Remote Sensing

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. […]
November 17, 2010GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing and Freshwater

This post was written as a guest post for the MyWonderfulWorld blog for Geography Awareness Week. Be sure to head over and check out more of the MWW blog-a-thon for […]
September 28, 2010Remote Sensing

More on Earth Observation

This week’s main topic on the podcast focused on the role of Remote Sensing and Earth Observation. It seems to have been an unintentionally timely topic as the International Astronautical […]
September 3, 2010general, GeographyAwareness, Remote Sensing, Video, WebMapping

Great video introduction to the National Map

One of the fun things I get to do in prepping for my classes is getting to look at all the amazing video resources out on the interwebs for Geography […]
August 25, 2010Environmental, general, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

NASA Earth Science Hurricane Katrina retrospective

To mark the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in the Gulf Coast, NASA Earth Science has released this short video retrospective of some of the imagery and analyses […]
July 26, 2010general, GeographyAwareness, Remote Sensing

How Much Stuff Is Circling The Earth?

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a 1,000 words. Via The Telegraph UK Image created by Electro Optic Systems out of Australia
July 6, 2010Remote Sensing, WebMapping

ERDAS releases Apollo on the Cloud

ERDAS has entered the cloud service race with the announcement of Apollo on the Cloud. It is a hosted solution that provides access to Apollo Professional on SkyGone’s servers. We […]