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and user-friendly for both mobile and web platforms.
Discover new places to connect with nature across the island of Martha’s Vineyard on the all-new TrailsMV mobile app, featuring a dynamic redesign using state-of-the-art ArcGIS technology. Read More
Blue Raster partnered with the Nature Conservancy’s Freshwater Community-Led Conservation Program to develop a series of StoryMaps that shed light on their work with Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC) around freshwater ecosystems, highlighting their efforts to propagate and enhance community-led conservation initiatives across Africa and Latin America. Read More
Last week was the American Public Garden Associations’ (APGA) Annual Conference in Forth Worth, Texas. Over 1,000 people in the community attended to learn from each other’s success stories and best practices around garden management, public engagement, horticulture, plant curation, conservation, and education. Christopher Gabris, Blue Raster’s Public Gardens Practice Lead, traveled to network with… Read More
NC required Blue Raster’s support in meeting its main goals for the Coastal Restoration Opportunities project, which included delineating, mapping, and quantifying coastal restoration opportunities for five coastal habitats in the United States; Establishing natural historical and current habitat occurrences through research, subject matter expert surveys, and literature reviews; Creating interactive restoration opportunities maps. Read More
In order to enhance the nonprofit’s efforts, Blue Raster needed to first streamline its GIS operations. To do so, our team reviewed Natural Lands’ existing GIS architecture, datasets, and services, and proposed a migration strategy to ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1. Read More
Blue Raster is pleased to release the new build for the LEARN (Land Emissions and Removals Navigator) Tool. Built in partnership with Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), the LEARN Tool allows for community inventorying of the effects of land use change on greenhouse gas emissions. This tool empowers policy makers, local governments, and community members to make informed decisions on environmental and climate policy. Read More
Blue Raster is helping Clark Labs, an entity of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, with critical enhancements to its coastal habitat web mapping application that tracks and maps mangroves, pond aquaculture, and coastal habitats from all around the globe. Read More
Our team assisted WRI with some updates to make MapBuilder more user-friendly for the general public to access and use. To do so, we created a WordPress site that provides a workflow to create a configuration file and offers step-by-step tutorials. Read More
With a goal to enhance and increase the efficiency of major conservation efforts and prevent species extinction across the ASEAN Region, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) partnered with NatureServe—a nonprofit that provides biodiversity data to a plethora of conservation organizations—to create an interactive, online biodiversity dashboard. Read More
Audubon has partnered with Blue Raster to create the Bird Migration Explorer- an immersive application that teaches users about the joy of migration. By mapping the over 450 bird species, and visualizing the conservation needs of high priority areas, the Bird Migration Explorer tells the stories of birds across the hemisphere. This application is designed to excite, engage and inform a variety of users from birders to conservationists to researchers. Blue Raster helped make this application a reality by configuring, publishing, and visualizing data. Read More