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- GRASS GIS 6.4rc5-3 (Mac)
- Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System GIS used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Grass Development Team, GIS, Data Management, Research & Development, Software, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-06-19
- Geospatial Analysis Using SAS and the Google Map API
- The Google Map API allows Web site developers to integrate mapping capabilities into their own Web sites. These mash-ups combine data from more than one source into a single tool used by a broad range of people including real estate professionals who map properties for potential clients to municipalities which...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, API, SAS Institute, Google Map API
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Where 2 Get It, Inc. Maintains Competitive Edge by Facilitating Innovation and Minimizing Customer Costs
- Where 2 Get It, Inc. wanted to provide a robust foundation for the company's complex geospatial information system applications and improve management of multiple geospatial services. The challenge was to facilitate the development of new offerings and improve customer service and maintain competitive edge by reducing costs and licensing fees....
- Tags: Innovation, Information System, Oracle Corp., Strategy, Roi/Tco, Pricing, Databases, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Indexing reality with Earthmine
- Earthmine has come up with the notion of "indexing reality." At DEMOfall 07, the company previewed its technology, which gathers, analyzes and communicates location-based information, the flow of data from the street to the Web. Earthmine's vehicles collect data at street level with a calibrated camera array...
- Tags: 3D, Data, Earthmine, 3D Data, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Singularity Summit 2007: Open source Singularity
- "If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...
- Tags: Software, Scenario, Open Source, System, Benefit, Google Earth, Technology, Tool, Democracy, Singularity Summit 2007, AR World, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?
- Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?cluster computingGreat video. It lays out the numbers for why cluster and grid computing stand poised to "revolutionize" the web services business. Rather than dealing in commodity computers, we will begin to deal in commodity computing cycles (C3), where we...
- Tags: Servers, Corporate communications, server, EC2, video
- Discussion threads 2007-03-24
- SaaS in 2007: reaching out to offline users
- SaaS in 2007: reaching out to offline usersThe future of SaaS is...The split horizon execution and instant resume of "any" application as a service and not only the CRM/ERP/SCM/HR and alike software stacks what we see these days…..Office prductivity vs specialized functionsI am wondering if there is a difference between...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, job, software, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- American Red Cross CIO: Steve Cooper
- Dan Farber:Now, it’s the year 2006 I can remember in the past five years when we used to talk about cost cutting and consolidation, and now all of a sudden we’re talking about innovation again. Now, you’ve been at Corning Inc, you were in the Dept. of Homeland security as...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- American Red Cross CIO: Steve Cooper
- Dan Farber: Now, it’s the year 2006 I can remember in the past five years when we used to talk about cost cutting and consolidation, and now all of a sudden we’re talking about innovation again. Now, you’ve been at Corning Inc, you were in the Dept. of Homeland...
- Tags: Innovation, CIO, Recommendation, Cooper, Red Cross, Technology, American Red Cross, Identity Management, Katrina, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Senate panel: Get digital pics and vid into intel database
- For years, military attaches and Special Forces have taken digital photos and unmanned planes have shot video footage of target countries like Iran and North Korea of interest to military intelligence. But this excellent data has never been integrated into the databases of the agency that deals with such information,...
- Tags: imagery, full-motion video, NGA
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
- The arrival of geosensor networks
- In a very interesting article, Location Intelligence describes how the capture of geospatial information traditionally done by using cameras, laser scanners and GPS sensors, is being revolutionized by recent advances in advances in nanotechnology. In fact, "nanotechnology has made it both feasible and economically viable to develop and deploy low-cost,...
- Tags: geosensor network, sensor, network
- Blog posts 2006-03-16
- A private sector vision for broadband emergency communications
- Has government's ability to deal with mass crises such as 9/11 improved with the introduction of broadband wireless technology and the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security?Well, doubtful.With the recent debacle of uncoordinated Hurricane Katrina-related assistance response among various government agencies still fresh in our minds, it has...
- Tags: Jennings
- Blog posts 2005-11-17
- Upgrading first-responder comm problems not an easy fix
- One of the problems that Katrina has put into bold relief is the impact of cascading communication snafus on the quick response to disasters. First-responder communications were hampered by systems that were down and systems that couldn't talk to each other. I heard one story of a...
- Tags: radio, network
- Blog posts 2005-09-15
- Congress calls for emergency comm upgrades
- While some in Congress are pushing for massive funding - $5 billion a year - to upgrade equipment for first responders, some experts are pushing for something more: a national wireless data network, with dedicated frequencies, that first repsonders could plug into after an emergency, Associated Press reports. ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Government Accountability Office Communications
- Blog posts 2005-09-14
- Is the Internet better organized than the government?
- Unlike the federal government, the Internet responded to Katrina with flying colors, writes Declan McCullaugh at News.com. By 12:40 p.m. PDT Tuesday, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com was already reporting on what would become the Great Flood of 2005. ...
- Tags: federal government, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Blog posts 2005-09-07
- The electronic tollkeeper: States, drivers embrace electronic transponders
- The number of cars zipping through East Coast tollbooths is ballooning, the Washington Post reports, as drivers take to the system and local governments consider building more toll roads without having to worry about traffic coming to a standstill at the tollbooth. The Post says: ...
- Tags: E-ZPass
- Blog posts 2005-09-06
- A Distributed Architecture for WAP-Based Mobile GIS
- WAP-based Mobile Geographical Information System Mobile GIS can be described as mobile users can perform the almost same functionality as of Internet GIS but in a mobile environment at any time, any place and without the limitation of operating system and wired link. In this paper, a distributed architecture for...
- Tags: Mobile, WAP, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2004-06-07
- PEMEX SICORI Increases Productivity of Its Geospatial Services by 500% Using an Innovative Technology Platform
- PEtroleos MEXicanos PEMEX, one of the largest state petroleum companies in the world, created the Corporate Information System SICORI to generate a flow of information to support operations in its central agency and subsidiary agencies specializing in exploration, production, petrochemistry, refining and gas. SICORI needed to make a definitive decision...
- Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Databases, Marketing, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- GIS Vehicle Tracking System
- Municipal government of Osnabruck, a city in Germany, required a solution for tracking and managing a fleet of its road sweepers. One of the major concerns of the customer was to improve the control over the traffic and vehicle operations as well as optimize routes, schedules and related service costs...
- Tags: Intellias, GIS, Software
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