KM Labs : Knowledge Management Technologies

following the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation, a new search engine portal and dataclearinghouse for environmental datas, including  "not just datas from Earth-observing satellites, but also terrestrial sensors datas, population figures, and regional health and ecosystem information" should be launched next November with the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation Systems of Systems) program. This technology will benefit the entire community, creating a social geo referential, that looks a bit more advanced than the common Google Earth Mashups.

Virtual Reality Technologies can offer Reality Mining Tools when extended to real life situations.

About Complex Event Processing Systems

CEP Complex Event Processing Principle :

An introduction to Complex event processing networks (from Stanford university).

A Time Line representation (from MIT Institue)

Google Earth and similar applications

In Google Earth, models are realistic real world models.. Mostly models of the natural and physical world. 

Real Time Traffic

Earth Temperature Monitor

Other Virtual Reality Technologies

Second Life

There

Active Worlds.

Areae 

Vreng 

WoW

The sims.

Second Life 

Digital Earth

Digital Earth was the label given to a visionary concept, made popular in 1998 by former US vice president Al Gore, for describing a virtual representation of the Earth on the Internet that is spatially referenced and interconnected with the world’s digital knowledge archives. Keyhole Technology, Inc. (later purchased in 2004 by Google for Google Maps) was contracted to develop and demonstrate the first full globe 3-D interactive Digital Earth using web-stream data from distributed database located on servers around the planet. A concerted effort within the UN community through the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), via the Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG), followed immediately, including purchase of early Keyhole systems by 2002. Today, Digital Earth is an international collaboration project, and China wants to play a major role forming a non-profit entity from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to host the international secretariat of the International Society on Digital Earth

The MetaVerse RoadMap

The MetaVerse project is a World Wide Collaborative Virtual Reality Project.

Virtual's Worlds Inputs are solicited in four topic areas: I. Industry Conditions, II. Forecasts, III. Issues and Questions, and IV. Problems and Indicators. These were divided into nineteen categories, from History to Progress Indicators. Each was also considered in three subcategories: A. Technology and Science, B. Business and Economics, or C. Social, Legal and Other domains. This is an adaptation of the Foresight Framework Model of Dr. Peter Bishop, chair of the Futures Studies masters program at the University of Houston . More Resouces Here .

La plupart des appareils GPS permettent d’enregistrer les positions GPS calculées (“GPS track”) dans un format GPX. Ce format peut être directement utilise par Google Earth.

Google a signe recemment un accord avec la NASA, le “Space Act Agreement”, qui viendra completer Google Earth / map avec les donnees de la NASA. L'agence spatiale a deja une longue histoire dans le domaine de l'imagerie planetaire et spatiale : voir par exemple NASA WorldWind, MODIS, le Nasa Earth Observatory, NEO, Nasa Visble Earth (page d'images, ou encore le Earth Tag Cloud (fichier KML a ouvrir avec Google Earth). Voir aussi le partenariat Japonais ERSDAC.

Du coup, Google Earth s'etend a l'espace (est-ce le debut d'un Google Space ?).

Ci dessous la trajectoire GPS du missile chinois repere le 11 janvier dernier : L'analyse est fournie par le SpaceProgramm du MIT, qui fournit aussi le fichier KML pour Google Earth