Very Spatial has published a video made by NASA that explains why Hurricane Sandy behaved the way that it did.
Speaking of Hurricane Sandy, Esri has created a map that charts how the hurricane has affected voter turn-out in the US election. I always find it interesting when natural disasters (something the candidates have no control over) change the course of political history. GIS Café has the details.
For anyone interested in the US election, GIS Lounge has published presidential election maps for every election since 1968.
While not technically a blog, New Zealand Geospatial Strategy has published a handy list of SDI-compliant software, ostensibly to help with participating in the New Zealand SDI, but applicable as a reference for those in Australia (and elsewhere), too.
NASA and the Californian Institute of Technology have developed a method to use a specialized NASA 3-D imaging radar to characterise the oil in oil spills, such as the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The research can be used to improve response operations during future marine oil spills.
Live Science has a piece that talks of the recent discovery that the 2011 earthquake that occurred in Spain, killing 9 people, was caused by groundwater removal. That such a small change in the underground environment can trigger such a large – and devastating – event has come as a surprise.
O’Reilly Radar has a post concerning a recent panel focussed on the Smart Grid (the prospective electrical distribution system that will set prices dynamically and let consumers sell electricity to other users easily). Two main questions are asked: who will own the data, and; Will users be overloaded by decision making?
Bjørn Sandvik from the Thematic Mapping Blog has posted a wrap-up of his recent trip to New Zealand, including info on all the mapping that he did while he was down there.
