GIS and Building Safety
Both during the construction phase, and after, building safety can be better modeled and understood using GIS.
Mark Altaweel
Efforts to Combat Map Vandalism in OpenStreetMap Data
Map vandalism is the deliberate wrong change or update to map data, such as adding an incorrect name for a street or place.
GDAL: Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)[1], a set of software tools, is possibly one of the most essential pieces of GIS software.
Datacubes in GIS
Increasingly, Earth observation (EO) data are stored as datacubes, helping to assist the analytical process.
Super-resolution Imaging
Super-resolution is a technique derived from computer vision approaches that tries to increase the quality of an image by employing algorithms and upsampling to improve image sampling.
Ethics in GIS
With more ways to gather geospatial data and share that information, ethics has become even more important to consider.
Cybersecurity and GIS
GIS can play an important role in ensuring protection of vital infrastructure and data networks.
Deepfake Satellite Imagery
Deepfake satellite imagery is imagery that has been synthetically to alter or change the appearance of an image, often replacing one scene for another.
Carbon Mapper: A Collaboration to Map Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A new, non-profit organization, Carbon Mapper, is attempting to create better ways to pinpoint methane and CO2 emissions.
Open Geospatial Standards
The creation of geospatial standards is critical for sharing data among different technologies and industries.
Autonomous UAVs and Geospatial Data
Autonomous UAVs are already performing a variety of tasks using geospatial data obtained in-flight.
OpenStreetMap: One of the World’s Largest Collaborative Geospatial Projects
OpenStreetMap is a community project with the goal of mapping the world using a crowdsourcing, collaborative method.