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The geospatial industry in 2021 should take a lead in equality and actively find, not seek, talent from all quarters…
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Standards are the Foundation of Data Ecosystems
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Geopolitics & the Indian Ocean: More than Pirates, Tsunamis, and a Lost Plane
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Our Supply Chains Need Fixing; Location Technologies will Play a Role in that
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Cartography and Cognition in the Age of Insight
Dr Derek Clarke
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Investment in Innovation at Core of Business
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Technology is a significant contributor to the digital transformation that is changing our society. In the geospatial industry, we have seen several major technological advances over the last few decades…
Autonomous Future for Sustainable Living
Ola Rollen
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Automation has certainly increased efficiency and productivity, but machines with only fixed, automated functions are not capable of dealing with changing real-world situations. In the autonomous future we are empowering…
Intelligent Nervous System for the Planet
Jack Dangermond
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Recent technological advances are creating an enormous impact across the broad geospatial community, enabling users to not only share their data, but to synthesize it into interesting collections of advanced…
Data is as Important as Human Rights
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Technology of Spirituality
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Education Interrupted, or Learning from Disruption?
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Geodesy suffers from being so fundamental that it is often ignored and under-appreciated, which results in it also being under-resourced….
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Where from Here?
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Cartography and Cognition in the Age of Insight
Dr Derek Clarke
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CHAOS! CHAOS! is probably what your brain is shouting at you as it tries to deal with the amount of information being pumped…
Timing is Everything: To Protect Geospatial and the World, We Need Bullet-proof Time
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Disaster Risk Management and Geospatial Technologies: Ten Commandments
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GW Prime has the stated aim of mainstreaming geospatial information. This is a welcome development but one which faces many challenges. Ways must be found to make the growing body of information being generated by geospatial specialists more understandable…
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Space Investment
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Why Space financing is so hard? Why is the Space industry different from other industries, and what can we as an industry do about it? …
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Things have completely turned around in the last few years, especially in the wake of COVID-19. The demographic and statistical information in Excel spreadsheets can now be merged with…
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Dr. Nadine Alameh
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The only way we can address global threats like Climate Change or future pandemics at the global scale is if data is made available using open standards…
Standards are the Foundation of Data Ecosystems
Dr. Nadine Alameh
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Location counts. There is no dearth of articles and talks around the ‘new spatial revolution’ or how ‘location is at the heart of Industry 4.0.’…
Geopolitics & the Indian Ocean: More than Pirates, Tsunamis, and a Lost Plane
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For those who live outside of the Indian Ocean Rim, it might be easy to disregard this vast area of the Earth’s surface, or to only sporadically take notice…
Investment in Innovation at Core of Business
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Autonomous Future for Sustainable Living
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Automation has certainly increased efficiency and productivity, but machines with only fixed, automated functions are not capable of dealing with changing real-world situations. In the autonomous future we are empowering…
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Data is as Important as Human Rights
Keith Clarke
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