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Australia Releases Trove Of Scientific Data From Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search
It can be hard to look for the bright side in a tragedy. But resolving tragedies often requires an immense amount of human effort, and that effort results in new knowledge. New genetic forensics techniques emerged from the identification of 9/11 victims, for example. Another tragedy, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 three years…
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Celebrate GIS Day With These GIFs Of Australia’s Greatest Geographical Transformations
In case you didn’t already know — why didn’t you already know? — today is Geographical Information Systems Day, a day to celebrate the existence of services like Google Earth, Nearmap and other geographic science technologies that help architects, engineers, city planners and all kinds of businesses in the way they develop the world around…