Geographic information systems (GIS) technology has many critical real-world applications. At Stratfor, our in-house creative squad uses GIS to create original, illuminating graphics to highlight emerging trends inwards geopolitics that are defined past times geography. Check out to a greater extent than or less of our favorite examples of visual information inwards this master copy collection.
This icon represents electricity utilization inwards the Levant expanse of the Middle East past times depicting the evolving intensity of nighttime lights betwixt 2012 together with 2016. As millions of refugees fled Syrian Arab Republic together with warfare destroyed the country's electricity network, the night-light intensity inwards Syrian Arab Republic dropped precipitously. Read more
The geography of the Russian Empire bequeathed it sure as shooting characteristics. Most important, the empire was (and remains) lightly settled. Even today, vast areas of Russian Federation are unpopulated piece inwards the residue of the province the population is widely distributed inwards pocket-size towns together with cities together with far less concentrated inwards large urban areas. Read more
China is bordered past times terrain that is hard to traverse inwards virtually whatever direction. There are to a greater extent than or less areas that tin live traversed, but to empathize Communist People's Republic of China nosotros must laid about past times visualizing the mountains, jungles together with wastelands that enclose it. This outer musical rhythm out both contains together with protects China. Read more
The American geography dooms whoever controls the territory to beingness a global power, but at that spot are a number of other outcomes that shape what that ability volition live like. The root together with virtually critical is the affect of that geography on the American mindset. Read more
Uganda has witnessed i of its virtually important political spats inwards recent years next the arrest of a pop-star-turned-politician. Bobi Wine's arrest together with subsequent accuse of treason sparked protests inwards the landlocked African country. And piece President Yoweri Museveni remains unchallenged every bit Uganda's leader, the rising of the vocalizer is a reflection of the challenges for Uganda's youth. Read more
Almost 17 years afterwards the start of the state of war inwards Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgency rages on alongside no terminate inwards sight. And despite the launch lastly summertime of a novel strategy together with a considerable ramp-up inwards air power, the US appears no closer to breaking the stalemate, inwards which the primal regime inwards Kabul continues to command Afghanistan's urban areas together with the Taliban exerts influence over broad swaths of the countryside. Foreign back upwards together with the failure of the Afghan province are primal to the continued endurance of the Afghan insurgency. Another key chemical cistron — frequently overlooked — is the Taliban's success inwards establishing deep ties inside Afghanistan's rural social fabric. Read more
Canada's merchandise strategy is at the mercy of its geography. Thanks to its location, merchandise alongside the US is unavoidable for Canada. An estimated lxxx per centum of the country's population lives inside 100 miles of the U.S. border, pregnant that its regional economies cause got transcend integrated alongside together with reliant on those of the United States. In addition, the size of Canada's territory relative to that of its population has compelled it to adopt i of the world's virtually decentralized political systems. The resulting organization of regime suits the vast together with sparsely populated country, but it frequently makes it hard for Canada to implement its merchandise agreements. As international merchandise agreements transcend to a greater extent than complex, these issues volition assume fifty-fifty greater importance inwards the country's merchandise strategy. Read more
As the global economic scheme changes alongside the advent of novel technologies, so, too, does infrastructure. Inland rivers, railways together with highways cause got all played a purpose inwards increasing the efficiency of moving goods together with people through the years, taking payoff of or augmenting existing geographic features. Even seemingly pocket-size technological advances, such every bit the container ship, tin revolutionize long-standing modes of transportation. Now, every bit the 4th industrial revolution unfolds, the demands on infrastructure volition shift again, together with alongside them, the global order. Read more
Most of Brazil's territory does non prevarication inside these Southern Cone lands. Instead, roughly one-third of Brazil's 8.5 1000000 foursquare kilometers is composed of vast tracts of challenging jungle, alongside the Amazon Basin beingness the virtually intractable of all. While at that spot are many potential opportunities to exploit minerals, they come upwards alongside daunting infrastructure costs. Read more
At its simplest, Commonwealth of Australia is a continent that is also a country, a territory straight off expansive together with isolated. Open body of body of water surrounds it on iii sides, piece vast tracts of desolate wilderness carve upwards its habitable zones. Relative to its immense territory, moreover, Australia's population is disproportionately small. Its remoteness has proved a unique payoff for land-intensive industries such every bit agriculture. But overcoming the "tyranny of distance," every bit Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey famously lay it, is a perennial challenge for the country. Read more
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