The Landsat Explorer Web Mapping Application

The Landsat Explorer Web Mapping Application is not new, but a great tool to explore and analyze satellite data. This would work well with students. First they can try some of these tools 'on-the-fly' and then download the actual data for processing in a specialized software package. Or, in ArcGIS Pro.

Here's a quick summary of the app by Joe Kerski.

DIY Satellite Ground Station

 This looks like a fun project: DIY Satellite Ground Station

Critical Digital Pedagogy

This book looks great: Critical Digital Pedagogy. Yep, online teaching and learning is NOT just Blackboard, Zoom, etc.

Esri BAO, Demographics, and COVID-19

 Esri BAO is a pretty neat tool: simply define a site and then access all kinds of demographic information formatted either as reports or as infographics. You can design your own, or just use the existing templates (e.g. Coronavirus Impact Planning).

Here's the workflow: Creating a Coronavirus Impact Planning Infographic in the ArcGIS Business Analyst Mobile App

USGS Topographic Maps

Still one of the best sources for that: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/ I especially like the various formats (high-res JPG, GeoTIFF, PDF, and KMZ).

Energy by State

Great chart from the Washington Post: How each state generated electricity in 2019. Show the total consumption as width (see VT vs TX) and then the split renewable vs fossil fuel. It would be interesting to add the coal vs natural split similar to the nuclear vs rest of clean.

Republicans hate science!

Yes, this is a cherry-picked compilation, but the statements at 1:06 and 1:12 really illustrate the fundamental disrespect of science by these people. That being said: this is a general pattern all across every political flavor all across the USA - we have just seen similar attitudes from our administration at Westfield State University.