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JANUARY 2012 4 POSITION Expecting a Big Year for LIDAR and Remote Sensing By Todd Danielson 6 NEWSLINK 10 BEYOND MAPPING SpatialSTEM Has Deep Mathematical Roots By Joseph Berry 12 MUNICIPAL MATTERS Make Open Data Happen By Jonathan Mark 30 BUILDING THE GEOWEB The Shine Is Off Google Earth; What's Next? By Ron Lake From Imagery to Plate Remote-Sensing Technologies Aid the Farming Industry BY SEAN LOVE The Light at the End of Surveyors' Tunnel LIDAR Helps Monroe County in a Variety of Ways BY JUSTIN D. COLE 14 FEATURES 18 Climate-Change Adaptation Planning Time-sensitive GeoWorld departments such as NetLink, PeopleLink, Product News and Business News now are maintained solely at the GeoPlace.com Web site. Check there often for the latest updates as they happen. The digital version of this issue contains additional coverage of this section. Visit GeoPlace.com for more information. GeoWorld (ISSN 0897-5507, USPS 023-416) is published monthly by M2MEDIA360, a Bev-Al Communications, Inc. company. 1030 W. Higgins Road, Suite 230, Park Ridge, IL 60068 USA GeoWorld is distributed free to qualified subscribers in the geospatial industry. POSTMASTER Please send change of address to: GeoWorld, PO Box 4290, Port Jervis, NY 12771 Subscription rates - one year: US $72, two years: US $128; one year Canada: $90, two years Canada: $163. All other countries, one year: $108 (includes airmail postage). Payable in U.S. funds only. Customer Service and subscription requests, please call Phone (845) 856- 2229; Fax (845) 856-5822 or subscribe online at www.geoplace. com/subscribe. Periodical postage paid at Park Ridge, IL and additional mailing offices. Imagery/LIDAR Special Issue Reducing Uncertainty via Integrated Airborne Remote Sensing BY TAYLOR DAVIS AND CHRIS JENSEN 22 Commercial Satellite Imagery Takes Center Stage as a Cloud Services and Analysis Platform BY WALTER SCOTT 26 JANUAR Y 2O12 / WWW . GEOPLA CE . COM 3