Change matters! 30 years of Landsat photos are now easy to view on Esri’s Landsat website. The data can be explored with just a web browser, even on an iPad! It’s tempting to jump right in and begin using the first application that shows up, but be sure to hit the “Tours” link at the [...]

Want to change in the landscape over time, from 1975-2005? Head to www.esri.com/landsat and work with the “ChangeMatters” application. Or add the services into your activities with various GIS apps!

A principal aim of geospatial analysis is examining and understanding change over space and time. One of the simplest yet most powerful things you can do in ArcGIS desktop or in ArcGIS Online is to visualize change over time by studying change based on different basemaps created on different dates. For example, I recently conducted [...]

Landsat is coming! Esri is preparing terabytes of data for access thru ArcGIS Online. Earlier this year, Esri Federal User Conference and Esri Partner Conference audiences saw sneak previews. You can check out the coming access by watching a few minutes of video. and scroll down the transcript to 3:13, then watch the segment from [...]

In three days the House GOP majority will introduce the latest version of the 2012-13 budget. A substitute bill will be introduced in the House Finance Committee Thursday and we can expect to see some changes.The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that at least one amendment will be introduced to deal with the deep cuts in [...]

“Is geospatial tech useful to instructors of all fields in community colleges?” That was the question I sought to answer in a speech to several hundred instructors from Virginia last week. The subtitle for the talk was “Where Matters,” with apologies to English teachers for a purposefully ambiguous phrase. While my recent blogposts have emphasized [...]