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Pixia, Luciad, & BAE Systems Provide Geospatial Solutions The Next XPRIZE: The UN’s Agenda 2030: Aliens How to Reach Evaluate the Sustainable Earth with p. 8 Development Goals Poor Results p. 24 p. 12 SERIES: Filling the Gap “What Gap?” Pixia, Luciad, & BAE Systems Provide Geospatial Solutionsp. 16 Decoupling land ownership from financing and introducing quota systems are two potential policy options that may be considered based on the results (of scenarios for meeting the SDG #5 of Gender Equality, as it applies to subsistence farming).” – Hans-Peter Plag & Shelley-Ann Jules-Plag p. 24 The first two prizes in this initiative have already led to an exponential increase in ocean technologies, sensor companies and products, and new careers in ocean engineering.” – Jyotika Virmani, XPRIZE p. 8 Image of ocean floor courtesy of XPRIZE. 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There is a nominal fee to attend the conference. 8 24 [ Fall 2016 / Vol. 31 / No. 4 ] 16 Columns PUBLISHER’S LETTER 7 XPRIZE and UN SDGs MAPPING THE OCEANS AND Features CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD by Myrna James Yoo Robots of the Deep ON THE EDGE 8 SHELL OCEAN DISCOVERY XPRIZE 12 A Look at Earth as Aliens by Matteo Luccio, Contributor Pale Blue Dot LLC by Hans-Peter Plag, PhD Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute (MARI) 5TH IN A SERIES Old Dominion University 16 Filling the Gap: “What Gap?” SECURE WORLD FOUNDATION FORUM GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS FROM 22 Report from the PIXIA, LUCIAD, & BAE SYSTEMS 2016 UN COPUOS Meeting by Matteo Luccio, Contributor by Micheal Simpson, Executive Director Pale Blue Dot LLC Supporting Agenda 2030 24 APPROACHES TO THE SDGS by Hans-Peter Plag & Shelley-Ann Jules-Plag Tiwah WWW.APOGEOSPATIAL.COM | FALL 2016 APOGEO 3 COVER IMAGE Formerly [ Fall 2016 / Vol. 31 / No. 4 ] MISSION Apogeo Spatial communicates the power of geospatial tools and technologies in managing the world’s environment and scarce resources, so that the global population has the security of water, food, and energy. 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The Although trademark and copyright symbols are not used in this publication, they are honored. article about the Shell Ocean Discovery Apogeo is printed on 20% recycled (10% post-consumer waste) paper. All inks used contain a percentage of soy base. Our printer meets or XPRIZE is on page 8. exceeds all federal Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) Standards. 4 | WWW.APOGEOSPATIAL.COM | FALL 2016 APOGEO ST AND SAVE! REGISTER BY JULY 31 www.expouav.com OCT 31 – NOV 2, 2016 | MGM GRAND | LAS VEGAS Free Report: Surveying & Mapping with UAVs www.expouav.com/reports Surveying & Mapping with UAVs By Jeremiah Karpowicz Thiswww. reportexpouav.com is brought to you by: The Commercial UAV Expo represented the first meeting where experts from Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2016 1 Las Vegas www.expouav.com myriad industries came together to candidly explain how UAS integrated into their workflows. 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LEARN MORE AT PRINTRELEAF.COM photo: flickr.com/nicholas_t | CC BY LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER Achieving the SDGs, and the XPRIZE DEAR READER, On page 24, we share two possible Rarely do contests capture people’s imagina- approaches to looking at these goals, due to their tion in the way that the XPRIZE does. I remember complexity and overlapping nature, including Agent- learning about the 2007 $30 million Google Based Models and GeoDesign. The former is used Lunar XPRIZE, a competition that challenges as an example of how to approach addressing innovators and entrepreneurs to develop methods Gender Equality (Goal 5) and the latter to address of robotic lunar exploration. Currently, 16 teams Sustainable Human Settlements (Goal 11). Myrna James Yoo are still working toward getting their robots to It would appear that the global Earth sci- Publisher and Managing Editor the moon by the December 2017 deadline, and ence community is finally coming together in very Apogeo Spatial accomplishing the goals of the project. important new ways to share not only data but and LBx Journal The XPRIZE Foundation is currently executing solutions. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of Owner Blueline Publishing LLC the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, which is $7 the top 21 funders of environmental science that [email protected] million to those who will map the ocean floor. The will contribute to delivering the knowledge needed article is on page 8. for action. The Belmont Forum plan was adopted This week, I attended SciDataCon 2016, as in October 2015, and will continue to fund peer- part of International Data Week. Several sessions reviewed research, with a stronger emphasis on covered Earth science data, and the applicability data sharing, not just data. of Earth science and geospatial tools to reaching I hope that this and many other efforts will the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) create more repositories of data and break down of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030. more silos, so that different organizations are not The SDGs are very broad, and encompass duplicating efforts and so that efforts to create a almost every aspect of humankind, which I truly sustainable world can move forward. find to be quite ambitious and exciting. Many The value of geospatial tools and data contin- scientists, volunteers, and executives are ues to grow, and now, accessing that data and working towards attaining such things as No finding answers is easier and possible in more Poverty; Zero Hunger; Clean Water; Reduced ways than ever before. To achieve this, most geo- Inequalities; and Peace, Justice and Strong spatial companies are developing platforms, with Institutions, worldwide, to name a few. various and similar datasets. The most innovative There is no question that achieving these are ingesting new dynamic datasets, such as goals will be complex. Many organizations and wide area motion imagery, traffic, and weather, stakeholders are coming together to find ways to which are some of the most real-time hyper-local do so. The power of geospatial tools in address- datasets that exist. ing many of them is generally accepted now, Dynamic datasets can be ingested into many following the evangelizing of many stakeholders. of these platforms, including PIXIA’s and Luciad’s. Will Marshall, CEO/co-founder of Planet Our ongoing series on “Filling the Gap” (that will (formerly Planet Labs) spoke last year at the UN be left by Google Earth Enterprise) includes in in New York City about how geospatial data and this issue both of these companies, as well as in particular satellite imagery will be crucial to BAE Systems, and begins on page 16. achieving the Millennium Development Goals Obviously, the commercial platforms are (the original set of goals that are the founda- offering solutions to problems. In order to meet tion for the SDGs). In addition, a new white the SDGs, the private and public sectors should paper has been published by Geospatial Media join together.
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