As unpredictable and tragically dangerous as fighting fires remains, geographic information tools offer the kinds of global incident views and intelligence that were unimaginable less than a decade ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

GIS is a computer system for capturing and storing data related to positions on Earth's surface while remote sensing is the process of detecting and monitoring the physical characteristics of an area ...