Informatics International, Inc.

Informatics International, Inc. is a world-wide corporation dedicated to providing superior services in the integrated technologies of Geoinformatics: consisting of Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and related space systems, telecommunications and telemetry, Virtual Reality and Visualization, the Internet and WWWeb, and related technologies. These new technologies and capabilities are revolutionizing our understanding of our environment and have a wide variety of practical and commercial applications around the world, on local to global scales. Informatics International staff have completed or are currently working on projects for NASA, The U.S. Department of Commerce, NATO, the U.N., DuPont Corporation, ESI, The U.S. Space and Rocket Center, and others.

Recent fall 2014 and spring 2015 public presentations, lectures, and publications...

New book by Scott Madry is available from Springer Press.

Space Systems for Disaster Warning, Response, and Recovery

http://www.springer.com/engineering/mechanical+engineering/book/978-1-4939-1512-5

March 2015	“Using Historical Maps in Research: A Case Study of Research in Burgundy, France” presented at the North Carolina annual Geographic Information System Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. (co-author with Amanda Tickner, Elizabeth Jones and D. Seth Murray)
February 2015	Invited lecture “Interdisciplinary History of Rural Water and Land Use in Southern Burgundy, France,” Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
February 2015	Hands-on Open Source QGIS/GRASS course, University of Maryland College of Information Studies, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.
February 2015	Hands-on Open Source QGIS/GRASS course, the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
January 2015	Invited lecture on “Open Source Tools for Disaster Management,” Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
November, 2014	1-day Open Source GIS/remote sensing workshop, UNC-Greensboro Department of Geography, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.
October 2014	Open Source GIS software in Archaeology short course, 5th International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology: The Age of Sensing, 13–15, 2014 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
October 2014	Session chair for “Integrated Technologies,” 5th International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology: The Age of Sensing, 13–15, 2014 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. Photos taken at the conference are posted online. Please visit: https://space2place.classicalstudies.duke.edu/node/49
October 2014	Conference organizing committee and conference workshop chair, 5th International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology: The Age of Sensing, 13–15, 2014 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Peer-review publications accepted:	“Innovative Methods for the Benefit of Public Health Using Space Technologies for Disaster Response.” Dinas, P., Madry, S. et. al. Accepted for publication at: Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Cambridge University Press.
September 2014	Scott Madry talks to young lecture participants after his talk in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, September 17, 2014. The lecture was "The Origins of the Space Age," given at the Cape Town Science Center. About 75 people were there.