Recent Articles
Olufemi Damilola from Africa GeoConvo Podcast discusses information about employment options as a GIS enthusiast or student, as well as a curated list of African organizations that employ GIS practitioners. Joe Morrison speaks with MapScaping about how new companies are creating solutions that employ satellite images to quantify and illuminate climate-related calamities, while the potential of synthetic aperture radar data is waiting to be. unlocked Anindita Ghosh discusses her study that used GIS tools and analysis to map out areas with groundwater potential in a desert. Alexandros Voukenas explains how to calculate land use mix indices (such as entropy) in a GIS environment. Mapflow is a QGIS plugin that lets users extract real-world objects from satellite imagery. This tutorial makes use of spatial data science and remote sensing techniques to assess the susceptibility of floods using ArcGIS Pro.Enhance Your GIS Opportunities in Africa
How the Satellite Imagery Industry is Re-inventing Itself
Mapping Groundwater Potential in a Desert using Geospatial Technology
Calculating Land Use Mix with GIS
Run AI-Mapping in QGIS over high-resolution satellite imagery
How to Use ArcGIS Pro to Map Flood Susceptibility
Learning and Career
Mentoring in the Geospatial Industry
Opeyemi Kazeem-Jimoh of the Geospatially Africa Podcast spoke to Sharon Omoja, a regional ambassador for Women in Geospatial+ about her personal experience in volunteering and mentoring women in the geospatial industry.
Enhance Your GIS Opportunities in Africa
Olufemi Damilola from Africa GeoConvo Podcast discusses information about employment options as a GIS enthusiast or student, as well as a curated list of African organizations that employ GIS practitioners.
Geospatial Analysis
Using Local Knowledge to Better Map Food Deserts
Mapping and understanding food deserts is important if we are to understand how best to tackle the lack of healthy food options in the United States.
Mapping Groundwater Potential in a Desert using Geospatial Technology
Anindita Ghosh discusses her study that used GIS tools and analysis to map out areas with groundwater potential in a desert.
GIS Programming
6 Open Source Powered Projects to Enrich Your GIS Programming Skills
This article presents six projects with suggested tools, prerequisites and learning resources that would help you to improve your geospatial programming skills.
From GIS Analyst to Software Engineer
In a MapScaping podcast, Dan Mahr talks about how he was able to transition to a software engineer, but still uses his GIS skills to benefit his career.
GIS Software
Making Joy Plots with GIS
Joy plots is a cartographically creative way to show topography on a map. Learn how to create joy plots using GIS.
Run AI-Mapping in QGIS over high-resolution satellite imagery
Mapflow is a QGIS plugin that lets users extract real-world objects from satellite imagery.
