Blue Raster recently completed a high-resolution drone mapping project at The Henry Ford Museum campus in Dearborn, Michigan. By combining drone technology with GIS, our team produced a custom vector basemap using Drone2Map and ArcGIS Pro—helping the Facilities Team, students, and visitors alike.
At Blue Raster, we believe that well-designed, data-driven solutions can bring people together and foster meaningful connections. Our ongoing collaboration with the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), Section of the Americas perfectly illustrates this principle. Through the creation of an ArcGIS Experience Builder application, we’ve helped FWCC more effectively map and connect Quaker communities across the region, advancing their mission to nurture fellowship, communication, and spiritual unity.
The Jane Goodall Institute’s Tapestry of Hope project weaves together uplifting stories of individuals, organizations, and communities working to protect the environment, support wildlife, and uplift human well-being. This dynamic platform highlights the collective impact of grassroots efforts around the world—encouraging visitors to explore, share, and become part of a global movement dedicated to creating a brighter future.
Blue Raster partnered with the Nature Conservancy’s Freshwater Community-Led Conservation Program to develop a series of StoryMaps that shed light on their work with Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC) around freshwater ecosystems, highlighting their efforts to propagate and enhance community-led conservation initiatives across Africa and Latin America.
NC required Blue Raster’s support in meeting its main goals for the Coastal Restoration Opportunities project, which included delineating, mapping, and quantifying coastal restoration opportunities for five coastal habitats in the United States; Establishing natural historical and current habitat occurrences through research, subject matter expert surveys, and literature reviews; Creating interactive restoration opportunities maps.
In order to enhance the nonprofit’s efforts, Blue Raster needed to first streamline its GIS operations. To do so, our team reviewed Natural Lands’ existing GIS architecture, datasets, and services, and proposed a migration strategy to ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1.
Blue Raster is helping Clark Labs, an entity of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, with critical enhancements to its coastal habitat web mapping application that tracks and maps mangroves, pond aquaculture, and coastal habitats from all around the globe.
Our team assisted WRI with some updates to make MapBuilder more user-friendly for the general public to access and use. To do so, we created a WordPress site that provides a workflow to create a configuration file and offers step-by-step tutorials.
With a goal to enhance and increase the efficiency of major conservation efforts and prevent species extinction across the ASEAN Region, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) partnered with NatureServe—a nonprofit that provides biodiversity data to a plethora of conservation organizations—to create an interactive, online biodiversity dashboard.
The Innovation Atlas Score is calculated using socio-economic attributes, school attributes and validated research to provide insight into where students are least likely to innovate and why these students are least likely to innovate.
