Upcoming GIS, remote sensing, and geography events, conferences, and webinars.
GIS Industry
Detecting Spatial Patterns in Drug Abuse With GIS
Drug abuse has been shown to have clear spatial patterns that GIS has helped to demonstrate.
How Agencies Can Harness Geosharing to Improve Infrastructure
How can communities become more engaged with reporting issues with infrastructure? Olivia Harne discusses how an investment in geographical data sharing could be a potential solution.
GIS and Karstic Cave Monitoring
GIS and remote sensing have been used to predict likely regions where caves can be found. GIS is also useful for estimating volume of cave area that are affected by erosional processes.
Oregon BLM Leverages Enterprise GIS to Conserve the Greater Sage-Grouse
GIS has emerged as an essential analysis and communication tool for the Oregon BLM in general, and its sage-grouse conservation efforts in particular.
Monitoring Livestock Using GIS
GIS and other geospatial technologies are being used to monitor livestock, understand the role that cattle play in climate change, and estimate biofuel.
Navigation, GIS, and Voice Command
Progress has been made on developing GIS and GPS technology capable of interpreting natural language and voice commands.
GIS and Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship success is often driven by important spatial patterns, particularly in relation to labor concentration, knowledge, and investment opportunities. GIS can reveal spatial approaches to making decisions on where to invest.
How GIS Helps with Researching Human Evolution
GIS has now provided new avenues of research that has helped physical anthropologists better understand how different hominid species evolve to different environments.
Utilizing GIS for Investment Opportunities
Spatial understanding achieved through the use of GIS can be a critical component for understanding where and how investments may occur for given markets.
Using GIS in the Insurance Industry
Location has a large impact for the insurance industry, as a variety of natural or even social risks, such as crime, could affect insurance rates for life and property.
The History of Mapping Disease
Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine takes a look at how cartography and GIS have been used to map and combat devastating diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, and Ebola.