Nordic Geospatial Blog » social networking http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 News & Map – Spatial@UCSB & NCGIA Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks and Map http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2010/12/13/spatialucsb-ncgia/ http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2010/12/13/spatialucsb-ncgia/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:26:42 +0000 Administrator http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/?p=848

With due deference to Jesse Eisenberg, the future is here and it is BOTH social and geospatial -

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/spatio-temporal/

PDFs
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/spatio-temporal/participants.php

World Map of Social Networks

]]> http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2010/12/13/spatialucsb-ncgia/feed/ 0 Report – UN Foundation & Vodafone – New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2010/01/03/report-un-found_info_social/ http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2010/01/03/report-un-found_info_social/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:11:27 +0000 Administrator http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/?p=246 Excellent report from the UN per the ongoing work of the CrisisMapping cohort, UCLA CENS ( http://research.cens.ucla.edu/ ), etc.

http://www.unfoundation.org/press-center/publications/new-technologies-emergencies-conflicts.html

For accurate disaster satellite products, UNOSAT is the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme, implemented in co-operation with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/

Ushahidi is an excellent example of open source, mobile, situational awareness for disasters response – http://www.ushahidi.com/

What is Ushahidi? from Ushahidi on Vimeo.

New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflict

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