Mapping Heat in U.S. Cities
NOAA has been coordinating an effort to map urban heat islands in cities across the United States.
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.
NOAA has been coordinating an effort to map urban heat islands in cities across the United States.
Map scale refers to the ratio between the distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the Earth’s surface.
This article reviews some of terminology and types of elevation based datasets available to GIS.
Researchers from MBARI have developed methods to map the ocean floor at incredibly high resolution.
A 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.
What are the types of error found in GIS data? This article reviews the difference between accuracy and precision and explains the most common types of error found in GIS data.
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.