Rapidly Making Colorful Landsat-8 Imagery Composite with Free Advanced Image Stretching and Pan-sharpening Software from GeoSage - See more at: http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/30197/2/#sthash.36sxzlnJ.dpuf
7 Awesome Things To do at ESRIUC 2013 - There's no shortage of things to do at ESRIUC, that's a fact! This year will mark my 15th UC and like most years, hammering down exactly what I'll do all week is a challenge - there's simply so many things to select from. I've started loading my calendar and have been setting up meetings and taking notes of must attend events
5 Things on Friday #12 - GeoGeek Edition! - This edition gets a little geeky for our developer friends. Some of the goodies shared in this one include special activities at ESRIUC for the devgeeks; some GeoJSON tips; foursquare mashing up your data; iOS 7 goodies; crowd-sourcing for the National Map, and a GeoServer book of interest.
Landsat 8 Set to Extend Long Run of Observing Earth - NASA launched the Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite on February 11. Since then, NASA mission engineers and scientists, with USGS collaboration, have been putting the satellite through its paces
Hot Products, Innovation, Business Integration and more at HxGNLive - A number of themes and crucial take-aways are worthy a quick mention when recapping this record-setting event. Like many tech conferences, common themes and hot buzz topics that emerged included: The Cloud, the crowd, mobile, big data, and sensors.
A GIS Laboratory, Indeed - A Look at Arizona State's GIS master's program - A good place to get a sense of where the geographic information system (GIS) field is headed is Lattie F. Coor Hall at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. That's the home of the 30-credit-hour Masters of Advanced Study in GIS (MAS-GIS) Program
Top 10 Features in The New Google Maps - Google has reinforced that Maps are all about exploring and discovering, especially on mobile. The experience will only get better, for the developer and end user.
AEC Firms Lose an Average 100K a Year - Architectural, engineering and environmental firms she works for easily lose $100,000 each year through inefficient and ineffective practices
Canada Post Suing Over the use of Postal Code - An interesting issue is unfolding in Canada and quite frankly its darned amazing! Imagine this, you have a website and offer some kind of product or service.
Location, Location! 10 Map Services Your Business MUST Be Listed in - You have a business... perhaps a bar, a coffee shop, or maybe a consulting firm. Regardless of the business type, if you have a brick and mortar presence then you need to get your business listed in some of the popular online, location-based resources and search tools.
Editing OpenStreetMap (OSM) Just Got Easy, Really Easy! I'm sure that many (if not most) of you have often wanted to mess around with OSM and add/edit some features but were a little lazy - I'm guilty! But now we have no excuse thanks to the new OpenStreetMap in-browser map editing tools available from the iD Editor
Creative Cartography Meets Music in The Song Map - Oh yes, I love art. I also love music too, heck, who doesn't right? Well, I know you GeoGeeks and music lovers will really dig this one as we stumble onto yet another amazing cartographic product that quite simply will make you say WOW
Why is Landsat important and the Landsat Missions Timeline - Landsat has the optimal ground resolution and spectral bands to efficiently track land use and to document land change due to climate change, urbanization, drought, wildfire, biomass changes (carbon assessments), and a host of other natural and human-caused changes.
Mobile Market Trends show Apple users most loyal - Results from a recent survey indicate that Mobile Market Trends reveal Apple users are most loyal, T-Mobile customers most likely to bail - are you still confident that your clients are loyal to your brand?
10 Must Have Gadgets and Technology for the Remote Office - Chances are good that if you happen to work in technology or you're a consultant, that you may be working remotely or from a home-based office at some time soon - or perhaps you already do
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On Monday, January 9th we will be releasing a free self-paced, web based, e-learning course entitled: Bringing Data to Life with Google Fusion Tables
Part 1 of this course will be released on Monday. Part 2: Programming the Google Fusion Tables API will be released later this year.
An interesting training opportunity is coming up with a free course on Google Fusion Tables. Some details from Eric at GeospatialTraining - Part 1 of this course will be released on Monday. Part 2: Programming the Google Fusion Tables API will be released later this year. All lectures for this course will be pre-recorded and available at your convenience. Exercises are also provided to reinforce the concepts you learn in lecture. To register, go to http://bit.ly/gufusion01 and click the link for the Bringing Data to Life with Google Fusion Tables link
All lectures for this course will be pre-recorded and available at your convenience. Exercises are also provided to reinforce the concepts you learn in lecture.
In this course you will learn how to use the Google Fusion Tables platform to:
Find and map public data sets including demographics, census, environmental, and much more
Upload data to secure, hosted tables
Create visualizations of your data including maps, charts, and graphs
Symbolize your data
Create heat maps from point data
Create thematic maps
Geocode addresses
Export data to KML or delimited files
Embed maps and other visualizations in web pages
Share your data with others
Merge your data with other data sets
Anyone can join this course.
To register, go to http://bit.ly/gufusion01 and click the link for the Bringing Data to Life with Google Fusion Tables link
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