Subject: ‘nasa’
July 21, 2010 Global Forest HeightsIndustry and Subjects in GISWhere are the tallest forests in the world? NASA has an article on the first global map of the world’s forest heights. The map was created with data collected by NASA’s ICESat, Terra, and Aqua satellites. The global map shows average tree canopy heights over 5 km (1.9) cells. The tallest trees can be found ... read more December 27, 2009 Deadly Cold Across Europe and RussiaGeographyA wave of frigid air spilled down over Europe and Russia from the Arctic in mid-December, creating a deadly cold snap. According to BBC.com, at last 90 people had died in Europe, including 79 people, mostly homeless, in Poland. In places, the bitter cold was accompanied by heavy snow, which halted rail and air traffic ... read more December 4, 2009 Help Map MarsDataNASA is joining in on the crowdsourcing trend. Their Be a Martian web site solicits help from the public to help improve Martian maps and other tasks relating to studying the fourth planet in our solar system. From NASA’s press release: Drawing on observations from NASA’s Mars missions, the “Be a Martian” Web site will ... read more October 31, 2007Behind the Fire Mapping ScenesWeb MappingCIO|Insight has a behind the scenes look at how San Diego’s Center for Information Technology and Infrastructure (CITI), which is run out of the San Diego State University (SDSU) Visualization Center (aka Viz Center), pulled together resources from NASA, the local radio station KPBS and Google to gather and distribute spatial information during the wildfire ... read more |
