Kelso Cartography has an interesting map displaying the number of years of intensive agriculture seen in each place around the Earth. An interesting view of the way that humans have transformed the Earth during the anthropocene. The Sydney Morning Herald has a story on a Canberra amateur UAV team winning $10,000 for successfully […]
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Best of the Blogs 18 September 2012
Wired has a great piece on cartographer Kate McLean’s “sensory maps”, which show how people use their different senses to navigate a city. As she explains on her website: "My research investigates smell perceptions of the city environment, depicting the findings in a variety of artistic, cartographic forms and augmenting and altering the maps […]
European LiDAR Mapping Forum releases programme
The European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF), which runs from 4-5 December 2012 in Salzburg, Austria, is bringing the latest LiDAR developments to the forefront in its newly released conference programme. The ELMF12 programme will reflect LiDAR’s rapidly evolving technologies with more than 35 selected technical papers, presented by LiDAR experts from across the […]
Best of the Blogs 14 August 2012
LiDAR news has a post and video showing an autonomous, fast, nimble, constrained-environment (including flying a 2m wide plane through a 2.5m high carpark) UAV that uses only an inertial measurement unit and a laser rangefinder to navigate, and avoid obstacles, with all the processing done on-board – no GPS required. For all […]
Best of the Blogs 24 July 2012
Wired Magazine has an interesting article on a recent experiment where a UAV was commandeered by spoofing GPS signals. Just ignore the typically sensationalist Fox News report embedded in the middle. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/drone-gps-spoof/all/ Gizmag has an article that talks of a high-resolution Doppler radar that can detect the velocity of individual raindrops. That’s some serious […]
BAE creates alternative to GPS
Military platforms commonly use GPS to find their position and navigate. GPS rely upon a specific, and relatively weak, satellite signal that is vulnerable to disruption. BAE Systems has created a new system – known as Navigation via Signals of Opportunity (NAVSOP) – that is able to calculate its position by making use […]
The Groundwater Modelling School with GMS
The Groundwater Modelling School with GMS is a four-day course where you will learn the fundamental principles of groundwater flow computer modeling using Aquaveo’s top-line GMS modelling software. It will also teach an introduction to Parameter Estimation WHEN: 2012-10-23 to 2012-10-26WHERE: Pan Pacific Hotel, PerthSTATE: WACOUNTRY: AUS The Groundwater Modelling School with GMS is a […]
Best of the Blogs 22/5/2012
Google has removed the tag identifying the Persian Gulf from its popular mapping service, angering the Iranian government. Tehran says it will sue the search giant. ZDNet has the full story. The All Points Blog alerts us that GITA (in the US) has cancelled the Oil and Gas Conference, and stating that “The […]
Position Partners continues as Australian Distributor for Gatewing
National precision solutions company Position Partners will continue as the Australian Distributor of Gatewing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. Gatewing, based in Gent, Belgium, was recently acquired by global positioning equipment manufacturer Trimble, as reported in Spatal Source last week. Gatewing’s solutions include the X100 UAV and Stretchout post processing software, designed to […]
Trimble Acquires Gatewing
Trimble recently announced that it has acquired privately held Gatewing of Gent, Belgium, a provider of lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for photogrammetry and rapid terrain mapping applications. UAVs in combination with photogrammetry are an emerging technology providing an innovative platform for aerial imagery acquisition. UAVs provide users the ability to create orthophotos […]
