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USGIF 2013 GEOINT COMMUNITY WEEK–THIS WEEK

NVCC_GCW13 Flyer Please see flyer for information about 2013 GEOINT Community Week.  Many of the events are free and Technology Day will only cost you $25.00.   NOVA GIS Dept will have a booth, so please stop by!

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Story Maps DC Meet Up

Come to our next Washington, DC Meet Up on Thursday, May 16, and learn how GIS can enrich your story. There are countless examples of incredible uses of GIS technology. Everything from charting at-risk communities, presidential elections, hurricanes, and various kinds of public information. Map making in this kind of capacity facilitates improved decision making, [...]

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NOAA Coast line data for bathymetry mapping

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html

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Time Magazine Landsat Imagery

Now that the semester is over take some time to read this article: http://world.time.com/timelapse/  

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NOVA Weather Balloon Initial Flight

  Authors: Internship project by GIS student Gustavo R. Zastrow. Supervised by Professor Michael J. Krimmer and Professor James S. Brown. Northern Virginia Community College Abstract title: Revisiting Tournachon – How balloon aerial photography has been moved out of history and into the GIS classroom erial photography has come a long way since the famous balloonist Gaspar Felix Tournachon [...]

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GEOINT COMMUNITY WEEK

NOVA IS WORKING ON GETTING A BOOTH FOR THIS EVENT.  PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING!!  jouellette@nvcc.edu GEOINT COMMUNITY WEEK 2013 Don’t miss this year’s GEOINT Community Week as we bring together the defense, intelligence, homeland security, and geospatial communities at-large for a week of briefings, educational sessions, learning workshops, technology [...]

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2012 Geospatial Leaders interviews

This summer we will also host the Geospatial Leaders Summer Workshop July 8 – 19.  Please click on the link for interviews with some of last year’s participants!  We are looking for volunteers to help out again this summer.  Please contact me if you are interested:  jouellette@nvcc.edu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWvHsp6RzzM&feature=youtu.be  

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Student Opportunities at the CIA

From CIA website: STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES Contribute to the work of the nation before you graduate. Apply to participate in one of the outstanding student work programs at the CIA, including undergraduate student internships or undergraduate co-ops, and graduate studies programs. This is an opportunity to learn from highly skilled professionals who support US officials that [...]

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Time and Navigation Exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum

Please read the two links about an exhibit about the history of navigation currently at the Air and Space Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/arts/design/time-and-navigation-at-the-national-air-and-space-museum.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://timeandnavigation.si.edu/explore/time-place-connection

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LOUDOUN GIS FORUM MAY 8TH

The Loudoun GIS Forum will take place on May 8th from 8 am until 3:30 pm at Loudoun Water in Ashburn, VA.  The cost for advanced registration is $25.00 or  pay $30.00 at the door.  The agenda for the this year’s forum is “Mapping the Future:  Mobile, Social Media and the GIS Professional”.  Please click [...]

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