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  1. Eugene @[email protected] ·

    Which Calgary neighborhoods are best built to withstand summer heatwaves? 🌳☀️

    To measure structural climate resilience across the city, I conducted a spatial analysis of 193 established residential communities, calculating the Solid-to-Tree Ratio—comparing bare artificial surfaces (asphalt, concrete, rooftops) directly against total tree canopy area.

    Here are the Top 10 most shade-rich and climate-resilient communities in Calgary:
    🟢 Queens Park Village — 0.3 (Just 0.3 ha of hard surface for every 1 ha of canopy!)
    🟢 Discovery Ridge — 0.5
    🟢 Roxboro — 0.5
    🟢 Wildwood — 0.6
    🟢 Rideau Park — 0.7
    🟢 Medicine Hill — 0.8
    🟢 Upper Mount Royal — 0.8
    🟢 Crestmont — 0.9
    🟢 Elbow Park — 0.9
    🟢 Shaganappi — 0.9

    👇 The full interactive dataset and study are here:
    datastory.org.ua/calgarys-micr

    #UrbanAnalytics #GeospatialData #RemoteSensing #GIS #UrbanForestry #CityPlanning #Calgary #DataScience #Microclimate #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary #RStats #FOSSGIS

    #datascience #rstats #calgary #machinelearning #gis #remotesensing
  2. 💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] ·

    Improving our Coasts with High-Resolution Land Cover Data [#NOAA]
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    coast.noaa.gov/states/stories/ <-- shared technical article
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    coast.noaa.gov/ccapatlas/ <-- on-demand, online NOAA CCAP Landcover Atlas
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    coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/da <-- #opendata C-CAP High-Resolution Land Cover
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    Use Case Examples:
    • Flood Inundation Modeling and Risk Assessment
    • Stormwater Management and Water Quality Protection
    • Heat Risk and Urban Forestry
    • Wetland Monitoring, Conservation, or Restoration Planning
    • Other – e.g., Discovering Gaps in Broadband Access
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    #GIS #spatial #mapping #NOAA #DigitalCoast #LandCover #CoastalManagement #GeospatialData #EnvironmentalData #ResilientCommunities #landcover #usecase #economics #remotesensing #earthobservation #opendata #floodinnundation #waterquality #water #hydrology #risk #hazard #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #stormwater #management #heatrisk #urbanforestry #wetland #monitoring #conservation #planning #resortation
    @noaa #NOAAOfficeForCoastalManagement

    #noaa #opendata #gis #spatial #mapping #digitalcoast