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Accessing Real-time Satellite Imagery and Data

August 1, 2018By Mark AltaweelGIS 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.

Seeing the World with Data: 3D LiDAR with MapD and Uber’s deck.gl

Dipti Kothari, an intern with MapD, has developed an open source project that uses LiDAR to create a 3D visualization of tree coverage around buildings and the impact of rising sea levels on buildings on Jekyll Island, GA.

PaleoDEMs: Map the Earth’s Changing Topography Over the last 540 Million Years

Users can download paleogeographic datasets reconstructing paleotopography and paleobathymetry dating back to 540 millions years ago

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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