http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Better Living Through Emerging Technologies en-us hodge@sunsite.utk.edu 2004-08-24T13:01:05-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000136-gis_online_tutorials_and_more.html The Harvard Design School (GSD) has an online manual for GIS which, while customized for a GSD audience, has much useful information for anyone learning or using GIS. Topics included here: "Beginning a GIS Database," "Digital Elevation Models," "Clipping an... 136@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-08-24T13:01:05-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000131-geotargeting_bbc_multicasting_5_broadband_streams_of_olympics_coverage.html The BBC is multicasting five broadband streams of Olympics coverage, a total of 1,200 hours, using the Real 10 player as well as H.264 video and AAC audio standards. To ensure that the streams can only be viewed in the... 131@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-08-19T16:29:26-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000127-noise_levels_in_paris.html Interactive website depicting noise levels in the city of Paris.... 127@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-07-22T11:33:15-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000113-interamerican_workshop_on_access_to_environmental_data.html A summary of an Inter-American workshop on access to environmental data, just released, provides a good survey of regional and global initiatives and scientific, technical, policy and institutional issues. "Scientists in many Latin American countries already have significant capabilities and... 113@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-07-02T11:40:07-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/06/000104-postgis.html "PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS 'spatially enables' the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's... 104@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-06-09T11:44:03-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/05/000090-maphub.html "MapHub is a web-based, multi-user, group managed information storage system and map. Collecting information about people, places, events, and notes, can help to document unseen narratives and histories in public or private theme-based Hubs. The project is in development. "MapHub... 90@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-05-25T15:21:24-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/05/000088-integrated_gpsvideo_solution.html Red Hen Systems is selling a fully integrated GPS/video collection solution. The VMS-X saves all audio, video and GPS data to a single medium and will attach to any camera with a Sony Intelligent Accessory Shoe. WAAS-enabled, 10K point track... 88@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-05-25T14:45:53-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/05/000070-degree_confluence_project.html The goal of this project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location.... 70@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-05-06T15:36:38-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/04/000021-rethinking_gis_and_homeland_security_oracle_10g.html Rethinking GIS and (Homeland) Security, by Jeremy W. Crampton, in the Apr 04 issue of GEO World. ""The war against Iraq in 1990-91 was the first full-scale GIS war." (Neil Smith, 1992). The same issue also contains a review of... 21@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-04-15T11:53:03-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/04/000017-location_and_media.html Reblogged from sindikk.aeshin: I came across two interesting experiments involving location metadata and media today. First, scientists Roberto Cipolla and Duncan Robertson at the University of Cambridge are building a system for inferring location from image content: Roberto Cipolla and... 17@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-04-12T16:18:32-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/04/000006-sensor_web_geoict.html 6@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-04-06T11:37:11-05:00