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Research Grants to Manage and Model Earth Observation Data
We dive into how we plan to use two Small Business Innovation Research grants to manage and model earth observation data.
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Research Grants to Manage and Model Earth Observation Data
We dive into how we plan to use two Small Business Innovation Research grants to manage and model earth observation data.
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Saving Water by Saving Money: Incentivizing Greener Cities
We outline some highlights from our work so far with the Philadelphia Water Department as we collaborate to aid in “Saving Water by Saving Money”.
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How to Fit 37 Data Sets Into One Map: Creative Cartography
In this post, we tackle a common challenge involving displaying a variety of data sets in one map.
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TNC Recognized with Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award
We discuss our receipt of a Special Achievement in GIS Award for our work alongside The Nature Conservancy.
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Loading Spatial Data into PostGIS with QGIS
In this blog, we summarize how to approach loading spatial data into PostGIS with QGIS.
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Converting Mapbox Studio Vector Tiles to Rasters
In this blog post, we detail our experience converting Mapbox Studio Vector Tiles to Rasters.
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Improving Java Math Performance with Jafama
Jafama is a Java library that provides fast numeric operations that are replacements for the methods on java.lang.Math. Jafama (Java Fast Math) consists of fast – but not sloppy – counterparts of java.lang.Math treatments, plus additional ones. They are usually about 2-4 (up to 15) times faster, with about 1e-15 accuracy, and handle special cases…
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TreesCount! 2015 Ready to Map Every Street Tree in NYC
In this post, we outline our work on the web-based system designed to help with tree mapping initiatives in NYC called TreesCount.
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What is Spark?
We describe a group research project in which we worked to evaluate and port existing machine learning and modeling functionality in HunchLab from R to Spark.
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Balloon Mapping: A Citizen Science Exercise
In this post we explore the idea of balloon mapping as a citizen science practice.
