Posts by geogadmin

A 1974 article by Professor Rick Church and Dr. Charles ReVelle, titled “The Maximal Covering Location Problem,” has been cited 1,484 times (Church, Richard, and Charles R. Velle. “The maximal covering location problem.” Papers in Regional Science 32.1 [1974]: 101-118). It opens by stating: “The belief that mathematical location modeling can identify ‘optimal’ location patterns rests on the basis that some realistic...

GIS Day is the third Wednesday of November in each year, during  Geography Awareness Week. As a global event, GIS day provides a great opportunity for GIS researchers and users to exchange ideas and present works to a wide audience. Accordingly, GIS Day is celebrated by many universities, including Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkley, Penn State University, Ohio State University, SUNY Buffalo, and so forth. With a top-ranking program,...

“Before going into hibernation in the early hours of 15 November 2014, the Philae lander was able to conduct experiments and return its data to Earth. In this [ESA Rosetta] blog post we look at the preliminary analysis conducted by the lander’s Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Subsurface Science instrument package, MUPUS”: MUPUS began observing the environment around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko once Philae...