Check out JACIE 2025 April 7-11! We’ll be attending virtually. Happening at USGS Headquarters in Reston, Virginia, attend to learn about commercial imaging missions from high-res optical to longwave IR to SAR, as well as calibration, validation, and data quality. You must register to tune in! Also good for continuing education / professional development […]
The Colorado Geospatial Portal (https://geodata.colorado.gov/) allows both trained GIS professionals and members of the general public to discover geospatial technology across the state. The site includes a spatial data portal, a map viewer to visualize various datasets, links to state and federal geospatial partners, and open resources such as trainings. The goal of the site […]
Since this comes up so frequently in meetings and conversations, and because I have several workshops to teach about this soon, I have revised my set of working procedures and strategies for finding geospatial data, including AI methods! https://spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/modern-strategies-for-finding-geospatial-data-updated/ Joseph Kerski Joseph J. Kerski, PhD GISP | Education Manager, Geographer Esri | 167 S. Taylor Ave […]
The Denver Regional Council of Governments is planning to collect aerial imagery in the Denver Region in 2024. The effort is expected to closely resemble similar projects that occurred in 2022 and 2020. Since 2002, DRCOG has been pursuing an imagery project (also known as the Denver Regional Aerial Photography Project or DRAPP) on behalf of local governments and public […]
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/ […]
