By the Beautiful Sea
August 1, 2014
New Tide Gauge Uses GNSS to Measure Sea-Level Change A new way of measuring and monitoring sea level […]
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New Tide Gauge Uses GNSS to Measure Sea-Level Change A new way of measuring and monitoring sea level […]
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is using rugged Juniper Systems handhelds in an innovative way: to […]
Qualcomm and Cisco Collaborate to Improve Indoor Navigation Las Vegas — home of gambling, shows, and massive hotel/entertainment/resort […]
Using a large network of GPS stations, a team of researchers has found that the Rio Valley Rift in the Southwest United States — previously suspected to be dead — is slowly expanding, at a rate of about 0.1 millimeter per year. The Rio Grande Rift extends from Colorado’s central Rocky Mountains to Mexico.
A new navigation system looks to make driving safer by removing the need for drivers to look away from the road at their navigation device. With Wikitude Drive, as a driver moves down the road, the route is “drawn” onto the live video screen of an Android smartphone. How is this possible? Augmented reality.
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mergency Alert: Bus collision in Berchtesgaden, parking area Salzbergwerk. Many injured. Bus overturned, some thrown from vehicle, some trapped inside. Local temperature below freezing, snow falling. All crews respond immediately.”
The alarm operations center for the state of Bavaria receives this message from the accident location, and swiftly moves into coordinating activity, gathering and distributing real-time geospatial data and other key information to all emergency teams and medical facilities in the area.
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