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MAPPS reports the U.S. House Appropriations Committee has approved an additional $10 million above FY19 funding of $37.6 million as part its U.S. Department of Interior Fiscal Year 2020 bill for fundamental mapping work to be managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). These funds, described as an essential underpinning of the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), will support and enhance drinking water protection, hazards resilience, infrastructure design, natural resource management and fundamental research applications.
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FCW
Experts and public officials warned lawmakers at a Senate hearing of the security risks arising from China's increasing dominance in low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles. Harry Wingo of National Defense University told the Transportation Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee that the Chinese company DJI has a "near monopoly" on drone technology marketed in the U.S. That technology isn't just in the gears and rotors, but also in the image collection and storage systems that take photographs and retain data.
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The Associated Press via Federal Times
The U.S. Census Bureau is using new high-tech tools to help get an accurate population count next year as its faces challenges tallying people of color who live in remote places and can be wary of the federal government. The agency is using aerial images of rural communities and hard-to-reach areas to verify addresses and determine where to send workers to ensure everyone is counted, Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham said.
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Forbes
The maturity of cloud technology has boosted the opportunity that geospatial technology affords the business community. We can build pipelines of data in the sky. We can control the flows of that data with manipulation engines, transformations and fusion techniques. Geospatial can now deliver what we have always promised: the near real-time, remote monitoring and analysis of assets. But how should we be providing this capability?
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T&D World
Looking ahead, there are both great opportunities and great challenges in modernizing the electric power delivery system. This article has compiled seven issues facing grid modernization.
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International Business Times
Until recently, the information required to understand localized consumer concentrations simply wasn’t available. Geospatial data will accelerate a new era of economic development by delivering hyper-local information about traditionally hard to understand places.
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Geospatial World
ESA (European Space Agency) has created World Settlement Footprint 2015 (WSF-2015), which is the world’s first map that combines radar data and satellite imagery for providing an overview of human habitation patterns globally. Massive migration to urban areas, in search for better prospects, is growing at a rapid pace and it is expected that by 2050 over 70% of the world’s population would dwell in urban areas.
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Power Engineering International
The UK’s electricity grid operators have unveiled a roadmap for a smart grid that they say will help deliver the flexibility needed to decarbonize the country’s energy system. Published by Energy Networks Association (ENA) and called Our Six Steps for Delivering Flexibility Services, it sets out exactly how grid operators will run new flexibility markets across the UK.
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Geospatial World
Following an open competition John Manzoni, the Chief Executive of the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary, has announced that Thalia Baldwin will be appointed as the new Director of the Geospatial Commission. Baldwin is currently Deputy Director for Policy at the Geospatial Commission. She was previously Head of Digital Policy at HM Treasury, where she was responsible for the approach to public spending on digital technology and infrastructure.
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