Dr. Michael Flaxman, director of Geodesign Technologies and Geospatial Community Advocate for OmniSci, presents three example of how newly available geospatial data is being leveraged.
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GIS Industry
Next Generation Asset Management with iSTAR Pulsar
Danny Sullivan writes about how 360 imaging company NCTech’s vehicle-mounted iSTAR Pulsar camera is being used by Icon Spatial as part of an asset management project for a major highway operator Australia.
Maps and Cartography
Lessons From a Viral Map
As public engagement becomes more and more important to society, it’s useful for scientists to know what makes maps and other geospatial content go viral.
GIS Software
LandViewer Has Added New Remote Sensing and Satellite Imagery Analytics
This article by EOS, a company which creates solutions for Earth observation imagery processing and analysis, introduces a host of updated capabilities in its LandViewer tool.
GIS Learning
Free Introduction to GIS in R Online Course
SocialCops is offering a free online course: Introduction to GIS: Manipulating and Mapping Geospatial Data in R, will teach you the ins and outs of how to extract, process, analyze and map geospatial data in R.
Maps and Cartography
Automatic Raster Reclassification with ArcMap Model Builder Based on Raster Statistics
Alexandros Voukenas writes about the problem of automatic raster reclassification based on its statistics, using ArcMap’s Model Builder with this step-by-step guide with relevant screenshots and explanations
GIS Industry
How Collecting LiDAR is Being Supported by the USGS 3D Elevation Program
Quantum Spatial (QSI) is currently working on more than two dozen LiDAR collection projects in support of the 3DEP. Here’s a look at three of the projects QSI has worked on in 2018.
GIS Industry
How Texas is Using Geospatial Technologies to Mitigate Forest Fires
Texas A&M Forest Service partnered with Timmons Group, a national geospatial solutions firm, to develop the Texas Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (TxWRAP).
GIS Software
Using Visual Crossing’s Location Analysis Plugin in Excel
Sean McCafferty provides an overview of Location Analysis, a new Excel Add-in from Visual Crossing, which helps store owners place locations and analyze retail competition.
GIS Software
How Plex.Earth is Used in Teaching: An Interview With Professor Martin Cajade
Eleni Natsi from Plexscape recently interviewed Martin Cajade, who teaches in the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism (FADU) in the University of the Republic in Uruguay, about how his students incorporate PlexEarth as a data mining tool.