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National Geographic Fieldscope: Tools for Citizen Science

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Jessica Viel | Education, Environment, Nonprofit/NGO

Blue Raster worked with the National Geographic Society to develop FieldScope, a mapping and analysis tool that puts data visualization and analysis into the hands of people participating in citizen science projects. The application focuses on projects with geospatial data, called “community geography” projects. Members of the public participate in data collection and analyze the data for geographic patterns. Funded by… Read More

Department of Education

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Jessica Viel | Education

Blue Raster is pleased to be working with the U.S. Department of Education (National Center for Education Statistics- Institute of Education Sciences) on developing a new interactive mapping tool. The School District Demographics System has shown tremendous improvement over previous applications, including an increase in content and data for schools and districts nationwide and usability that will make… Read More