By Joseph Kerski, Ph.D. Education Manager, Esri Instructor, University of Denver Because environmental issues take place in specific locations and often exhibit specific spatial patterns, they can be better understood through maps. Map-based analysis can help planners, analysts, and the general public better understand relationships and trends between variables, scales, and regions. Map-based analysis helps people question, visualize, assess, and … Read More
GIS Free-For-All
Using free and open source GIS programs and data platforms can eliminate costs associated with data processing, making Earth Observation data more profitable for all. Clyde A. Brooke purchased 140 acres of land in Hancock, Mississippi, in 1952 to begin a timber operation, and what began as a humble operation has grown to more than 4,000 acres today. The Brookewood … Read More
Investigating Groundwater in Montana Informs State Water Policy Decisions
The Ground Water Investigation Program at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology seeks to provide answers to communities about the status of local groundwater. This article was updated on March 1st, 2016. As in many western states, officials in Montana have long been concerned with water. Montana’s landmass is the size of Japan, and the hydrogeology of the state … Read More
OSGeo: Mapping the World of Open Source Geospatial Software
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation looks to assist the next generation of cartographers by helping them navigate the world of free and open source geospatial software. Sometimes the best way to understand something is to take a good look at it. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation wants the geospatial software community to check out free and open source software. Geospatial … Read More
3D Visualizations for a Three-Dimensional World
Using technologically advancing GIS data for public decision making/policy.
Serving Students with the MyCOE/SERVIR Global Fellowship Program
The SERVIR group has partnered with the My Community, Our Earth program to provide resources, training, and funding to students in four regions of Africa and Asia for work on climate-centered geospatial projects.
The Unlikely History of the Origins of Modern Maps
Originally Published by Esri -GIS technology has opened up new channels of understanding how the world works.
Promoting Volunteered Geographic Information to Solve Real-World Problems: A Pre-conference Workshop at GIScience 2014
The 8th Annual International Conference on Geographic Information Science will be held this September in Vienna. In recognition of the increasing role of citizen scientists and crowd-sourced information in geospatial research, the conference will be preceded by a workshop on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI).
OGC netCDF: Powerful Tool for Science
A widely used “fluid earth systems” data model and data access standard called netCDF now provides an important bridge between GIS and the complex 4-D processing systems used in oceanography and atmospheric sciences. By bringing netCDF into the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards organization, the netCDF community has given climate scientists, for example, a streamlined method for bringing virtually all types of spatial/temporal data and processing into climate science models and workflows.
Finalists: 2013 Student Essay Contest on ‘Science Technology for Observing Earth’s Climate’
Student authors from around the globe contributed submissions to Earthzine’s 2013 Student Essay Contest. Five finalists were selected. We are now entering a second round of judging that includes a blog discussion between Earthzine readers and the authors. The blogging portion of this competition will continue through Oct. 31. Click and participate.
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