Nordic Geospatial Blog –

http://www.earthmine.com

With great applicability to a myriad of sectors (critical infrastructure, urban planning, facilities, special events, crisis mapping, immersive gaming, special effects, etc.), this technology is truly the ‘missing link’ between our various satellite/aerial ortho (top down) sensors, obliques (Pictometry), flat and contentious Google Streetview and the highly accurate, but slower HDS & BIM (Building Information Models) realms. Make sure to see their booth and team at the 2010 ESRI UC in San Diego. Bravo and well done, Earthmine…

http://www.youtube.com/user/earthmine

Neighborly advice for Iceland from Finland & the FT -

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cb739458-fe13-11de-9340-00144feab49a.html

An important film about the Norwegian Resistance in WWII – Max Manus (2008) -

http://www.nfi.no/english/norwegianfilms/show.html?id=879

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/2010/06/28/aspen-security-forum

NYT: After 8 Years the Terrorists Still Fly with Us by CLARK KENT ERVIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/opinion/29ervin.html?_r=1

New York Preparedness
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/TerrorismReport.pdf

Los Angeles Preparedness
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/los-angeles-preparedness-terrorism

Interoperability
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/homeland%20security%20initiative/Homeland_InteroperabilityReport.pdf

The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health

http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/training.htm

Agenda and Videos

David Abramson, PhD Research Director, NCDP
Irwin Redlener, MD, Director, NCDP
Introductory Remarks
(Video: 10 minutes)

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Tony Jebara, PhD, Co-Founder of Sense Networks
Learning Networks of People & Places from Mobile Data
(Video & Slides: 55 minutes)

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Eric Rasmussen, MD, CEO of Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD)
Geospatial Intelligence, Social Data and Public Health
(Video & Slides: 52 minutes)

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Charles DiMaggio, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Dr. Snow Meets the Rev. Bayes: Spatial Approaches to Disaster Epidemiology
(Video & Slides: 47 minutes)

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Steven Johnson (Keynote Speaker)
Author of The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – And How it Changed Cities, Science, and the Modern World
(Video: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

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Jeb Weisman, PhD, Chief Information Officer, the Children’s Health Fund
Introductory Remarks for Afternoon Speakers
(Video: 2 minutes)

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Chris Goranson, GIS Director of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Volunteered Geographic Information – Present and Future(Video & Slides: 35 minutes)

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David Abramson, PhD, Research Director, NCDP & Brian Willison, Director of the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM)
A Presentation of the American HotSpots Project
(Video & Slides: 27 minutes)

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Mark Smith, PhD, Epidemiologist, Guilford County Department of Public Health, North Carolina
Rapid Assessment: Mobile GIS for Public Health Response
(Video & Slides: 23 minutes)

http://crisismapping.ning.com/

Press Release

http://crisismapping.ning.com/forum/topics/updated-confirmed-participants

Introduction to Crisis Mapping from PatrickMeier on Vimeo.

http://www.frontlinesms.com/

http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=314

HIFLD Group Message: 9-10 July 2009 Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Working Group

Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Working Group

Co-sponsored by: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense & Americas’ Security Affairs, OASD(HD&ASA); Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection; National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Office of Americas; and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program Office

The purpose of this memo is to formally announce the next meeting of the HIFLD Working Group, which is scheduled for 9-10 July 2009 and will be held at the San Diego State University (SDSU) Campus in San Diego, CA. This meeting is designated to bring together Sector Specific Agency (SSA) Leads and Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) Sector Lead Agencies (SLAs) for the identification, acquisition and use of common homeland geospatial data/applications for shared use in the Transportation Sector among National and DoD Infrastructure, National Response Framework (NRF) and topics of general interest to the geospatial Homeland Defense/Homeland Security (HD/HLS) Emergency Response Community throughout the meeting. The format will be similar to HIFLD WG at San Antonio with a combination of presentations and exhibition booths. We are currently targeting various groups for participation in this meeting, including but not limited to: Homeland Security Presidential Directive-7 Communities of Interest and Data Sources, Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection, National Sector Specific Agencies (SSA) -Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and United States Coast Guard (USCG); DoD Sector Lead Agents (SLA)- US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM); Department of Transportation (DOT); and Transportation Sector areas of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan Infrastructure Data Taxonomy- Aviation, Railroad, Road, Maritime and Mass Transit.

The HIFLD Working Group is a coalition of Federal, state and local government organizations, and supporting private industry partners who are involved with geospatial issues related to Homeland Defense, Homeland Security, Civil Support, and Emergency Preparedness and Response. HIFLD members share the goal of identifying and facilitating acquisition of authoritative homeland infrastructure geospatial data for common use by the HD/HLS Community, as well as promoting domestic infrastructure geospatial information sharing, protection, collaboration, and knowledge management.

