Changing technologies, including new satellite systems, and better climate and fire modeling, including the integration of these tools and data capture methods, will likely mean improved fire modeling in the future.
climate change
Maps and Cartography
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.
Spatial Analysis
Researchers are Using Machine Learning to Better Predict Weather Patterns
The enormous amount of data from Earth-observing satellites is pushing researchers to use machine learning to mine the information and improve climate models.
GIS Data
Timelapse Satellite Imagery – View Changes on Earth over Time
The series of Landsat satellites has been collecting global imagery continuously since 1972. A total of eight satellites and millions of pictures (and trillions of pixels) has resulted in a hugh amount of imagery which, when compiled, visualizes the massive amount of global change over the past thirty+ years. Landsat […]
GIS Data
CryoSat-2
CryoSat-2 is the satellite launched by the European Space Agency on April 8, 2010 to collect data in order to understand the relationship between the world’s ice layers and climate change. The satellite collects data about ice thickness over both land and water to analyze the changes in polar ice […]