Remote Sensing Tools

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• Fri, 14 Dec 2007 at 3:25 pm · Digital Globe has given me access to the first ready samples for WorldView 1 — thus, I’ll be in the process of experimenting with a range of techniques I had anticipated for this source. · (0)

• Sun, 9 Dec 2007 at 11:31 pm · Using the Chart API in KML for Quick Data Visualization — for it was not something I had in only a dream. · (0)

• Sat, 8 Dec 2007 at 9:20 pm · Justin noticed the new Google Chart API. This really is rather cool actually — the URI structure is similar to Google Maps. It would be easy to implement this in the manner that I did with the custom Google Map — in an iframe so you can embed it in a Web page. What would be sweeter, is if Google rolls this out as a service similar to My Maps. (My Charts?) Or perhaps better yet — in an info-bubble, in a Map? · (0)

• Fri, 7 Dec 2007 at 10:04 pm · I bet this one doesn’t know that I have a lawyer that likes to protect my marks. Resolved. · (0)

• Thu, 6 Dec 2007 at 3:18 pm · Sandio Tech releases their new Sandio 3D Game O2 mouse, with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) in 3D environments. The mouse looks like an ideal 3D 6DOF controller for me, as it would be more intuative to the production work-flow that I’ve mastered or grown accustomed to. I’ve tried just about any kind of peripheral you can imagine that’s supposed to make things easier, from track-balls, to pen-tablets and touch-screens (like Wacom) — I’ve always been faster and more efficient with a mouse and short-cuts. · (0)

• Thu, 6 Dec 2007 at 9:11 am · Leszek Pawlowicz updates this morning with a tutorial for recoloring or modifying Geotiff images in Photoshop, with USGS topo maps and LibgeoGUI. · (2)

• Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 1:16 pm · Leszek Pawlowicz releases a new GUI program called LibgeoGUI for running listgeo and geotifcp commands — which includes better TFW support for writing to GeoTIFF than the GeoTIFF Tools GUI, as well as additional desired enhancements. (I’ll update the Geotiff tutorials here, to include this utility as it’s appropriately the best option.) · (0)

• Sat, 1 Dec 2007 at 5:28 am · Carrie Farrell from Google shares charming insight into the background of how NORAD’s Santa Tracking came about, with a picture of the man who started it all — Carrie’s grandfather, Colonel Harry Shoup. In the ongoing tradition of Santa Tracking every year — NORAD has teamed up with Google to offer several ways to keep children informed of where Santa’s sleigh is being sighted on the map this Christmas! · (0)

• Sat, 1 Dec 2007 at 4:51 am · According to AP, the Pentagon is organizing newer efforts for a next-generation spy satellite program. Reading through the piece, however, it appears the Pentagon is looking at a range of options, including scaling back the effort to be less ambitious than the previously failed FIA Boeing program which was scrapped in 2005 and cost tax-payers billions. · (0)

• Sat, 1 Dec 2007 at 12:06 am · Mike Childs either planted an Easter Egg in Google fashion, or he’s the new Santa and I just got my early Christmas present — as I just noticed the new robust Google Maps tile exporter in Global Mapper 9.01. Best Christmas present — ever. (Except for that year when my parents got me that drum kit when I was little. But it’s darn close!) · (0)

• Fri, 30 Nov 2007 at 11:47 pm · Global Mapper 9.01 released, with over 100 significant upgrades and enhancements included. · (0)

• Thu, 29 Nov 2007 at 12:07 am · Speaking of video, take a look at what Leo’s testing out over on his blog, Life of Leo — it’s a service called Viddler. But the really interesting thing here, is that users can add captions to the timeline of the video — and for various reasons, which Leo briefly touches on as he charmingly wings it through this initial test from his hotel room after a day on the set. I’m intrigued by this caption idea and its potential — very slick. · (0)

• Wed, 28 Nov 2007 at 11:24 pm · I sometimes flip through the menu in YouTube videos to view relative items of interest. This video, I saw after viewing the My Location demo — which hits close to home for me, as I’ve been an advocate in many discussions pertaining to crowd-source potentials for improving or enhancing existing data. (I tend to take a great deal of flack in that discussion as well, though I understand why the antithesis perspective exists.) · (0)

• Wed, 28 Nov 2007 at 6:40 am · Either this guy’s paranoid, or he’s deliberately hitting the company to influence a downturn in shareprice. You decide. (The lense is 16 inches off the ground? Really? Where can I get my hands on that kind of data? And what happened to government restrictions for highest resolution commercial distribution? I wasn’t aware they lifted that.) · (0)

• Mon, 26 Nov 2007 at 9:36 pm · Interesting note on SlashDot about another government push for obtaining cell phone tracking of any American citizen with a cell phone. I’m still trying to figure-out when it was that Americans became the terrorists under the guise of tapping communications that are connected overseas (which, if you have a web site, I’d imagine you too would fall within that category, considering the obvious). [Source: SlashGeo] · (0)

• Mon, 26 Nov 2007 at 12:24 am · I have to thank Leszek Pawlowicz over at Freegeographytools.com for pointing out this image stitcher technology, Autostitch. What used to take me several hours with a traditional stitching method (registering points), took me literally minutes in Autostitch. · (0)

• Fri, 23 Nov 2007 at 9:29 pm · Buying the War, Bill Moyers: I encourage anyone to watch this piece on PBS, if for anything other than your inherent right to understand the truth — and even if it may leave you feeling somewhat sickened in the end. It is within that sickness that one might find honesty and wisdom — and a resolve to right certain wrongs — finding determination to make certain changes accordingly, so that many may find a right path. · (0)

• Fri, 23 Nov 2007 at 2:04 pm · I’m actually quite surprised to see someone in the markets ‘getting’ the concern for certain extended-reach behavioral marketing tactics which violate privacy. And people wonder at all why I come across like a so-called Google ‘fan-boy’? I can also appreciate the paradox of MoveOn.org taking a stance, but requesting that you join their FaceBook Group. · (0)

• Thu, 22 Nov 2007 at 3:41 pm · Dylan Kuhn over at Cyberhobo.net has a plug-in for geo-mashing blog content with Google Maps. This is the kind of thing I like to see in observing the potentials of social networking and content aggregation. Mix that in with making WordPress capable of parsing out GPS metadata tags in images — and you have something a little closer to what I envision. Another great plug-in to see, is GigPress — a WordPress plug-in that provides chronological event listing, which can also auto-link the event address to Google Maps for display. · (0)

• Wed, 21 Nov 2007 at 3:37 pm · How much would anyone be willing to bet, that the mantra until the 2008 elections coming from the administration will be — “Well, if any of us lied, it was because we did it unknowingly“? I’m willing to predict that the word unknowingly will become the most heard word for the next several months, which leads me to conclude that there may be far too much Yoda in the rhetoric these days. Or, perhaps it’s simply a matter of not quite enough? “Already know you that which you need.” · (0)