you really appreciate the raincoats they give you.
And now that the new tour operator is using red raincoats, you get a choice of blue or red for the boats and the yellow ones you can see in at the lower right edge of the falls by the tunnel entrance.
A team of researchers from Adelaide University, ESA (European Space Agency) F-lab, Thales Alenia Space, and the SmartSat Cooperative Research Center in South Australia has successfully uploaded and demonstrated NASA and IBM’s open-source Prithvi Geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model aboard two in-orbit platforms, making it the first geospatial foundation model to be deployed in orbit. Trained on 13 years’ worth of data, Prithvi can facilitate a wide variety of Earth observation tasks.
By uploading a compressed version of Prithvi to the South Australian government’s Kanyini satellite and to the Thales Alenia Space IMAGIN-e (ISS Mounted Accessible Global Imaging Nod-e) payload aboard the International Space Station, the researchers tested the model’s flood and cloud detection performance across two different orbiting platforms and computing environments.
Developed by a team of data scientists from IBM and NASA’s IMPACT AI team within the Office of Data Science and Informatics at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the Prithvi Geospatial model was trained on the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 dataset. This dataset compiles over a decade of global geospatial data from NASA’s Landsat and ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2 satellites. Prithvi can be adapted for tasks such as mapping flood plains, monitoring disasters, and predicting crop yields.
In this image, Florida is seen from the International Space Station. A NASA geospatial AI foundation model was deployed to a platform aboard the space station for the first time, unlocking new opportunities for Earth observation.
Credit: NASA
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Aerial photograph of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency by Trevor Paglen. Commissioned by Creative Time Reports, 2013.
Today I went with my team to a half day presentation at the Google Enterprise Geospatial Summit 2011 because the company I work for uses their applications.
Geospatial refers to the Google Earth and mapping and all its features.
Most people would be aware of and use the public face of Google, but there is actually a business side to the company called Enterprise.
It was actually a very interesting 4 hours enhanced with some lubrication.
There were presentations by the Google Earth founder himself Brian McClendon, and some high level Google Product and Development executives.
I won't bore you with too much detail in case you don't normally get excited by this stuff.
Brian McClendon was a founder and inventor at Keyhole, a start up company purchased by Google in 2004.The geospatial data visualization tool developed by Keyhole later came to be known as Google Earth.
He made his childhood home of Lawrence, Kansas the default center point of early releases of Google Earth.
The Google people spoke about some of their ideas and developments, but if I told you, I would have to kill you. In fact they can touch on some topics, then back off and say they can't comment.
The advantage of mapping is people easily visualise concepts and information, rather than reading lists of information where they nod off.
Some examples brought to demonstrate were . . . . well, rather interesting, such as -
NY Times HOMICIDE map.
Here the number of homicides is mapped, and you can filter on weapons, gender, age, ethnicity etc. You get the idea. If you are looking at buying an apartment in Brooklyn, this site is a must see.
You will love THIS one.
Flush Tracker is a map of the local sewer system and reveals information like speed and distance for a flush to travel. Local Flushes are shown on the map and then the path of flow is drawn on the map... very clever and no doubt useful to the local sewer authority.
When I opened the site, I was watching a "deposit" travel alongside a road in Germany.
Japan quake PERSON-FINDER
Efforts to bring missing persons and friends and relatives together.
CRISIS RESPONSE grew out of an idea following the Haiti earthquake. Many government departments had collected information about different aspects of the quake aftermath, but weren't sharing it, resulting in a flawed recovery outcome.
Google Crisis Response makes critical information more accessible around natural disasters and humanitarian crises such as hurricanes and earthquakes. This initiative is a project of Google.org, which uses Google's strengths in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges.
They have responded to Australian floods, Australian cyclone Yasi, Christchurch quake and Japanese quake, to name a few.
Enough already. I hope that this gives you a better idea of what Google is involved in besides your Google search page.
Sorry, it is a bit long TODAY
It is currently owned and operated by NV5 Geospatial Inc., a company specializing in geospatial data and aerial mapping.
The aircraft has been active recently in the California and Nevada regions, often performing survey-like patterns or transiting between regional airports.
North Las Vegas Airport KVGT
Photo: TDelCoro
January 31, 2026
Leadership Award - GEOSPATIAL BUSINESS LEADER 2012: Raymond O’Connor, President & CEO, Topcon Positioning Systems
Leadership Award - LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Prof. Gottfried Konecny, Professor Emeritus, IPE, Leibniz University of Hanover
Leadership Award - GEOSPATIAL ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR 2012: Melker Schörling, Chairman of the Board, Chairman of Remuneration Committee - Hexagon
Leadership Award - NATIONAL MAPPING ORGANISATION 2012: National Administration of Surveying Mapping and Geoinformation, China
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-193
GEOSPATIAL DATA: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts
Note: Other agencies include the Departments of Labor and the Treasury, National Science Foundation, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
geospatial@online am 06. Juli 2017 an der NaWi der Universität Salzburg.
Bilder: Hans-Christian Gruber
Sanjay Kumar, CEO, Geospatial Media and Communications thanking General V.K. Singh for presenting the awards
Joe Mercer, Arlington's lead cemetery representative discusses routing for a burial service with Dexter Johnson, a cemetery representative. On March 12, 2012 Arlington National Cemetery will use an Army-designed geospatial mapping system to manage cemetery operations. Arlington is the first national cemetery to use this technology. The mapping system is linked to Arlington's interment scheduling system, which allows allows schedulers to assign gravesites electronically and assigns procession routes. It also alerts Arlington staff of other activities in the area.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-193
GEOSPATIAL DATA: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts
Maj. Thomas Strohmeyer, geospatial information/observer, Bundeswehr, German Armed Forces (middle), speaks with Johannes Scharlau, Deputy Head of the German Embassy, (left), speaks with as Lt. Col. Hans H. Wilshusen, exercise observer, Bundeswehr, German Armed Forces (right), looks on during Southern Accord 14, July 22. SA 14 promotes regional relationships, increases capacity, trains US and Southern African forces, and furthers cross training and interoperability. (Photo by Capt. Keith E. Thayer, 4IBCT/PAO)
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