Planet Geospatial

James Fee (of www.spatiallyadjusted.com) has compiled a list of over 60 blogs, all of which are GIS related. Sort of the 'crème de la crop' if you ask me. You can subscribe to any of them with the click of a button. You can even subscribe to his own feed and receive just the headliners from all of the above. For more info., check out planet.spatiallyadjusted.com. cheers

US Aerial Photography Program

See this link from GIS Weekly on the Digital Orthophoto Program. Includes information on nation-wide DOQQ availability.

GPS on commercials

I watching MTV and a commercial came about Duracell and using Duracell batteries for your GPS handheld for research in the rainforest. In this article is talks about how GPS and Duracell (of course) have helped map and protect the rainforest.... http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.asp? Symbol=US:G&Feed=BW&Date=20050926&ID=5140406 It was interesting to see this on MTV :) Hey maybe the youth will feel inspired

Google Maps Mash-ups

There's an article in the NYTimes today about the profusion of sites employing the Google Maps API. They also include a link to Google Maps Mania, a blog chronicling said profusion.

Data and more data

Perhaps you already know about this site, but ... just in case: http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml . They have 13 Terabytes of available data, so it’s likely you can find something interesting. Landsat, Modis and Aster imagery and products, with different search methods.

Future of Kelly Lab Blog

Could the Kelly Lab Blog become a whole lot cooler? Check out http://www.georss.org for more info on RSS feeds and geotags serialized for RSS 2.0/Atom. There is also some discussion on other encodings as well.

Earth from above (and more)

When I was looking through the Blue Marble stuff, I ran across a neat cross-platform star/solar system/galaxy viewer called Celestia. It's a neat way to fly around the galaxy and check out star systems, planets, and what not, but what makes it cool for our purposes are the add-ons, including some higher resolution "imagery" for Earth. Some of this imagery seems to be based on or a direct adaptation from the Blue Marble dataset. Cool.

That’s one big marble!

NASA released a new version of their "Blue Marble" whole Earth image. Blue Marble is their name for the stitched, cloud-free imagery they've gleaned from MODIS. They've done this before, but the new version (called Blue Earth: Next Generation -- original, I know) has better resolution (0.5 km vs 1 km) and more temporal data (12 months instead of 4 3-month intervals). The file sizes are huge, but they look great. Take a look!

RSS feeds and Thunderbird

For those of you who use Thunderbird as an e-mail client,,, Thunderbird can be set up to retrieve postings off the Kelly Lab Blog which might serve useful (does for me). This link http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics will walk you through the setup. What the link doesn't tell you is that you should enter http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/blog/?feed=rss2 as the URL for the Blog. The ?feed=rss2 deal is important so don't leave it out. Optionally, you can add http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/blog/?feed=comments-rss2 as a separate URL for the comments that are posted. Cheers.

Computer Resource Specialist for GIIF

For those of you who are not aware, CNR has hired on a computer resource specialist, me, for the GIIF. My name is Abe and you can find me in Mulford Hall 111, or in cyberspace at ahendric@nature.berkeley.edu. I am very interested in what everybody's thoughts and/or expectations are for the new facility. Any comments, questions, or suggestions would be much appreciated. I am excited about working with all of you, so feel free to drop me a line if we have not already met.