Kai Sonder
@kaisonder.bsky.social
Agricultural geographer, futurist, cyclist, zwifter, Member of Noodles, passionate coffee drinker
#30DayMapChallenge - Day 27 Boundaries Earth system boundaries and where we transgress Data from Rockström 2023 and FAO
#30DayMapChallenge - Day 26 - Transport Busiest airports by passenger traffic Atlanta takes the crown with 108 million in 2024 Data from #wikipedia and #ACI
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25 — Hexagons Cell tower distribution in UBER H3 hexagons level 5 in Mexico, Data from @opencellid through kaggle
#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names Locality names in Mexico between Religion and Revolution DATA from @inegi.bsky.social
Day 20: Water #30DayMapChallenge Just of the press from our colleagues at @iwmi.bsky.social water footprint of crops. Green and blue water consumption for maize
Day 19: Projections #30DayMapChallenge Global maize production areas in Peirce quincuncial projection
#30DayMapChallenge Day 18 — Out of this World One of the amazing things nowadays is open access to data, in this case from Mars thx to the @NASA MOLA mission (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter). Places I've read about in many SF books I can now visit and visualize in 3D.
Day 17 #30DayMapChallenge New Tool #KorayRender RStudio 3D Map Simulator by @kryaclan korayaclan.github.io/korayrender/ Great tool that helps you make 3D images of cities. Here parts of downtown Frankfurt where I used to go a lot as a teenager
#30dayMapChallenge day 16: Cell Mexico 2020 wheat production area by UBER H3 level 5 cells Data @INEGI and @IFPRI SPAM
Day 15 of the #30DayMapChallenge Fire. Burning of crop residues creates emissions. The map shows about 60k agricultural fires detected in 2024 by the NASA FIRMS program. Conservation agriculture as promoted by @cimmyt.bsky.social and FIRA use these crop residues to increase soil health and yields.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 13 - 10 minute map Deforestation in Mexico 2001 to 2024 Data from Hansen et al, 2013, University of Maryland GLAD, Global Forrest Watch (GFW) and NASA
In the year 2525, if man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find: #30DayMapChallenge — Day 12: Map of 2125
#30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Air The obvious one is air quality, annual PM2.5 particles from Wei et al., 2023 in Nature Communications. Interesting to see natural and human hot spots.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 9 - Analog Time to cheat as I don't draw well enough to do analog National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) topo map and 15 m elevation model off the place I work at @cimmyt.bsky.social
#30DayMapchallenge Day 8, Urban. Data from European Commission (JRC), Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN) and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, rendered with #aerialod Urban areas in Mexico
Day 6 of #30DayMapChallenge: Dimensions Some countries pop up (USA, China, Brazil), some stay almost the same (Mexico, Turkey) some disappear (Australia UK). 2023 maize production as a cartogram. Thx to @fao.org stat and Gastner et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci (2018) online tool.
#30DayMapChallenge – Day 5: Earth Given the importance of these, global occurrence of rare earth elements according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the great hashtag#rayrender package in R.
#30DayMapChallenge Day4: My Data/Our Data Use of cost distance grids to review and plan for improved accessibility of farmers in Central Mexico to conservation agriculture machinery for climate change adaptation and more regenerative farming practices within @cimmyt.bsky.social MasAgro initiative.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 3 - Polygons While Mexico is still recovering from several years of drought, here is how 2024 looked like. Great drought data from @conagua_mx and inspiration from ESRI's @John_M_Nelson
