Physical Geography
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general, Physical Geography, WebMapping
Worldwide Fire Maps available online
The Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) World Fire Atlas, based on a decade of Eurpoean Space Agency ESR-2 and other satellite data, is now available online at the ESA’s Ionia […]
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Cartography, general, GIS_Software, Physical Geography, WebMapping
Amazon GIS
I haven’t highlighted a really good GIS project in awhile, so I thought I’d mention the Amazon GIS project, run by the Smithsonian Institution and other collaborators. They have spent […]
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography
Biodiesel Station in Ohio
Oberlin, Ohio to be exact. A little west of Cleveland. Full Circle Fuels is a quaint little station from the 1950’s that has converted itself into an alternative fuels spectacular. […]
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general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
What would the US look like if water rose 3.5 meters?
Harvard magazine has an interesting article about global warming. It’s a longer read than many of our posts, but worth checking out. Of particular note is the artistic rendering of […]
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general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
CloudSat and Calipso satellites successfully launched
I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier because of our slow internet connection in San Juan, but NASA’s 2 new cloud monitoring satellites, CloudSat and Calipso, were successfully […]
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Cartography, general, Physical Geography
North American Paleogeography Maps
A couple of days ago, the Cartography blog linked to Dr. Robert Blakely’s site with over 40 amazing maps of the paleogeography of North America. As archaeologists in our previous […]
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General, general, Human Geography, Physical Geography
California Car Culture Could Heighten Earthquake Woes
Sorry for the excessive alliteration there, but it sums up this article quite nicely, I think. It appears that the infrastructure that surrounds car ownership does more than generate excessive […]
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general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
NASA satellites helping to monitor Great Barrier Reef
CNN.com featured an article today about NASA’s role in a global effort to monitor the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, part of the Earth Observing […]
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general, Physical Geography, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping
USGS releasing Google Earth Virtual Tour of 1906 San FranciscoEarthquake
According to a USGS press release from yesterday, a Google Earth-based virtual tour of the devastating 1902 San Francisco will be announced during a press conference which was scheduled to […]
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True Source of the Nile?
It seems that a team of explorers from the UK and New Zealand, equipped with GPS, recently completed a harrowing journey to what they are calling the ‘true source’ of […]
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