Geospatial Analysis of Remote Sensing Data to Assess Built Environment Impacts on Heat Island Effect, Air Quality, and Global Warming (2009)
The successful applicant, working in collaboration with colleagues from the NTD modelling Consortium, will undertake
geospatial analysis of disease distributions and use computer simulations to evaluate alternative sampling and surveillance strategies for NTDs sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
Not exact matches
Forensic anthropology, innovative genetic testing, statistical
analysis and
geospatial technology are some
of the tools scientists use to collect evidence
of mass executions, reunite children separated from their families, and track the destruction
of cultural heritage sites in partnerships with non-profit organizations and human rights organizations dealing with atrocities unfolding across the globe.
AAAS is working to strengthen the scientific foundation
of human rights - based
geospatial analysis through advanced research projects and to advance the use
of geospatial technologies in international human rights and criminal litigation.
AAAS is partnering with the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation to increase the use
of geospatial technologies for the documentation and
analysis of exhumations.
With support from the Oak Foundation, the Program is working to strengthen the scientific foundation
of human rights - based
geospatial analysis through advanced research projects, aimed at enhancing the toolkits available to practitioners; and to advance the use
of geospatial technologies in international human rights and criminal litigation through partnership and collaboration with international courts and commissions, as well as through and several related research and documentation activities.
That's one
of the applications that Moskal's Remote Sensing and
Geospatial Analysis Lab (RSGAL) explores.
They've been hampered by limited carbon dioxide measurements in cornfields, by the fact that annual carbon losses are comparatively small and difficult to measure, and the lack
of a proven model to estimate carbon dioxide emissions that could be coupled with a
geospatial analysis.
The report, Estimating Renewable Energy Economic Potential in the United States: Methodology and Initial Results, describes a
geospatial analysis method used to estimate the economic potential
of several renewable resources.
«Up until recently, the ability use
geospatial analysis to identify troop movements in preparation for violent conflicts was more the purview
of professional militaries,» he noted.
Analysis of geospatial data and socioeconomic status demonstrated a connection between the likelihood
of Zika infection and increased poverty.
However, unlike our previous
analysis of Syria's World Heritage Sites, we're seeing a lot
of damage that appears to be the result
of widespread looting,» said Susan Wolfinbarger, director
of the AAAS
Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project, which authored the report.
«Currently, there are many social networks
analysis tools, but they are not localized,» says the co-founder
of Ubik, which is a technology - based company established in order to pay attention to a niche market with great future and to value the knowledge and technology developed over more than 15 years
of work by the research group GEOTEC (
Geospatial Technologies Research Group).
The new datasets are (1) truck parking identifying more than 8,000 parking locations for truck drivers across the country using data compiled from information supplied by state departments
of transportation and private truck stop operators; (2) the complete North American Rail Network (NARN), consisting
of geospatial line rail information for the U.S., Canada and Mexico, which supports
analysis relating to and around the rail infrastructure in the U.S.; and (3) the complete North American Rail Network (NARN) Nodes, which are the junctions (points) in the rail network and could support network
analysis when used with the network.
The Aqua Monitor uses freely available satellite data and Google Earth Engine, a platform for the planetary - scale scientific
analysis of geospatial datasets that is now open to the general public.
Federally - recognized Tribes are also directed to the Bureau
of Indian Affairs (BIA) Tribal Climate Resilience Program for direct climate data and
analysis support, to Tribal Fact Sheets in the Tribal Resilience Resource Guide for site - specific data and federal - wide resources, and to the BIA Branch
of Geospatial Services for free ESRI GIS software, training, and usage support.
The following data sets on Global Forest Watch were created using Google Earth Engine, Google's
geospatial analysis tool: the University
of Maryland / Google's annual tree cover loss, tree cover gain, and tree cover data, and the Landsat base maps.
Common job duties
of a
Geospatial Analyst include reviewing geospatial data sources, creating maps, employing mapping tools, performing geospatial analysis, forwarding analysis results to executives, and updating their knowledge of the lat
Geospatial Analyst include reviewing
geospatial data sources, creating maps, employing mapping tools, performing geospatial analysis, forwarding analysis results to executives, and updating their knowledge of the lat
geospatial data sources, creating maps, employing mapping tools, performing
geospatial analysis, forwarding analysis results to executives, and updating their knowledge of the lat
geospatial analysis, forwarding
analysis results to executives, and updating their knowledge
of the latest tools.