Posts tagged GIS.

Climate change adaptation and spatial planning in the Alpine regions of Europe.

CLISP is a European project funded by the Alpine Space Programme under the European Territorial Cooperation 2007-2013. For more information visit: www.alpine-space.eu/CLISP

CLISP is focused on the challenges to spatial planning in the face of climate change and shall contribute to climate change adaptation by providing climate-proof spatial planning solutions. CLISP is committed to positioning spatial planning as a key player for future sustainable development under the adversities of climate change.

#climate change  #adaptation  #EU  #CLISP  #land use  #spatial planning  #urban planning  #sustainability  #environment  #ecosystems  #science  #GIS  #alpine  #politics  #europe  #video  #documentary  #case study  #swiss  #alps  #skiing  #winter  #glaciers  #infrastructure  #cities  #floods  #housing  #weather  #development  #Population Growth  
∞  05/26/13 at 01:02pm
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Current wildfire and wind condition map. Includes crowdsourced pictures and videos from flickr and youtube. Good link to book mark. HIGH RES

Current wildfire and wind condition map. Includes crowdsourced pictures and videos from flickr and youtube.

Good link to book mark.

#wildfires  #maps  #esri  #gis  #drought  #disasters  
∞  05/02/13 at 11:31am
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Landstat 8 is launching this week. The stakes are very high because Landstat 7 is running out of fuel, and could possibly go offline. Landstat 8 will provide higher resolution images of the earth. The satellite project has provided scientists, researchers, private businesses, and governments with incredible wealth of data. Landsat data has become a fundamental data source for addressing basic science questions. It is a valuable resource for decision makers in the fields of agriculture, forestry, land use, water resources and natural resource exploration. Landsat has also played an increasing role in diverse applications such as human population census, growth of global urbanization and deletion of coastal wetlands. As human populations increasingly dominate the Earth’s land areas, understanding changes in land cover and land use from year to year becomes increasingly important for both decision makers and human occupants of the Earth. I’ll be writing more about Landstat over the coming months. It is one of the most important systems in shaping climate adaptation policy and other environmental decision making. You can read the history of Landstat at NASA. More on the new launch, via Wired. HIGH RES

Landstat 8 is launching this week. The stakes are very high because Landstat 7 is running out of fuel, and could possibly go offline. Landstat 8 will provide higher resolution images of the earth. The satellite project has provided scientists, researchers, private businesses, and governments with incredible wealth of data.

Landsat data has become a fundamental data source for addressing basic science questions. It is a valuable resource for decision makers in the fields of agriculture, forestry, land use, water resources and natural resource exploration.

Landsat has also played an increasing role in diverse applications such as human population census, growth of global urbanization and deletion of coastal wetlands.

As human populations increasingly dominate the Earth’s land areas, understanding changes in land cover and land use from year to year becomes increasingly important for both decision makers and human occupants of the Earth.

I’ll be writing more about Landstat over the coming months. It is one of the most important systems in shaping climate adaptation policy and other environmental decision making.

You can read the history of Landstat at NASA.

More on the new launch, via Wired.

#landstat  #science  #satellite  #land use  #earth  #tech  #space  #climate change  #agriculture  #population  #growth  #maps  #gis  #wired  
∞  02/09/13 at 09:01pm
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ecowatchorg: How Climate Change is Damaging the Great Lakes HIGH RES

ecowatchorg:

#great lakes  #drought  #pollution  #cities  #climate change  #invasive  #species  #habitat  #water quality  #environment  #sustainability  #lakes  #map  #gis  
∞  01/19/13 at 02:26pm via ecowatch.org
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fygis:

Oh Mercator Projection, Let Me Count The Ways I Hate You!

I remember this episode. So good (and I love-hate GIS).

#gis  #maps  #projections  #science  #geography  #equality  #west wing  #sales pitch  #politics  
∞  09/29/12 at 09:52am via fyeahgis
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Wildlife photography just got amped-up to 11. A clever researcher from University of North Carolina created an amazing 3D map of a bat cave with special thermal cameras and laser scanners. The result is a 3D model of the environment, even when there is no light.

Bat biologist Nickolay Hristov, of UNC’s Center for Design Innovation and Winston-Salem State University, develops new techniques for filming and visualizing bats and the caves they occupy. Some of the tools in his kit include a long-range laser scanner—for modelling bat cave morphology—and portable thermal cameras—to capture bat-life when the lights are off.

