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GIS Lab Presents Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Research at National Conference

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The Carnegie Museum of Natural History GIS Lab has recently 3D model of a forest at Powdermillpresented research on forest ecology at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The lab has been using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to conduct efficient surveys of tornado blowdowns on the reserve. Hundreds of aerial photographs are stitched together to form a 3-dimensional model using a process called photogrammetry. The lab has developed a set of tools that use these 3D models to automatically identify tree locations, measure tree-level structural information, and estimate biomass. This poster explains the logic behind each of the tools, and explains the preliminary results of this work.
Stay tuned for further updates.

Download a PDF poster or view one of the mentioned 3D models.

 

Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells 2016 Q3 Update

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The latest version of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History  Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells data set is now available. The update includes all well records through September 30, 2016 and production through July 2016. As with previous versions of the data set, you can now Download the data without registering. For information about updates, see the Version Information page. For more information about the dataset, please see the Metadata and User License Agreement.  Please also check out our webmap.

Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells 2016 Q2 Update

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The latest version of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History  Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells data set is now available. The update includes all well records through June 30, 2016. As with previous versions of the data set, you can now Download the data without registering. For information about updates, see the Version Information page. For more information about the dataset, please see the Metadata and User License Agreement.  Please also check out our webmap, as well as PA DEP’s recently launched interactive map available on their oil and gas reporting site.  As we are currently experiencing an issue with our FTP site, please request a copy by email (GIS [at] carnegiemnh.org).

 

Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells 2016 Q1 Update

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The latest version of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History  Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells data set is now available. The update includes all well records through March 31, 2016 as well as production and waste through January 2016.. As with previous versions of the data set, you can now Download the data without registering. For information about updates, see the Version Information page. For more information about the dataset, please see the Metadata and User License Agreement.  Please also check out our webmap, as well as PA DEP’s recently launched interactive map available on their oil and gas reporting site.

 

Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells 2015 Q4 Update

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The latest version of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History  Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells data set is now available. The update includes all well records through the end of 2015. As with previous versions of the data set, you can now Download the data without registering. For information about updates, see the Version Information page. For more information about the dataset, please see the Metadata and User License Agreement.  Please also check out our webmap, as well as PA DEP’s recently launched interactive map available on their oil and gas reporting site.

 

Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells 2015 Q3 Update

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The latest version of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells data set is now available. The update includes all well records through September 30, 2015 as well as production and waste figures through July, 2015. As with previous versions of the data set, you can now download the data without registering. For information about updates, see the Version Information page. For more information about the dataset, please see the Metadata and User License Agreement.

 

Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells 2015 Q2 Update

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The latest version of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells data set is now available. The update includes all through June, 2015. Note: please see the accompanying metadata for information on minor changes to production and waste reporting corresponding to PA DEP now releasing monthly production and waste reports.  As with previous versions of the data set, you can now Download the data without registering. For information about updates, see the Version Information page. For more information about the dataset, please see the Metadata and User License Agreement.

Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells 2015 Q1 Update

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The latest version of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pennsylvania Unconventional Natural Gas Wells data set is now available. The update includes records through March 31, 2015, as well as production figures through January 2015.  Note: please see the accompanying metadata for information on minor changes to production and waste reporting corresponding to PA DEP now releasing monthly production and waste reports.  As with previous versions of the data set, you can now Download the data without registering. For information about updates, see the Version Information page. For more information about the dataset, please see the Metadata and User License Agreement.

 

GIS Lab Produces Childs Frick Abyssinia Expedition Web Map

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In collaboration with the CMNH Section of two explorers on the 1911-1912 expeditionMammals, the GIS Lab has produced a web map documenting the route and highlights of the 1911-1912 Childs Frick Abyssinian Expedition. Childs Frick is the son of renowened Pittsbugh industrialst Henry Clay Frick.  Over 500 mammals were collected for the Carnegie Museum during the expedition.

Click here to get more information on the expedition, as well as to see the web map.

Additional report data now available through unconventional wells map viewer

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You can now access records from seven DEP oil & gas reports Screenshot showing the related records button at the bottom of the recordthrough the GIS Lab’s unconventional wells map viewer. All records from the permits issued, SPUD, PUC, waste, compliance, production, and well formation reports are now available for each well in the map.  To access these records, click on a well of interest.  In the well pop up, click “Show Related Records” to access a table of records specific to that well.