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| IMAGIN E-News - January, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Extends Pictometry "Bird's-eye" Imagery in Michigan - Microsoft recently added approximately 40 terabytes of additional imagery to their mapping site (http://maps.live.coms), including new bird's-eye imagery for Michigan. Several municipalities in Michigan are now covered by the imagery including portions of Novi, Rochester Hills, and two new cities: Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. In order to access the photos, please visit the site above and click the "Bird's eye" link while viewing maps of these cities. |
| Google Debuts "Street View" Photography Dataset for Detroit Metro Area - Google's street-level panoramic photography was recently unveiled for the city of Detroit and several surrounding municipalities including Livonia and Dearborn. The georeferenced photos are tied to Google's base map and allow the user to view 360-degree panoramic photos taken by specially equipped vehicles. At last count, Google has only extended this program into less than twenty major cities. To find out more, you can visit the Google Maps site at http://maps.google.com/ and click the "Street View" button when viewing Detroit roads. |
IMAGIN Student Paper Competition
Thursday, January 24, 2008, Schoolcraft College, Livonia, Michigan |
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Thank you to this year's sponsors: Sanborn Solutions, ESRI, Hubbell, Roth, and Clark;
InfoGeographics, Inc.; Schoolcraft College, Food & Beverage |
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Come one, come all and see the future of Michigan's GIS. The IMAGIN Student Poster & Paper Competition is Thursday, January 24, 2008 at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. |
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Take a walk through the Undergraduate Poster Gallery and see what innovative and exciting studies are taking place in Michigan's higher education classrooms; sit and relax while you listen to overviews of cutting edge graduate research projects; mingle with fellow colleagues and enjoy snacks and beverages throughout the day. |
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For directions, please refer to the Schoolcraft College Maps and Directions page at http://www.schoolcraft.edu/maps/. The competition is held on the Livonia Campus at 18600 Haggerty Rd., Livonia, MI 48152, in the Waterman Section of the VisTaTech Center, Rooms 205 & 210a. |
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For additional information, please contact Sarah AcMoody at acmoodys@msu.edu or 517.432.7447. |
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We look forward to seeing you there. |
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| This month's theme is "Emerging Technologies in GIS Applications". |
| IMAGIN's Emerging Geospatial Technology Seminar Series - IMAGIN aims to be an organization that brings information to their members on what is going on in the Michigan and wider GIS community. As part of this goal IMAGIN is bringing together a series of seminars on the new and exciting things that are happening in the GIS and imaging community in terms of data sources, data processing methods, software and concepts. The overall objective of the seminar series is to bring information to IMAGIN members and members of Michigan's Universities of technologies and approaches that could improve their work environment, either through being able to do things that could not be done before, do the work faster or do the work cheaper than is currently being done. Since IMAGIN is a professional networking and development group, it is valuable to make members aware of what is going on in the wider marketplace and academic environment even if these items are not of immediate use for day to day operations. This seminar series will provide an educational outlet for members at no cost and generate excitement in the Michigan GIS and wider mapping community. |
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IMAGIN will coordinate these seminars at different locations around the State and the goal is to have these hosted by a local University. The sessions will be open to students, local government and agency staff, and anyone who is interested in the subject matter. The sessions will also be transmitted across the web using web conferencing systems that will be available to IMAGIN members on a first come first served basis requiring pre-registration with IMAGIN. |
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The format for the seminars will be a two hour seminar presented as a PowerPoint or demo followed by 1 hour for questions and answers. The sessions will generally follow the format below. |
- Overview of technology - theory?
- How it works - in practice?
- What are the pros and cons?
- What are its applications?
- What are the costs parameters?
- How do I find out more information about the technology?
- Questions and answers
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The Emerging Technologies Sub-Committee is currently reviewing topics for these seminars and will have a list of seminars scheduled by the end of January. |
| The first seminar, focusing on LiDAR technology, will take place on February 6, 2008 from 10:30 AM-1:00 PM at the campus of the University of Michigan-Flint. We are aiming to have a seminar every two months throughout the year. |
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Since there are a large number of emerging technologies that may be of interest to members the committee is open to ideas from the IMAGIN community. |
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Some of the emerging technologies that are being considered are |
- Imagery: Thermal, LiDAR, Hyperspectral, Oblique, Radar, IRS Sensors, New Commercial Satellites: Quickbird 2 and GeoEye 1, Review of the current digital cameras on the market.
