On July 26th, Nick Urban and the summer 2011 GIS team conducted a test flight of the Flying Bison. See video to learn more about the Miller Run Restoration Project and to see footage captured by the drone during its flight. Thanks to Lindsay Coffee and Erin Murphy for their work on shooting & editing the video footage. video platform video management video solutions … [Read more...]
Phone-call cartography
Here's a link to an interesting NYT story, "Phone-call cartography," on mapping connectedness via data points from mobile phone calls. The accompanying map was produced by M.I.T.'s SENSEable City Lab using the origin and end point locations for cellphone traffic within the U.S. in July of last year. Phone-call cartography … [Read more...]
What we’re up to this summer (and why we’re not posting)
Thanks to the Mellon grant and a huge number of faculty teaching and research projects it's been a very busy summer of GIS work at Bucknell. Over the coming weeks I'll write detailed posts about the work we're doing on each of the projects. If I'm really ambitious I might try to post some interviews with faculty and students - and some footage of the aerial drone flights that … [Read more...]
GPS vs. Smartphone positional accuracy
Joseph Kerski, part of Esri's education team had some interesting blog posts last week comparing the accuracy of GPS units to his smartphone and implications that might have for using the SmartPhone for academic purposes Recently I wrote about techniques to use photographs taken on a SmartPhone as hyperlinks to locations where you have collected field data using ArcGIS Online … [Read more...]
Your iPhone is Tracking You
O'Reilly Media published a story yesterday (on the penultimate day of its Where2.0 conference no less...) describing Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden's discovery of a hidden file on your iPhone and 3G iPad that keeps a running record of your device's whereabouts. The file, part of the iOS4 release, records both latitude/longitude and timestamps - making it possible to create a … [Read more...]