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Geography Matters: Lots of Oil – Not Enough Ships
The December 16 Issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has an article about a shortage of ships to haul oil between US ports. (The oil moves from ports near where it is produced to ports near where it is...
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APOGEO Magazine: Applications of GIS for Wildfire, Diamond Mining, and Wind...
The Summer 2013 Issue of APOGEO Magazine has multiple articles that highlight the application of GIS technology around the world. These articles include: An explanation of how GIS technology is used to...
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Professional Surveyor Magazine: Doctor Ghilani Explains Variations In Gravity...
The July 2013 Issue of Professional Surveyor Magazine has an article entitled “Defining Surfaces” By Charles Ghilani that teaches the common surveyor a bit of important geodesy. The article includes a...
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Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine: Saving Elephants In Kenya With Drones and...
The November 4, 2013 Issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has an article about park rangers using drones and Google Earth to help save elephants in Kenya, where poaching is a serious problem. The rangers...
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The Economist Magazine: 100 Year Old Pipeline Made Los Angeles Urban Growth...
The November 9, 2013 Issue of The Economist Magazine had an article about the 100 year anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The 233 mile pipeline carries water from the Ownes Valley to the north...
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Kotlin: New Static Programming Language for the JVM
I discovered Kotlin today. It is a new statically type programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Kotlin is developed by the same company that makes the IntelliJ IDE. I don’t have any immediate...
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Drone Aerial Mapping at MapBox
The folks at MapBox have posted a couple of short articles about using aerial photos from drones in their product. The first article is here. The second article is here. Landon Blake
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Bloomberg Businessweek: World’s Largets Patent Troll Trys to Invent Stuff
The September 8 Issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has an article that describes the attempt by one of the world’s largest patent trolls to actually invent stuff. The company is Intellectual Ventures,...
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Fast Company Magazine: Using Cars to Track Potholes
The September 2014 Issue of Fast Company Magazine has an article about a group at Northeastern University that has developed a system to track potholes from sensors placed on cars. According to the...
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The Economist Magazine: Ultralight Solar Powered Drones Replace Satellites
The August 30, 2014 Issue of Economist Magazine has an article entitled “The West Wind Blows Afresh” that describes high-altitude psuedi-satellites or “HAPS”. These are high-altitude drones that could...
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