GIS Data

This category contains introductory text about GIS data such as types of error in GIS datasets, types of GIS data (raster and vector), and metadata.

Spatial Data Mining

Marco Morais

Data mining is the automated process of discovering patterns in data in order to find correlation among different datasets that are unexpected.

Jason-1 – Measuring Ocean Topography From Space

Caitlin Dempsey

Jason-1 is a satellite to be jointly operated by NASA and CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), the French space agency. ...

The Geography Network

Caitlin Dempsey

Esri launched the Geography Network as a collaborative system for sharing digital geographic information on the internet.

Number of Year 2000 Fortune 1000 Companies by State

Caitlin Dempsey

Number of Fortune 1000 companies categorized by state for the year 2000.  The list of total count of Fortune 1000 ...

Mapping the Earth – the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

Caitlin Dempsey

Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off on February 11, 2000 and one of its missions is an ambitious mapping of the earth.