The holiday season is upon us, and while we all wait in anticipation for the man in the red suit to deliver presents, there’s a small team of scientists who have taken on a Herculean task: tracking Santa Claus in real time. Enter NORAD, Biomedware, and a pinch of...
Spatial and space-time data visualization are not new concepts, and there are many proven techniques that streamline the visualization process of geospatial data. Before doing anything with data, it always helps to have a plan, and that plan begins with the...
At its core, Geospatial data involves information about the physical location and characteristics of features and events on Earth. Geospatial data can be collected from various sources, including satellite imagery, GPS devices, mobile phones, and social media...
Have you ever wondered how scientists map things like soil quality, air pollution, or even the spread of disease? These maps often rely on data collected at specific locations, but what about the areas in between? This is where geostatistics comes in. Geostatistics is...
The world is ever-changing, dynamic, and beautiful. For a long time, GIS did not capture this space-time dynamism, and instead was based on a static world-view. But times have changed, and our ability to capture space-time dynamics and to analyze and model dynamic...
In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), one of the most intriguing and impactful frontiers is the integration of geostatistical learning. Geostatistics, the science of analyzing and modeling spatial variability, has found a natural ally in AI,...
A major problem in the geospatial analysis of health events is identifying “true” excesses in health outcomes and disease risk. Most cancers, for example, occur at a “background” rate, often due to the underlying DNA mutation rate. This background mutation rate is...
BioMedware is delighted to announce the release of Vesta 2.0, a state-of-the-art geospatial analysis software funded with grants from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Vesta is an acronym for “Visualization and...
Geostatistics—a branch of statistics tailored for spatial data analysis—has seen significant advancements in recent years. Kriging and Co-Kriging are popular geostatistical techniques for spatial interpolation and prediction. These methods are essential in various...
Our team recently published a blog on missing data and how it can be handled in GIS applications such as Vesta. This topic resonated with several of our readers, who raised important points we would like to discuss further. The first blog observed that missing data...