Most people think GIS is about making maps. In reality, the most valuable GIS work happens when spatial analysis supports real decisions. This lab focused on a practical problem faced by many communities: how to identify open-space parcels inside flood-prone areas that may qualify for FEMA Community Rating System (CRS) credits and potentially reduce flood insurance costs. What makes this
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Florida’s interstates are among the deadliest in the United States, and Brevard County has seen an increasing number of traffic accidents in recent years. In this lab, I focused on the workflow itself: taking crash points and road segments and using ArcGIS Pro analysis tools to turn them into defensible hot spot maps (including fatality hot spots and peak-time hot
I am currently taking GIS Programming with Python as part of non-degree coursework from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the course does not waste time pretending to be something it is not. It is a programming course. It is a GIS course. It is unapologetically technical. Python is introduced only insofar as it serves geospatial work. There is no
Introduction: From Pixels to the Real World Every satellite image tells a story, but that story only makes sense when you can trace each pixel back to the ground. In remote sensing, this connection between imagery and reality is called ground truthing. It ensures that what we interpret from orbit reflects what truly exists on Earth. As Campbell and Wynne
The Temptation It always begins the same way. You open a browser for something innocent. Maybe to check a reference. Maybe to confirm a version number. Then it appears.A new Esri Press title glowing on your screen like salvation. Getting to Know ArcGIS Enterprise. Ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Hardcover for one fifty-nine if you hate your wallet enough. You
Data quality is not a feature you turn on. It’s a discipline you build into every edit, every rule, and every record. Introduction For this tutorial, you help the City of White Rock improve the quality of its streetlight inspection data in ArcGIS Pro. Each pole has four inspection tests: hammer, pole, wiring, and panel. Each test is scored from
When you work solo as an IT administrator, you pretty much handle everything that tech touches, and sometimes that means keeping your maps as alive as the world they represent. When you work solo as an IT administrator, you pretty much handle everything that tech touches. From servers and security to databases and GIS, it all finds its way to
Intro Multispectral scanning allows for the acquisition, display, and interpretation of the thermal properties of the Earth’s surface. Many multispectral systems sense radiation not only in the visible and reflected infrared but also in the thermal infrared range (3 μm – 15 μm). Thermal remote sensing differs from optical imaging: it measures emitted energy rather than reflected sunlight. The boundary
Mapping isn’t just analysis—it’s accountability. Every gradient on a map is a story of who gets protected and who gets forgotten. It starts with a number. Then another. Then a table full of them.And before you know it, those numbers stop being abstract. They become names you’ll never read, faces you’ll never meet, and addresses that burned down long before
Maps have always been sneaky. They are supposed to tell us where things are, but the truth is every map lies. Not because cartographers are villains twirling mustaches in dark basements, but because lying is baked into the very act of mapping. A map is, at best, a polite cheat. You cannot cram the real world, messy and infinite, onto