NASA’s Artemis program will need lunar spatial reference system

January 13, 2021

We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.” […]

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This article is tagged with 5G, Artemis, Geospatial Solutions, LPS, Lunar Positioning System, NASA, regolith mining operation, Space Communications and Navigation program, Visual-Inertial Odometry, William Tewelow and posted in Featured Stories, GeoIntelligence Insider, GIS News, Technology

Image: NAPSG [https://www.napsgfoundation.org/]

How public safety GIS saves us when disaster strikes

November 11, 2020

Tenacity of spirit is one of the great virtues. Supporters of geospatial technology have often had to endure […]

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This article is tagged with disaster response, emergency management, FEMA, GIS, GIS symbol library, Maryland, NAPSG, Tar Martin, universal symbology, William Tewelow and posted in Defense, Featured Stories, Mapping, Opinions

1960: ARPA launched Transit, the first satellite in what would become the world’s first GPS. (Photo: U.S. Army/DARPA)

The evolution of GPS satellites and their use today

September 16, 2020

Sixty-three years ago, on Friday, Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began — most everyone alive today is […]

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This article is tagged with georeceivers, GNSS, GPS satellite, Navy Navigation Satellite System, NNSS, PNT, Queen Elizabeth Award for Engineering, satellite system, Timation satellite, William Tewelow and posted in Opinions

Source: Roland Bauernfeind, Thomas Kraus, Dominik Dötterböck, Bernd Eissfeller, Erwin Loehnert, and Elmar Wittmann

How the Civil Air Patrol relies on GIS for civil defense

September 9, 2020

As technology evolves, the Civil Air Patrol will continue to be a platform for implementing new technologies to […]

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This article is tagged with Federal Emergency Management Administration, FEMA, FEMA CAP, GEOPlatform, Geospatial Solutions, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Office of Civilian Defense, William Tewelow and posted in Featured Stories, GeoIntelligence Insider, Opinions

At-home crowdsourcing and citizen science for mapping enthusiasts

May 13, 2020

The world so close has never seemed so far away. Locked up and adrift, somewhere between the comfort […]

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This article is tagged with coronavirus, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, Geospatial Human Imagery Verification Effort, Geospatial Solutions, GIS Corps, NASA, U.S. Geographic Survey, U.S. government, U.S. Government Open Innovation Summit, William Tewelow, X Prize Foundation and posted in COVID-19, Featured Stories, GeoIntelligence Insider, Opinions

Credit: Ryan H. Mitch, Ryan C. Dougherty, Mark L. Psiaki, Steven P. Powell, Brady W. O’Hanlon, Jahshan A. Bhatti, and Todd E. Humphreys

Coronavirus: How mapping can stop a pandemic

March 11, 2020

Birth of an epidemic Men wearing white bio-suits entered the market from the main entrance. A panic ensued […]

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This article is tagged with coronavirus, COVID-19, Geospatial Solutions, GIS, health, safety, SARS, University of Potomac, WHO, William Tewelow, World Health Organization and posted in Featured Stories, GeoIntelligence Insider, Opinions

Image: GPS World

A straightforward explanation of oblique

August 1, 2019

How are oblique views derived from aerial imagery? Typically, a camera takes a field of view of 120 […]

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This article is tagged with 3D, geospatial analysis, imagery, Oblique imagery, topographic line, William Tewelow and posted in From the Magazine

Closing the horizontal/vertical BIM divide

April 9, 2019

Written by William Tewelow, GISP and Co-written by Jon Gustafson, GISP Significant focus on infrastructure asset delivery and […]

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This article is tagged with 3D, Geospatial Solutions, GIS, Jon Gustafson, smart system, William Tewelow and posted in BIM, Featured Stories, GeoIntelligence Insider, GIS News, Technology