This year marks the 20th anniversary of GIS Day on November 13, 2019. The following day is PostGIS Day.
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EO College Offers Free Course About Remote Sensing
EO College, a platform for accessing MOOC (massive open online courses) about remote sensing along with other related materials was launched today.
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What is GIS?
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.
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Case Study: How Brindisi, Italy is Using GIS to Help Preserve its Ancient Architecture
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.
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Free Ways to Learn QGIS
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.
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Free Synthetic Aperture Radar Handbook Available for Download
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.
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Tutorial: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R
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.
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Free Introduction to GIS in R Online Course
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.
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How to Make a Tile Grid Map Using Google Sheets
This tutorial provides instructions on how to create a tile grid map using Google Sheets.