The full agenda for this session will be distributed to the HIFLD Working Group membership by 15 June 2009. This meeting will be held at the UNCLASSIFIED-FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY (FOUO) level. There will be no requirement to pass clearances; however, advance registration through the HIFLD Website (https://www.hifldwg.org) is required no later than 6 July in order to attend this event.
Please login to the HIFLD Website main page and follow the link provided to register for this HIFLD Working Group Meeting. The conference code is HIF51145. Administrative information, including directions to the hosting facility, area maps, and nearby hotel information, can also be found on the HIFLD registration page. You will be prompted to provide your credit card information when you sign up via our secure conference registration Website. Those who attend will be charged a conference fee of $30.00. If you need to request a password for the HIFLD Website, please go to http://www.hifldwg.org and select the “How to Join” link at the top of the page. Password and login instructions will be sent to you via e-mail once your request is submitted.

If you have any questions regarding the 9-10 July session or HIFLD in general, please contact Amanda Ross at 757.892.6550/757.619.2895 (e-mail address: ross_amanda@bah.com); or Brian Tisdale at 757.466.3225/757.880.8079 (e-mail address: tisdale_brian@bah.com). We look forward to seeing you at the July HIFLD Working Group Session!

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Antwane V. Johnson
Director, Critical Infrastructure Protection
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs, OASD(HD&ASA)
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George Tabora
Chief, Domestic Preparedness Branch
Office of Americas
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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Richard Driggers Director, Infrastructure Information Collection Division Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP) Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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Craig D. Skalet
Senior Geospatial Advisor Emergency Operations Office United States Geological Survey (USGS)

http://www.spatial.ucsb.edu/docs/SPATIAL-call-for-posters-09.pdf

http://www.spatial.ucsb.edu/home.php

http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/

From : Mary Cook-Hurley
CGIA Chair 2008-2009
Ventura CA
805-701-2467
marycookhurley@gmail.com

Hi regional GIS users,

Register now for our spring meeting at UCSB. There is no charge (other than UCSB parking.)

spatial@ucsb (UCSB’s collaborative GIS research center led by Dr. Michael Goodchild) is kindly hosting a joint meeting with CIRGIS and the Santa Barbara/Ventura GIS Users Group as they did last year. Last year’s event was tied into the opening of the new spatial@ucsb center and was a great success in my opinion (hard to beat hearing Jack Dangermond of ESRI up close and also being fed good food.)

This year’s event will be a little more low key, but still serves as a wonderful opportunity for us to all be together. It is becoming established as our spring Santa Barbara counterpoint to our annual GISDay in the fall in Ventura .

Here is the schedule to date:

11 a.m. Tour of the Allosphere, Elings Hall (near east entrance)
12 Lunch, Corwin Pavilion/Lagoon Plaza
1 p.m. SB/Ven.GIS users group/CIRGIS meeting, Corwin Pavilion

1:00 Introductions and a short keynote by Michael Byrne who has just appointed by the governor as the first Geographic Information Officer for the State of California .

1:30 CIRGIS General Meeting (all are invited to attend)

2:30 Open discussion by all parties: Tentative topic – Developing stronger Internship opportunities for students and job seekers. The goal will be to create an action plan for encouraging and supporting more internships and a mechanism to match interns with opportunities.

3 p.m. Poster session (see invitations to present posters below … these include additional information, including our UCSB contacts)

I hope you will attend. Spatial@ucsb is providing lunch to registrants.

To register, send me (Steve Palladino, spalladino@vcccd.edu) an email with your name and contact information. Please let us know if you will arrive before lunch to tour the Allosphere (http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu/), will participate in lunch (vegetarian?), or will just arrive later for our meetings and poster session. You can just fill in the following and cut it into your message to me:

Name:

Organization:

Email:

Address:

Phone:

Will attend Allosphere tour: Y or N

Will attend free lunch: Y or N (also indicate if vegetarian)

Will bring poster: Y or N (follow directions on cards a bottom for this.)

Please try to register this coming week by May 8, but we can take additional registrations until May 20 for lunches and the tour. You are welcome to come after lunch without a reservation, but we would prefer to know who is coming for any portion.

I look forward to hearing from many of you soon. Please pass this along to your colleagues as many have not yet signed up for our the new Users Group email news delivery on GIS activities and classes in the area (See blue button on the web page: academic.venturacollege.edu/spalladino/geosci/GIS.html)

STEVE

GTC West is: The Conference on California’s Future
http://www.govtech.com/events/cal-future
Sacramento Convention Center
1400 J St
Sacramento, CA 95814
May 11 − 14, 2009

Note: GIS Leadership Summit
http://blogs.cal-future.com/ccf/2009/02/californias-geospatial-informa.php

CLICK HERE
to Download a Google Earth KMZ file (.zip compressed) – must have GoogleEarth or ESRI’s ArcExplorer installed – goto http://earth.google.com/ or http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/ for more info

May 12 GTC Executive Summit location in 3D