remote sensing

GIS and Map Contests Roundup

January 16, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Industry

Current map and GIS related competitions listed in order of the competition deadline.

Mapping Where Norway is Moving

January 10, 2019By Caitlin DempseyGIS Data

Norway is using Copernicus Sentinel-1 data to detect ground movement across the country.

PACE: NASA’s Earth Observation Satellite to Launch in 2022

December 30, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Data

NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem) is a planned earth observation satellite with an anticipated launch in 2022.

Forecasting Cholera Using Remote Sensing

September 20, 2018By Mark AltaweelSpatial Analysis

The NASA cholera forecasting tool effectively takes satellite observations on environmental conditions and combines the data with information on infrastructure and conditions in a country.

Mapping Tree Species in Amazonia Using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning

September 19, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Data

Researchers at the University of Turku have a developed a method of modeling tree species distribution in Peruvian lowland Amazonia using satellite imagery and machine learning techniques in order to produce higher resolution habitat suitability maps.

Ready for Summer – Remote Sensing of Bathing Water Quality

June 17, 2018By Claudia WindeckSpatial Analysis

Remote sensing is being used to help researchers monitor water quality in lakes and coastal areas.

Run Image Processing Tasks in Your Browser with the EOS Platform

June 14, 2018By GIS ContributorGIS Software

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.

Monitoring and Mapping Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems

May 15, 2018By Claudia WindeckSpatial Analysis

Advancements in satellite remote sensing techniques are paving the way toward the development of high resolution and temporal maps of marine microplastic distribution.

Mapping Minerals with Satellite Imagery

April 11, 2018By Mark AltaweelGIS Data

Mapping minerals with remote sensing was one of the main motivating reasons for creating the earliest multispectral satellite systems.

Monitoring Algal Blooms with Remote Sensing

February 7, 2018By Mark AltaweelSpatial Analysis

Given the importance of knowing how blooms affect aquatic life, remote sensing techniques using a variety of available imagery have been developed.

Land use map from CARETS Final Report, 1979.

GIS From the Past: CARETS

In the early 1970s, a joint pilot project between NASA and the USGS sought to test out the feasibility of integrating data from Landsat and high-altitude aircraft sensors into a regional land use database.

Geospatial Climate Models Show How Fire Seasons Are Changing

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.

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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