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Interested in how to make a chlorophyll index in Pro?

How to use ArcGIS Pro and Landsat 8 Imagery to Calculate Chlorophyll Index and Global Environmental Monitoring Index Tutorial on how to use ArcGIS Pro to determine the Chlorophyll Index (CI) and the Global Environmental Monitoring Index (GEMI) of Landsat 8 imagery in an area of interest.

Where are the trees?

Mapping the World's Forests: How Green is Our Globe? Where are the world's forests? These high-resolution maps show how the world’s carbon-sequestering forests are spread.

Something to think about and look into!

Map reading could show the way to beat dementia Turning off your GPS and using a traditional map instead could help fight dementia, a study suggests.

Interested in Multispectral data? You may want to look into Sentinel data!

How to Download Free Sentinel Satellite Data - GIS Geography If you want to download Sentinel satellite data, then you've come to the right place. We show you step-by-step how to obtain free Sentinel satellite data.

Declassified Treasure map?

Declassified treasure map to looted N**i riches sparks huge hunt - National | Globalnews.ca The decades-old map is believed to mark four spots where German soldiers hid treasure worth millions of dollars.

To North arrow or Not!?!?

Should You Put a North Arrow on a Map? Do all maps need a north arrow?

LIDAR to Contours!

How To Create Contours in ArcGIS Pro from LIDAR Data This ArcGIS Pro tutorial shows how to add LIDAR data from the National Map to ArcGIS Pro and create topography contours.

Check out the New blog post from one of our own!

Quantifying Land Cover Change in Urban Lake Watersheds Urban development is known to impose stress on surface waters, often by dramatically altering water chemistry (Howell et al., 2012; Ren et al., 2014). To examine whether urban expansion within the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) is driving observed changes in water quality in a set of ~50 lakes,...

A break for Thursday afternoon!

Kids Describe Their GIS Parents' Jobs GIS pros – How many times have you had to explain the work you do to friends and family? 🤔 Here’s what you do on a daily basis according to kids.-----------...

Want to learn more about what satellites can tell you about the Earth's heat?

Mapping Heat Vulnerability from Satellite Data Satellites are being used to measure heat not only on urban heat islands, but also on farms and other locations where rising temperatures are having an impact.

A new dataset to check out!

FABDEM: 30 Meter Resolution Bare Earth DEM from Fathom FABDEM is the first global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with forests and buildings removed at a 30m resolution.

New Surface temperature data available!

https://climate.esa.int/en/news-events/land-surface-temperature-datasets-now-available/

Thanks for the heads up Chris!