Tag: GIS

In Your Own Backyard: Mapping Communities Near Superfund Sites

Map showing a portion of Passaic, Bergen, and Rockland Counties

The NPL Superfund Footprint Mapper is an interactive, online mapping application—a clickable map—that lets users visualize a rich variety of population and environment characteristics of areas in the vicinity of Superfund sites.

Track the Number of People in Irene’s Path

by | 8.27.2011 at 2:24pm
Hurricane Map

As Hurricane Irene barrels up the East Coast, the number of people affected is rising. Based on calculations at 2 pm on Saturday, more than 47 million people were within 100 miles of the storm track; and nearly 69 million within 200 miles, according to Columbia’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network(CIESIN). Visit CIESIN’s [...]

Updated Map Viewer Enables Visualization of Socioeconomic and Earth Science Data

by | 6.24.2011 at 11:32am | 1 Comment
Four maps of countries for comparison.

Terra Viva SEDAC Viewer, a map viewer and standalone software application, has been updated for 2011 with the addition of several new SEDAC data sets, including climate change scenario data and indicator collections with hundreds of variables. Terra Viva contains map data and GIS functions in one package. An excellent tool for educators, as well [...]