Digital Coast

GDP, Real GDP, and Chained (2005) Dollars

Submitted by Jennifer Zhuang on February 19, 2013

What’s the difference between GDP and Real GDP? And how should we use them?


Valentine's Day Poetry

Submitted by Nate Herold on February 13, 2013

Happy Valentine's Day! Since you're here at the GeoZone Blog, we assume you are celebrating the occasion in style, so we thought we would give you a special treat.


As If We Need a Reason to Party

Submitted by John McCombs on February 8, 2013

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, NASA is giving all us remote sensing geeks a great big present...


Keeping It Real With CanVis

Submitted by Matthew Carey on February 6, 2013

CanVis is a really cool visualization tool that allows users to “see” potential impacts of development and natural processes by inserting objects on top of a background image to create a photorealistic image.


How to Download Lots of Lidar on Digital Coast

Submitted by Kirk Waters on January 28, 2013

We’ve changed the way we store our point data so it is compressed and that has allowed us to put the data where you can pick up big chunks at once. 


Change is Ninety Percent Based on the Data...and the Other Half is Based on Your Interpretation

Submitted by Nate Herold on January 22, 2013

One thing I see/hear a lot is people getting confused by percentages of change that are quoted to them or people incorrectly stating the percentages of change relating to features in the data they are using.


Time and Tide Wait for No Man-or Imagery Collection

Submitted by John McCombs on January 8, 2013

The tide level when your imagery is acquired may or may not have an influence on what you are trying to capture. Is your feature of interest impacted by the tide?


The Twelve Days of (Geospatial) Christmas

Submitted by Nate Herold on December 20, 2012

On the twelfth day of Christmas my geospatial techy gave to me...


Beach Volume Change Measurements from Lidar- How Close is Close?

Submitted by Keil Schmid on December 10, 2012

I had an interesting call the other day with someone who was inquiring about high accuracy lidar data for looking at beach renourishment volume calculations.


Sifting Through the Volumes of Hurricane Sandy Post-Storm Data

Submitted by Doug Marcy on November 28, 2012

Wow there is a lot of Post-Sandy data out there!


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