The spatial analysis category looks at data manipulation techniques in GIS.
The geographic profiling concept proposes that criminals tend to commit acts of crimes within a comfort zone located near but not too close to their residence.
Dr. Laurence Smith, a professor with the Department of Geography at UCLA, has a new book out called “The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future.”
Esri’s offering a free ArcGIS seminar to show how to conduct network-based analysis using Spatial Analysis. The training is being offered at three different times … Read more
Geostatistics is a brand of statistics that deals specifically with spatial relationships. Find information about this branch of mathematics, software and tie-ins to GIS.
Online tutorials and articles on what remote sensing is, digital imagery analysis and applications.
TIME looks at how Google is entering the realm of tracking epidemics with their Google Flu Trends tool and how such tools have the potential to … Read more
Find ready-made and available for download PowerPoint presentations online. PowerPoint presentations can be valuable tools in presenting GIS ideas or as educational materials.
There are different methods for achieving a shaded relief map and resources for understanding this cartographic technique are listed here.
A study using imagery from Google Earth has found that cattle grazing or resting tend to orient their bodies north-south.
The research topic is land cover mapping with object oriented image analysis approach. The research took urban conglomeration of Vijayawada city as one of the … Read more
Mount Everest 1 August 2007 How high is Mount Everest exactly? Recent surveys have come up with heights that differ by more than … Read more
There are several ways in which to bring spatial data into a GIS. This article provides a brief overview of some of the more common methods for creating vector GIS data.