iFrame Test 2
January 8th, 2020Interact with projections
December 2nd, 2019Interesting tool which enables to interact with different projections and see the differences in area/shape/distance.
iFrame Test
November 18th, 2019I want Hue – Colors for data scientists
January 24th, 2017Earth’s History Plays Out On A Football Field
January 24th, 2017Why all world maps are wrong
January 24th, 2017Global Carbon Credit 2015
July 18th, 2016Visual search tool for satellite imagery
June 6th, 2016Terrapattern is a fun prototype that lets you search satellite imagery simply by clicking on a map. For example, you can click on a tennis court, and through machine learning, the application looks for similar areas.
Changing river path seen through satellite images
June 6th, 2016Sedimentary geologist Zoltan Sylvester downloaded Landsat data using Earth Explorer and strung together images of the Ucayali River to see the changes over thirty years.
Thanks to the Landsat program and Google Earth Engine, it is possible now to explore how the surface of the Earth has been changing through the last thirty years or so. Besides the obvious issues of interest, like changes in vegetation, the spread of cities, and the melting of glaciers, it is also possible to look at how rivers change their courses through time.
Building your inner coach | Brett Ledbetter
June 2nd, 2016Excellence is hard to keep quite.
Interessante Präsentation zum Thema Motivation, Ziele, Ergebnisse und Prozesse.
Download all linked files at once from a website
February 15th, 2016iGetter is a powerful, full featured download manager and accelerator. iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, site explorer, history list, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods, auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up and shut down on completion, and much more.
The Impending Disappearance of World’s Natural Resources
January 13th, 2016Hmmm… quite worrying… but doesn’t come as a surprise… (PDF with end dates here)
Flex Projector
January 12th, 2016Great tool to see the differences between different projections, with the differences visible for the latitudes too.
Projection Wizard
January 12th, 2016Get the right projection for a chosen extent, be it equal-area, conformal or equidistant.
Panomax – Incredible Interactive Panoramic Pictures
January 12th, 2016Wow, pretty impressive panoramic views, with multiple functions, like time lapse, archive, panning, …
Countries Under the Most Strain in the European Migration Crisis
January 12th, 2016Interesting, simple display of migration trends, in total numbers and as percentage of the population. NYT
The True Size Of A Country
December 14th, 2015Very interesting to see how countries “loose” size while dragging them over the earth. Due to the usual global projection, Greenland for example looks really huge, but, when compared correctly in size with African countries around the equator, it looks rather shrinked….
Text Collaboration Tool
December 14th, 2015Looking for some tool to collaborate together on a text-document? PiratePad could do it…
Live Global Data
October 28th, 2015Here.