#1104: drones, floods, simulator, profile
, last check: Wed, 26 Aug 2026. Post history
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drones
Drones equipped with LIDAR sensors are watching for invading species at Scottish forests
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48380213 -
floods
Using GISsurfer, a simple web service, to display central and south USA flood areas
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=37.860663,-93.051281&zoom=5&basemap=USA_basemap&overlay=Flood_major_or_moderate&txtfile=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_rain_flood.txt -
simulator
Trip Simulator generates a realistic synthetic location using open formats, to understand transport networks
https://medium.com/sharedstreets/the-sharedstreets-trip-simulator-1fd9bf8efa07 -
profile
A QGIS plugin to generate interactive web maps from elevation profile tracks
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/track_profile_2_web/
Raf