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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): Unforeseen Successes in Animal Ecology

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This authors of this review article discuss the latest applications for the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for ecological r...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility

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This study, conducted by Jamie Pearce, Karen Witten, Phil Bartie, looked at how accessible different communities were to different health re...
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Utilizing spatiotemporal analysis of influenza-like illness and rapid tests to focus swine-origin influenza virus intervention

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This article discusses the pandemic of a novel strain of H1N1 swine-origin influenza A virus that emerged in the United States and Mexico i...
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GIS and Policy

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GIS, Public Service, and the Issue of Democratic Governance: Akhlaque Haque In this essay, Haque discusses the...

Effects of Urbanization on Mammal Species in the U.S.

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Due to a rapidly growing population in the San Antonio and Austin areas, urbanization in central Texas has developed quickly over the past f...
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Classifying the Baltic Sea Shallow Water Habitats Using Image-Based and Spectral Library Methods

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Remote Sensing and GIS isn’t just for analyzing terrestrial environments.   A study by Vahtmae and Kutser (2013) use geospatial data and re...

FOOTBALL GAME ANALYSIS: A NEW APPLICATION AREA FOR CARTOGRAPHERS AND GI-SCIENTISTS?

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With the rise in competition and battle for the top spots in competitive sports such as football, more data is needed. However, with the cur...
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Drug Pricing in the US

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An increasingly popular topic in our national news is the pricing of pharmaceutical drugs in North America. Our drug prices increase annual...
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Mapping Micro-Urban Heat Islands using LANDSAT TM and a GIS

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In this article, the author discusses how LANDSAT TM satellite data and GIS software were used to map micro-urban heat islands in a portion...
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The effects of deforestation and climate variability on the streamflow of the Araguaia River, Brazil

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From the 1970's to the 1990's the Araguaia River in Brazil had a huge increase in water discharge. This large increase was believed ...
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