Caitlin Dempsey

About the Author

Caitlin Dempsey has been the editor of GIS Lounge (https://gislounge.com) since 2001. More about Caitlin Dempsey and GIS Lounge on the contact page. Caitlin Dempsey is also the editor of Geo Lounge (geolounge.com).

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GIS and Cartography Quotes

April 18, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Growing collection of interesting and notable quotes relating to GIS, cartography, maps, and geography.

Where to Find GIS Data for Historical Country Boundaries

April 17, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Data

Finding historical GIS data can be hard to find. Listed here are available sites that offer historical country data in GIS file formats for download.

Viz Palette Helps You Pick Colors for Data Visualizations

April 12, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

There’s a new color picker tool to help with selecting a palette for data visualizations.

Over 2000 Sentinel-1 Satellite Images Were Used to Create a Map of Land Deformation in the United Kingdom

April 11, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Data

A new map of the United Kingdom map tracks areas of land subsidence and uplift based on processed data from Sentinel-1’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Access 6 Years of Sea Surface Salinity Maps and Data for the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea

April 11, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Data

The SMOS Barcelona Expert Center recently released products available for downloading relating to Sea Surface Salinity.

This New Tool from Sentinel Hub Lets You Create Time-lapse GIFs from Satellite Imagery

April 6, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Data

The latest upgrade of the EO Browser includes the ability to create an animated GIF from a time series of satellite images. This short tutorial shows you how to create your own time-lapse GIF.

Geo Roundup: Paid Cartography Internship, Mapping Italy’s Moving Border…

April 4, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Industry

In this edition of Geo Roundup: Italian Limes maps the shifting border from glacier melt, a cartography internship from National Geographic, a new data and visualization tool from NASA, and other new releases in geospatial.

GIS and Map Contests Roundup

April 4, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Industry

Current map and GIS related competitions listed in order of the competition deadline.

Some New(ish) Geospatial Podcasts

March 24, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Industry

There are a few new GIS and geospatial themed podcasts that launched in 2018.

Researchers Analyzed over 22 Billion Shipping Positions to Map the Global Footprint of Industrial Fishing

February 26, 2018By Caitlin DempseySpatial Analysis

To map out global fishing activity, over 22 billion AIS messages between 2012 and 2016 were analyzed by researchers.

GIS and Cartography Quotes

Growing collection of interesting and notable quotes relating to GIS, cartography, maps, and geography.

Where to Find GIS Data for Historical Country Boundaries

Finding historical GIS data can be hard to find. Listed here are available sites that offer historical country data in GIS file formats for download.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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