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EO College Offers Free Course About Remote Sensing

August 21, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

EO College, a platform for accessing MOOC (massive open online courses) about remote sensing along with other related materials was launched today.

GIS Jokes

August 16, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Here are some corny GIS jokes.

Explorer for ArcGIS released by Esri for Mac OS.

What is GIS?

August 16, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

GIS is a technological field that incorporates geographical features with tabular data in order to map, analyze, and assess real-world problems. The key word to this technology is Geography – this means that some portion of the data is spatial.

Case Study: How Brindisi, Italy is Using GIS to Help Preserve its Ancient Architecture

May 1, 2019By Pitney BowesGIS Learning

The city of Brindisi, Italy deployed a solution from Pitney Bowes® that provides 80 to 90 percent faster performance, while dramatically improving the user-friendliness of maps and significantly reducing staff time dedicated to mapping.

Free Ways to Learn QGIS

April 29, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

If you want to start learning how to use QGIS, a free and open source GIS software package, there are some excellent free resources out there.

Free Synthetic Aperture Radar Handbook Available for Download

April 22, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

User can download this free handbook which provides insight into how different Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) methodologies can be used for forest monitoring and biomass estimation.

Tutorial: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R

March 20, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Watch this tutorial “Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R” to learn how to import files into R, overlay layers, reduce spatial extent, select and reclassify values, and make a map.

Free Introduction to GIS in R Online Course

February 19, 2019By GIS ContributorGIS Learning

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.