{"id":1539,"date":"2025-01-21T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2025-04-22T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:19:03","slug":"book-on-gps-and-gis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Book on GPS and GIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In December 2024, Matteo Luccio completed work on his contribution to the 4th edition of Professor Michael Kennedy&#8217;s book on GPS and GIS. Luccio wrote a chapter and a glossary and provided the transcripts of long interviews he conducted with three giants of the field: <strong>Dr. Bradford Parkinson<\/strong>, who was the chief architect of GPS more than 50 years ago; <strong>Charlie Trimble<\/strong>, the co-founder and long-time president of Trimble, now a four billion dollar company; and <strong>Jack Dangermond<\/strong>, co-founder and president of Esri, the 800-pound gorilla in the GIS industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book will be published in August by CRC Press as <i>The Global Positioning System and ArcGIS<\/i>, Fourth Edition, by Alexander Kennedy and Michael Kennedy with Matteo Luccio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image here shows the previous edition of the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kennedy-book.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kennedy-book.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kennedy-book.png 457w, https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Kennedy-book-189x300.png 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2024, Matteo Luccio completed work on his contribution to the 4th edition of Professor Michael Kennedy&#8217;s book on GPS and GIS. Luccio wrote a chapter and a glossary and provided the transcripts of long interviews he conducted with three giants of the field: Dr. Bradford Parkinson, who was the chief architect of GPS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent_articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}