News:

• Hexagon Power Portfolio 2022
• QGIS 3.22 released
• NGA launched the Phase 4a of its MagQuest Challenge
• Landsat 9 proceeding through commissioning phase

Topic:

• Geography Awareness Week 2021
  • National Geographic
  • AAG
  • AGS

Events:

• GeoWeek2022, Feb 6-8, Denver, CO

News:

• GEOINT News:
• • NGA plans annual reassessment of commercial remote sensing
  • NRO issues BAA call for commercial remote sensing technologies
• Preview of NASA'a VIPER Lunar Rover
• Vautrin Lud Geography Prize goes to geographer from the National University of Singapore

Topic:

• Geo certificates revisited
  • GeoEdC Certification
  • NatGeo Certification
  • ASPRS Certifications
  • GISP Certification
  • GeoINT Certification
  • RGS Chartered Geographer

Events:

• DH2022: 25-29 July, Tokyo

News:

• Landsat 9 launched
• Earth Science Week
• Geography Awareness Week

Topic:

• Local foods as a representation of Cultural Geography

Events:

• Geography2050 November 15-19, Virtual

News:

• Amtrak scholarships
• Landsat 9 launch coming up

Topic:

• This week we ask some questions about the ideas surrounding data response and data preparedness for hazard events

News:

• Greek Scientists want to name heat waves
• National Geographic and DeBeers partner on Okavango Eternal project
• NASA debuts new interactive website for Landsat 9 ahead of launch
• Next 3 GPS III satellites complete (sv06, 07, 08)
• Space Force's Main Job - Protecting GPS

Topic:

• A quick discussion on the need for resilience in our technology and systems as highlighted by some recent issues.

Events:

• URISA's LEAP conference: Feb 1-3, Virtual
• AAG: Feb 25- March 1, in-person & virtual

News:

• Trimble providing venture funding
• Haiti Earthquake
• Census redistricting data available now

Topic:

• Recreating landscapes - snapshots in time and space

Events:

• UAS Summit & Expo: 13-14 Oct, Grand Forks, ND

This week we look back on 16 years and celebrate Barb's dissertation defense

News:

• Geospatial Revolution Part 5
• Hexagon acquires Immersal
• Autodesk Tandem
• Esri announcements
• • 90 new analytical features across Pro, Enterprise, Online
  • • Heavy focus on AI/ML (GeoAI)
  • ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online
  • SURE for ArcGIS ("Reality capture" at scale)
  • ArcGIS GeoBIM coming out in the fall
  • • Link features to BIM documents
  • Velocity
  • • Real time data/IoT
  • Cloud Data Warehouses
  • Pro
  • • Pantone colors for symbology
    • Online like pop-ups
  • Data Engineering (view)
  • • Data preparation
    • Can visualize descriptive stats for each field in file
  • Online
  • • Blending for symbology
    • Instant Apps

News:

• A "New" Ocean
• FAA Recreation test

Topic:

• A general discussion on the impact of global supply chains

Events:

• NCGE: Nov 19-21, Minneapolis

News:

• China puts a rover on Mars -
• GAO report on DOD navigation
• Apple WWDC location announcements
• • Video - Maps update
  • Video - Object capture API (aka photogrammetry)
• Amazon Location Service now generally available for AWS -
• AWS startup Accelerator includes geospatial -
• Lego (official) map