IGIS

From this great paper I just came across: Stefan Steiniger and Andrew J.S. Hunter, 2013. The 2012 free and open source GIS software map A guide to facilitate research, development, and adoption. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems. Volume 39: 136150.

It's GIS Day 2014! Come visit Mulford Hall Wednesday Nov 19th at 5pm-ish to participate in workshops, listen to talks, see posters, and chat with other like-minded GIS-enthusiasts. See the agenda here: http://gif.berkeley.edu/gisday.html.

Worldview-2 has been a very useful sensor; we've used it for some of our wetlands work. On August 13th of this year DigitalGlobe launched WorldView-3 spacecraft. It will provide a 31 cm panchromatic resolution, 1.24 m multispectral resolution, with an average revisit time of

As part of the massive ongoing effort to map Sonoma County with high-res imagery and lidar, historic imagery of the county was collected and georeferenced.

One of our collaborators on the Sonoma Vegetation Mapping Project has sent work on how web mapping and high resolution imagery has helped them do their job well. These are specific comments, but might be more generally applicable to other mapping and conservation arenas.