Tag: Esri

Blue Raster Presents Emerging Hotspots of Global Tree Cover Loss

Posted on by Angela Wertman

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Blue Raster is excited to attend and present at the 2015 Earth Observation in the Cloud Demo Day on November 10th. Michael Lippmann and Jon Nordling will be presenting on our work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Earth Observation Data. The talk will highlight how big data analysis provided by AWS is helping pinpoint emerging hotspots of tree cover loss around the world. The project is part of a collaboration between Blue Raster, the World Resources Institute (WRI) Global Forest Watch Team and the Esri Big Data Team. For more information about the event, visit Amazon’s Earth Observation in the Cloud Demo Day site.

Behind-the-scenes look at producing the maps:

Blue Raster at Amazon's Earth Observation in the Cloud Demo Day

 

See the full presentation here:

 

The Hidden Cost of Suspension

Posted on by Christina Nordling

The Hidden Cost of SuspensionAs part of the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) new public awareness campaign, #RethinkDiscipline, Blue Raster launched The Hidden Cost of Suspension story map in partnership with Sanametrix. Since 2011, the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice have collected data on suspensions, expulsions, and other practices that remove students from instruction.

To make their data comprehensible at a glance by decision makers and the public, ED turned to Blue Raster to create a series of maps to be shared on social media. Through this story map, the public can better understand the prevalence of out-of-school suspensions in their communities.
The application was developed using Esri’s side accordion story map template that allows users to step through three maps.

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“Creating and sustaining safe, supportive schools is absolutely essential to ensuring students can engage in the rich learning experiences they need for success in college, work and life – that’s why rethinking school discipline is critical to boosting student achievement and improving school outcomes,” 

-Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education

This story map was highlighted in the articles below:

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