Uncovering the Power of Remote Sensing in Micrometeorological Studies
Posted 3 years ago
In my third-year micrometeorology class with Dr.Voogt, we were assigned a course project to work in small groups throughout the term, and each group had to conduct a research project for related to microclimate or micrometeorology. The course covered a wide range of topics such as solar radiation budget, soil microclimates, surface temperatures, etc. For […]
Enhancing an Urban Development Proposal using ArcGIS Pro and Online.
Posted 3 years ago
Over the past summer, I had the opportunity to take part in a field course offered by the School of Earth, Environment & Society here at McMaster. This course was an exploration of urban environments and the processes at play within the city of Toronto. We spent three days exploring different neighborhoods and projects within […]
Analyzing the Best Tourism Spots
Posted 3 years ago
This blog post is about part of my GIS assignment from last term. The objective of this part was to teach us how to use viewshed analysis and least cost path analysis to find the best tourism spot (out of three candidate spots) based on how much of the city/urban-areas are visible from that particular […]
Quality Assessment of the OpenStreetMap Road Network in Calgary, Alberta Using ArcGIS Pro Python Notebook
Posted 3 years ago
By rapidly growing the volunteered geographic information (VGI) platforms in recent years, accurate and up-to-date geospatial data are being provided more and more every day. Moreover, these open sources data are easily and freely accessible to the users. This creates a challenge for the various governmental mapping organizations which have well-established mandates to map the […]
Using an ArcGIS Pro Python Noteboook to display results of a GWR model
Posted 3 years ago
The Built-in Python notebooks feature in ArcGIS Pro is very useful for creating an automated and reproducible workflow for complex analysis. Personally though, my best use of the ArcPy library in ArcGIS Pro has been for a fairly simple purpose – to create multiple maps iterating over a categorical variable’s values. I often find myself […]
Analyzing the Distribution of Houses and Condominiums of Vancouver Airbnb
Posted 3 years ago
This blog post is about my first spatial data science assignment. The purpose of this assignment was to map out the location the Vancouver Airbnb and analyze the various trends of the properties, specifically the House and Condominiums. I was given a non-spatial csv file that contained the ID, Property Type (House or Condominium), Room Type, Bedroom Numbers, Price, and Review Scores of 5,618 properties. The very first thing I […]
Analyzing the Change in Toronto Crime Data from COVID-19
Posted 3 years ago
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post analyzing Toronto Crime Data using Kernel Density from the 2019 data of major crime indicators. After the COVID-19 restrictions were put in place in March 2020 for the city of Toronto, I was curious to see the changes in crime in Toronto from 2019 to 2020. […]
Creating an Animated Map of Oil and Gas Drilling Activity in Alberta, Canada with ArcGIS Pro
Posted 3 years ago
Creating an animated map of oil and gas drilling activity in Alberta, Canada with ArcGIS Pro
Working with Custom Picture Markers – Seafloor Hydrothermal Features
Posted 3 years ago
My first foray into creating custom image icons for points in ArcGIS pro... and a few lessons I learned along the way!
Assessing Crime in Halifax – from Spreadsheet to Web Map
Posted 3 years ago
My first foray into adapting datasets for Web Mapping! Here, I walk through the process of modifying a .csv of reported crimes in Halifax, using Excel and ArcGIS Pro, for display in ArcGIS Online.
