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May 5, 2013Cool Stuff, Education, Physical Geography, WebMapping

Build Your Own Cicada Sensor

NPR had a March story on “The Cicadas are Coming! Crowdsourcing An Underground Movement” about the public’s involvement in predicting cicada emergence, and the time is now. If you live on […]
May 1, 2013Education, GIS_Software, Social Networking, Software

What is Your Real Geospatial Age?

By now almost everyone with a computer and some spare time has taken the Harvard Mouse Click Age Test, which tries to determine a person’s age by how proficient they are […]
April 8, 2013Poll, Remote Sensing

New Poll: DIY Imagery

There is a wealth of ways to get imagery today from buying or downloading satellite imagery to hiring a company to fly your project, but it is the low cost, […]
April 4, 2013Remote Sensing

First Weather Satellite Image of Earth, April 1 1960

This is the first weather satellite image of earth was taken slightly over 53 years ago on April 1, 1960. It was taken by the TIROS-1 satellite and it’s the […]
March 21, 2013Remote Sensing

PCI’s Historic Air Photo processing

In a day I thought would focus on new sensors (LDCM) I end up thinking about old sensors and the piles of hard copy historic aerial photos that are going […]
March 21, 2013Remote Sensing

First LDCM images released

As you might imagine from our previous conversations on the podcast, we are just a little excited about the LDCM. NASA/USGS have released the first scene from the new sensor […]
March 6, 2013Data, WebMapping

Mapping Baseball Statues and Google

The Guardian UK online has a media section called, “Data Store: Show and Tell“, which true to its name uses visualizations to tell a story about data. According to The […]
March 5, 2013Remote Sensing

New Hampshire to Consider Aerial Photography Ban

New Hampshire has a new bill circulating through its legislature that would ban aerial photography by anyone who isn’t the government. They’ve apparently amended the ban in committee that changes […]
February 21, 2013Contest, Events, Remote Sensing

2013 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest – registration open until May submission dates

The 2013 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest scientific challenge has been held annually since 2006. The Data Fusion Contest is organized by the Data Fusion Technical Committee of the IEEE […]
February 19, 2013Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

AGI releases Faces of Earth Series

The American Geosciences Institute sent out a press release today about the release of their video series on geoscience on YouTube. The series is available as a playlist on the […]