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Welcome to the Monday Morning News post from got geoint? As always, we hope you had a restful weekend and are geared up for some big-time productivity over the next five days. Speaking of productivity, this week is the Esri International Users Conference, so it will certainly be a busy week. And, of course, there is no shortage of GEOINT news happening in the news cycle today. So, as we always say, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on. Happy Monday!

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As always, we hope you had a restful weekend and are ready to dive backing into your professional lives. For this morning’s MMNKO (still love that acronym) post, we have eclectic/mixed-bag of stories — from Microsoft launching a Google Street View rival to Brazilian police using “RoboCop style” sunglasses to detect criminals — for you to peruse as you gear up for the work week. So, as we always say, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on. Happy Monday!

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As our faithful readers know, every so often we like to shake things up in terms of content on got geoint? While this shift will not cause global chaos or birds to fall out of the sky, we have decided to do a Thursday news summary post today. Why you ask? Well, frankly, there is just too much industry news going on – and we did not want to wait until Monday to share it all with you. With the Esri Federal User Conference around the corner, there is no shortage of news. On top of that though, the news cycle is humming in general. So as we say on Mondays, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on! Happy Thursday.

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As many of us in the GEOINT community are busy making the most of the 2010 International ESRI User Conference this week — and with so much news happening — we thought it would be easiest to put all the key ESRI news in one convenient post. No need to do Google news searches. We have it all here. And, for those who aren’t in San Diego this week, this post will give you some insight into what’s happening at the event. We hope you enjoy.

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USGIF Technology Day is really all about what it is billed as: technology. While walking the exhibit hall floor getting briefings from the exhibitors, we can’t help but think that innovation is still key. And, this is merely a taste of what is to come with regards to the GEOINT 2010 Symposium. So, we tried to speak with as many exhibitors as possible and have pulled together highlights from the floor in this post. We hope you enjoy.

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It was only a matter of time before LIDAR, the optical remote sensing technology that measures properties of scattered light to find range and/or other information of a distant target, would change the face of archeology. You may recall our coverage of NAVTEQ back in January when it announced that it has begun collecting data to construct detailed 3D models and maps of the United States. 3D models and maps…hmmm…what is the perfect application for this? Yes, archeology. The New York Times just ran a story about the use of LIDAR in the help develop 3D images of Caracol (pictured), in Belize, one of the great cities of the Maya lowlands. In only four days, a twin-engine aircraft equipped with an advanced version of LIDAR flew back and forth over the jungle and collected data surpassing the results of two and a half decades of on-the-ground mapping. According to Dr. Diane Chase, one of the archeologists, “We believe that LIDAR will help transform Maya archaeology much in the same way that radiocarbon dating did in the 1950s and interpretations of Maya hieroglyphs did in the 1980s and ’90s.” That’s right. LIDAR rules.

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Not only has the new 3D craze taken over the film industry (well, the industry hopes so based on the success of of the film Avatar), this trend has made it’s way into the GEOINT world. Last week, USGIF member company NAVTEQ announced at the Consumer Electronic Show that it has begun collecting data to construct detailed 3D models and maps of the United States. NAVTEQ uses a lidar system that utilizes lasers to construct 3D maps of the world out of a sea of data points. The company boasts that its uses 64 rotating lidar lasers, captures 1.5 million 3D data points per second from features as far as 150 meters away and works even when the data collection vehicle is traveling at highway speeds. Check out this CNET article here for more information. And, check out our previous coverage of an Army 3D mapping drone robot here. GEOINT in 3D…coming to a theater near you in 2010.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post on got geoint? We hope everyone had a restful and fun Halloween weekend. Now that Halloween is officially over and the pre-Christmas marketing blitz is starting, perhaps it is a good time to focus on news that impacts us on a day-to-day perspective. This week’s MMNKO post, offers a wide range of stories, including the DNI announcing fiscal year 2009 budget figure for the National Intelligence Program (NIP), NGA being named one of 50 Great Places to Work by Washingtonian magazine, and much more.

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Today, is the first day of the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego. The highly popular, annual week-long geographic information system (GIS) conference is already starting to generate some noteworthy news from ESRI and attending companies. We have developed this post to be a round-up of news that has already been issued from the event. To catch up on all the news, scroll down.

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Directions Magazine is hosting a most-excellent webinar on July 25, 2009 about how multiple departments in cities and counties are providing more robust services with enterprise GIS — while achieving a reduction in expenditures. The webinar will cover how NAVTEQ map data powers the ESRI solutions that enhance infrastructure supervision, provide greater performance management and generate efficiencies in work processes, including U. S. Census 2010 preparations. As a real-life example, officials from the city of Alpharetta, GA will discuss its enhanced workflows by integrating GIS software and NAVTEQ data to support its overall business processes. To learn how municipalities can take advantage of existing training, software and data to implement enterprise solutions, we recommend you sign up for the webinar here.

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