Urban environments are increasingly shaped by the integration of geospatial big data—massive datasets collected from satellites, sensor networks, mobile phones, social media and municipal sources.

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 9, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has adopted DigitalGlobe‘s (NYSE: DGI) geospatial big data analytics platform to support the development of new commercial products ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. How many times a day do you think about the word "where"? It likely ...

Spatial-biology tools are collecting more comprehensive data, and companies that want to model cells in silico are hoovering ...

“Data governance policy is a collection of principles, frameworks, programs, roles, and responsibilities that help manage data collection, storage, access, usage, quality, and archival of data assets ...

Geospatial engineering combines principles of engineering, geography, and surveying to collect, analyze, and manage spatial data. Geospatial engineering involves surveying. Over time, the field of ...

If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a hurricane or figure out where people need help after a disaster, it’s much easier to do with the view from a satellite ...

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...

Across mapping, engineering, disaster response, and natural resource work, geospatial thinking underpins the tools we use every day. If your career now calls for sharper GIS skills—or you want a fast, ...

A key objective of data governance is to provide information to people with a legitimate need to know and to restrict it from those who do not. While the solution to effective data security is largely ...