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China’s national security agencies have discovered that foreign geographic information system software used in important industries in China has been collecting and transmitting geographic information data with some of the information collected involving state secrets, posing a serious threat to national security, China’s Ministry of State Security said on Monday, noting that national security agencies ...

En las instalaciones de la Cámara de Comercio de Áncash, se realizó el lanzamiento del Observatorio Territorial INFOGEL, portal web que permite recopilar, analizar y difundir información relevante a través de datos espaciales, para tener conocimiento de lo que acontece en 20 distritos del área de influencia operativa de Antamina. Instituciones públicas de Áncash y ...

The Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond has released an updated version of its popular “Mapping Inequality” project. The award-winning, open-access project focuses on redlining — the practice of denying financial services to residents based on race or ethnicity. Mapping Inequality is the largest collection of maps produced by the Home Owners’ Loan ...

The best known use of GPS satellites is to help people know their location whether driving a car, navigating a ship or plane, or trekking across remote territory. Another important, but lesser-known, use is to distribute information to other Earth-viewing satellites to help them pinpoint measurements of our planet. NASA and several other federal agencies, ...