Remote Sensing

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• September 6, 2014Cartography, Environmental, Remote Sensing, Software

  NASA, Big Data, and a Real World Jigsaw Puzzle

  NASA has posted two news items that illustrate the large amounts of data that they are generating. NASA| The Data Downpour is a  video describing how the GPM constellation turns […]

• June 10, 2014Data, Education, Environmental, general, Remote Sensing

  Cornell Lab of Ornithology YardMap beta

  The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has introduced some very exciting backyard citizen science applications that utilize remote sensing data. One of them is The YardMap citizen science project funded by the […]

• May 5, 2014Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Remote Sensing, 1961 and today

  Today, NASA, geospatial scientists, and people from around the world celebrate the first time that we saw Earth, in a now familiar view, from space. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the […]

• April 14, 2014EarthDay, Environmental, Remote Sensing

  Spatial Easter Egg Hunts

  Location-based technologies are helping Easter Egg hunts go high-tech with the assistance of geospatial professionals taking their love of spatial technologies into their communities. The funniest quote from an article […]

• January 7, 2014general, Remote Sensing, WebMapping

  Meet your Polar Vortex Meteorologist

  Meteorologists made the Style section of the The Washington Post today in the article,  “What’s it like to be the voice of the Polar Vortex? These Weathermen Know”  Giving meteorologists […]

• January 4, 2014Cartography, Data, Education, general, Human Geography, Pins on the map, Political Geography, Remote Sensing, Travel

  Pins on the Map: George Washington Slept Here

  As you shiver in the cold today during what The Weather Channel is predicting could be the coldest winter on record for decades in North America, reflect on the 1780 […]