Digital Coast

How Low Can You Go?

Submitted by Rebecca Love on March 27, 2013

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.


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

Submitted by Matt Pendleton on March 11, 2013

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


Web Maps the Easy Way

Submitted by Dave Eslinger on February 28, 2013

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.


Troubles with TIFF: No Data Values with Floating Point

Submitted by Kirk Waters on February 26, 2013

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.


GDP, Real GDP, and Chained (2005) Dollars

Submitted by Jennifer Zhuang on February 19, 2013

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


Valentine's Day Poetry

Submitted by Nate Herold on February 13, 2013

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.


As If We Need a Reason to Party

Submitted by John McCombs on February 8, 2013

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


Keeping It Real With CanVis

Submitted by Matthew Carey on February 6, 2013

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.


How to Download Lots of Lidar on Digital Coast

Submitted by Kirk Waters on January 28, 2013

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. 


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

Submitted by Nate Herold on January 22, 2013

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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