#morphology  #maps  #gis  #photography  #laser  #scanners  #bats  #caves  #unc  #biology  #cameras  #nature  #environment  
∞  09/12/12 at 01:27pm
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National Levee Database ›

US Army Corps of Engineers levee database

Infrastructure boner! Includes census data, streamgages, FEMA flood maps, political districts, population densities, USGS quads, precipitation over time(!), even weather - oh man, this is fantastic and now I won’t be able to get work done…  

#infrastructure  #gis  #usace  #engineering  #flooding  #fema  #maps  #usgs  #levees  #database  #environment  
∞  11/08/11 at 10:01am via roomthily
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This must have taken a LOT of work. Man I hate/love/hate GIS. nerdtownusa: More beauty from Bostonography: an exploration of Cambridge street names. Click through for the full set of maps. HIGH RES

This must have taken a LOT of work. Man I hate/love/hate GIS.

nerdtownusa:

More beauty from Bostonography: an exploration of Cambridge street names. Click through for the full set of maps.

(via ilovecharts)

#gis  #boston  #massachusetts  #cambridge  #harvard  #planning  #urban planning  #urban design  #transportation planning  #streets  #names  #archaeology  
∞  06/22/11 at 11:01am via bostonography.com
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Cal-Adapt: Exploring California's climate change research ›

Would like to see who uses it, and how.

latimes:

reblogged via californiawatch:

Ever wonder just how hot it’s going to get in your town if the climate changes as scientists predict? Or whether your beachfront house is going to be underwater if sea levels rise?

The answers to those questions – and more – can now be accessed through a nifty interactive Internet tool designed by Google, in collaboration with the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, several California universities and others.

Read more

#california  #climate change  #mapping  #data  #dataviz  #cal-adapt  #climate  #adaptation  #gis  #google  #google maps  
∞  06/17/11 at 09:25pm via californiawatch
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TURTLE NESTING MAP! From the stunning (STUNNING!) report, State of theWorld’s Sea Turtles. Many amazing photographs of sea turtles. Lots of GIS maps. Chock full of articles covering everything from the Gulf oil leak, climate impacts, egg saving programs, etc. GO NOW!  sexyactionplanet: Where The Turtles Are Groundbreaking! Or should I say Oceanbreaking? Scientists and volunteers from around the world have pooled together data of the green turtle and its nesting sites over a seven year stint. It displays a whopping 1,167 nest sites!  The map lists key nesting sites of the endangered sea turtle and landed the top prize in conservation mapping for 2011. Rightly so! It’s pretty tricky trying to save something you don’t know much about, and elusive sea turtles are shrouded in mystery.  For the full article, please click here! HIGH RES

TURTLE NESTING MAP! From the stunning (STUNNING!) report, State of theWorld’s Sea Turtles. Many amazing photographs of sea turtles. Lots of GIS maps. Chock full of articles covering everything from the Gulf oil leak, climate impacts, egg saving programs, etc. GO NOW! 

sexyactionplanet:

Where The Turtles Are

Groundbreaking! Or should I say Oceanbreaking?

Scientists and volunteers from around the world have pooled together data of the green turtle and its nesting sites over a seven year stint. It displays a whopping 1,167 nest sites! 

The map lists key nesting sites of the endangered sea turtle and landed the top prize in conservation mapping for 2011. Rightly so! It’s pretty tricky trying to save something you don’t know much about, and elusive sea turtles are shrouded in mystery. 

For the full article, please click here!

#sea turtles  #turtle  #reptiles  #report  #map  #gis  #climate change  #habitat  #endangered species  
∞  06/17/11 at 09:38am via seaturtlestatus.org
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GORGEOUS. I want to make this for Northampton in GIS. sunfoundation: London Cycle Map Wins GeoVation Award Cycle Lifestyle’s London Cycle Map a bicycle map of London designed by Simon Parker in the style of Beck’s tube map, is one of six winners of the 2011 GeoVation challenge. The award came with £6,000 in funding. Here’s a list of all the GeoVation award winners. HIGH RES

GORGEOUS. I want to make this for Northampton in GIS.

sunfoundation:

London Cycle Map Wins GeoVation Award

Cycle Lifestyle’s London Cycle Map a bicycle map of London designed by Simon Parker in the style of Beck’s tube map, is one of six winners of the 2011 GeoVation challenge. The award came with £6,000 in funding. Here’s a list of all the GeoVation award winners.

