This has been all over the blogosphere the last few days: Google's new Maps Gallery - here's a great example:
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Energy in the USA
Two great websites about energy and its use in the USA from the National Academies of Science:
Climate Change Impacts
Here is a new report Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises by the U.S. National Academy of Science. They provide the full report, a nice 4-page summary, great presentation slides, and a nice 4:15 minute video.
Climate Change: Evidence and Causes
Here is a great new booklet by the US National Academy of Science and The Royal Society - very readable and includes a good section on climate basics and a nice Q&A section.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Global Forest Watch
Global Forest Watch is a dynamic online mapping and analysis tool: very cool, tons of data, and great interactive analytical tools. That being said...this to me falls under TMI...too much, too complex, and thus not particularly useful. If interested I suggest you spend some time in the How to section before diving into the mapping and analysis tools.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Mapping Darkness
I have always wanted to make a darkness map for our campus (the app is available for iOs or Android) - where are the dark spots in association with where students walk at night. Here's a great example of what this could lead to for our campus.
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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Age and Extent of Arctic Ocean Sea Ice (1987 to 2013)
The winter ice pack in the Arctic was once dominated by old, thick ice. Today, very little old ice remains. This animation shows maps of sea ice age from 1987 through the end of October 2013. Age class 1 means "first-year ice," which is ice that formed in the most recent winter. The oldest ice (9+) is ice that is more than 9 years old. Animation by NOAA climate.gov, based on research data provided by Mark Tschudi, CCAR, University of Colorado.
Mine is bigger than yours!
City that is - nothing indecent here! Maperizer is so simple that it is brilliant: simply split the browser window so you can compare the size and greenness, for example of cities, at the identical scale. Plus, you can switch from map to satellite view. That's it, nothing more.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Sunday, February 16, 2014
MapBox Cloudless Atlas
All the big ones are creating these cloudless images of the world by stacking satellite images to remove cloud-covered pixel. In other words: the world as shown never looked like that...but that's exactly what the world looks like. Weird, especially if you consider that the world underneath the clouds so elegantly removed has changed. Still, the visuals are stunning!
Wired.com has a nice article about the MapBox cloudless base layer - try it yourself - it's pretty stunning!
Wired.com has a nice article about the MapBox cloudless base layer - try it yourself - it's pretty stunning!
Saturday, February 15, 2014
The Very Very Simple Climate Model
This is a great tool from UCAR-Spark to explore how CO2 emission influence CO2 concentrations and, in turn, temperature.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
The 2014 Environmental Performance Index
The 2014 Environmental Performance Index is a joint project between folks from Yale and Columbia University. Their interactive web map / infographic is pretty slick and I like that they provide their underlying data as well for easy download. In addition, they offer a Data Explorer for interactive graphing.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Pleasant Weather
The Pleasant Places To Live map by Kelly Norton is excellent: a nice clean and simple design that tells a simple story.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The Internet of Things
Here is a nice 3-part series about the future - the internet of things with gizmos that surround us that can both sense and respond. Location-aware invisible buttons that trigger something based on something else when you 'enter' them, hyper-precise indoor GPS such as iBeacon, anticipatory computing based on your digital life and history such as Google Now, and data mining with sensor fusion to map your reality (both digital and physical). Intrigued? Have a read!
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
GEOPLATFORM.gov
GEOPLATFORM.gov falls under the category of TMI...but a nice realization of geo-based and web-based data sharing and visualization platform using ArcGIS Online.
Never Buy Bottled Water - Again!
This is so obvious - yet we all still do it. Here is an excellent infographic bringing together all the reasons for staying away from bottled water. If you have 8 minutes I suggest watching The Story of Bottled Water by Annie Leonard.
Mapping Wikipedia
Map Wikipedia is a nice idea! Probably not all that useful and a bit slow, but a nice way to put the 'geo' into Wikipedia. Here's an example showing the Wikipedia category State Parks in Massachusetts.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Stateminder
Stateminder is Gapminder's little brother with excellent data and visualizations for the USA.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Go France!
So, apparently the French government will make older SPOT satellite images available (for free) for scientific use (per All Points Blog). That's about time that happened...the French had been charging top $$$ for their SPOT data, but that approach has become unrealistic with Landsat and ASTER available for free and much higher-resolution images available commercially. Still, the 1986 and onward data should be quite interesting as it offers better spatial resolution than Landsat.
Build LEGO
This is great fun! Build fun stuff with LEGO and share with the rest of the world, all inside Chrome!
Comparing Map Projections
Comparing Map Projections is a nice demonstration of map projections and their associated distortions. Plus, it is cool as it uses d3, GitHub, and all kinds of other hip(ster) technology.
MODIS Today
Nothing fancy here, but MODIS Today is a quick way to see and download a MODIS mosaic of the U.S.
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| 6 January 2014 |
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