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 GPS World (July 2008)
 Driving Blind — with Assistance
A lightweight mobile testbed of the French Defence Procurement Agency replicates the onboard activity of an armored tank, using an augmented-reality image enriched with a dynamic overlay of 3D-projected information, including navigation channels, waypoints, and terrain anomalies.
Seen + Heard — Smooth Start for I-95 Traffic Network
GPS is being put to use along Interstate 95 from New Jersey to North Carolina in what USA Today calls "the most ambitious use of technology to combat traffic congestion."
Leadership Talks — Costs of New Tech
Jason Kim, senior analyst at the Department of Commerce, discusses withdrawal of support, forecast for 2020, for civil use of the P(Y) signal.
Expert Advice — Civil P(Y) Code
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) proposes to discontinue supporting P(Y) codeless/semi-codeless on both GPS L1 and L2 frequencies. Every dual-frequency receiver designed in the 1980s, 1990s, and many in the early 2000s would become virtually obsolete.
The System — Jammer Location Gets NGA Attention
Because of the low-signal power level broadcast by the GPS satellites, it is well known that GPS operation is highly susceptible to interference or jamming. With widespread GPS use, the threat to both commercial and military operations dependent on GPS is becoming more evident.
Innovation: The Future is Now
Do we have to wait for new or enhanced GNSSs to be in place before benefiting from a multi-signal, multi-constellation global navigation satellite system? Definitely not.
Business Outlook — Stable Forecast Despite Turbulent Times
Many factors have come into play in the last six to eight months, affecting GNSS company stock prices, earnings, and shareholder value. Acquisitions and mergers over a two-year period have reshaped the playing field, as current GPS/LBS players seek to expand their offerings and major new players hunt a piece of the action.
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GEO TIMES (July 2008)
 Storm Soundings: New Technologies for Tracking Hurricanes
Tropical cyclones can intensify quickly prior to landfall — sometimes more quickly than forecasters can gauge and give warning to coastal communities. Scientists are now looking for new, speedier ways to track changes in an approaching storm’s power.
Meteorite Strikes Peru!
On Sept. 15, 2007, a meteorite crashed into a small village in northern Peru. As word of the meteorite spread, meteorite hunters and geologists alike descended on the region to collect pieces of the space rock and to study what it left behind.
Exploring Karst in Guilin, China
Traveling to China for the Olympics? Try straying off the beaten path to visit a geologically fascinating place, such as Guilin in southeast China. Nowhere else in the world will you experience such a dramatic, fairytale-like landscape.
Charcoal: Out of the Grill and into the Ground
Charcoal is making a comeback, but not where you might think: Instead of putting it into the grill, some scientists are advocating putting it into the ground to boost soil fertility and to sequester carbon.
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Directions Magazine (July 2008)
Online Registration - How Location Helps Strike the Right Balance for Retailers
Did you ever wonder how websites use those tidbits of information you may leave on their websites, such as a ZIP Code or your age range? This article explains how with just a bit of information, offered in response to a fair trade, retailers can understand and serve their online and off-line visitors better.
The Current Housing Market
The predominant development in 2008 is not growth, but decline - the fallout from the downturn in the housing market. There are still areas of growth, pockets of prosperity to report; however, there are few areas untouched by the decline of the housing market and the ensuing credit crunch.
SERVIR Viz: A 3D Data Access and Visualization System for Mesoamerica
The challenge may sound familiar: deliver geospatial data hosted remotely at many different locations via one access point to many different levels of user. The goal may also soud familiar: share, disseminate and visualize across eight countries, with multiple languages and in some areas, limited infrastructure. But, more than likely, you've not yet heard about the solution: SERVIR, the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System for Mesoamerica.
Advanced Geospatial Intelligence Enhances Commercial Imagery
Advanced Geospatial Intelligence or AGI, applied to imagery is what we'd likely call "image analysis." It describes techniques "to look beyond the visual information depicted in the image." For the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA, that has two key implications: more intelligence and the ability to create and then share unclassified products with partners for a variety of uses.
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Vector 1 Media (June 2008)
Interactively Managing the U.S. Census Bureau’s Data
The Constitution of the United States requires a census to be taken regularly to determine congressional apportionment, Electoral College voting and government funding. With the information gathered, the Census Bureau seeks to be the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy, and the need to understand and geospatially represent the growing quantities of data requires adequate data management.
How To Introduce Multiple Scales and Time into Natural Resource Data Management?
Two of the fundamental questions natural resource managers should pose to themselves from time to time are: “What is it that is being managed and over what time frame?” This article will delve into these questions using the boreal forest as an example and consider the consequences of the answers for natural resource data management.
The Public Enterprise Sachsenforst and the Geodata Infrastructure of the Free State Saxony
The Free State of Saxony in Germany has been developing a forest management system that has evolved into the Saxon Forest Geographical Information System (FGIS). The system not only supports forestry but it integrates tightly into the wider Saxony Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Both government agencies and citizens can access the system, sharing information and collaborating together. As a state-of-the-art forest and SDI development, this system is now looking to expand its GIS capabilities in other innovative ways.
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