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INTRODUCTION The Science of Where: A Framework and a Process Introduction (How the Book and Website Work Together) What’s new in the 2nd Volume New Reflections from Pulitzer-Prize Winner Jared Diamond PART 1: How Earth Works US OceanReports Tool: Intelligent Web Application for Ocean Neighborhoods Global Islands GIS as a Scientific Workbench: Pacific Gyre/Ocean Plastics Subsurface Prediction for Earth Analytics PART 2: How Earth Looks Mapping Human Settlement Diverse Farms, Diverse Foods Emerging Hotspots of Forest Loss Sustainable Precision Agriculture Air Quality Monitoring with EPA’s AirNow PART 3: How We Look at Earth Urban Tree Canopy Mapping (small areas, big data!) Utilizing the NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) Geospatial Platform for Data Analysis NASA Disaster Mapping Portal: Leveraging GIS for Disaster Response, Recovery, Resilience and Reporting Machine Learning and Full Motion Video for Environmental Monitoring PART 4: Training Future Generations of Scientists Evolution of Students’ Spatial Skills PART 5: Technology Showcase Living Atlas Spilhaus Projected Coordinate System Excalibur (imagery platform) Insights Spatial Machine Learning Raster Function Chains Space-Time Cube Accessing multidimensional data via OpenDap and Thredds Time Series Clustering ArcGIS Earth, or failing that, Voxels Drone2Map Smart Mapping Operations Dashboard Atmospheric Modeling Global Polio Eradication or Ebola
