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Your Source for Geospatial Technology	Thursday \| April 24, 2008

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Satellite Imagery Production Grows Up: Land Cover for Local Governments

Earth Day 2008 has just passed providing solid evidence citizens and governments are turning their attention to all things green. Local governments are hearing the call of green as well and often look to acquire a land cover dataset to understand what's on the ground within their geography. Until recently such a dataset was the result of a one-off negotiation with an aerial firm and/or a imagery analysis specialist who could turn the image into land cover polygons. But there's a new game in town that takes advantage of high resolution satellite imagery and accelerated feature extraction, making land cover data more accessible for even the smallest towns. Adena Schutzberg explains how three companies have come together to introduce land cover datasets for the Chicago area next month, hoping to tap into the pent up demand.

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Cost-effective Information Interoperability for All-Hazards Events in Spite of Decreasing Preparedness Funding - Part One, The Environment
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Podcast: What is Geospatial News?
A reader wonders if there is any such category as 'geospatial news' since everything happens somewhere.

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ESRI's ArcGIS 9.3 Podcast Series (#2): What's coming in the Geodatabase for 9.3
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Oracle's Location Intelligence Podcast Series (#5): Using NAVTEQ & DigitalGlobe Data with Oracle Spatial
Learn how NAVTEQ's vector map data and DigitalGlobe's worldwide image data have been specially formatted for the Oracle Database, and how they can be used to enhance customers' business intelligence and enterprise applications. This podcast also provides an in-depth review of Oracle 11g's advanced geospatial features including support for 3D types and functions as well as Java programming with 3D and OGC Web services such as WFST, WMS and the Web catalog services.

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