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2012 ASPRS Fellow Award Winners Announced
Amerisurv
Prior to her appointment as NGTOC Director, Craun served as the Chief of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership office for the USGS Central Region, supervising USGS geospatial liaisons to 15 states in the Central United States.

DHS looking for vendors to perform 'remote sensing' airborne photography
Government Security News
The chosen firms will have demonstrated their ability to distribute “processed orthophotography” via high performance data transfer techniques that use Web services or secure Cloud services, which comply with the Open Geospatial Consortium, ...

The calculation has been performaed automatically as the event was identified, which occurred 20 minutes after the time of occurrence. The calculation has been sent to all users which registered in the Alert system.

Calculation related to 26th dec. 2004 event using the real epicenter as initial condition. The arrival time is about 1h late in most locations due to the low depth of the water at the beginning.

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Calculation related to 26th dec. 2004 event using the fault epicenter as initial condition. The arrival time is correct at all locations.

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This calculation is referred to an event occurred on Aug. 21st 2003 offshore of the South island of New Zeland.

Longitude=141.76
Latitude =-2.85
Magnitude =8
Water Depth =-247
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2012 ASPRS Fellow Award Winners
Spatial News (press release)
Prior to her appointment as NGTOC Director, Craun served as the Chief of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership office for the USGS Central Region, supervising USGS geospatial liaisons to 15 states in the Central United States.

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2012 ASPRS Fellow Award Winners
GISuser.com (press release)
Prior to her appointment as NGTOC Director, Craun served as the Chief of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership office for the USGS Central Region, supervising USGS geospatial liaisons to 15 states in the Central United States.

techPresident
Does a Google-World Bank Deal On Crowdsourcing Ask Too Much of the Crowd?
techPresident
The bank, he added, is hoping to release an open geospatial data catalog that would free up even more of its data to the world. This post has been corrected. It's Open Aid Partnership, not Open Aid Project.

Plug-and-work Protocol Adopted
Hydro International
Open Geospatial Consortium has adopted the PUCK standard, which facilitates plug-and-play connections of electronic equipment. The standard is relatively simple, and several manufacturers have already implemented the protocol in their instruments' ...

Feasibility Reports for a National Spatial Data Infrastructure in Uganda ...
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
TORONTO – January 31, 2012 – Esri Canada today announced the successful completion of feasibility studies for building a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Uganda and the Kingdom of Jordan. The results and recommendations from each study ...

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