short announcement: AGIT 2014 deadline
Folks, it’s still some time until the AGIT takes place in the good old Mozart city Salzburg. But the dealine for poster and papers is already the 1st…
Folks, it’s still some time until the AGIT takes place in the good old Mozart city Salzburg. But the dealine for poster and papers is already the 1st…
Ever since I have seen those fantastic geological cross sections cutting straight through the alps, I am fascinated by geological models, be it 1D, 2D or (nowadays most…
“A GISP is a certified geographic information systems (GIS) professional who has met the minimum standards for ethical conduct and professional practice as established by the GIS Certification…
In some applications you want to calculate the density of points. It sounds very easy and in fact it is using QGIS. Let me show you how to…
The last update of our beloved QGIS 2.0.1. version Dufour was a giant leap for a grown GIS and the next step forward is in sight. Thanks to…
The sub-title to this post could easily be “reasons to love DLR #123 (transparency)”. You’ll see why in a moment. In this post I am going to do…
Coursera, hail to Coursera. Despite the uprising criticism on MOOCs and their footprint in the educational landscape at universities Coursera created an interesting R learning course. It is…
Following sequestration and bitter budget wars in Washington NASA find itself in a difficult position. NASA has proposed a budget of $17.715 billion, down from $17.893B last year.…
Since the start of Google Earth in 2001 (it was re-released in 2005 after Google acquired it from Keyhole, Inc ) remote sensing images made their way into…
In a previous post I talked about some of the remote sensing themes during the first half of the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. Here I want to talk…
Creating maps is the most appropriate way to present spatial data. In the last years several methods appeared to generate such webmaps. Based on a tile-layer, wich contains…
Folks, have you ever questioned yourself how to show a shapefile or your own geotiff on a webmap as a WMS or WFS? MapServer is one thing to…