March 25, 2023

New World Water Map and Story

Water is such a critical issue for the globe on down to individual communities.  National Geographic Society and Utrecht University have launched the World Water Map. The new tool, developed on Esri’s ArcGIS, has identified 22 water availability hotspots across the globe as part of a five-year freshwater initiative: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2023/03/20/world-water-map-launch/ and the map itself:  https://worldwatermap.nationalgeographic.org/ […]

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OpenTopography’s Lidar, Topographic, and Bathymetric Data

OpenTopography is an effort that facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources. The OpenTopography Facility is based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego and is operated in collaboration with colleagues in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and at UNAVCO. Its mission is to democratize […]

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