What can I do to celebrate World Water Day?
What can I do to celebrate World Water Day?
Category Archives: Article
A Quick Look into Two Worlds: Video Games and GIS
This week we are celebrating Iowa’s Computer Science Education Week – December 4-10, 2023. As part of this celebration, IowaView has a special post from guest blogger, Wael Alhaj, a GIS Analyst with the ISU GIS Facility. A Quick Look into Two Worlds: Video Games and GISBy Wael Alhaj How Games and Maps Draw You
Happy Thanksgiving! Two maps showing the hubs of dinner staples
This week as you gather with family and friends for a nice holiday meal take a minute to think the people who grew or produced your food and about all the places different staples come from. Below are two maps, “Where does Thanksgiving Dinner Grow?” created by Linda Zellmer and “Mapping the Thanksgiving Harvest” by
A Story Map Celebrating Black History And Iowa History Months
February was Black History Month and March is Iowa History Month (as well as Women’s History Month). We are highlighting a map that celebrates Black Iowans in Dubuque, Iowa. Last fall, the City of Dubuque produced an ArcGIS Story Map called Finding Dubuque: Uncovering Dubuque’s Black Heritage. This Story Map shares stories of some of
IowaView Staff Make STEAM at Art Educators Fall Conference
Art Educators of Iowa website: http://www.artedia.org/ Archive of 2022 AEI Conference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O5poy2HMwH1LoF0XTq_mX1E4SKHxuMVDep5ffEG1vZU/edit?tab=t.0
Aerial Photo Dates Layer: A Helpful Tip for Getting the Most of ISU Orthoserver
The Iowa Orthoserver (also known as the Iowa Geographic Map Server) has a variety of resources available to enhance and serve users. Today we are highlighting the Aerial Photo Dates layer. This layer allows users to determine the date of a particular image. Here are the basic steps to using the Aerial Photo Dates layer
Oh how the years go by: 40 years – Mount St. Helens
This week marks 40 years since the Mount St. Helens eruption. The image above is from the USGS Earthshots trading card series. The images are displayed in color infrared which is useful for showing living vegetation in red. The mountains surrounding Mount St. Helens are primarily forest. Notice the extreme change in the landscape from
Happy Orbit Day to Hubble Space Telescope!
Today we celebrate 30 years since the Hubble Space Telescope began it’s orbit above Earth. In these thirty years, NASA has been able to discover and photograph so many new areas of our universe. The Hubble Space Telescope was the first major optical telescope to be placed in space. This placement in space allows the
USGS Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change
The USGS has produced an amazing collection of images (also available as trading cards!) that show Earth’s change over time. The Earthshot collection has a wide variety of examples of change over time including: – natural phenomena changes (glaciers, deserts,) – social change (city growth,) – human interaction with the natural world (mining, deforestation, agriculture,)
What does social distancing look like? – A View from Space
A couple weeks ago Bloomberg News posted an interesting article (click here to read the article) showing how the stay at home orders are effecting areas around the world using high resolution satellite imagery. Below is an example showing Venice, Italy on October 20, 2019 compared to March 18, 2020 after the residents were asked