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Maps and Cartography
The “Larousse Gastronomique” of Cartography
A new 576-page volume about the science and art of cartography has been published.
Online Accessibility Maps Should be Interactive
For a consistent experience across mobile devices, accessibility maps should be interactive instead of static images or PDFs.
Visualizing Climate Change With Maps
The choice of labeling and color can have a pronounced influence in shaping opinions when visualizing climate change on maps.
Holiday Season Gift Ideas Created by the GIS Community
Looking for a holiday gift idea for the geographers in your life and want to support the GIS community? Listed here are some great gift ideas produced by geographers.
Spatial Analysis
Forecasting Fire: Earth Observation and GIS
New techniques in GIS, remote sensing, and machine learning are incorporating land-based data along with temperature, precipitation and other weather factors in developing more accurate fire prediction models.
Ready for Summer – Remote Sensing of Bathing Water Quality
Remote sensing is being used to help researchers monitor water quality in lakes and coastal areas.
The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and GIS
For most GIS practitioners, modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) is something to be aware of when different analytical techniques are applied.
Mapping and Assessing Landscape Suitability for Bee Migration
Recent studies have showed how GIS and remote-sensing applications could help to assess and map landscape suitability for bees.
GIS Software
Run Image Processing Tasks in Your Browser with the EOS Platform
This guest article by EOS introduces the newly upgraded EOS platform, a set of mutually integrated cloud products for searching, analyzing, storing, and visualizing geospatial data: Landviewer, Processing, Vision, Storage.
How to Use the Color Blind Preview Option in QGIS
With the release of QGIS 3, you can now preview how your maps will look for those with two types of red-green color blindness.
What are QGIS Files?
A .qgs file extension refers to a QGIS project file.
Viz Palette Helps You Pick Colors for Data Visualizations
There’s a new color picker tool to help with selecting a palette for data visualizations.
GIS Learning
Mapping Elephant Distribution with Remote Sensing and GIS
A variety of applications using GIS, remote sensing and GPS tracking of individuals per collars have advanced in the last years and are increasingly used for mapping and tracking elephants.
GIS Programs
Searchable GIS program directory. Search for GIS certificate programs offered either online or in classroom.
The Debate About Book Availability Via Esri’s Desk Copy Service
Olivia Harne discusses the value of providing access to students and educators to all GIS books published by Esri Press as part of the company’s Esri’s Desk Copy Service.
Introduction to QGIS Python Programming
Anita Graser has started a tutorial series aimed at teaching users with no programming background how to get started with using Python in QGIS (PyQGIS).
GIS Data
Cyprus Signs an Agreement to Update its GIS with the Help of Esri
Esri has been selected to modernize Cyprus and its cadastre, in hopes of providing the country with a completely modernized, advanced land registration system.
Accessing Real-time Satellite Imagery and Data
Tools and applications such as NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near Real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) program and EarthNow, a space imaging startup, are paving the way towards real-time and near real-time satellite data.
Ocean and Land Observation Data From Sentinel-3B
The main mission of the recently launched Sentinel-3B is to provide quality ocean and land monitoring. As part of the Copernicus program, GIS data and imagery will be made freely available.
Creating Ground-level Views from Satellite Imagery
Recreating a ground-level image and perspective using satellite imagery has only recently been developed.
GIS Industry
GIS and Cancer Screening
GIS has the potential to play an important role in cancer screening, particular in cancers where environmental, socio-economic and resource access links could be found.
World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) Launches With Commercial GIS Representation Only
The World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) has launched as a representative body for commercial GIS companies.
GIS Conferences and Events
Upcoming GIS, remote sensing, and geography events, conferences, and webinars.
Geospatial Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Trends and Challenges
There are both challenges and opportunities that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has in applying geospatial and GIS knowledge that also addresses issues of time and spatial bias.