Search Results for: Alexander von Humboldt

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Witness to the Web of Life

In 1799, the Prussian naturalist, geographer, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt left Europe for the expedition of a lifetime.

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Smart GIS Enabling a Smarter World

GIS is enabling a smarter world to take shape. While advances in technology are certainly facilitating this evolution, it is the people who...

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Smart GIS Gives Rise to a Smarter, Safer World

The theme of this year's Esri User Conference was GIS—Enabling a Smarter World. From Lilian P. Coral with the City of Los Angeles...

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Good Reads

If you love geography, ocean science, and GIS, these seven books, including Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature, should top your reading list.

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Create a 3D Animation in ArcGIS Pro

Use ArcGIS Pro to create your own 3D scene and animation of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's expedition to South America in the late 1700s...

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Designing a Green Infrastructure

At the 2016 GeoDesign Summit, keynote speaker Arancha Muñoz-Criado, a landscape architect from Spain, talked about how areas can grow well.

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Design a Greener Future

What does it take to build a green infrastructure that improves everything from air quality to economic vitality?

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KnowWhereGraph Drives Cross-Domain Knowledge

Knowledge graphs originate from a vision of the World Wide Web that transitions from linked documents to linked data.

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Applying Science and Mapping to Safeguard Species: Half-Earth Project

In advance of the yearly conservation update on Half-Earth Day, inroads are being made on quantifying the value of nature for people and planet.

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