
Historical imagery from ArcGIS Online
The Wayback app JuneauNature relies heavily on historical series from precisely registered aerial photographs, presented either in slideshows, with long…
2020 | Richard Carstensen |DiscoverySoutheast.org
Bob Christensen introduced me to Arcmap in 2001. I’d already been making maps for 20 years, lovingly stippling with rapidograph, sometimes even shading with colored pencils. That transition was a little like handing a caveman a scoped rifle. No going back—although I do sometimes share the nostalgia for those more patient, predigital years.
Increasingly over the past few years, we’ve tried to make ArcMap a more ‘front-side’ component of our workshops for educators, more than just an under-the-hood map generator. We strongly encourage the District to offer more classes in GIS for students at the Middle- and High School levels.
An intermediate option is ESRI’s ArcGIS Online, which hosts maps by members such as Discovery Southeast. In the Media types > Maps section, some of the links take you to user-controlled maps in the Arc-online interface. There, for example, you can chose between airphoto and hillshade basemaps, zoom to desired extent, click on layers to see attributes, and export custom maps.
The Wayback app JuneauNature relies heavily on historical series from precisely registered aerial photographs, presented either in slideshows, with long…
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2012 | Richard Carstensen | 17 minutesOn receipt of the new DSM (digital surface model) from IfSAR missions at 5-meter pixel resolution, it became possible to…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 1 page