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In one of our most recent Location Matters podcast episodes, BigQuery Product Manager at Google, Chad Jennings and Director of Spatial Data Science, Matt Forrest, both acknowledged that for the up and coming GIS experts, it was a must to learn Spatial Structured Query Language (SQL). But why? As a society, we are ingesting more…
Traditionally, maps have been static images on paper that were only referred to when requiring specific locations. They seldom change and had large print runs in frequency cycles of three to five years. The industry changed with the advent of online mapping services and libraries from technology providers like Google, HERE Technologies, Esri, Mapbox, and…
Google Analytics is a staple component in most business intelligence team’s decision making processes. It provides insights about traffic sources to your website, tracks the success of your paid Ad campaigns and monitors the buyer’s purchasing behavior. However, despite the wonderful insights you can glean using Google Analytics, the location data attached to each prospect’s…
Good news Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) users! If you want to crunch your GIS data in BigQuery, it’s now possible with FME available in the Google Cloud Marketplace. This announcement is a gamechanger as it means that geospatial data processing power can now be performed at a previously unmatched level. GIS professionals are really excited…
My own GIS weapon of choice was born of a development by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Construction Engineering Research Laboratory over 35 years ago – and I attest that GRASS GIS is still one of the best GIS desktop tools in my opinion (but that’s for another Geotech Friday). However, two other weapons that have…
A digital cultural recording is the use of mapping technology and other digital technology recorders, such as video and audio clippings, to document and map the cultural knowledge in the minds of Indigenous Elders. These recordings are crucial as (a lot of the time) Elders can sometimes be too sick to go out on country…
For years, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing methods have been utilised in various industries for visualisation, monitoring and management. However, the potential to use GIS to work from home or the office is increasing in popularity as we face various levels of restrictions and safety precautions due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. These…
Machine learning (ML) is when algorithms learn from data to find patterns, make decisions and evaluate their performance using a specified dataset. This is useful for applications such as image analysis in remote sensing work. Recently, deep learning – a subclass of ML – has become increasingly popular for image processing and computer vision problems….
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