Sample Products

New Mexico Watch Demonstration Project – Statewide Webmap

Friday, September 16th, 2011

The "New Mexico Watch Demonstration Project" (nmwatch.org) that focuses on Statewide Wildfire Reporting is an example of building onto the existing structure created by the Broadband Program. The interactive website distributes maps, data, and related information of natural disasters within New Mexico. Functionality includes, but is not limited to allowing ...

Office of the State Engineer Historic Map Georectification

Friday, September 16th, 2011

In 2010 and 2011 EDAC contracted with the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer to georectify several hundred historic water related maps. The first project was to georectify hydrographic survey maps of the Pecos Basin using the 2005 statewide digital aerial imagery as the mapping base. Some of the ...

Petroglyph National Monument Land Cover Mapping Project

Friday, September 16th, 2011

From 2007 to 2011, EDAC, in conjunction with Natural Heritage New Mexico, mapped the land cover of the 7,000 acre Petroglyph National Monument. Although covering a relatively small area, the park with its volcanoes and lava cliffs found at the transition between the Great Plains, the Desert Basin and the ...

Harris County Ortho-Photography Project

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

As part of a project being conducted by URS Corp to map the land-use change in Harris County, Texas (greater Houston), EDAC was contracted in 2011 to create an ortho-photo map of the county using aerial photography acquired in 1983.  At that time the National High Altitude Program acquired some ...

New Mexico Native Nation Lands Map (Sample Map)

Friday, August 5th, 2011



GIS as a Powerful Communication and Community Empowerment Tool (Sample Poster)

Friday, August 5th, 2011



New Mexico Broadband Mapping Program

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

The New Mexico Broadband Program (NMBB) is part of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) State Broadband Initiative (SBI), which implements the joint purposes of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Broadband Data Improvement Act. The SBI program facilitates the integration of broadband and information ...

New Mexico Public School Facilities Authority – Statewide Webmap

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

The New Mexico Public Schools Facilities Authority (PSFA) Statewide Web Map http://psfa.unm.edu was developed to communicate information about public schools in the State of New Mexico. The Web Map displays the public school information including school enrollment numbers, school capacity calculations, the New Mexico Facilities Database ranking information, and community ...

Probability and Risk Assesment of Sewer Line Failure (Sample Model)

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011



International Charter on Space and Major Disasters

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Begun in 1999, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters is a cooperative agreement between the world’s major space agencies to pool their remote sensing satellites and archival imagery libraries to aid countries whose people are impacted by natural or man-made disasters. When a disaster occurs the Charter members ...

EDAC’s Dust Modeling and Public Health Work : NASA Blog

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

NASA's "What on Earth" blog has posted excerpts from an interview that they conducted with EDAC's Stan Morain before he presented information about our work with the University of Arizona, Marshall Space Flight Center, and New Mexico's Department of Health in modeling dust events in the Southwestern US at the ...

Bandelier National Monument Land Cover Mapping Project

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

From 2001 to 2009, EDAC, in conjunction with Natural Heritage New Mexico, mapped the land cover of the 34,000 acre Bandelier National Monument in north-central New Mexico.  The monument presented some unique challenges, from an elevation difference of 5,000 feet, to a terrain that includes riverine and lacustrine habitats, deep ...

Guadalupe Mountains National Park Land Cover Mapping Project

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Beginning in 2005, EDAC in conjunction with Natural Heritage New Mexico mapped the land cover of the 86,000 acre Guadalupe Mountains National Park in western Texas.  A diverse range of environments are found in the park from the gypsic dunes and alkali playas on the west side, to the oak ...

Geospatial Technical Assistance to Sandia National Laboratories

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Almost continuously since 1994 EDAC has provided the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories with technical assistance in remote sensing and GIS technology. The mission of the CMC is to demonstrate the various unclassified technologies that can be used in border monitoring, arms control, and international security. EDAC ...

New Mexico DEM Map (Sample Map)

Friday, June 6th, 2008

A Digital Elevation Map of New Mexico Derived from the USGS National Elevation Data Set (GIS Sample Product)