ArduPilot Autopilot Suite

The ArduPilot Autopilot Suite is everything and more you need for any kind of autonomous vehicle. More also here.

Harvey Sediment Plume

Source: NASA

Harvey Before and After

This is a great use of the Swipe Story Map: Hurricane Harvey Post Event Imagery - Houston.

Sentinel-2 Cloudless Earth

Pretty cool @ https://s2maps.eu/ and more information here.

The Last Glacier of Venezuela

Matthew Wills actually read the paper and wrote a nice summary for JSTOR Daily (29 August 2017): The Last Glacier of Venezuela.

Why Do India And China Have So Many People?

Pipeline Spills

Here's an interesting interactive map showing pipelines, pipeline operators, and spills. That's about it. The map is not very professional, for example: use aliases for the field names and include a link to the data. This would have been better in Tableau in my opinion.