Author: GISGeography

We help you learn Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing

How Does ArcGIS Insights Work?

ArcGIS Insights is the fusion of spatial analysis from GIS, data science (R and Python), and BI workflows which are all integrated into one place.

Spatial resolution is how detailed objects are in an image based on pixels. But spectral resolution is the amount of spectral detail in a band.

Story meet map. Story maps are an interactive way to display a particular event, issue, place, or trend with a focus on location.

Esri’s Living Atlas of the World is the largest curation of maps, apps, and data layers from authoritative providers around the world.

Here’s a list of non-geospatial tools we’ve all got secretly in our back pockets. It’s the functionality that GIS just isn’t cut out to do!

A Western Sahara map – the disputed region in the northwest of Africa with a reference map, satellite imagery, and an elevation map.

A map of the US Virgin Islands that features its groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea with satellite imagery, settlements, roads, and bays.

A map of Turks and Caicos that displays its islands in the Atlantic Ocean with satellite imagery, settlements, roads, points, and bays.

A map of Tokelau that displays its collection of atolls remotely located in the Pacific Ocean with points, bays, islands, and settlements.

A map of Saint Helena – the remote collection of islands in the Atlantic Ocean with points, bays, settlements, airports, roads, and mountains.