#maps  #cartography  #london  #urban planning  #city planning  #regional planning  #bicycling  #GIS  #arcgis 9.3  
∞  05/16/11 at 03:01pm via maproomblog.com
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Why the Forest Monitoring for Action project rules. It’s a free online tool used to monitor deforestation of tropical rainforests. Countries, NGOs, the UN, activists just have to go to the website to see what areas are being deforested. Many forests in Asia are being cut down to make way for palm oil farms. The FORMA project:

detects forest loss in areas as small as a square kilometer (about a third of a square mile), making it easy to know when and where forest destruction is occurring—and thus potentially intervene to stop its spread.

The tool, called Forest Monitoring for Action or FORMA, processes data from NASA and other sources to produce detailed maps of deforestation hotspots that are updated each month as new satellite data become available.

The system has important implications for U.S. climate legislation and for the UN-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen early next month. Payments from rich countries to developing countries to support forest preservation are being considered in both cases.

Link

#deforestation  #FORMA  #free  #asia  #indonesia  #UN  #World Bank  #forests  #GIS  #monitoring  #science  #planning  #climate change  #GHG  
∞  05/08/11 at 12:53pm via cgdev.org
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JournalismGIS ›

roomthily:

a resource for geographical storytelling

#GIS  #die archGIS  #open source  #FTW!  #journalism  
∞  04/08/11 at 04:19pm via roomthily
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Free Coastal Planning Webinars from NOAA!

GIS + NOAA data + Free = WIN! Coastal Services Center Announces Digital Coast Webinar Series:

The NOAA Coastal Services Center announced the launch of a Digital Coast Webinar Series. Beginning in April, webinars will be offered the last Thursday of each month, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern. The webinars will introduce Digital Coast tools and data through demonstrations, case studies and opportunities to engage with field experts and colleagues. The inaugural webinar, “Using Geospatial Techniques to Plan for Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Habitat,” will be held on April 28th. A list of upcoming webinars is available online at:http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/training/webinar.html.

#noaa  #gis  #ftw  #coastline  #urban planning  
∞  03/07/11 at 11:00am
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Postdoc in Geoengineering. Read that carefully.

Geoengineering is, to my mind, the creepiest way to respond to climate change. It’s not a new idea, but it is so politically unpalatable that scientists don’t research it. This is why, at the bottom of this post, I’m disturbed by the call by Oxford for a post doc researcher in geoengineering.

In a nut shell, geoengineering posits that human can cool the planet using various, un-developed technologies, like Space Mirrors, or pumping sulfur particles into the air.

Most geoengineering plans plan to block the sun’s radiation, thus cooling the planet and delaying global warming. You can infer the ethical impactions from there. But to get you started, who would do the engineering? The US? China? Dubai? A New World Federation?

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN ETHICS AND GEOENGINEERING GOVERNANCE

Oxford Geoengineering Programme
Oxford Martin School
University Of Oxford

Protocol reference number: HUM/10033F/E

Grade 8:  £36,715 – £43,840 per annum at 1 October 2010

Fixed-term for two years from date of appointment.

Applications are invited for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ethics and Geoengineering Governance to work on a project in the newly formed Oxford Geoengineering Programme (OGP). The post will be jointly hosted by the Institute for Science and Ethics (ISE)  (part of the Faculty of Philosophy) and the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) (part of the Saïd Business School), both of which are part of the Oxford Martin School.

The Research Fellow will conduct research on the ethical, legal and governance implications of advances in geoengineering and will be expected to publish original, high-quality research.  In addition to research responsibilities the postholder will be expected to contribute to the project in other ways, which may include, for example, involvement in conference or other event organisation and engaging in collaborations with external researchers.

The fellowship is for two years from the date of appointment and the postholder will be a Research Fellow of both ISE and InSIS. ISE is based at Littlegate House, central Oxford and InSIS is based at the Saïd Business School nearby.

Candidates should have a strong academic background in one or more of the following: (1) Philosophy; (2) Politics and International Relations; (3) Environmental Sociology; (4) Political Anthropology; (4) Law; (5) Science and Technology Studies.  By the date of appointment, candidates should have received (or submitted their thesis for) the degree of PhD (or equivalent).

Further particulars: FPs including details of the application procedure are available here or from the following websites:

www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/vacancies |  www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.htm

or directly from Deborah Sheehan, ISE, Suite 8, Littlegate House, 16-17 St Ebbes St., Oxford OX1 1PT.
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 286888  |  Email:  deborah.sheehan@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Deadline:  The deadline for receipt of applications is:  Noon (GMT) on Monday 14 February 2011

#geoengineering  #cognitive dissonance  #intelligence  #war  #global warming  #government  #GIS  #technology  #adaptation  
∞  01/21/11 at 02:29pm
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