GIS_Software

• December 26, 2005Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  LIDAR mapping of changing shorelines

  An interesting article from The Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) discusses the impact of rising sea levels on the Maryland coastline, including the submergence of numerous small islands and talks briefly […]

• December 21, 2005Education, Events, GIS_Software

  GLIS Annual GIS competition for high schools

  The Geographic and Land Information Society has announced their Annual GIS Competion for high schools, sponsored by ESRI. Basically, high schools submit projects to the competition by the deadline of […]

• December 20, 2005GIS_Software, Groups, Remote Sensing

  States wary of Google’s Bird’s Eye View

  Although this has been blogged in one form or the other several times over the last few months, I think it’s an increasingly pressing issue. States are having real problems […]

• December 19, 2005Navigation, Physical Geography

  GPS for Tsunami Warnings

  Wired News has an interesting article about the use of GPS as an aid in tsunami warnings. Researchers have suggested at least 2 ways in which GPS might give warning […]

• December 19, 2005General, GIS_Software

  Mapping a city’s tree canopy

  This article from the Charlotte Observer discusses Hickory, North Carolina’s plan to map its tree canopy using aerial photography and and unnamed mapping software product, as development has begun to […]

• December 19, 2005Education, GIS_Software, Groups

  UCGIS Draft Body of Knowledge

  The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science has made a draft of its GI S&T Body of Knowledge (that’s Geographic Information Science and Technology, BTW) available for comment. This document […]

• December 16, 2005WebMapping

  Google and the establishment of GIS As Media

  For GeoWorld’s December 2005 issue, Matt Ball has written a short position article on the notion that the release of Google’s mapping-related applications in 2005, and their huge surge in […]

• December 16, 2005GeographyBlogs, GIS_Software

  ArcDeveloper.net

  There is a new kid(s) on the block! The ArcDeveloper Blog is up and running. They are still getting ramped up and giving the “hey how are ya’s” but the […]

• December 15, 2005General, Remote Sensing

  The Gigapxl Project

  The Gigapxl Project is based on an amazing super-high resolution camera built by Graham Flint, which he has used to take amazing landscape pictures, including a panorama of Pittsburgh, which […]

• December 14, 2005Human Geography, Navigation, VirtualEnvironments

  Virtual Hiking and the C5 Landscape Initiative

  As many of you know, GIS analysis is based on the notion that alorithms within the computer can be used to analyze the digital representations of real-world physical features such […]