Esri perspective- Mapping Analytics

Mapping The Future http://flip.it/peuGAO

Mapping gifts - What I want for Christmas

10 Great Gifts for Map Lovers and Travelers http://flip.it/QJe_n-

Mapping Population: Urbanization expansion viewed thru Google Earth archives

Watch humanity spread like a virus with three decades of Google Earth timelapse http://flip.it/hL7EaV

Mapping Saturn: Hexagon polar formations

Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit http://flip.it/6_RSU1

Mapping Energy: Diamonds housing nuclear decay for electricity

Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste into Diamond Batteries That’ll Last for Thousands of Years http://flip.it/uWDjnU

Mapping Power - Wind power generation expansion in the US

This Chart Shows How Quickly Wind Power Has Caught On http://flip.it/6uvtc1

Mapping Mega-Regions based on traffic flows

Data from 130 million commuters reveal US ‘megaregions’ http://flip.it/1k0NOL

Mapping Geo - Cool tools in R

Creating GeoJSON out of Shapefile in R http://flip.it/GGb-Oj

Cool Geo-Pic: Mapping Earthquakes in Chile

Another cool geo-pic from NASA/s Earth Observatory.  I like the analysis on the historical rippling to other areas.

Quick Cut and Paste:

"The maps above show how the Earth moved in mid-September …..the amount of land motion is represented in shades from yellow to purple. Areas where the ground shifted the most (vertically, horizontally, or both) are represented in yellow, while areas with little change are represented in purple.  …Interferograms can be used to estimate where the fault moved deep in the Earth and which areas have increased stress and higher likelihood of future earthquakes…"

 

 

 

 

Full Article:

Mapping Earth Motion from the Illapel Earthquake  - October 1, 2015

 

 

References and Related Reading:

• AGU Blogosphere: The Trembling Earth (2015, September) Chile keeps having earthquakes. Accessed September 29, 2015.
• European Space Agency (2015, September 21) Chile earthquake on the radar. Accessed September 29, 2015.
• The Guardian (2015, September 25) How did Chile manage to survive its recent earthquake virtually unscathed? Accessed September 29, 2015.
• Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (2015) Earthquake offshore Illapel, Chile. Accessed September 29, 2015.
• NASA Earth Observatory (2015, May 14) Sensing How Much the Moved in Nepal.
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2015) Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis Center for Natural Hazards. Accessed September 29, 2015.
• Slate (2015, September 16) Chile earthquake and tsunami: Hawaii on tsunami alert after 8.3 quake strikes Chile. Accessed September 29, 2015.

Full Credits:

NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens, using interferogram data courtesy of Copernicus and Eric Fielding NASA/JPL, and earthquake data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

 

 

Cool Geo-Video: Sports Timeline linked to Twitter Activity

Here is another cool geo-video built on the CartoDB platform.  Nice timeline relating the game scores to twitter reaction.