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Energy Sector Upgrades Needed for Telecom and Other Utilities in 2025

Energy Sector Upgrades Needed for Telecom and Other Utilities in 2025

Some of the United States’ energy infrastructure is nearing the end of its lifespan, and efforts to mitigate the loss of energy in its various formats are urgently needed. Without […]
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Using GIS to Map Illnesses

Using GIS to Map Illnesses

There is no doubt that mental health illness today is a serious, debilitating disease.  It can be difficult to cure because trying to ascertain the root causes of it can take a long time. The only known tools to fight mental illness which has seemed to work thus far...

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Telecom Industry Address Cybersecurity In 2017

At the end of last year, then President Obama slapped on sanctions to the Russian government for the claims that it interfered with the elections in November, by manipulating the Internet infrastructure upon which the e-Voting mechanisms reside. In fact, a lot of the...

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Using GIS in Agricultural Project

Using GIS in Agricultural Project

There is no doubt that the United States is the agricultural superpower of the world.  We probably have one of the best food production and distribution systems in the entire world; in fact, it is the envy of many governments around the world. The use of GIS...

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Collecting Big Data for GIS

Collecting Big Data for GIS

In the world of GIS, there is one fact that is going to remain for the next few decades:  the datasets which are being collected for both commercial and academic purposes are only going to get larger. In fact, it will become so large that it will now be termed as “Big...

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Telecom Revenues On the Rise in 2017

Telecom Revenues On the Rise in 2017

In one of our previous blog postings, we visited the topic of the rural farmlands as a huge boon to the telecom vendors here in the United States.  As we embark on 2017, there is yet another new market that this industry should be looking at Business services. Of...

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Optical Clock Tested in Space

Optical Clock Tested in Space

In our previous postings, we have covered many interesting and very imaginative applications that are unique to the GIS world.  Today, we explore an even more innovative idea: the Atomic Clock.  But, what exactly is it? According to Wikipedia, it can be defined as “ ....

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OS Sets Out to Create Road-Map of Britain

When we think of GIS apps (especially those mobile ones), the thoughts of seeing maps with many highways and roads immediately comes to mind.  Even “talking” maps are available, where the app will literally talk you through how to get from Point A to Point B.  In a...

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Assessing the Risk of UAV’s and Air Traffic

Assessing the Risk of UAV’s and Air Traffic

Just recently, we wrote about the benefits of using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other unpiloted drones in GIS research.  Essentially, these specialized aircraft can go into areas and the most desolate reaches of Earth (where no human can go) in order to take...

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Telecom Outages Present in California

In one of our previous blog postings, we wrote about what we would feel if our Smartphone were either lost or stolen.  Obviously, a feeling of paralysis would be the first emotion that would literally sink in. The reason for this is that as a society has become so...

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