Off-Site Insight by First Base Solutions

Price drop across the board First Base Solutions is pleased to announce that effective immediately, non-current orthophoto (aerial imagery) will be offered at a reduced price through MapWarehouse . It's not a sale or a promotion, it's a long term price drop across the board.

Spelling FBS out for you Clues and answers are below. Don't cheat! (All the answers can be found on firstbasesolutions.com )

Save time and money in a few easy steps If you're a title search specialist, a law clerk, or perform similar property research functions as part of your business, you can use VuMAP , a feature-packed online mapping application with easy to use , built in tools to research property information, compare aerial imagery year over year, and measure, draw and make notes over the map, to save time and money on difficult searches. Follow the step by step example below to see how.

If a tree falls in the forest without analytics... How did the world ever tick along for millions of years without being critically monitored in every respect? We'll never know since it wasn't being recorded and there was no team in place analyzing it.  Big data is being captured like never before and it has the power to transform everything; from big things like our economy to small things like how we decide what to make for dinner.  We're all participating in big data collection.  It affects us and we in turn affect it. Here's a few trends in big data to watch out for, according to Doug Laney, research vice president for Gartner Research.

Improved data provides important insights in critical situations. Insurance is a data driven industry.  First Base Solutions has tools that help you understand the current situation, avoid hazards, and forecast accurately using aerial imagery and spatial data.

Respond quickly and be certain about the ground conditions. Armed with up to date information, you'll be able to avoid danger and direct resources where they're needed with confidence that you're making good decisions when there's a lot on the line and little time for planning.  For emergency response, peacekeeping, humanitarian aid & disaster relief, aerial surveillance is the best way to stay on top of a quickly developing situation.

How spatial data is being used in natural resources & environmental applications. Canada is big. Our watersheds and forest corridors cover vast areas, often spanning several administrative regions. For this reason, it can be difficult to effectively monitor and communicate the conditions of the environment as it changes, and also difficult to reach consensus on a plan of action and coordinate on policies between jurisdictions. Lack of coordination between regional governing bodies, short sighted planning and rapid land development have been the peril of the natural environment over the last 100 years or more. Habitat loss, erosion, soil and groundwater depletion and contamination have all taken a toll, and now ambitious plans to mitigate further damage are needed to aid recovery, not just for the intrinsic value of nature, but also for the sustainability of food production, water, air and climate.

Quick recap for those who’ve been living underground recently: York University, specifically, the Rexall Centre, or Canadian Tennis Centre as it’s also called, the intended site of the upcoming Pan American Games, is currently at the centre of international attention over a mysterious tunnel found in a wooded area nearby.  It’s not clear who constructed the tunnel or why, but this head scratcher continues to fascinate.  The clandestine tunnel was discovered on January 14th, 2015 and filled in by police a few weeks later.  Clearly, digging this tunnel took some time, but it’s not known when the construction on the tunnel occurred. 

Chapter Review: Tracking Animals in a Dynamic Environment: Remote Sensing Image Time Series   Prominent theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking tells us that time is a property of matter, just like colour, mass, or temperature; without matter, time does not exist. Doc Brown in the Back To The Future movie trilogy tells us we must think fourth dimensionally in order to travel through time safely. The reality is, everyone and everything is traveling through time, all day, every day, at the minuscule but consistent rate of one second per second. Unfortunately for us in the mapping biz, this time travel stuff really complicates things since our traditional paper maps are only 2-dimensional and digital mapping is 3-dimensional at best. Since the beginning of, er… well, time, incorporating temporal information into spatial models has been challenging and is often outright excluded from consideration. Since time affects so much of the world around us, it just makes good sense to...