Recent Posts

• 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 […]

• December 14, 2005General

  Send us your “Best of 2005” pick

  Episode 23 will be a year end round up of 2005 and a pick into 2006. We would like to include your perspectives on any local or regional Geography or […]

• December 13, 2005Cartography

  ColorBrewer Intro – Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps

  One of our listeners, Jody, emailed us a link to ColorBrewer, an online tool to help people select color schemes for maps. It uses a flash-based map to demonstrate how […]

• December 13, 2005Physical Geography

  BBC NEWS | Ancient clues to ocean currents

  BBC has an interesting article on the use of sedimentology to study ancient ocean currents by the Woods Hope Oceanographic Institute. It is amazing how many articles are coming out […]

• December 12, 2005Cartography

  World Population Cartogram

  A cartogram is a map that distorts geographic boundaries based on different values of a variable. So, if smaller areas have higher values, they will be deliberately distorted to look […]

• December 12, 2005WebMapping

  New version of Yahoo Widgets

  The new version of Yahoo! Widgets (formerly Konfabulator) now includes quite a few Yahoo! centric tools including a Yahoo! Maps widget. After I heard about the new version on SpatiallyAdjusted […]

• December 12, 2005General, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

  BBC NEWS | Virtual tour of Africa’s heritage

  The BBC has an interesting article on the scanning and modeling of heritage sites in Africa. This is along the same lines as some of the work that Sue and […]

• December 11, 2005Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  NASA’s Aura Satellite Mission

  Although Landsat is NASA’s most well-known satellite program, other missions are providing a wealth of information about our Earth. Aura, a satellite which was launched July 15, 2004, collects data […]

• December 11, 2005Physical Geography, Show Notes

  Show notes for AVSP Episode 21

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 21 December 11, 2005 Main Topic: Physical Geography and our changing earth Click to directly download Episode 21 Click for the detailed shownotes