News tagged with digital maps
Your smartphone knows everything about you, and it tells tales
In the sexy but increasingly scary world of smartphone forensics, insiders have a name for all the personal information purposely or unknowingly stored inside that iPhone or Android or Blackberry in your pocket. They call ...
May 01, 2011 |
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Calculating what's in the universe from the biggest color 3-D map
Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Engineering images bring life to submerged city
(PhysOrg.com) -- Photo-realistic 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece have earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Making digital maps more current and accurate
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have designed an innovative new system to help keep motorists on the right track by constantly updating their digital maps and fixing anomalies and errors. Now the partners ...
Dec 29, 2008 |
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New online atlas shows how climate change will affect distribution patterns of forests
Researchers from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and CREAF have developed the Suitability Atlas of Woody Plants of the Iberian Peninsula, a series of digital maps available online which for the first time reveal the present ...
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Australia's Barrier Reef to get Google treatment
Australian scientists mapping the Great Barrier Reef will broadcast their findings in partnership with Google, emulating its "Street View" to spotlight the impact of climate change.
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Next generation digital maps are laser sharp
Restoring habitat for spawning species of fish, such as Atlantic salmon, starts with a geological inventory of suitable rivers and streams, and the watershed systems that support them. But the high-tech mapping ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Unravelling the mysteries of medieval Gough Map
The secrets embedded in one of the earliest maps to show Britain in its geographically recognised form have been uncovered, as researchers launch the newly digitised Gough Map.
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Google turns to users for guidance on US maps
(AP) -- Google Inc. doesn't hesitate to seek directions when it comes to trying to improve its online mapping service.
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Google's 'search czar' in touch with world's curiosity
Like few other people on the planet, Google's Ben Gomes knows what interests the world.
Aug 27, 2010 |
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Picking the brains of strangers helps make sense of online information
People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft ...
May 07, 2012 |
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Sound imaging: clever acoustics help blind people see the world (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Video from portable cameras is analysed to calculate the distance of obstacles and predict the movements of people and cars. This information is then transformed and relayed to a blind person ...
Jul 02, 2009 |
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