Cristina's Map Analysis Blog: June 2008

Thursday, June 26, 2008

MODIS remote Sensing view in Google Earth

This is a picture of MODIS fire detection. All of the dots represent fires that have been detected i nthe past 7 days. They are categorized by the time they occured. as you can see, there are bad fires in California right now.

This can be pulled up in any Google Earth Application by clicking on the MODIS application.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lorenz Curve

This represents a Lorenz Curve. It shows the hoursehold income of people living in Maldives in 97/98 and 2002/2003.

http://www.frdp-maldives.gov.mv/hies/images/Lorenz_curve.jpg

Parallel Coordinate Graph

This is a parallel cooridinate graph of baseball statistics. It shows statistics from many different players. The top of the graph is the lead for that particular statistic.

http://www.matthewtavares.com/baseball_report/graph_allteams.bmp

DLG

http://edc.usgs.gov/images/dlg.gif
This is a DLG showing hydrography and transportation layers. The blue lines are the hydrography layer and the orange lines are roads.

Triangular Plot

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/images/20050407/triangle.png

This is a triangular plot of election votes. It shows where the votes are coming from: Conservative, liberal democrat or labour.