"Pleiades is equipped with control moment gyros, " explained Charlotte Gabriel Robez, the Pleiades project manager with Astrium Geo-information Services.
The technical workshop in Venice will involve project partners and end-users in order to jointly develop a concept for global geo-information products for risk prevention and preparedness through EO imagery elaboration.
Improvements to the current app now in the words included the use of geo-location information and social networking status.
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What if we could share the core technology of an application that combines geo-specific information, like a power outage, with real-time alerts?
Consumers are drawn to the mobile Internet because it can be highly contextual and leverages information such as geo-location, presence, and user-specific information to deliver a rich and intensely personal experience.
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Once a user creates a new album for a given event or party with the app, subsequent photos and videos taken on the smartphone will automatically be uploaded to the album, and even geo-tagged with location information from Google Maps.
Short of geo-locking the service to stay inside America, information based start-ups (which means pretty much any social network) need to be very aware of what they do with personal data.
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Or on a travel site a photo of a temple in Japan could have an app that explains it, and if the photo is geo-tagged, shows a map of the area, and other related information.
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As Facebook is now offering the geo-targeting of ads down to ZIP code, this kind of fine-grained information is invaluable.
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Konji Sebati (Permanent Delegate of South Africa to UNESCO) strongly supported the view of freedom of information as a fundamental right central to democratic governance, empowerment, socio-economic development, geo-political understanding and tolerance.
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