Physical Geography
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography
Eight Most Dangerous Places to Live on the Planet
If danger is your middle name and you like to eat, breath, and sleep in danger, then you might want to check out this Popular Mechanics article. Whether you like […]
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general, Physical Geography, VirtualWorlds
Google Ocean…?
PCPro in the UK is reporting that Google may unveil a new product in its family of mapping tools – Google Ocean! The application would feature topographic layers of the […]
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BBC NEWS | Artistic clues to coastal change
This is an example for intro text books. The BBC is reporting on the use of 150 year old landscape paintings to study coastal change along parts of the English […]
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Environmental, general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
Using Remote Sensing to Spot Cholera Outbreaks
Scientists have figured out how to predict cholera outbreaks by looking at sea life. The idea pioneered at the University of Maryland is a rise in sea temperatures lead to […]
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Welcome fall…so long summer
If you have ever run into us at a conference, you know that at least Frank and I are not warm weather folks. On that note I want to welcome […]
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Cartography, general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
INFOMAR – Mapping Ireland’s Seabed
Just as countries are spending increasing amounts of money and resources to map their territories using high-resolution technologies such as LIDAR, some, like Ireland, are devoting significant effort to map […]
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general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Physical Geography, WebMapping
What Are You Doing for EarthDay? Google Wants to Know!
Google has put up an interactive Google Map where you can share Earth events and ideas with people around the world. It’s a fairly basic site, but there are some […]
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Education, general, Physical Geography, space (not spatial)
New NASA Science Website
NASA has just unveiled a new skin for it’s Science website. The site is serves as the public face for all the nifty scientific stuff done down at NASA central. […]
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
Carbon Footprint Map of the US
The Vulcan project is an interesting project out of Purdue University. They seek to “quantify North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at space and time scales much finer […]
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general, GIS_Software, Physical Geography, WebMapping
US Atlas of Renewable Resources
While looking for some sample GIS data for a demo, I ran into the US Atlas of Renewable Resources, a project of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The atlas (which […]
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