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A New Island Emerges Ocean Shoreline New Plan: in the South Pacific: Dataset Coming An Economy Tonga Island from Airbus for Humanity p. 36 p. 26 p. 30 Google Earth Enterprise Now OPEN SOURCE THE INSIDE STORY p. 14 Global sustainability is a property of the Earth’s Life Support System, which can only be attained if economy has the dual purpose of safeguarding the planet while ensuring the well-being of human communities.” – Hans-Peter Plag, Mitigation & Adaptation Research Institute, Old Dominion University p. 30 We want to extend GEE (as open source) to be able to handle large 3D datasets... such as data coming from self-driving cars, UAVs, and LiDAR.” – David Moore, Navagis p. 14 DEM of South Africa, with Cape Columbine [ Spring 2017 / Vol. 32 / No. 2 ] in the top portion of image, courtesy DLR 2016 and Airbus DS Geo GmbH 2016 Infinite opportunities. 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