2022 Spring Technical Session Hosted by Pacific Southwest Region ASPRS. May 18, 2022 at 6pm in Concord, CA.
Please join colleagues, students and peers in the Remote Sensing profession for an evening of insightful presentations, thoughtful discussion and snacks!
Featured presentations include “Airborne Thermography for Bridge Decks”, “Statewide Ground Surface Subsidence: Precise Measurement via Remote Sensing Survey – 2015 through 2024”, and “Mapping Accuracy Assessment of UAS Platforms”.
Here are some new enhancements to ArcGIS Earth:
Click below to read the latest on new features and functionality including KML, multi-selection and batch editing, and attribute tables.
Love maps and want to save California’s wild spaces? This site is for you!
California is making plans to protect 30% of its lands and coastal waters by 2030 (called 30×30). And with it is a new mapping tool to support their “30×30″ goal.
The CA Nature website allows you to explore the landscape and consider which areas you might want to see protected in the future. The site’s “conserved areas explorer” shows the 24.1 million acres that are already conserved, many of them as parks, forests, and preserves. Other interactive maps show which lands and waters offer the greatest biodiversity, and how rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns are expected to alter the state’s landscapes. Check it out!
Usually April 15th is when our taxes are due, but not this year. Due to a holiday in Washington DC today, Emancipation Day, our taxes will be due on Monday the 18th.
Which brings up a question, which states pay the highest tax rates? Check out the map below:
Unfortunately California is the highest … probably not a good idea to retire in California! Note that Tennessee has joined seven other states that do not levy any individual income tax. Also note there are 10 states that have flat income tax. Click here for more info.
And one more thing. If you are in the CalPERS system for retirement, and you retire in another state, you can elect to have no California tax taken out of your retirement check!
If you are planning on retiring, check out this tool that you can use to compare states that have taxes on retirees.
Provided by NASA, the POWER Data Access Viewer contains geospatially enabled meteorology and solar related parameters formulated for assessing and designing renewable energy systems. Access daily averaged data for specific date ranges and parameters for a single site. View interactive charts, data tables, and download various tabular and geospatial file formats. You can also access climatology ½ x ½ degree datasets for the entire globe and generate custom climatological reports and data by single point. Check it out!
Click here for more information on the NASA POWER project.
From the California GIS Council:
The latest edition of GIS Under the Dome (2022 Q1) is now available at this link:
http://cgia.org/cagiscouncil/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GISDome_2022Q1.pdf
Don’t forget to sign up for our quarterly GIS Policy Briefing on Friday, April 8 @ 12pm PST here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc–srzwsHNAQUwEQO24tV9DcSsf2jUl_
Any questions? Reach out to Jacob Mark at jacob.mark@woolpert.com
If you are a time traveler, then you probably know about the Time Travel Mart in Echo Park … and you already read this post!
When you walk in, you might be greeted by a man behind the counter who will say “hello again, I saw your future self in the store today, they told me you would be coming in.” Ha!
Go visit the store. They are the purveyor of quality goods from the past, present, and future. The aisles are broken down into different time periods. You can check out dinosaur stuff, robot milk, ray guns, etc. You can even buy a shade tree … instructions state “take the seed, travel back in time, plant it, return to the present and relax under your tree.” Or maybe a “What happens in La Brea tar pits stays in La Brea tar pits” T-shirt? There is something for every time traveler!
And here is the best part. The store itself is part of 826LA, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. 826LA specializes in after-school tutoring, workshops, and programs. The kids are encouraged to be creative, and once a month, one of their stories gets published and put into the store for people to purchase.
Time Travel Mart is located at 1714 W Sunset Blvd in Echo Park, open from 12-6pm, PDT, year 2022. Check it out!
PS – I know it’s April 1st, but trust me it’s for real … at least during some time period!
If you deal with projects in the right-of-way, why not use GIS to manage them? GIS can improve project planning by delivering integrated project and basemap data and information to all stakeholders. GIS adds new ways to collect, organize and manage ownership records, deeds, surveys, projects plans and more. GIS enables high accuracy data collection reducing visits to the field. GIS reduces costs, improves public engagement, and increases project efficiencies. GIS delivers a framework for better decision making.
It’s a miracle right? All kidding aside, check out these ArcGIS solutions to map and monitor your roads and highways.
Well, they did it. The US Senate passed a bill this week to make DST permanent by November 2023, except for states that do not observe DST … good for you Arizona and Hawaii!
The bill now has to pass in the House. If it does, enjoy the darkness in the winter months if you live near the western portion of your time zone! Here is a nice quote:
“Not many people have experienced daylight saving time during the winter, except for some during an experiment — which failed.”
Click the map below to read all about it. Check out the nice maps too!
Thanks goes to Bonnie at Manhattan Beach for finding this article!
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