Tag: Center for Geographic Analysis

  • Nation & World

    Amid India elections, Harvard study aligns data with constituencies

    A team at the Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for Geographic Analysis has remapped a trove of health and wellness data to align it with political districts in India, to help voters in the world’s largest democracy better decide how to vote in the six-week election.

    4–5 minutes
    S.V. Subramanian.
  • Science & Tech

    Drone’s-eye view

    Researchers in recent years have begun applying the emerging technology of the drone aircraft to research efforts, and are now even using them to quickly create 3-D maps of ancient sites in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

    5–7 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Map making, made easy

    Developed by Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, WorldMap allows scholars to create, share, and publish maps and other geospatial data.

    2–3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    A quake data clearinghouse

    Within hours of the massive earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis had launched a web-based data clearinghouse, the Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal, to provide a site where disaster responders can find needed information.

    2–3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Online portal, created by Harvard center, improved on-the-ground earthquake response

    Count Harvard computer experts among those who responded swiftly to the deadly earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, throwing their expertise behind an effort to improve information flow for responders on the ground through a Web portal designed as a central data site. The Haiti Earthquake Data Portal was designed in the days following the Jan.…

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Portals into Haiti, Chile

    Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis created Web clearinghouses to aid information flow in response to Haiti’s and Chile’s earthquakes.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Thinking globally and mapping locally

    Akiyuki Kawasaki thinks globally and maps locally. To do that, the Japanese researcher, who is spending the academic year as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has developed software that allows researchers to predict how changes in population, land use, climate, urbanization, agriculture and other variables will affect water flow…

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Geography center launched

    Those of us who remember grammar-school geography lessons as a tedious affair involving a pink and green window shade map and a chalky wooden pointer would probably never guess that, in fact, it is estimated that 80 percent of all data contains a spatial component. That point was made clearly and colorfully at the launch…

    1–2 minutes