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Dave MacLean

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GIS Faculty, Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS); Fellow, Royal Canadian Geographical Society; co-Director, Esri Canada Centre of Excellence (COGS). My tweets
Just getting started on bluesky
Some astronaut-inspired maps: isspix.com/MapTourHowTo


Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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Very cool swirls of the coast of Newfoundland Island, taken 27 Apr 2024 by @NASA_Astronauts Michael Barratt. High-res is available via map-pin on interactive map isspix.com/ISS071 near Middle Arm and Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (location of ISS at photo time)

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Welcome to here; I’ve also recently joined from there! All the best & I look forward to your content!

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We had this red tail hawk perch in a tree in our backyard, this evening. Was there for about three minutes. Two pics from our deck. (iPhone15 and Samsung S24 Ultra)

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We’re lucky enough to have five or six inhabited osprey nests within 15-minute drives of our place. Here’s one in its nest at Granville Centre along Highway 1 in Nova Scotia. FujiFilm FinePix S1 (long zoom), Thursday 20 June 2024

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2/2: I just realized how easy it is for me to tpyo on this app, too! This is, of course, Sable Island.

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A wicked good view of SableI sland off Nova Scotia's coast. Taken by Matthew Dominick on the International Space Station on 14 Jun 2024, the north-down 210-mm high-res is available via the map-pin on isspix.com/ISS071.

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Oh my: those do look really cool - I’m glad that you did so!

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Stretches of the Ussuri (top) & Amur Rivers in way eastern Russia, after flowing from China, at right. Khabarovsk, Russia to the left of the rivers near bottom. Pic taken on 9 Apr 2024, from the ISS. North down

The 270-mm high-res is available via a pin on map isspix.com/ISS071.

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Good morning! I almost missed this one. Peeked under the bedroom blind, saw red, raced down here in my pjs. 😂

And if you’re wondering: no saturation, no enhancement, just what the phone camera captured.

#OceanDevotion #sunrise

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Fascinating geologic structures a little northwest of central #Mauritania with #Zouérat (and its airport) visible near top-centre of image, taken by Matthew Dominick on the ||+|| on 10 Apr 2024. High-res and more info (from others) available via four map-pins on isspix.com/ISS071.

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Amazing picture of #RedSprites taken by Astronaut Matthew Dominick from the International Space Station #ISS on June 3rd.
I reprocessed the image from the original RAW file and applied some light AI denoising to it. 🔭

flic.kr/p/2pXkHAU

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Bill Dollins's avatar Bill Dollins @geobabbler.bsky.social
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At the start of my career, I used Sol Katz's data translation code that I downloaded from FTP. I learned so much about geo data formats and building software on different platforms from that experience. Naming the award for Sol Katz might be my favorite thing I have ever seen done in the geo world.

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Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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There are (at least) five differences (not vegetation, windows, cars) — have fun!

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Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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Just updated our #COGS #ArcGISOnline home photo from a Sep 2021 pic (left) to one taken by @LaserNewf this morning, via a DJI drone with enhancements by Troy G (right)

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Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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Nice news; thanks for passing this along!

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Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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2/2 my mistake: Michael’s last name is Barratt

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Two river images: the Mamore (along the #Bolivia-#Brazil border, north to right) and the #Amazon, taken 2 min 40 sec and 1500 km apart, by Michael Barrett, on 20 May 2024. Original high-res are available via map-pins on isspix.com/ISS071.

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Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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We have two wonderful days of presentations by our students (in various programs) at #COGS, on their end-of-year geomatics-based projects. Today and tomorrow. Full info here: bit.ly/COGSPrjs2024 (COGS PRoJectS, 2024) Thanks to our fantastic sponsors. #GISchat

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Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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… that pin is where the ||+|| at photo time

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Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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Whoops - that was my fault - sorry:)

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Dave MacLean's avatar Dave MacLean @daveatcogs.bsky.social
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Just finished it; very worthwhile; best!

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