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Archives for December 20, 2010

The Solstice Lunar Eclipse – Tips, and Social Media Resources

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Yes indeed, we have a cluster of events culminating tonight with a full moon, winter solstice (tomorrow) and yes, even a lunar eclipse – the first one just like this in more than 200 years. Some tips for fanatics planning on enjoying the lunar event…

Want to know more about the lunar eclipse?

  • To learn about the science behind eclipses, visit NASA’s Eclipse page
  • Lunar experts from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will be hosting a live web chat to discuss the eclipse. On Mon., Dec. 20, make plans to stay “Up All Night” with astronomer Mitzi Adams at she answers your questions from 12:00 midnight to 5:00 a.m. EST. Optimal time for viewing is 2:41 AM EST
  • Starting now, you can subscribe to NASA JPL’s “I’m There: Lunar Eclipse” text campaign to connect with others in your area by texting us your viewing location and comments on the night of the eclipse. To sign up, text IMTHERE to 67463 and we’ll send you a reminder to go out and watch on Dec. 20 (message and data rates may apply).
  • Want to share or flip through photos of the eclipsed moon? Join NASA JPL’s lunar eclipse Flickr group and connect with other professional and amateur photographers.
  • one lucky photographer will have  his or her work featured as official JPL wallpaper at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper.
  • On Dec. 20 and 21, join the conversation on Twitter by including #eclipse and @NASAJPL in your lunar eclipse tweets

Source: NASA

ERDAS 11 Now Available – What’s New Webinar Jan 6, 2011

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This out of the ERDAS team this morning… ERDAS proudly announces the official release of ERDAS 2011 Software, including ERDAS IMAGINE, LPS, ERDAS APOLLO, ERDAS Extensions for ArcGIS 10 and other leading desktop and server products. Portfolio-wide changes for the ERDAS 2011 Software Release include the ability to localize ERDAS products for a global audience, integrated support for Bing Maps base imagery and map data, distributed processing throughout the desktop offerings, and a new product, ERDAS Engine.  ERDAS Engine is a simple, cost-effective solution that boosts processing power for ERDAS IMAGINE and LPS, leveraging existing hardware resources for increased production needs or situations requiring faster production output.

Note, a webinar January 6 will highlight all the new functionality…  During this webinar, team ERDAS will highlight the imagery analysis workflows,  including improved text editing, inset views, new templates with elements that automatically update based on metadata from inserted imagery, the ability to geolink to Google Earth, and single-click exporting to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or JPEG. See more details HERE

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Finally, Foursquare Adds Photo (and comment) Support

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Like many of you, particularly you early adopters of foursquare, I’ve become bored with using the service… mainly because foursquare lacks the functionality and features beyond gaming that provide me with anything valuable or useful – although, I will admit that the community surrounding foursquare is a huge perk.  Perhaps my attitude will change though now that foursquare has finally added the capability to include a photo along with a checkin – this is something that I’ve longed for forever, particularly since I’m a huge mobile photo nut. Until now I’ve depended on services like Brightkite (now defunct), Pegshot, Gowalla, Yelp, Schmap and others to allow me to “tag” a location with a photo. Should be curious to see how this pans out. Seems Foursquare is going to complement this offering by also adding comment capabilities making the service much more interactive and “sticky”. Your photos will also be available in your history, however, I’m unsure of other archiving tools, most notably, having access to a GeoRSS feed of photos would be huge (flickr and Brightkite do this) enabling you to map your photos in google Earth and even create a cool map at GeoCommons – see details on the Blog

Cool news from some partners also… Photos from Instagram pushed to foursquare will now be check-ins with photos (rather than just check-ins). Sightings on Foodspotting will be check-ins with your food photos. And picplz is the first service to allow check-in photos on both iPhone and Android. Note, Android app update is coming soon!

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