IGIS

Congratulations to the NASA NEX Team! They have won the 2014 HPCwire Readers & Editors Choice Award for the Best Data-Intensive System (End User focused). See the article here: NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Platform supports dozens of data-intensive projects in Earth sciences.

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.