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October 2, 2017
The Future of GPS
More than half a century after a study by The Aerospace Corporation first laid out the design options for…
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October 1, 2017
Moving Data at the Speed of Light
The amount of data being collected from satellites is extremely high and continually increasing, putting severe pressure on downlink…
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October 1, 2017
Open Source GEOSPATIAL SOFTWARE
Open source geospatial software—spatial data management, GIS, and related developer tools and end-user applications delivered with an open source…
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October 1, 2017
A Killer App for Sats
Ursa Space Systems Inc. (Ursa) is a satellite imagery analytics company whose focus is on commodities and the financial markets….
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September 30, 2017
Extreme Weather’s Tie to Climate
Flows in the Earth’s Life-Support System (ELSS) were the subject of my last column. This column is about language…
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September 30, 2017
Geospatial Developments in Open Source, GPS, and Data Downlink Capabilities
As I Look Back on the half of this year, I am struck with the increasing speed of exciting…
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June 10, 2017
THE INSIDE STORY: Google Earth Enterprise Goes Open Source
On March 20, 2015, Google deprecated Google Earth Enterprise (GEE), which had contributed greatly to the market for geospatial…
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June 10, 2017
Apogeo Advisors:
DEAR READER,
This issue marks 14 years that my company has owned Apogeo Spatial, and it has enabled me to… -
June 10, 2017
Global Ocean Shoreline
Cartography of the world’s ocean shorelines goes back to the voyages of the first great explorers, when mapping was…
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June 10, 2017
FINAL ARTICLE IN THE SERIES ON Geospatial Processing & Visualization
The Line Between vendors of Geospatial Software and providers of geospatial data is increasingly blurred, as more companies either…