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Industry: Google Tries Its Own 'Second Life'

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday July 08, @05:23PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the here-we-go dept.
Google
From CNet News : "Google on Tuesday plans to unveil an online 3D social arena called Lively, the Internet giant's take on Second Life. But Google wants it to be part of your first life. "
"With Lively, you can set up you own online spaces--rooms, grassy meadows, desert islands, or, in the demo version I tried, simulated Silicon Valley office parks. You can change the clothing or form of your avatar (that's your online incarnation, for those of you who missed the Second Life hype). And of course you can chat, do backflips, shake hands, and give high-fives. "
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Application Domains: How To Map Reef Features at EVS Precision

posted by lxnyce on Monday July 07, @08:52AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
Maps
Mr Minton writes " How To Map Reef Features — Landsat, EVS Precision and DigitalGlobe

During the month of May 2008, I digitized approximately 8,000 island polygons scattered throughout the southern Pacific Ocean. All of Papua New Guinea to the Cook Islands were mapped at EVS precision using Landsat ETM+ base imagery. And I got paid for my efforts! I wanted to enhance my mapping by including reef features. Here is how I added those features."

Technology: Cell Phones Tracking Nightlife Activity

posted by lxnyce on Sunday June 29, @04:50PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the big-brother-is-watching dept.
GPS
Slashdot is currently discussing an article on Citysense, which is used to track users actions by their cell phones. Here is their summary : "A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software, named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town. Citysense 'uses advanced machine learning techniques to number crunch vast amounts of data emanating from thousands of cell-phones, GPS-equipped cabs and other data devices to paint live pictures of where people are gathering.' Citysense is available today in San Francisco, before being soon deployed in Chicago and five other U.S. cities."

Technology: GPS Camera Now Comes With Compass

posted by lxnyce on Friday June 27, @09:39AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the silenetly-keeping-track-of-you dept.
GPS
CNET News has an article about this interesting camera. From their summary : "The Ricoh 500SE GPS camera now includes something called an SE-3 GPS module, a three-axis compass developed by Honeywell that nails down position and direction (azimuth), then displays it on the camera's LCD. The data, in the form of point coordinates, are embedded into an image as it is captured.

This gives the user a 3D "cones-of-view" perspective indicating the direction the camera was facing. It comes ready to use with mapping applications such as Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS (PDF.) A laser rangefinder connected to the camera via Bluetooth allows the user to enter accurate distances. "

Technology: GPS Based Racing Games

posted by lxnyce on Monday June 16, @09:16AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the cool-concepts dept.
GPS
SlashDot is currently discussing an article which attempts to use GPS data collected from real racing cars, and ingest them into video games to allow gamers to race against real race car drivers. From their summary : "The BBC has a story about a company aiming to pit gamers against the professionals. iOpener Media has a patented system that sucks in real-time GPS data from racing events and pumps it out to compatible games consoles and PCs. This means you can race in real-time against the like of Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen. The company also claims to have an AI that solves the problem of overtaking and crashes."

For more information and the community reactions, please visit the slashdot article link above.

Application Domains: Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits

posted by lxnyce on Sunday June 08, @01:56PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the big-brother-is-watching dept.
Location-Based Services
Slashdot currently has an article on the subject. Head on over to their site to see the many reactions from the huge slashdot community. Here is their summary : "'New research that makes creative use of sensitive location-tracking data from 100,000 cellphones in Europe suggests that most people can be found in one of just a few locations at any time, and that they do not generally go far from home.' More interesting than their conclusion, however, is how they got their data. 'The researchers said they used the potentially controversial data only after any information that could identify individuals had been scrambled. Even so, they wrote, people's wanderings are so subject to routine that by using the patterns of movement that emerged from the research, "we can obtain the likelihood of finding a user in any location." The researchers were able to obtain the data from a European provider of cellphone service that was obligated to collect the information. By agreement with the company, the researchers did not disclose the country where the provider operates.' Any guesses which European country requires cell phone providers to record where their customers make calls, and then allows them to give that data away without disclosing that they have done so?"

Industry: NASA 5-Gigapixel Milky Way

posted by lxnyce on Wednesday June 04, @08:39AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the stitch-it-up dept.
NASA
SlashDot is currently discussing this new nasa mosaic. Here is their summary : "Today NASA unveiled a new infrared mosaic of our galaxy. The result of over 800,000 individual images collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope, it is the largest, highest-resolution, and most sensitive infrared picture ever taken of the Milky Way (and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future). Because Spitzer sees in infrared, it penetrates much farther into the galaxy, revealing previously hidden star clusters, star-forming regions, shocked gases, glowing 'bubbles' and more. The complete mosaic is about 400,000 by 13,000 pixels, and a 180' printed version is being shown at the American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis. A zoomable, annotated version of two different variants on the image (as well as some additional information on the science) is available at Alien Earths, a NASA- and NSF-supported education site."

To be a part of the discussion, head on over to the SlashDot article. To make things easier for you GIS professionals, here are the images in reference to the mosaic :
Single Images, not mosaiced : http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2008-11/ssc2008-11b.shtml
Interactive Mosaic : http://www.alienearths.org/glimpse/glimpse.php
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