Advanced game theory goes to work for homeland security
Researchers from the University of Southern California have developed applications for the Transportation Security Administration to protect airports and for the U.S. Coast Guard to defend ports.
Building the tools for bug-free software
With detailed descriptions of how software is expected to behave, researchers believe they can verify its operations and eliminate bugs.
Louisiana moves levee inspection to the cloud and saves
When a custom-built application began to fail, levee inspections moved to TerraGo’s Edge, a cloud-based subscription mapping and forms service.
Predicting earthquake damage with big data analytics
Seismic Concern collects data on the physical environment and integrates time- and location-sensitive population information to immediately deliver a report on earthquake hot spots to subscribing localities.
Getting to gigabit Internet without fiber
While it builds out its fiber network, Santa Cruz, Calif., is using a network of millimeter wave radios to deliver gigabit-speed Internet.
Can your smartphone drive your car?
By adding a laser sensor to a smartphone, researchers at MIT created a low-cost device that can deliver the high-resolution distance sensing required for robotic navigation.
Esri to offer interactive data analysis within ArcGIS
Insights for ArcGIS promises to make the process of integrating enterprise data and maps far more intuitive.
TaintArtist promises to detect abusive phone apps
Rather than trying to screen apps for malware, researchers suggest it may be more effective to monitor the behavior of installed apps for signs of improper behavior.
GeoMesa tames big data for GIS in the cloud
GeoMesa distributes geospatial data processing over the scalable resources of Hadoop, virtually eliminating the limits to the amount of data that can be managed.
Passive Wi-Fi will boost Internet of Things
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a way that passive, or reflected, signals can help IoT sensors transmit data while using far less power than existing Wi-Fi devices.
Esri introduces Drone2Map to process aerial images
Drone2Map incorporates a powerful image-processing engine from Pix4D to analyze images taken from drones and convert them into a variety of 2-D and 3-D maps.
Satellite image analysis scales with deep learning, crowdsourcing
Crowdsourced image validation combined with machine learning shrinks the pool of imagery requiring human analysis.
LA GeoHub: A model for ‘datafying’ communities
The Los Angeles GeoHub is a portal of location-based open data from across city departments allowing both the public and city employees to build and share apps.
Georgia Tech offers a robotics co-op to researchers
The Robotarium would give researchers remote access to expensive equipment on which to test swarm robotics software.
Iowa fights snow with data
Besides being a hit with the public, the state’s Track a Plow website gives the Department of Transportation and other agencies near-real-time information so they can quickly make data-driven decisions.
NASA, Esri speed delivery of cloud-based imagery data
Using image-compression technology with a meta raster format that breaks files into three parts that can be cached separately, users not only get faster performance but also lower storage requirements.
NASA spinoffs: Bringing space tech to Earth
The latest technology transfer report highlights technologies that have come out of the nation’s space program and entered Earth-based markets.
This year’s drones will soon look like kid stuff
A quick sampling of recent advances shows that the pace of innovation is picking up steam.
Researchers patching cellphone leaks of personal data
Many mobile apps transmit user identifiers, locations and passwords without providing any obvious benefit to the user.
Seeing through walls with Wi-Fi
Despite the low energy of Wi-Fi signals, they can be used to effectively penetrate concrete to detect human movement and to map spaces and objects inside buildings.
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