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October 21, 2009

Event – Sept HCPO/HIGICC – Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council – Download PDFs

Aloha All,

If you attended the HCPO/HIGICC 2009 Conference last month, you already know that the presentations are available online. But if you weren’t able to attend, now’s your chance to check out some excellent presentations that were made at the conference. Here’s a link to the presentations website:

http://resilientcommunitieshawaii.org/presentations.html

Thanks, Royce.

Royce A. Jones

Hawaii-Pacific Region Manager

http://www.esri.com/events/cahinvrug/index.html

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
1357 Kapiolani Blvd. #1110
Honolulu HI 96814
808-947-0993 x 1-5638 (tel)
808-947-5690 (fax)
rjones@esri.com

http://www.esri.com

October 12, 2009

Event – Nov 2/3, 2009 Assoc. of Preservation Technology (APTI) in LA and Fed. BIM efforts

Category: Uncategorized – Administrator 9:30 am

http://www.aptconference.org/

The two day symposium on 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) is being coordinated by Chris Gray of GBG UK and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS – http://www.ricsamericas.org/en/ ).

http://www.aptconference.org/filestore/SY1%20page.pdf

Feel free to contact Mr. Gray directly at -

Christopher Gray, FRICS
Director of Survey+Preservation
GB Geotechnics USA Inc
T +1 310 230 5441
C +1 310 266 2479
cgray@gbg-us.com

The following is an example of the HDS (High Definistion Scanning) work being done by Mr. Gray and Calif. State Parks – San Simeon Hearst Castle -


Find more videos like this on Geospatial LA

For further information on the new 3D BIM revolution and concomitant Federal GSA Standards, go to -

http://www.gsa.gov/bim

http://www.bimfusion.com/home.php

October 9, 2009

News – Disposable Heroes: Contractors in Afghanistan & Iraq

Category: DoD,Federal,Government,IED,News – Tags: , – Administrator 9:29 pm

Map of Contractor Casualty Rates in US

http://www.propublica.org/feature/kbr-contractor-struggles-after-iraq-injuries-1006

Tools – Tsunami GEOINT Resources and Video from Pago Pago FBI

Category: Data,GIS Tools,Government,News,Tsunami – Tags: , , , , , – Administrator 8:40 pm

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/

http://www.pdc.org/world/html/world-viewer.jsp

http://www.pdc.org/mde/

October 5, 2009

News – Lessons from Nuristan and Kunar Provinces, Afghanistan

Category: Counterterrorism,DoD,IED,News – Tags: , , , , , , , – Administrator 10:27 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/world/asia/03battle.html?_r=1&hp

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html?scp=1&sq=nuristan%208&st=cse

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/10/01/world/middleeast/afghanistan-policy.html

Ed Darack imagery and perspective as an embedded photojournalist with the USMC – www.darack.com