Mapping mobile cellular data has a major potential in allowing a better understanding of how we use urban spaces, including transport networks and access to events and venues.
Mark Altaweel
GIS Learning
Spatial Challenges of Navigating Rural Roads for Self-Driving Cars
Researchers from MIT are testing the use of GPS and LiDAR to enable autonomous navigation in rural areas lacking detailed 3D maps.
GIS Data
Using Remote Sensing for Mapping and Counting Animals
Remote sensing data from satellite and UAV imagery has been used by researchers in the mapping and observation of wildlife, in particular counting the number of animals in remote locations.
GIS Data
Black Marble: Nighttime Lights Data from NASA
NASA’s Black Marble provides a suite of nighttime geospatial data acquired from Suomi satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument.
GIS Data
Mapping Minerals with Satellite Imagery
Mapping minerals with remote sensing was one of the main motivating reasons for creating the earliest multispectral satellite systems.
Spatial Analysis
Detecting Flooded Roads From Satellite Imagery
Mapping flood damage by manually examine imagery is a time-intensive and expensive process. New, automated methods using satellite data that compare pre and post-flood conditions are being developed.
GIS Industry
Using GIS to Study Gentrification
Given the phenomenon of gentrification happening in many cities across the United States in particular, recent municipal governments have begun using GIS to study the effects of gentrification.
GIS Data
The Use of Drones in Human and Physical Geography
With the widespread use of drones, methods are likely to be further refined to improve not only the use of UAVs in physical measurements in geography but even expanded to areas of the social sciences.
GIS Data
Rapid Ocean Floor Mapping
Rapid ocean floor mapping is considered one of humanity’s grand challenges. To highlight this challenge, Xprise recently announced the finalists for its grand challenges competition to rapidly map the ocean floors.
Spatial Analysis
Visualizing Temporal Data with GIS
While mapping spatiotemporal data has remained a challenge, increasingly we are seeing tools that are available on common open source platforms (e.g., R statistical package and QGIS) or commercial platforms such as ArcGIS.