GIS_Software

March 30, 2011Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

NASA’s Messenger gives us the first ever image from orbit above Mercury

NASA’s Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) spacecraft is already sending us amazing imagery of the surface of Mercury as it orbits the planet on a mission to […]
March 22, 2011Poll, Remote Sensing

Old poll, new poll: March 2011

Back in January we asked the question “Which Esri Tech Certification are you thinking about?” and we received 88 responses which broke down to: ArcGIS Desktop Associate/Professional – 39% Web […]
February 23, 2011Environmental, Remote Sensing

New Jersey’s lost acres

It’s amazing how often life immitates blog. For a class on qualitative GIS, I put together a Google Earth narrative history of growing up in north west New Jersey. I […]
February 16, 2011Contest, Data, Remote Sensing

2011 DigitalGlobe – IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

Until I got an email today, I had forgotten I’d signed up for the 2011 DigitalGlobe – IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest which is due by by May 31, 2011. […]
February 12, 2011Cool Stuff, VirtualEnvironments

Project Galileo

Since I seem to be highlighting software that I am interested in getting time to work with lately, I thought I would return to Project Galileo, a great project that […]
February 9, 2011WebMapping

Bime and maps

I came across an interesting demo video on YouTube today for a web-based analytics tool named Bime. While I haven’t had a chance to sit down and delve into the […]
February 3, 2011GIS_Software

New free stuff from Esri

Today a couple of education and information materials came to my attention from Esri. The first is the third volume of the Essays on Geography and GIS, a volume of […]
January 27, 2011Cool Stuff, general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

3D Street-style Mapping with Kinect

Almost daily, I see a new cool and amazing hack that someone has accomplished with Microsoft’s Kinect that tops the last one. I’m hoping to try my hand at some […]
December 30, 2010Environmental, WebMapping

Sustainable Seafood App

There are many restaurant apps around that rely on users to input location on their locale or sites they visit to create a national or international database. The most recent […]
December 15, 2010General, general, Human Geography, WebMapping

Mapping Facebook

Mapping social networks isn’t anything new, but I find this lovely map of Facebook users in the BBC to be incredibly striking. First, because it’s obviously beautiful. Second, because you […]