Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Il simbolo e il rischio (di Marco Emanuele)

Ebbene si, dopo vent'anni l'11 settembre 2001 (che abbiamo elevato a simbolo che traccia una nuova era) ancora ci parla. Guardiamo a quella data con...

Converting a CSV with photos to a layer with attachments (Esri)

Lydia Troup, Ian Wittenmyer There is an incredible amount of data out there that’s stored in CSVs with images stored as links. Currently, there is no...

Same Data, Different Stories: Instant Apps Showcasing National Parks (Esri)

Lydia Troup, Beth Romero Instant Apps quickly transform your maps into apps to provide your audience with an intuitive experience to interact with your maps and data. This blog illustrates...

Enabling Real-Time Information: Bridging the Dark Data Gap (Esri)

Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) visualizes real-time data from its OSIsoft PI data historian, Telog data logger fleet, and ArcGIS Christa Campbell In our increasingly digital...

Hearing The Police ‘Would Come Soon,’ This Couple Fled Belarus. Will They Ever Return? (RFE/RL)

Tony Wesolowsky Alyaksey and Maryya Dalbenka cast their votes for Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya in the Belarusian presidential election at a polling station in Minsk on August...

What Comes Next? A Lesson from Saigon (Defense One)

Michael Desch An iconic photograph from the waning days of the Vietnam war now seems likely to be recreated in Kabul. In it, an Air...

The Pentagon Must Prep Now for the Next Pandemic (Defense One)

Lt. Col. Adam Scher The COVID-19 pandemic is a national-security threat that requires both a domestic and global effort to confront: it has disrupted military...

Norway and Russia sharpen transparency pact on warship, aircraft moves (Defense News)

Norway has finalized an updated security agreement with Russia that adds strengthened protocols for avoiding high-risk encounters between aircraft and naval vessels in the...

Space Force standing up STARCOM to train guardians (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The U.S. Space Force is set to establish its third and final field command Aug. 23 as part of a significant restructuring of its...

Kratos, General Atomics get more money for Skyborg development (Defense News)

Valerie Insinna The U.S. Air Force awarded Kratos and General Atomics contracts worth a combined $20 million to further development of the autonomous Skyborg drone wingman,...

NATO members’ Kabul evacuation battles bottlenecks outside the airport (Defense News)

Vivienne Machi NATO foreign ministers convened Friday afternoon via teleconference to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, which Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said remains “very difficult and...

Missile Defense Agency director wants less complex, more mobile Aegis Ashore (Defense News)

Jen Judson  The Missile Defense Agency director says he’d like to see the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system — which currently requires significant permanent infrastructure...

Two Saudi firms to co-produce Sky Guard drone for operational use (Defense News)

Agnes Helou Two Saudi companies have inked an agreement to co-produce and further develop the Sky Guard drone for operational use. The UAV has only...

General Dynamics building lightweight vehicle electronic warfare system for US Army (Defense News)

Mark Pomerleau The U.S. Army recently awarded General Dynamics a contract to prototype an electronic warfare system on the new Infantry Squad Vehicle. The system, which General Dynamics...

After Afghanistan, where next? Biden must show resoluteness (Brookings)

Michael E. O’Hanlon With the tragedy of Afghanistan’s collapse mitigated only by the relative lack of violence in the process of the Taliban takeover to...

The Taliban takes Afghanistan (Brookings)

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Fred Dews On this episode, in the wake of the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan, a discussion of the forces and issues that have...