Storm brews over QuikSCAT satellite
What to do about an aging weather satellite has roiled the National Hurricane Center.
Leica Titan beta offers geospatial data sharing
Program's instant messenger functionality lets users publish, access data on the Web.
Robots to the front lines
Alion Science and Technology has successfully demonstrated its newly developed autonomous robotic vehicle that can carry more than 1,000 pounds of combat and medical gear across the battlefield.
Much Adieu About Nothing
A French official's reported comments caused a brief, but apparently unfounded, stir over BlackBerry security.
Computer animation studies 9-11 damage
With the goal of helping engineers find ways to construct safer buildings, researchers at Purdue University have created a detailed animation of a crucial point in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
Intelligent PDF speeds access to data
According to Planet Associates, its new intelligent-infrastructure PDF product should help cut the time to get information to first responders and other field personnel.
People are the weakest link
RedCannon Security, a provider of secure mobile-access solutions, recently jumped on the public-relations bandwagon with its release of Six Laws of Mobile Security.
Language behind Google Earth likely to be a standard
Advantages of making KML a standard include that it speeds development of Web-based mapping applications and encourages greater interoperability of products.
9/11, frame by frame
Purdue computer scientists have created a detailed animation depicting the three-quarters of a second after the first airliner plowed into 1 World Trade Center.
Democratizing GIS
Geographic information systems are being democratized by the Web. And this is more along the lines of a revolution than an evolution.
OGC moves Google's KML closer to a standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium has dubbed Google's KML a best practice and is working with Google to make sure it integrates well with other standards.
USGS offers satellite imagery online
The U.S. Geological Survey has released an array of images of the United States as part of a pilot project for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission.
Facial recognition around the world
Many other countries are moving much more aggressively than the United States on implementing face recognition technologies ' particularly for surveillance.
Google Maps gets down to street level
Google has introduced a slick new feature for Google Maps that drops users right down to street level to view the scenery.
Does facial recognition invade your privacy?
GCN spoke with Melissa Ngo, director of the Identification and Surveillance Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, about privacy concerns.
We can see clearly now
Face recognition took it on the chin in 2001, but better algorithms and higher resolutions have given it a new outlook.
Jack of all trades
If there was one trend at the RIM-sponsored Wireless Enterprise Symposium it was that the company seems intent on taking its BlackBerry platform mainstream.
NOAA's chemical info makes online CAMEO
Web site gives hazmat crews quick access to data on toxic substances.
How time flies: 50 years of digital imaging
It was 50 years ago this spring that Russell Kirsch of NIST thought to find a way to digitize photographs and put them on a computer.
GIS greens San Francisco
The Urban Forest Mapping Project allows the city's existing and newly planted trees to be tracked, and the city to map future planting locations and calculate costs.
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