IGIS

urgent needs from the Philippines, from tweets and images YolandaPH is a ESRI-based mapping platform for post-disaster response in the Philippines. Snapshot above.

From suddenoakdeath.org. The United Kingdom (UK) Forestry Commission has updated its P. ramorum larch outbreak map (http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-86ajqa) to include Northern Ireland.

The UC system and Esri, the world leader in GIS software, have an agreement that allows each UC campus to distribute software to students and faculty.

From Greg Brown. Helsinki, Finland is developing a new city plan for the future (http://www.hel.fi/wps/portal/Kaupunkisuunnitteluvirasto_en). Helsinki becomes possibly the first major world city to use PPGIS to inform its comprehensive city planning process.

From Martin Isenburg, the brain behind LAStools. Using LAStools, ArcGIS, and Photoshop, GRAFCAN has produced a LiDAR-derived digital suface model (DSM) that is seriously doped up: a synthetic map providing an intuitive understanding of the landscape.