Buildings currently account for ~20% of Scotland’s total greenhouse gas emissions. This means that heating systems in Scotland's buildings will need to be replaced over the next two decades if Scotland is to meet it's net zero emissions targets by 2045. This energy use and efficiency transformation is recognised by both the Scottish Energy Strategy …
Remote Sensing Data of Scotland
Remote sensing data in the form of satellite imagery is now common place. This is in part due to the success of Google Maps and Google Earth. In addition, there is an increasing availability of remote sensing data as three dimensional point clouds from light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems. Various parts of Scottish Government …
USA 2020 Presidential Election Results
The bivariate cartogram below shows the results of the 2020 presidential election for the conterminous United States of America. The area of each county has been altered to proportionally represent their number of voters. The winning percentage votes obtained by each party have been classified into three equal classes between their rounded minimum and maximum …
Scotland’s Snow Cover in 2020
Snow can cover the ground in Scotland for a long time. Using daily northern hemisphere snow and ice analysis data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, the following map shows the estimated number of days of snow cover (~1 to 151 days) across Scotland between 1st January 2020 and 30th December 2020. …
Scotland’s Rainfall in 2020
From the western Highlands (one of the wettest parts of Europe) to the east coast lowlands, the amount of rainfall experienced by Scotland varies a lot. Using Tanaka contours and precipitation estimates derived from combined microware and infra red satellite data from the Giovanni service at NASA Earth Data, the following map was produced to …
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