GIS Ed Weekly: When a student poster ends up on a UN website

Resources for teaching and learning

Earth Observatory: Satellite Observes Power Outages in New Orleans - "A team of scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) has mapped the outages using satellite data. The images above show nighttime lights data acquired on August 9 and 31 by the Suomi NPP satellite. The base maps make use of data collected by the Landsat 8 satellite." Visit the site for the swipe map; very powerful.

The Guardian: Atlas of the Invisible: using data to map the climate crisis - "Graphics from a new book show causes and consequences that are hard to detect with the naked eye." The book is by UCL geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti.