A key objective of data governance is to provide information to people with a legitimate need to know and to restrict it from those who do not. While the solution to effective data security is largely ...

Don Murray is cofounder of Safe Software and has spent his career helping organizations bring life to data to make better decisions. The world we live in is spatial. Think about how many times you use ...

Imagine the scene: You’re driving in an unfamiliar city and use Google Maps on your iPhone to get directions to your next meeting. But you don’t just want to know how to get from point A to point B.

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...

Top: Devil’s Elbow Trestle Bridge near Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Bottom: A LiDAR scan of the same trestle bridge. (Sgt. 1st Class Andrew French and CW4 Michael Baber) The current state of ...

USAID Administrator Samantha Power speaks during the Summit for Democracy on March 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) USAID on Wednesday released its first ...

Location data is critical to nearly all state and local government work — whether it’s responding to a public safety call, supporting community planning and development, or maintaining critical ...

Darren Ruddell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

WASHINGTON — Vantor, a commercial Earth observation satellite operator, said Feb. 5 it won a $5.3 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to detect and deliver automated ...

Startup inspiration can strike anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based, real-time mapping tool that’s being built by an Oslo, Norway-based team of (initially student) engineers, the ...