Climate and Natural Resources

The Watershed Investigations Pollution Map reveals a huge range of potential pollution sources that can harm rivers, lakes, groundwater, coasts and more.

Forest loss near Novo Progresso, Brazil reveals how roads drive Amazon deforestation patterns over 22 years.

This interactive map created by cartographer and ceramicist Hayley Cranberry shows the clay percentages of soil in several counties in the Hudson Valley region of upstate New York. Soil compsition must be 40% or more of clay texture to be considered clay.

A detailed map of individual tress organized by height (points), and tree density (heat map) in Washington D.C. showcasing how wooded areas provide critical corridors for wildlife to enter Northeast D.C. from surrounding river systems.

In a workshop hosted by The Deccan Archives Foundation, in collaboration with INTACH Hyderabad and ASEEM, collaborators mapped the historic core of the river Musi through on site visits, and sessions on history and ecology of the river by experts.

The Harvard Map Collection partnered with professor Joyce Chaplin and her students on an effort to understand historical biodiversity as they seek to re-wild spaces on campus. The project compares historical and contemporary images of Harvard Yard, revealing that despite its seemingly timeless appearance, many of its iconic features, including trees and buildings like Widener Library, are relatively recent additions from the early 20th century. This challenges the perception of Harvard Yard as an unchanging space and raises questions about potential future transformations of the landscape.

Economic R&D firm Beard Labs built a visualization of mangrove coverage and loss in Kenya and Somalia to monitor population trends for their clients.

Terrabotics, working for Jacobs Engineering New Zealand, rapidly and accurately surveyed the land topography and shallow water bathymetry around the South Tarawa and Temaiku island atoll, part of the Kiribati Pacific Island nation. Kiribati is threatened by sea level changes, and this project served to help planning for climate resilience programmes on the island. The results were presented to the UN and at COP23.

WATERSHED is an investigate journalism outfit operating out of the UK that has made extensive efforts to shine a light on watershed pollution through evidence-based reporting. Their latest project ties together various sources of geospatial data with Felt to provide a clear and alarming picture on the extent of pollution in the waters close to home.

This map shows average three day maximum highs above 100 degrees in areas that were predicted to be above normal temperatures and highs below 80 degrees in areas predicted to be below normal temperatures.

Macaranga, a Malaysian publication about sustainability, leveraged Felt to produce an interactive maps about deforestation using data from Department of Environment and Global Forest Watch.

Combine rasters to achieve cartographic affects, like this map of NOAA’s September-April 2023 cumulative snowfall raster over Richard Edes Harrison shaded relief.

Annotate on top of images to tell a story, like this Landsat imagery map of new vegetation growth after the Dixie Fire.

Raster data that contains color information, like this dataset from CropScape, will display with it’s own color scheme by default.

Sea surface temperature the week of September 4, 2022.

250,000 square miles of the Colorado River Basin.

The contours of the Island of Hawai'i displayed using continuous interpolation.

The complex geology of the African continent.

Study area drawn on top of high-resolution Planet imagery.

Specific imagery locations to be captured by satellites.

The average annual inches of precipitation in the state of Arizona.

India’s complex river network utilizing Felt's size-by-value visualization type.