Mapping Coastal Ecosystem Change
A new collaboration initiative, called coastTrain, helps to provide data so that scientists can better address challenges coastal regions face.
This category contains introductory text about GIS data such as types of error in GIS datasets, types of GIS data (raster and vector), and metadata. Find resources to finding GIS data and where to download data.
A new collaboration initiative, called coastTrain, helps to provide data so that scientists can better address challenges coastal regions face.
There are a few sources of freely available tectonic plate data available in various GIS data formats.
The USGS’ Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative is helping to better monitor the Earth and long-term land use change.
Map scale refers to the ratio between the distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the Earth’s surface.
This article discussions different types of GIS data in both vector and raster formats.
Satellites are being used to measure heat not only on urban heat islands, but also on farms and other locations where rising temperatures are having an impact.
Over 95% of the world’s lakes, rivers, and freshwater reservoirs will be measured by a new satellite mission called Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT).
FABDEM is the first global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with forests and buildings removed at a 30m resolution.
Researchers are increasingly use UAS/UAV platforms for measuring snow cover data, particularly snow depth.
Scientists are utilizing big data techniques that leverage modern GPS and tracking capabilities and can be combined with machine learning techniques to gain a better understanding of how animals migrate globally.
A GeoTIFF is a public domain metadata standard which has the georeferencing information embedded within the image file.
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released a new open source and science tool called the Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP).