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.
GIS Industry
GIS and Digital Humanities
The use of GIS plays a large role in spatial-based digital humanities which has become one of the primary focus areas for many different types of humanities scholars.
GIS Software
OpenRouteService’s ‘Quiet Routing’ Creates a Less Stressful Route for Pedestrians
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf introduces OpenRouteService’s experimental routing option ‘Quiet Routing’ which guides pedestrian travel around noisy urban areas.
GIS Software
Dress Up Your QGIS Install With this Whimsical Plugin
The QGIS hats plugin is a bit of fun that accomplishes no other purpose than to add a hat to the QGIS icon.
GIS Learning
These Two ArcGIS Books are Free from Esri
Esri offers two ArcGIS books for free: The ArcGIS Book: 10 Big Ideas about Applying The Science of Where and the Instructional Guide for The ArcGIS Imagery Book.
GIS Software
How to Make a Map in Excel Using the 3D Map Add-in
This tutorial by Nick Williams provides an overview of how to create a map in Excel using 3D Map for Excel 2016 (or Power Map for Excel 2013).
Spatial Analysis
Teaching Math with GIS
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have enormous potential to be used for teaching mathematics to students. Lessons can be crafted for all levels of math student and presented in an engaging and interactive way. This provides an effective means to engage students with both mathematics and cutting edge science and technology.
GIS Industry
An Automated Design Model (ADM) for a wildlife corridor shown in ArcScene, a 3D viewer for GIS data. The Role of GIS in Wildlife Research and Conservation
Monitoring and studying wildlife habitats has long been a key focus within GIS.
GIS Software
Insights for ArcGIS 2.0 Released
Insights now has new ways to visualize data with new charts: box plots, data clocks, chord diagrams and heat charts are all now available.