NASA: Amazing Video of Sun's Plasma Loops

NASA posted a new video of the solar flare that the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured on July 19, 2012. The blast also generated the enormous, shimmering plasma loops, which are an example of a phenomenon known as "coronal rain," agency officials said.

"Hot plasma in the corona cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region. Magnetic fields, are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 Angstroms, and outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface."

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Landsat Role in Tracking Forty Years of Global Changes

The View from Space: Landsat's Role in Tracking Forty Years of Global Changes.

This presentation was presented by Tom Loveland, one of the faculty members of the South Dakota State University GIS Center of Excellence.

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Mapping Now: Dynamic Realtime Maps and Other Pictures

Maps are never pefect representations of reality, and increasingly they’re out of date before they’re finished. Complicating matters, mapping of live phenomena (geospatial or otherwise) is becoming more and more prevelant, and even expected. Looking back to earlier representations of movement can help us figure out how to represent the fluid spaces that mapping is moving in to. From Launch Pad, O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Burlingame, CA.

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Google Earth climate simulator, launched!

Check this out! Google Earth launches climate simulator tool! Former U.S. Vice Pres. Al Gore is now promoting a video for new emissions scenario features that is developed by Google Earth. The video promo coincides with Copenhagen climate conference.

According to Google official blog:

In collaboration with the Danish government and others, we are launching a series of Google Earth layers and tours to allow you to explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet and the solutions for managing it. Working with data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we show on Google Earth the range of expected temperature and precipitation changes under different global emissions scenarios that could occur throughout the century. Today we are unveiling our first climate tour on Google Earth: "Confronting Climate Change," with narration by Al Gore. Stay tuned for more tours in the coming weeks!

Together with the Danish government, we're also launching our YouTube COP15 channel. On the channel, you can submit your thoughts and questions on climate change to decision-makers and the world through an initiative called "Raise Your Voice." These videos will be broadcast on screens around the conference in December and rated by viewers of the channel. The top-rated contributions will be aired globally during the COP15 CNN/YouTube debate on December 15th, and the top two submissions will win a trip to Copenhagen. We look forward to seeing your videos!

Video: Google Earth Climate Introductory Tour narrated by Al Gore

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City Beat - GIS Day video

This magazine-style program features entertaining and informative stories on the people and events that make Las Vegas a vibrant and exciting place to live and work. This is their feature on GIS Day.

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Thanks to KCLVChannel2 for the video.

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Michael Goodchild at GeoWeb 2008

Dr. Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of spatial@ucsb. His published books include Accuracy of Spatial Databases; Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications; Environmental Modeling with GIS; Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS; Interoperating Geographic Information Systems; Geographic Information Systems and Science; Uncertainty in Geographical Information; Foundations of Geographic Information Science; Spatially Integrated Social Science; GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling; and Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Techniques and Software Tools.

Thanks to geowebconference.

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Carbon Project YouTube channel, launched

The Carbon Project has launched a branded channel on YouTube featuring videos on Open Geospatial Consortium,Inc. (OGC) Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) usability for ESRI ArcGIS desktop users. OGC SDI is a suite of standards used by government agencies around the world to promote digital geospatial data sharing and exploitation.

The Carbon Project channel is online at http://www.youtube.com/thecarbonproject

"OGC SDI is becoming more ubiquitous for GIS users now and into the foreseeable future. CarbonArc PRO 1.6 makes this advanced content highly accessible and its robust functionality easy to use," said Jeff Harrison, President and CEO of The Carbon Project.

The Carbon Project's YouTube channel is a free resource of helpful hints and instructions on how to easily tackle the most frustrating OGC SDI issues in ArcGIS, such as WFS filtering and transactions.

ArcGIS users that want to be on the vanguard of this movement can get a free download or SDI User license for just $295 at http://www.thecarbonproject.com/carbonarc.php.

CarbonArc PRO has been selected by multiple customers and featured in many recent SDI projects.

CarbonArc PRO was developed with CarbonTools PRO, an extension to Microsoft.NET that lets software developers add advanced geospatial interoperability to any Microsoft Windows application.

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When a 500-km asteroid hits the earth...

This is a computer simulation of the impact of a 500-km asteroid hitting the earth. Is this possible? Disasters of this magnitude have actually happened at least six times in Earth’s history.

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Google Earth Hologram Device video

Gizmodo posted this "Google Earth Hologram Device You’ll Want", that shows an interactive virtual globe.

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Holographic Google Earth from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

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Future of Remote Sensing - video

Future of Remote Sensing. Time Reversal Lamb Waves technique used to render WMP on laptop from blackboard.

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