2023 ECCE App Challenge: ConservNation Canada
Posted 1 year ago
It’s been several months since the whirlwind of the App Challenge held this past spring has come and gone. While I can’t speak to the entirety of this challenge and the resulting app developed with Team GIS (Gauging Impacted Species) consisting of myself, Daniel Van Veghel and Henry Gage, this post will elucidate upon some […]
SIMULATING GLOBAL DEFORESTATION USING A NOVEL SPHERICAL GEOGRAPHIC AUTOMATA MODELLING APPROACH
Posted 1 year ago
Every summer, occurrences of wildfire across Canada causes not just environmental problems but also has serious health implications. This, coupled with widespread deforestation across the globe including region such as the Amazon Forest and Congo basin motivated me to participate in the 2023 Esri Canada GIS Scholarship for SFU competition. As an extension of my […]
Mapping Inclusivity: Esri Canada Competitions and Advancing Gender-Inclusive Campus Design
Posted 1 year ago
Hello everyone! My name is Hawjin Falahatkar, and I am currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Geography at the University of Calgary, working in the Fast Accessible Mapping & Mobility (FAMM) research lab directed by Dr. Victoria Fast. Drawing from an urban planning and design background and an interest in accessibility research, I employ the power […]
Pavement Marking Inventory using GIS and Computer Vision – Part II
Posted 2 years ago
Aligned with the City of Surrey’s Digital Transportation Strategy, which aims to create a user-centric and data-driven Intelligent Transportation System, significant strides were made in 2022. The city collaborated with a student from the GIS Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) to develop a deep learning model. This model automates the collection […]
Attribute Driven Hachure Lines
Posted 2 years ago
Learning new mapping techniques is a great way to expand cartographic skills, and can increase one’s sense of balance and visual hierarchy for future endeavours
Introduction to Discrete Global Grid System
Posted 2 years ago
Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) have been proposed as a new geospatial technology and Earth reference system which utilizes a spherical tessellation of space to represent the Earth’s surface and is global in scope. The DGGS framework offers a discrete way for spatial referencing, using cells as the smallest unit of its base rather than […]
From Digital Chaos to Structure: How GIS Taught Me the Importance of Data Management
Posted 2 years ago
This blog post is a reflection on how over the course of this year I have learned to embrace data management, instead of disregarding it.
Exploring Historical and Modern Toronto With ArcGIS Pro
Posted 2 years ago
Visualizing historical and modern land use along lost rivers in Toronto.
A Day in a Life of a GIS Intern at CBRE
Posted 2 years ago
As a BCIT Advanced Diploma GIS student, part of the curriculum involves an industry sponsored project or practicum. Earlier this year, I was fortunate and grateful to start an internship at CBRE working with their Location Intelligence team here in Vancouver, BC. CBRE is the largest commercial real estate services and investment firm globally and […]
Working smarter, not harder, with ArcGIS ModelBuilder
Posted 2 years ago
I was introduced to ArcGIS ModelBuilder during a course lab where we were asked to design a model which could enable the interpolation of temperature values for Alberta and Saskatchewan. Aside from ensuring consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness, the ModelBuilder aids the visualization of the workflow, allows modification by setting inputs and outputs as parameters, and […]
