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World Imagery Wayback Archive
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Wind Speed Interactive Map
Check out this interactive map of wind speed showing the hurricane on the east coast right now:
You can click on the map to get the current wind speed. Thanks goes to Tom Lutgen at Burbank Water and Power for pointing this out.
GOES East Image Viewer
Check out the full disk image of the Earth and also check out Hurricane Florence on NOAA’s site.
Also check out the Space Station flyover.
Harness The Value of Imagery
Register for this webinar today to see how you can use your imagery to gain location insight, use machine learning tools in your applications, and explore advanced object detection from your imagery. The webinar is today from 10-11am.
How America Uses Its Land
You may enjoy this interesting series of interactive data visualizations showing land use in the continental United States based on different categorizations used by the US Department of Agriculture. I found it interesting when you organize all the categories together that pasture and rangeland would take up most of the Western US and all of the country’s cities and towns would fit in the Northeast. Check it out!
LAR-IAC Users Meeting Tomorrow
If your organization is part of the Los Angeles Region Imagery Acquisition Consortium (LAR-IAC), just a reminder there is a LARIAC5 update meeting tomorrow, September 11, 2018 at 9:30am to 12pm. If you plan on attending, make sure to view the meeting webpage and register here: http://go.eagleview.com/lariac-user-group.html .
Also for your reference, here are some important LAR-IAC webpages you should bookmark:
Main LARIAC Page
LARIAC Products and Samples
LARIAC5 Documents and Downloads
GIS Day at Los Angeles County
Come join LA County on GIS Day, November 14th, from 9am to 3pm at Los Angeles County Grand Park, Olive Court. Learn how LA County departments, and more than 30 other agencies, academic institutions, and private sector companies use GIS to tackle issues affecting the citizens of LA County.
There will be over 50 booths, GIS-enabled emergency vehicles, a map gallery, speakers, GIS games and prizes, and a dunk tank with LA County Supervisors inside … well maybe not the dunk tank! 😉
Attendance is free. For more info, click here.
Orange County Open Data Portal
Orange County has a new Open Data Portal. You can explore by categories, like boundaries, cadaster, environment, health, infrastructure, etc., or just type a search, like “parcels” or “street centerlines”. There are also links to feature apps and paper maps too. Check it out!
ArcGIS Online Update
For those of you that use ESRI’s ArcGIS Online product, they just announced that they plan on updating it on September 18. Here are four capabilities you can check out once the update happens: Continue reading
Mapping Global Debt
Check out this interactive map that visualizes the debt of 51 different countries around the world. The map provides a choropleth view of how much debt is held by each country since 2000 and how that debt has progressed since the global financial crisis of 2008. You can also visualize household debt, which includes things like mortgages, student loans, and consumer credit.
SoCalGIS.org 