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Studying Paragliding Using ArcGIS Explorer: Determining Total Horizontal...
We have been examining how one might study sports such as paragliding in 3-D using ArcGIS Explorer. We mapped the GPS track of the paraglider, and how to calculate vertical change and vertical...
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We have been studying paragliding. We mapped the paraglider’s GPS track in ArcGIS Explorer, calculated the vertical and total distance traveled, measured its velocity, and then used a web resource to...
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Teaching About Watersheds With Online and 3-D GIS, Part 1
Why teach about watersheds? As the area of land that drains all of the water falling into it into a common waterway, watersheds are connected to a larger system. Furthermore, each is a part of a larger...
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Teaching About Watersheds With Online and 3-D GIS, Part 2
Another excellent resource to teach about watersheds from a spatial perspective is the EPA’s Surf Your Watershed site (http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm). For each watershed, environmental...
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Fun with GIS Using AGX#21: Integrating Tools
People often ask “If I want to do data analysis, what tool should I use?” Several weeks ago, I wrote a different blog entry about tool use. As I tell people, I use ArcGIS Desktop (either ArcView or...
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Fun with GIS #39: Learning STEM Thru Tragedy
Once again, we have been delivered a stunning lesson in earth science. A tremendous earthquake (magnitude 8.5 or so) rocked Chile this weekend, spawning tsunami warnings across the Pacific. The...
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The Amazing Around the World Flight of the Pacific Clipper During World War II
The spatial perspective through GIS has been shown in research and in classroom application as enhancing student understanding of hundreds of processes, patterns, and phenomena from local to global. A...
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Fun with GIS #107: Terrain Profiles
Terrain profiles have teaching power! Draw a line on the map, and get a profile of the elevation change. Cool! The EdCommunity WebMapping page includes a link to a Flex-based tool that educators have...
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Off the Beaten Path: A 3D Scene for the Poles of Inaccessibility
Some of the most remote locations on Planet Earth are the “poles of inaccessibility.” By definition, a pole of inaccessibility is the place most challenging to reach owing to its distance from...
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Mapping Weather Balloon Data in 2D and 3D
The Cherry Creek School District in Colorado has been using GIS in the curriculum and in administration for many years now. When the STEM coordinators of the district told me recently that their...
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