Category: GeoDB

  • Serving Up Data

    Serving Up Data

    Why spend hours searching to download gigabytes of data that you have to reformat to meet your needs provided you have invested thousands of dollars in software to even use the data. We will gladly serve it up to you, for FREE! We provide the information you need and the tools to put it into […]

  • Dispersion Modeling Simplified – Bits and Pieces

    Dispersion Modeling Simplified – Bits and Pieces

    When we say something is complicated, what does that really mean? In grad school, I had a final that had just two problems. The first problem was, from basic principles, derive the full (no simplifications) Navier-Stokes equations. The second problem was to derive the full vorticity equations and identify what each term means. In high […]

  • Which Is It? Urban or Rural?

    Which Is It? Urban or Rural?

    Several years ago, I was waiting at a traffic light. While I was waiting started counting the traffic signs at the intersection. By the time the traffic light turned green and I had to shift my attention to driving, I counted 50, and that wasn’t all of them. I guess somebody in government has a […]

  • New NK Tools Online

    New NK Tools Online

    Most of you have heard of Ring, the wifi-enabled digital video camera and doorbell home security system. When the company was starting out and showing signs of growth, the founder and CEO made a pitch to potential investors on the TV show Shark Tank. The purpose of the pitch was to take the 6-figure company […]

  • Tools for FNSR Applicability, Netting, BACT, and More

    Tools for FNSR Applicability, Netting, BACT, and More

    Most of us have cooked something using a recipe. Follow the steps as they are written and you end up with something edible, most of the time. Beside the recipe itself, there are two import items you must have to be successful: the right ingredients and the proper tools. When putting together an air quality […]

  • Identify Off-Property Sources and Other Off-Property Issues

    Identify Off-Property Sources and Other Off-Property Issues

    For those old enough to remember the days before the world wide web, if you wanted to buy a product that was not available in a retail store but only through a catalog or telephone operators standing by, you expected to wait 6-8 weeks for delivery for your order. It took that long for the […]

  • Determine Background Concentrations in Minutes

    Determine Background Concentrations in Minutes

    If you are into woodworking, then you know what a jig is. It takes a bit of time to put one together.  Once you have it and use it, it’s like magic. You will ask yourself, “why didn’t I do this sooner?” The NaviKnow Air GeoDataBase is like a collection of jigs for most of […]

  • Selecting Weather Stations Using NaviKnow Tools

    Selecting Weather Stations Using NaviKnow Tools

    In our first installment of NaviKnow’s Meteorology Month (Selecting Weather Stations for Dispersion Modeling January 10, 2018), we described a process to select an appropriate weather station to gather data from for your dispersion modeling project. In this article, we are going to walk through the process using data from the National Weather Service (NWS) […]