The BBC online has a story on a composite index of “water threats” including issues such as scarcity and pollution which researchers from City College of New York presented in the journal Nature. This is not the only water data project that City College of New York faculty and students have done this year. A [...]
This week’s main topic on the podcast focused on the role of Remote Sensing and Earth Observation. It seems to have been an unintentionally timely topic as the International Astronautical Conference is going on this week (Sept 27-Oct 1). News/press has already come out of the conference about some future satellites that will be up [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 271 September 26, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on perceptions of the future of US earth observation satellite programs Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
The Atlantic Wire has a short piece about a series of maps by Eric Fischer detailing racial living in 40 of the largest US cities. Unfortunately the maps are stored on Flickr as flat files, so it’s hard to zoom in and around to see more detail. The basic method appears to get racial information [...]
A recent post on the GIS and Science blog noted that submissions are being accepted for the 26th volume of the ESRI Map Book. If you have a map made with ESRI products then you can submit your map for consideration by the end of Geography Awareness Week, Friday, November 19 at 5:00PM PST. If [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 270 September 19, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on Geography, geospatial technologies, and STEM education Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Mashable (perhaps one of the cooler sites I visit each day) has a nifty story about an artist who drew Google Maps icons as if they existed in the real world. It’s rather interesting to think about these big push pins existing in real life, or a pop-up box over a building. Take away the [...]
It’s a project we’ve been excited for ever since we first heard about it, and was great to be able to interview some of the Geospatial Revolution Project team, so it’s great to be able to post that Episode 1 is now live on the Geospatial Revolution Project website! The full episode is jut over [...]
I’m a big fan of infographics, so much so that I sometimes find seeing spatial information organized in an non-spatial way (ie a map) to be the clearest way to communicate an idea. This infographic detailing average work week lengths and average vacation days is one of the ones I think really works. The combination [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 269 September 12, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on the tensions between research and teaching in higher education Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
