Matteo’s Writing Samples

"Helping Haiti: Disaster-Response Lab Manages Aerial Data for Earthquake Relief", GeoWorld, October 2010

"Portland, Oregon, Trailblazes a Successful Regional GIS", ArcNews, Winter 2009/2010

Feature articles in Imaging Notes

• LiDAR Software Update: Companies Respond to Customer Demands, Winter 2012
• Processing Point Clouds: 3D Data Update, Fall 2011
• Radar Update: Applications Abound in Defense, Maritime and Engineering, Fall 2011
• Google Earth Builder: Advantages for Businesses, Summer 2011
• LiDAR Update: Terrestrial Explodes, Software Still Lags, Winter 2011
• Aerial Cameras: Focus Shifts to Productivity, Fall 2010
• Executive Interview: Joe Campbell, President of ERDAS, Summer 2010
• RADAR Gets It Done: Neither Clouds nor Gloom of Night Blind a Radar Satellite, Spring 2010
• Beyond Terrain Models: LiDAR Enters the Geospatial Mainstream, Winter 2010
• Remote Sensing by Remote Control: UAVs Become Invaluable Assets, Fall 2009

White paper that Matteo researched and drafted for the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC). Scroll to the bottom of the document to read the credit.

A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE

Entries in the MetaCarta Blog

• Personal Navigation Wish List
• Mapping from the Sky: What’s New in Remote Sensing
• Geospatial Technology’s Role in Fixing the Infrastructure
• Positioning Using Beacons of Opportunity
• How Mapping Companies Collect Street-level Data
• Blurring the Lines between Consumer and Professional GIS
• Web GIS: Some History and Links
• What Is the Geospatial Industry?
• Geospatial Organizations Form a Coalition
• Adoption of KML as a standard sets a precedent

Articles in GPS World magazine (2001 and 2002)

• The Concrete and the Clay: Monitoring Large-Structure Deformation
• Guiding Weapons, Finding Soldiers
• GPS and Aviation Safety

Introduction to the readers of GIS Monitor (2005)

Editor’s Introduction

Editorials in Earth Observation Magazine (2005)

• August
• July
• June
• May

From GIS Monitor (2007)

Products

• Downloading DigitalGlobe Imagery with ImageConnect
• Minecode Releases Stand-Alone LiDAR Software

Company profiles / Interviews with principals

• Web-Based GIS
• Lat49 Begins to Sell Ad Space on Map Tiles
• Profile of a Photogrammetry Company—Part I
• Profile of a Photogrammetry Company—Part II
• MetaCarta Launches Local Alerts
• Earthmine Develops New Virtual Mapping System
• WiFi Positioning Continues To Expand
• First American Begins to Sell Location Data
• SiRF and Skyhook Develop Hybrid GPS-WiFi Positioning System
• MapInfo Releases New GIS Component for MicroStrategy

Industry news

• Nokia Buys NAVTEQ to Expand LBS
• Autodesk Donates Coordinate System Software to Open Source
• First American Buys Proxix Solutions
• Safe Software Expands Support for European GIS Formats

GIS applications and requirements

• Wireless GIS
• Hardware Requirements for GIS
• A Modest Proposal: Public GIS Centers
• GIS and Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM)
• GIS for Archaeology
• U.S. Senate Hearing on VoIP and 9-1-1
• GIS Professional Certification
• Building a GIS for a Small Town
• GIS at the New York Times
• Using GIS to Guide Habitat Restoration

Other interviews

• Interview with David DiBiase
• Interview with Nancy von Meyer
• Greenprinting: A conversation with Breece Robertson, National GIS Director, The Trust for Public Land
• Teaching GIS to Community Activists: A conversation with Gina Clemmer, President, New Urban Research
• GIS in Italy

Reports on conferences

• ESRI International User Conference
• GITA Conference Highlights

Reviews of books and reports

• IDC Releases LBS Study
• RAND Report on GIS in the Military
• Book Review: ArcMarine: GIS for a Blue Planet
• Book Review: GIS for Environmental Management