[Ráfaga] Nº1634: datasets, forests, newyork, venezuela, elevation

[Jorge Sanz]

Nº1634: datasets, forests, newyork, venezuela, elevation

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 by Raf

* Open Geospatial Datasets for GIS Education is a repository of open
geospatial datasets that have been selected, cleaned, harmonized, and
repackaged for GIS exercises in a higher education context

https://github.com/andrea-ballatore/open-geo-data-education

* The degradation of the forests of the Brazilian Amazon is currently
the process that most harms the CO2 cycle, according to a recent study
using data from ESA satellites

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/Forest_degradation_primary_driver_of_carbon_loss_in_the_Brazilian_Amazon

* The age of the buildings of the city of New York according to the
year of construction grouped by decades, of all the constructions or
only of the most emblematic

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/george.koursaros/viz/NYCBuildings_16222929546320/NYCBuildings

* "Nature on fire. 20 years of fires in Protected Areas of Venezuela"
is a very complete and documented scrollymap on forest fires in
Venezuela, which in 2020 was the country in the Amazon region with the
highest density of fires

https://prodavinci.com/naturalezaenllamas/

* "Terrain elevation viewer" is a small visual exercise that shows the
terrain elevation profile for the same isoline anywhere in the world
and at any zoom level

https://steveattewell.com/elevationviewer/#40.82529,14.65452,7.98,0.00,1.50

**********

web: https://geoinquiets.github.io/rafagas/
twitter: https://twitter.com/rafagaslinks