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Attack of the Drones: UAVs in Education Attack of the Drones A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away drones took over the Grand Ballroom. An ominous buzz filled the room as the drones zoomed, gained altitude, and spun into unknowing bystanders. The room was... Read More
2016 Summer Meeting Drones Field Trip Update (Posted: Tuesday 10:00am) The Drone Field Trip is upon us! Looking at the weather forecast, it is supposed to be quite hot and possibly rainy in the afternoon. We are hoping that all will go forward as planned, but please do keep in mind that this will be a... Read More
Connecting Communities: identifying synergies between international integration initiatives Do you find yourself calling in to multiple working groups on the same topic, for example, Semantics? Data Rescue? Data management and preservation? Do you feel like you live in a universe where you discuss your favorite research topic on monthly... Read More
Droning the Castle Hill Rock Formation and Building 3D Models with Photoscan & Drone2Map This is my second blog post in a short series on my research trip to New Zealand. You can find Post #1 here. This is also cross-posted with a post on my github-pages blog. Find it ... Read More
Welcome Spring 2016 ESIP Members The ESIP Assembly has accepted five new member organizations this spring, bringing total membership in ESIP to 185 organizations. The new ESIP members are: Ronin Institute for Independent... Read More
Geoinformatics Sessions at the 2016 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting At this year's Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Denver, 25-28 September, 2016), there will be several Geoinformatics-related sessions. You can view all of these sessions at ... Read More
Summer Meeting Check-In System ESIP has designed a new web application that combines online attendance tracking for telecons and meeting sessions, with a highly... Read More
The Julia Language – perspectives from a bad programmer I should confess, I don't have the best programming etiquette. I treat programming languages as a tool to help me do science, a tool that I sometimes abuse. I’d link my GitHub as proof, but I haven’t updated it in forever because I forget to use... Read More
ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Student Fellow Summer Updates On Wednesday, June 15th, I got an opportunity to attend the Data Science Credentialing Editorial Board meeting at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) headquarter in Washington, D.C., and it was a wonderful opportunity for me to meet the... Read More
Documentation Cluster Blog: ESIP Summer Meeting Metadata Improvement Lab Complete documentation of scientific data is the surest way to facilitate discovery and reuse, particularly if you use a metadata dialect that has been standardized. What is complete metadata though? How can you be sure that what you include in... Read More