Michael Shillenn, vice president and program manager with Quantum Spatial outlines three projects where LiDAR data from the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) has been used to assist in planning, disaster response and recovery, and emergency preparedness.
GIS Learning
New ArcGIS Pro Spatial Analysis Workbook
Esri Press has released Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro: A Workbook.
Spatial Analysis
GIS and Bayesian Belief Networks
Bayesian belief networks (BBN) and GIS can be used as decision aides to give an idea of probability of events unfolding.
GIS Industry
GIS and Internet Marketing: Where Virtual and Physical Location Meet
Personalization is the next phase in marketing, and making the user experience unique to customers depends in a large part on where they live, making location and GIS play more of a role than ever before.
GIS Career and Jobs
First Practice Exam for GISP Certification Released
A practice exam for the GISP certification has been release which contains 50 questions broken down in the six knowledge categories.
GIS Data
View Arctic Elevation Data with ArcDem Explorer
ArcticDEM is a project that is working to produce digital elevation models of the Arctic in order to see how topographical changes are occurring over time, such as the rate at which glaciers are receding.
GIS Software
Where is Open Source GIS Going?
Mark Altaweel discusses the growth and direction of open source GIS tools and software in this opinion piece.
Spatial Analysis
How Geospatial Technologies Are Being Used to Study Light Pollution
Light pollution is considered to be artificial or anthropogenic introduction of light in what would normally be a night setting. Light pollution has grown significantly throughout the twentieth century as cheap, constant light became more possible in urban areas. However, light pollution has the potential to negatively affect our health, […]
GIS Data
Jason-2 Satellite to Help Improve Maps of Sea Floor
Jason-2 will be collecting data about the sea floor every 5 miles, which will be used to create a high-definition estimate of the average surface height of the ocean in various places around the globe.
Maps and Cartography
You Can Help the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team With Its Research on Crowdsourced Damage Assessment
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team recently launched three formal research experiments on crowdsourced damage assessment and is seeking volunteers interested in participating.
Spatial Analysis
Measuring Vegetation from Satellite Imagery with NDVI
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is a remote sensing technique that uses measurement of vegetation signatures to measure vegetation types and growth.
Spatial Analysis
GIS and Stratified Heterogeneity
A method to measure uneven distribution of landscape or population features in a given space is stratified heterogeneity.