September HIFLD Meeting Dates Announced

The next Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) Working Group meeting will take place on September 13-14.  The US Geological Survey (USGS) in Reston, Virginia will host the meeting that is designed to promote collaboration among Federal Sector Specific Agencies (SSAs), Defense Sector Lead Agencies (SLAs) and related Federal, State, and local Sector mission partners. This HIFLD Working Group meeting will focus on Remote Sensing, Imagery, Enhanced Elevation Data for the Nation, and Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR). Additionally, the further identification, acquisition and use of common geospatial infrastructure data and applications for shared use among HIFLD WG members.  Read more.

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Big Brother Is Watching You: The Town Where EVERY Car Is Tracked By Police Cameras

From the U.K's Daily Mail

31 July 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Big Brother is watching you: The town where EVERY car is tracked by police cameras
The small town of Royston, which has a population of around 15,000, will have seven police cameras recording the numberplate of every vehicle that passes them.  Read more.

Comment: For many years the Brits have used remote camera systems to record the license plates of individuals who run stop lights or are speeding.  However, this approach which includes data base scanning takes the technology to a whole new level.

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Gatewing UAV Video

A wave of the future - small portable UAV's for aerial mapping and emergency response.  Hip video takes 3:55 to walk you through the sequence of set-up, launch, data collection and platform recovery.  Go here.

Comment: The flip side of this capability is deconfliction with piloted aircraft.  Given a couple of geese were enough to bring down USAir 1549 onto the Hudson River on January 15, 2009 (Miracle on the Hudson), the FAA is rightful concerned about the uncontrolled proliferation of these platforms.  As such, on December 1, 2010, it issued FAA Fact Sheet - Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) that relates the extent of the issues and how the agency is working to resolve them.

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Satellite Images to Combat Avian Flu

GeoConnexion Online
20 June 2011, 5:17pm
"It is not only domestic poultry but also wild waterbirds that play a significant role in the spread of the avian influenza variant H5N1. With the aid of satellite data, it is possible to create risk maps for the spread of the virus by wild waterbirds. This has been shown in research by Yali Si, who obtained her doctoral degree from the ITC faculty of the University of Twente on 16 June."  Read more.
Comment: In the early part of 2005, Professor A. Townsend Peterson, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, Kansas University, released some ground breaking work along these same lines for the North American continent.  Those efforts focused on using historic migratory flyways to determine the likelihood of an avian flu outbreak at any specific location inside the United States, as sequenced across time.

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Phone Data to Give a Picture of Traffic Shutdown in L.A.

Click on the link below to read the article from the New York Times about real time traffic sensing using cell phones:

TECHNOLOGY   | July 05, 2011
Bits: Phone Data to Give a Picture of Traffic Shutdown in L.A.
By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN
A Los Angeles television station has partnered with a tech startup to use location data from smartphones to track the effects of a major highway closure.

Comment: In December 2010, I was able to listen to an executive from Honda brief the GITA Japan Conference at Tokyo University.  Honda is on the verge of releasing an intergrated sensor system for its cars that will automatically provide the same fed as related in this article (and other aps like Google Maps for Mobile) and much more - to include automatically transmitting road conditions (how wet/slick is it) and broadcasting GIS based warnings concerning flooded areas as sent in by other cars in the system.

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War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs

From the New York Times, a very interesting article about some unique developments in the world of remote sensing.  In the future, the value of these technologies to disaster response and SAR could be significant.  Click the link below to read the article.

WORLD   | June 20, 2011
War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and THOM SHANKER
From blimps to bugs, an explosion in aerial drones is transforming the way America fights and thinks about its wars.

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