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Finding Lost Pyramids with Satellite Imagery
Sarah Parcak, an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, is featured on an upcoming documentary on BBC entitled “Egypt’s Lost Cities“. The Egyptologist analyzed satellite imagery to identify over 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs, and 3,000 ancient settlements previously unknown. Her team used infra-red imagery to differentiate the denser mud brick material buried under Egyptian [...]
Geospatial Redux: Spatial Statistics Book, NASA and USAID Data Accord
Esri Press has released Spatial Statistical Data Analysis for GIS Users. The volume, published on DVD, focuses on explaining the applications of statistical analysis in GIS. From the press release: “This book provides a fundamental guide to understanding and applying the three tasks of geostatistical modeling,” said author Konstantin Krivoruchko, whose career has focused on developing statistical [...]
Map of Global Temperatures Since 1880
NASA takes a look at global temperatures and has a short piece and animated map showing the global change in temperature since 1880. According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and shown in this series of maps, the average global temperature on Earth has increased [...]
Astronomy – GIS For Other Planets
Not just for landlubbers, the use of GIS technology has applications in astronomy. Browse this list for GIS and mapping resources related to outer space. Deep Space Sky Mapping Mapping software containing “the 250,000 star NASA Skymap database, the 18-million star Guide Star Catalog, the Saguaro Deep Sky database with about 10,000 objects, and about [...]
Capturing the Gulf of Mexico Oil Slick
NASA has put together an informative page on the challenges of capturing imagery of the Gulf of Mexico oil slick and why new images aren’t posted each day. Terra and Aqua satellites are the only two NASA satellites that can provide pictures in near real-time. But unlike weather satellites that look at the same region [...]