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How Low Can You Go?

Everyone wants high resolution imagery and data, but do they need it? Going with a lower spatial resolution might be just fine…depending on the issue.

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"What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?" (With Coastal Flooding That Is)

At what point does flooding stop becoming a “nuisance” and become the new normal? Read on to learn how to become a flood geek.

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Web Maps the Easy Way

What if you don’t have a herd of nerds around to provide you with the needed expertise in GIS, data processing, cartography and Web know-how to make an interactive map? It turns out that there is a solution.

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Troubles with TIFF: No Data Values with Floating Point

I run into trouble trying to use the TIFF format for lidar derived DEMs, because there is no standard tag for a “no data” value.

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GDP, Real GDP, and Chained (2005) Dollars

What’s the difference between GDP and Real GDP? And how should we use them?

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Valentine's Day Poetry

Happy Valentine's Day! Since you're here at the GeoZone Blog, we assume you are celebrating the occasion in style, so we thought we would give you a special treat.

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As If We Need a Reason to Party

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, NASA is giving all us remote sensing geeks a great big present...

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Keeping It Real With CanVis

CanVis is a really cool visualization tool that allows users to “see” potential impacts of development and natural processes by inserting objects on top of a background image to create a photorealistic image.

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How to Download Lots of Lidar on Digital Coast

We’ve changed the way we store our point data so it is compressed and that has allowed us to put the data where you can pick up big chunks at once. 

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Change is Ninety Percent Based on the Data...and the Other Half is Based on Your Interpretation

One thing I see/hear a lot is people getting confused by percentages of change that are quoted to them or people incorrectly stating the percentages of change relating to features in the data they are using.

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