Applying GIS, remote sensing, and data science to advance conservation outcomes The IIC Conservation GIS Lab provides an opportunity for W&M students to apply their GIS, remote sensing, and data ...

Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...

What Digital Mapping Projects Reveal About Higher Education In the third of a three-part series, I consider what digital mapping projects reveal about the values—and value—of traditional higher ...

Bangladesh has been coping with the inflow of 1.1 million Displaced Rohingya People (DRP) in Cox’s Bazar, which is vulnerable to extreme climate events and under immense strain on the existing ...

In 1999, WWF helped set up a project that represented a unique marriage between Aboriginal traditional ecological and cultural knowledge and the latest in western technology. Kowanyama is a community ...

Geographical information systems (GIS) are computer-based systems for geographical data presentation and analysis. They allow rapid development of high-quality maps, and enable sophisticated ...

It is a Monday morning in early December, and the 20 students in professor Jack Loveless’ Mapping Our World: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems course are clustered in small groups around ...

To keep up with the growing rate of EV adoption in Ontario, agencies must map how and where to build new charging stations. GIS is providing them with location intelligence to plan with data-driven ...

Washington state’s geospatial office has racked up a couple of impressive wins in recent weeks, demonstrating how a collaborative, interagency approach to GIS can yield big dividends across government ...