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A “Harlow Report” From April 24, 2023
by Emily Putnam
With all the apps people rely on every day, have you ever felt like you’re being tracked? In some cases, you are.
… “You know all these big giant tech companies, I mean that’s really how they make a lot of their money, is user data,” said Dr. Brian Tomaszewski, professor of Geographic Information Systems at RIT.
Users of iPhone and Android alike have probably seen a pop-up on their phones asking for their location. One of you asked us: “Why do weather apps, such as TV 10’s, want to know my location?”
Read full story at WHEC, News10…
Now back to 2024
Building the Future
by Brooks Patrick
GIS solutions keep one of Europe’s largest urban construction projects on track to the future
… A city can only remain livable if there are enough places for people to live. Vienna’s leadership has used the challenge of creating more housing as an opportunity to envision a new pattern of neighborhood planning and placemaking throughout Vienna—a city within a city.
The result: aspern Seestadt, reclaims a brownfield area to create a development that embraces new urban ideals while retaining the classical urban structure of old Vienna.
… Geographic information system (GIS) technology helps planners implement clean energy and low-emission strategies and aids the long-range planning and implementation to ensure that aspern Seestadt achieves a unique balance of sustainability and livability.
Read full story at xyHt…
How Texas is Using GIS for Conservation
by Meg Scribner
Kelsi Schwind, a GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist in TX, joins us to share her insights on leveraging GIS for conservation efforts.
Joined by special guest host and Global Mapper Product Manager Mackenzie Mills, we spoke with Kelsi Schwind — a GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Landscape Ecology Program. Kelsi won the Blue Marble Geographics Academic Scholarship in 2020, so we were excited to catch up with her and discuss a project she’s been developing with the Landscape Ecology Program. She joined us on the show to share how GIS technology can enable progress in conservation.
We discussed the budding efforts to preserve the Texas Hill Country’s Bigtooth maple population, a species of tree that’s native to North America. Kelsi Schwind is a Spatial Ecologist who is notably involved in a project that will shape the future of these trees.
Read full story at Blue Marble Geographics…
Intertrust Partners with GeoComply for Advanced Geolocation-Enabled Content Protection
Strategic alliance will enhance content security and compliance enforcement for content owners and streaming services around the world
Intertrust, … a leader in distributed computing and rights management, and GeoComply Solutions Inc. ("GeoComply”), a renowned provider of geolocation compliance technology and fraud protection, today announced a partnership to provide a robust solution for content owners and streaming services to control where and how their digital content is delivered and consumed. The partnership will enhance digital content security, reduce revenue loss from piracy, and ensure compliance with licensing agreements that often include geographic restrictions.
Relied on by leading media streaming operators across the globe, Intertrust ExpressPlay® is the world’s most scalable multi-DRM service and supports the largest number of DRM formats. The integration of Intertrust ExpressPlay with GeoComply adds an additional layer of protection and services that enable the secure distribution of content and ensure authorized access. For example, the combined offering includes location-based access controls that can detect access to streaming services through VPNs that mask the location of the user.
Read full story at Intertrust…
The Future Of Geospatial Data Is Boundless
Geospatial data has a huge role to play in understanding the impacts and actions needed to address the climate crisis.
The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use “spatial" or location data in your day for a minute. It is the fabric of our existence. Everything and everyone is someplace all the time—every event has a location. Whether you’re following Google Maps to get to your next destination, looking through your local real estate listings, getting a coffee or landscaping your garden, it is all spatial.
The opportunity for organizations to use geospatial data and gain new insights is huge, yet many do not leverage it as part of their business decision strategy. Granted, industries that manage land or infrastructure use spatial or, more correctly, geospatial data. This includes forestry, urban planning and development, infrastructure and facility management, agriculture—and the list goes on.
Read full story at Forbes…
U.S. Forest Service Selects Geo Owl for $70M Geospatial Services Contract
The contract provides geospatial services to support the National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, and Research and Development program areas across the USFS’s 193M acres of land in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Services include remote sensing, photogrammetry, geospatial analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), cartography, geodesy, and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). USFS selected five total vendors for the multiple award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract and vendors will now look to support various specific lines of effort within the agency.
lqGeo Owl is excited and proud that the USFS has selected us to support its mission needs. Through our long-time support to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, we understand the importance that the proper management of our Nation’s public lands and environmental resources plays in bolstering our national security,rq stated Geo Owl’s Vice President of Geospatial Solutions, Kerry Mapes.
Read full story at GeoOwl…
