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Bucknell/Local Interest Data Environment General GIS Map Apps Slideshow

ChesapeakeView

Maurie Kelly and her team at PASDA (part of the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment) have just released ChesapeakeView, a website that provides free access to remotely sensed data about the Chesapeake Bay region. The website currently holds 263 datasets related to the Chesapeake Bay region – including remotely sensed data as well as habitat, land use, biodiversity, wildlife distribution, historical aerial photos, agricultural imagery, digital coastline images and other types of environmental data related to the region.

“No simple place existed to find remote sensing information about land use, habitat changes and biodiversity,” said Maurie Caitlin Kelly, director of informatics, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment. “Researchers could spend days searching to find whatever data might be available.”

The data interface for ChesapeakeView will look familiar to anyone who has used PASDA’s website.  There are options for downloading the data via FTP, using an internet based data viewer/map tool or streaming it directly into your ArcMap session. ChesapeakeView is part of the AmericaView initiative.

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Data Environment General GIS Slideshow

Online global reefs map

The World Resources Institute has a new online map of global reefs classified by threat risk. Click here to explore the map and/or download the KML.  Click here for additional data and maps on global reefs.

 

 

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Data General GIS Map Apps Slideshow

Map your name

A fun new map site from Stephen Von Worley of Datapointed.net.  Click here then scroll to the ‘Find This First Name’ tool (screenshot below) and type in your first name.  Clicking the ‘Map it!’ button will return a map showing the worldwide locations of streets, places and things with your name. Clicking the ‘Earth it!’ option will give you the option of saving and/or opening a Google Earth KML file with the data.

Map my name tool:

Map of streets, places and things named ‘Janine’

Google Earth view of streets, places and things named ‘Janine’

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Bucknell/Local Interest Data Environment General GIS Marcellus Shale

New conservation and Marcellus Shale-related data available on Xanthus GIS Server

Several new datasets from Platts (an energy consulting firm) and the Nature Conservancy were added to the GIS Data folder on Xanthus last night.  The data includes gas compressor stations for PA, NY and WV along with current and projected locations of Marcellus Shale wells and wind turbines in PA.  Forest patches and landscape blocks are also included in the data from the Nature Conservancy . Full metadata is available on Xanthus. Bucknell faculty and students – please contact me for access and/or additional information on the new datasets.

Data from Platts:

Gas compressor station locations for PA, NY and WV.

Datasets from TNC’s Pennsylvania Energy Impacts Assessment:

Projections by The Nature Conservancy and Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

  • Probability surface of conversion to Marcellus Shale development
  • Projected Marcellus Shale pad locations under low, medium, and high development scenarios

Marcellus Shale drilling permits from the PA Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP)

  • Drilled, valid, and expired Marcellus well permits as of January 2011
  • Drilled Marcellus Shale wells only as of January 2011

Projections by The Nature Conservancy and Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

  • Probability surface of conversion to wind energy development

—> Original model output at 30-meter resolution
—> Re-sampled raster at 60-meter resolution with exclusionary areas removed

  • Projected wind turbine locations under low, medium, and high development scenarios

Case information from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

  • Built and proposed wind turbines and meteorological towers
  • Built large-scale wind turbines only
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Data General GIS Map Apps Slideshow

Forecasting snow and finding supermarkets

If you’re the type of person who loads up on bread and milk at the first hint of snowfall, then ArcGIS Online is your new best friend.  Using ArcGIS Online you can create a map showing projected snowfall amounts for your area along with the locations of nearby supermarkets. The ArcGIS Online Gallery has free basemaps that you can use to create quick and easy mash-ups online, stream directly into your ArcGIS map project, or (in many cases) download the raw data to use in whatever way you want. The basemaps shown below for snowfall forecasts and supermarket access are just two of the dozens of basemaps you can choose from in the ArcGIS Online Gallery.

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Read more about this on the ESRI ArcGIS Online blog.

ArcGIS Online Basemaps

Snowfall forecast map

Supermarket access in Lewisburg