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Check out this map masterpiece by Professor Andrew Bernish, AICP, GISP Andrew is not just a talented cartographer, he also teaches the SUP history and theory class as well as our GIS offerings. View and like his map!

🌌 Space Wednesday and Map of Poland - 2050 🇵🇱 Space and satellite imagery play an important role in our everyday lives. There are even chances that you're reading this text thanks to space technology 😉🛰️ For me, however, the most important aspect is their significant role in preserving nature (once an environmental protection student, always a nature lover 🌱♥️). Here's a prime example of using satellite data for environmental purposes (but not only!). Thanks to the collaborative efforts of Clark Labs at Clark University and Esri an interactive map has been developed based on decades of satellite observation data from the European Space Agency - ESA Space Agency - ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI). As a result, an interactive map of our world's landscape by the year 2050 has been created! 🤓 Using a simple slider, you can compare landscapes from today to projections for 2050. Some cities of Poland will be gone forever underwater, while some green woods will turn into agricultural land. Just explore on your own! 🌊🌳 🗺️The map is available here: https://lnkd.in/d7Uh9xwY And here is a brief explanation of the colors used in it: 🎨 Pink for farmlands, 💛 Yellow for grassy areas, 🌳 Light green for leafy forests, 🌲 Dark green for evergreens, ⛰️ Gray-white for sparse vegetation, 🏜️ Beige for barren lands, 💧 Mint green for flood-prone zones, 🎈And red for bustling cities. ____________ ❗️If this post has sparked your curiosity, please give me a sign (👍🏻). For more posts, hit the follow button and ring 🔔 to see them more often. You can also follow hashtag #spacewednesday, where you’ll find all my Space Wednesday posts. Hope to see you next Wednesday! ✨ #spacewednesday #esrilandcover #space #spaceindustry

Downloading Landcover Product with 10 m Spatial Resolution using Google Earth Engine.

📢 Geo Week 2025 has announced an impressive Advisory Board of industry leaders in #geospatial and the built world. 🌍 The Advisory Board is responsible for recommending conference topics and speakers, reviewing submitted abstracts and more. Learn more 👉 https://t.ly/q9Gnv 🏙️ #GeospatialTech #BuiltWorld

Pleased to have our paper titled “Quantifying Virtual Field Trip Efficiency” published online today. In the paper we present a quantitative assessment of time, cost, logistical efficiency, carbon emissions, and achievement of learning outcomes for a virtual field trip to Utah, comparing the data directly to its physical field trip counterpart. https://lnkd.in/e4SmfexT John Howell, Adrian Hartley, Simon Buckley, Magda Chmielewska, Nicole Naumann, Prof. Nick Schofield, Rachel Brackenridge

I attended the Ohio Department of Transportation's Environment and Sustainability Conference yesterday. It was an informative event with a focus on how transportation projects are continually attempting to incorporate best practices in assessing and addressing impacts to environmental and cultural resources. Two sessions I saw addressed the impact of the Highway Act of 1956 on minority communities and how that informs approaches to Environmental Justice today (in case you haven't guessed, the impact was not good); and an innovative use of drone-mounted magnetometry to quickly perform reconnaissance-level geophysical survey. It's not quite the robots replacing archaeologists just yet, but if geophysics does become a standard component of typical archaeological survey projects, I can see how drone magnetometry could end up being a very valuable component for large-scale projects (in the right environments, of course).

Great take-aways in this positive review in Geo Week News for the new book from Esri Press, "The Geography of Hope." • "The Geography of Hope is a masterclass in storytelling, weaving together complex technology and human narratives to illustrate how GIS is quietly shaping the world around us.” • “The book’s strength lies in its ability to make the technical aspects of GIS accessible to a general audience without sacrificing depth." • "The Geography of Hope argues that, when used responsibly, technology can be a force for good, capable of creating fairer, healthier, and more sustainable societies.” Read the article: https://ow.ly/LMo130sHxzY

Geospatial Insights: DSM, DTM, CHM 💡DSM (Digital Surface Model): Captures Earth's top surface, including buildings and vegetation. 💡DTM (Digital Terrain Model): Represents the bare Earth, excluding surface features like buildings. 💡CHM (Canopy Height Model): Derived by subtracting DTM from DSM, isolating vegetation/building heights. Image: researchgate.net #Geospatial #RemoteSensing #GIS #EarthObservation 🛰️🌍

One of the few positive things that came out of the Covid lock downs was the opportunity to run virtual fieldtrips and compare them to their physical equivalents. In a previous paper we compared the learning outcomes from the virtual and the real world trips. In our latest paper we ask the question are virtual fieldtrips are "more efficient" and if so how much more? - Spoiler Alert - they are! We also ask is efficiency the only thing that matters? - Spoiler alert - probably not. See the previous paper here https://lnkd.in/eqJBKdm9

Discover the vital role of mapmaking in understanding our changing world with our Northern Latitudes series. In this Q&A, Melissa Turner, marine geographer for Oceans North, discusses the importance of mapping in tracking climate-related changes in the North Water polynya, known as Pikialasorsuaq in Greenland and Sarvarjuaq in Nunavut. Read more about this crucial aspect of our work in the North: https://lnkd.in/gi7pgPze