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Connecting Communities: identifying synergies between international integration initiatives Friday, July 15, 2016 - 08:51 Do you find yourself calling in to multiple working groups on the same topic, for example, Semantics? Data Rescue? Data management and preservation? Do you feel like you live in a universe where you discuss your favorite research topic on monthly or biweekly GoToMeeting or WebEx calls? Do you vigorously nod your head when you read the following sentence: Volunteer fatigue has become a serious obstacle to advancing the important efforts of data and cyberinfrastructure communities of practice.
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Droning the Castle Hill Rock Formation and Building 3D Models with Photoscan & Drone2Map Sunday, July 10, 2016 - 09:34 This is my second blog post in a short series on my research trip to New Zealand. You can find Post #1 here. This is also cross-posted with a post on my github-pages blog. Find it here. IntroSome of the predominant challenges in using an off-the-shelf drone for scientific research are the limitations on flight distance and duration. First there are the built in distance limitations. Off-the-shelf drones are made for taking selfies and short videos, so...
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Welcome Spring 2016 ESIP Members Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 16:23 The ESIP Assembly has accepted five new member organizations this spring, bringing total membership in ESIP to 185 organizations. The new ESIP members are:
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Geoinformatics Sessions at the 2016 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Monday, June 27, 2016 - 16:28 At this year's Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Denver, 25-28 September, 2016), there will be several Geoinformatics-related sessions. You can view all of these sessions at http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2016/sessions/topical.asp?CatID=Geoinformatics. I'd like to make a special call for abstracts to session T47: Big Data in the Geosciences. We welcome presentations that showcase new capabilities and opportunities in big data that...
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