Aerial imagery tech that illustrates new world threats | Dan Dubno

At TED2003, producer and technologist Dan Dubno contextualizes new world threats faced by news and government agencies and the tools he uses to illustrate them. One of them being EarthViewer (the precursor to Google Earth): a web-based view of the world through satellite imagery. On stage with John Calkin, Dubno also briefly demos Consequences Assessment Tool Set (CATS): a product of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that aimed to figure out how to visualize and democratize geographic information.
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Filmed at TED2003.
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