- Delivery systems: Google Earth, Virtual Earth, Arc Server, Leica - Titan
- Mobile GIS: Connecting through the internet to an enterprise database, Spatially enabled field data recorders
- Analysis methods: Spatial statistics, Network analyses, Geocoding, CAMA Models
- Data: NHD, USGS Orthophotos, SRTM, Land Cover and Land Use
- Software: ERDAS, Definiens, VLS, QCoherent, ENVI, Hyperspectral, ER Mapper
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If you have specific interest in some of the subjects please email your interest to abrenner@sanborn.com. Looking forward to having you attend either in person or over the web. |
Andrew Brenner
Chair, Emerging Technologies Committee |
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Upcoming E-News Themes - In addition to our
permanent 'GIS in Michigan' coverage, we include an additional theme for each
monthly issue. The theme will not limit the E-News articles to only
this theme, but rather it will provide an additional focus for some articles.
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The theme for the February 2008 issue of E-News is "GIS and the "Mash-Up" Revolution: Integrating Geospatial Data with Google and Microsoft".
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Send any ideas you have relating to the general 'GIS in Michigan' theme of the E-News
or the special theme for next month to enews@imagin.org.
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January 24, 2008: IMAGIN Student Paper Competition, Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI
January 29, 2008: ESRI Northern Michigan User Group meeting
February 6, 2008: Emerging Geospatial Technologies Seminar-LiDAR, U of M-Flint, Flint, MI
February 20-22, 2008: 2008 ESRI Federal User Conference (FedUC), Washington D.C.
2008 Petroleum User Group (PUG) Conference, Houston, TX
February 25-28, 2008: GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference, New Orleans, LA
March 9-12, 2008: Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference (formerly GITA Annual Conference), Seattle, WA
March 9-12, 2008: Geospatial Dimensions of Emergency Response Symposium, Seattle, WA
April 07-10, 2008: URISA/NENA Addressing Conference, Portland, OR
April 15-19, 2008: Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference, Boston, MA
April 27-May 2, 2008: ASPRS Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon
May 4-7, 2008: IMAGIN Conference, Dearborn Inn, Dearborn, MI
August 4-8, 2008: 2008 ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, CA
For more events, see the IMAGIN Calendar of Events
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For links to Michigan GIS training facilities visit the IMAGIN training page.
To include your Michigan GIS training in this list, send the details to: enews@imagin.org
D = IMAGIN Members get a 10% discount on this training.
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University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) - The School of Natural Resources and Environment's overarching objective is to contribute to the protection of the earth's resources and the achievement of a sustainable society. Through research, teaching, and outreach, faculty, staff, and students are devoted to generating knowledge and developing policies, techniques and skills to help practitioners manage and conserve natural and environmental resources to meet the full range of human needs on a sustainable basis.
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In 1950, the University of Michigan formally established the School of Natural Resources, the first of its kind in the world, but the study of natural resources and environmental problems has been part of the University for over 100 years. Fittingly, the school changed its name to the School of Natural Resources and Environment in 1992. The school remains an international leader in educating students to be innovative and effective stewards of the environment. The school's facilities include terrestrial, aquatic, and analytical laboratories; a microcomputer laboratory; a remote-sensing laboratory; a computer graphics laboratory for landscape architecture; and a geographic information systems laboratory. In addition, Nichols Arboretum, Stinchfield Woods and Saginaw Forest, and the University's Biological Field Station and Matthaei Botanical Gardens are available to the school for research and field work. |
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For more information about the University of Michigan SNRE, please visit our web site at http://www.snre.umich.edu/. |
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Matt Malone, GIS Coordinator, City of Farmington Hills. |
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Derek Moy, Outreach Specialist, MSU Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science Research and Outreach Services. |
Publication Date: January 07, 2008
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