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|  | Mobility to the People: New Tools Provide Geospatial Capabilities
Posted Date: 9/1/2010
Issue: August - 2010
Mobile device suppliers are increasingly embracing location-based services and technology such as GPS receivers. As a result, spatial information that previously was available only via paper maps now is instantly available in electronic format.
Author: Chris Watson
| | Putting Vehicle Fleets on a Fuel Diet: GPS-Based Fleet Tracking "Leans and Greens" Operations
Posted Date: 9/1/2010
Issue: August - 2010
In a little-noticed green movement, millions of gallons of fuel are being saved globally every year with the help of GPS-based systems that monitor vehicle and driver behavior for corporate and government fleets. This fleet-tracking technology also is helping improve efficiency, safety and customer service for fleet operators on five continents.
Author: Renaat Ver Eecke
| | The Mobility of GIS: Geospatial Solutions Are Born of Necessity
Posted Date: 9/1/2010
Issue: August - 2010
It takes a committed "band of professionals" dedicated to public safety and public service to be in a state of "disaster readiness." This band of men and women mobilize forces at a moment's notice, inventory, assess, clean-up and inform the public.
Author: Irene De Groot, David Holdstock and Curt Hinton
| | Tracking Forests: Reforestation Mapping Monitors Seed from Source to Site
Posted Date: 8/30/2010
Issue: July - 2010
Gaining a better understanding of stand- and landscape-level impacts is an important tool in developing new policies and climate change adaptation strategies to reduce the vulnerability of British Columbia's forest and range ecosystems.
Author: Chen Ding and Leslie McAuley
| | Fire vs. Water: A New Tool Assesses Drinking Water's Risk from Wildland Fires
Posted Date: 8/23/2010
Issue: July - 2010
Many communities across the United States depend on forests and grasslands for clean drinking water. But wildland fires, when they’re severe, can put such water sources at risk.
Author: Douglas F. Ryan and William B. Samuels
| | The Future of Geospatial Data Management: A Natural-Resource Perspective
Posted Date: 8/16/2010
Issue: July - 2010
Do you know where your data are or how they came to be? This question has been pondered by nearly everyone working in natural-resource management. Spatial data, in particular, are being collected at a significant rate, and an increasing number of sources are freely available.
Author: Thomas E. Burley and John D. Peine
| | LIO's Roar: Providing One-Stop Access to Ontario Data
Posted Date: 7/26/2010
Issue: June - 2010
In 1999, Land Information Ontario (LIO) hired its first staff and opened its offices in downtown Toronto with a vision that Ontario's geospatial data could be well managed, accessible, easy to integrate and affordable. Eleven years and many achievements later, this vision is becoming a reality.
Author: Carol-Anne Albertson
| | Geospatial Data Libraries: Users Deserve Adequate Archives
Posted Date: 7/19/2010
Issue: June - 2010
Demand for geospatial data has gone from a specialized niche area of government and academic research to a world in which anyone can participate in online cartography. This demand for geospatial data from a broad range of users has put pressure on governments to react and provide what's seen as a civil right to public information.
Author: Marcel Fortin
| | Space-Based Prospecting: Remote Sensing Helps Find Gold Deposits
Posted Date: 7/1/2010
Issue: June - 2010
Gold has been prospected with remote-sensing imagery for the last 30 years. Although gold can't be detected directly by any remote sensor, the presence of minerals that form in association with gold can be detected based on their spectral signatures.
Author: Javed Syed
| | America's Front Yard: A 3-D GIS Helps Visualize the National Mall
Posted Date: 6/28/2010
Issue: May - 2010
The National Park Service is nearing the end of a long-term planning effort to improve visitor amenities and resource conditions on the National Mall for decades to come.
Author: Matthew Safford
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