Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2018

The Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2018 reveal the basic patterns across the USA that you would expect to see. It is great that they include the actual survey questions and also make the data available for download.

Padma River: The Shape of Erosion

Padma River: The Shape of Erosion is nice NASA video illustrating fluvial erosion and meandering of the Padma River in Bangladesh.

Last Glacier Standing in Venezuela

Last Glacier Standing in Venezuela (by NASA) includes some great images and information about the Humboldt Glacier.

Solar in China

This is how you do solar!

DigitalGlobe

VR Glaciers and Glaciated Landscapes

Okay, I'm impressed: VR Glaciers and Glaciated Landscapes is awesome!

Digital Mappa

Digital Mappa looks pretty cool - from the website:

Digital Mappa is a freely available online environment for creating projects out of digital images and texts. The premise of DM is simple and powerful: if you have a collection of digital images and/or texts, you should be able to produce an online resource that links together specific moments on these images and texts together, annotate these moments as much as you want, collaborate with others on this work, have the content you produce be searchable, and publish this work to others or the public as you wish. And you should be able to do this with little technical expertise.

Humboldt Glacier

Here's a simple web map with a Landsat view of the Humboldt Glacier from 13 December 2017 - showing the 'hole' that is starting to develop in the SW-lobe of the glacier: https://arcg.is/1HT1me

Urban Planning and Sim City

This is maybe a little dorky, but pretty cool: An Urban Planner Plays Sim City

Story Maps and the Digital Humanities

Story Maps and the Digital Humanities includes some great examples, for example:

• The Fight for Fair Housing in the United States
• Indiana Limestone

The author also makes some very salient points regarding the usefulness of digital technology in the humanities. DH technology (here: Story Maps) can offer new insights and allows for the broader dissemination of those insights.  

Voyages in Deep Time

Voyages in Deep Time is an exciting project which has developed free smartphone apps to encourage people to visit and enjoy learning about their local rocks and landscapes that tell us what our part of the world was like millions of years ago – in deep time! That's all I know - give the apps a try!

Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs)

Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) are getting more and more popular - here are some resources:

• How to pick an electronic laboratory notebook
• Electronic Lab Notebooks
• The Electronic Lab Notebook in 2018: A comprehensive guide

Mapping Deforestation

Nice article: Combating deforestation: From satellite to intervention (Science, 22 June 2018). They include the figure below showing how one can use Landsat and Planet imagery in combination to get at the drivers and causes of deforestation.

Global Warming

Lot's of interesting stuff going on in this graphic!

Cartography Playground

The Cartography Playground is a simple and interactive website for explaining cartographic algorithms, problems and other matters.

Fluvial Erosion

World of Change: Padma River has a great animation with images between 1988 and 2018. Below is the simple animated GIF.

From Data to Viz

From Data to Viz is really impressive!

1. A cool decision-tree (with examples!) to best visualize data based on the input data format (numeric, categoric, etc.). Here's the poster of the complete decision-tree.
2. An interactive overview of chart types.
3. A collection of data viz caveats (with examples).

https://www.data-to-viz.com/

American Land Use

Here's How America Uses Its Land is a great visualization of land use across the USA in a series of stylized maps to see the relative contributions of pasture/range, cropland, forest, urban, and more.

http://flowingdata.com/

NASA Remote Sensing Toolkit

NASA’s new Remote Sensing Toolkit promises to be the kitchen sink for all things remote sensing: data, tools, and code. More about it here.

Story Maps and the Digital Humanities

Story Maps and the Digital Humanities states the obvious: story maps are perfect tools or vehicles for the digital humanities. That being said: Esri Story Maps is a great environment to create and share story maps, but there are other great alternatives (for example https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/projects/).

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