GIS_Software

• April 29, 2015GIS_Software, Navigation, WebMapping

  GIS and Today’s Technology: A Beneficial Duo

  Note: This is the last post by our Spring intern Aleigha. A big thanks to Aleigha and good luck after graduation. The significance of location services, prominence of maps, and […]

• April 18, 2015Remote Sensing

  Remote Sensing in a Nutshell

  According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), remote sensing is a science that obtains information regarding objects or areas from a distance,  typically using aircraft or satellites to […]

• February 24, 2015Education, GIS_Software

  Elmhurst College’s Digital Earth MOOC

  If you are attending the upcoming 2015 Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting in Chicago, IL this year, Elmhurst College is one of the Chicagoland colleges doing noteworthy work in GIS […]

• February 17, 2015Education, Human Geography, WebMapping

  Internship Experience: National Holocaust Museum

  According to a 2013 poll of GIS professionals on GIS Lounge, half of the respondents held a GIS intership at the start of their career. Andrew Fomil is a good example […]

• January 17, 2015GIS_Software, Hardware, Software

  Soft AI (artificial intelligence) and Spatial Technologies

  As the Wall Street Journal has stated yesterday, “‘Soft’ Artificial Intelligence is Suddenly Everywhere”  Also called weak or narrow AI, soft artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer or […]

• December 17, 2014general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  The Wright Brothers and Remote Sensing

  Today in history, most people celebrate the invention of the airplane. Along with asking the popular question – Did the Wright Brothers invent anything else?  On December 17, 1903, the […]

• December 16, 2014Data, GIS_Software, Programming/Dev, Social Networking, Software, WebMapping

  How Google Changed the 20 Most Popular Websites Since 1996

  Washington Post reporter, Philip Bump from The Intersect created infographics to show how websites have changed, “From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites […]

• November 19, 2014Cartography, Education, ESRIUC, general, GeographyAwareness, Navigation, Remote Sensing, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  GIS DAY 15th Anniversary: Take the way back machine

  Take the way back machine to the first GIS Day in Spring of 1999. ESRI ARC News Online announced GIS Day 1999 Slated for November!  According to the press release, ESRI […]

• November 4, 2014Cartography, Education, general, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping

  Maps and U.S. (Mid-Term) Elections

  Each year the number of media sources using interactive election maps increases, from search engines like Bing Elections to newspapers of record like the New York Times Elections 2014, to public television […]

• October 1, 2014Data, Education, Hardware, Remote Sensing

  DigitalGlobe introduces PERSPECTIVES Magazine

  DigitalGlobe, a commercial high-resolution earth imagery company, launched its aptly named e-magazine, PERSPECTIVES,  today. The trade magazine provides 52 pages of stunning imagery and detailed information on the satellite imagery and […]