Esri UC 2019 under the lens of an SFU Geography Grad
Posted 5 years ago
During July 8-12th 2019 I had the amazing opportunity to attend and present a paper at the 2019 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego. At the Conference, I had the chance to meet some of the other 19,000 attendees from around the globe who make the Esri UC the largest GIS conference in […]
Mobility Accessibility and GIS
Posted 5 years ago
There is no such thing as a disabled individual – rather, everyone is differently-abled. However, most infrastructure is not equipped to handle everyone’s unique way of being. For example, individuals in wheelchairs, parents pushing strollers, individuals living with auditory or visual impairments, and people handling sports injuries all have specific mobility needs that may or […]
Education and Research @ Esri UC 2019
Posted 5 years ago
Earlier this month, we were back in California for the Esri User conference in San Diego with members of our Education and Research group and others from Esri Canada, and about 600 attendees from Canada. Among those were over 40 students and faculty/staff attending from education institutions across Canada. The conference itself hosted over 17,000 […]
PinPointr
Posted 6 years ago
This past academic year, I had the pleasure of being a faculty advisor for a group of four Computer Science students completing their 4th year capstone project. How did this arrangement come to be? I was approached early in the fall term by Victor Timpau, who was enrolled in the Introduction to GIS course that […]
Random Forest Classification with R and Collector for ArcGIS
Posted 6 years ago
I’m currently in my 1st year of my M.Sc degree at McMaster University, working in the Watershed Hydrology Group under Dr. Sean Carey. My research focuses on evaluating vegetation change in Wolf Creek, Yukon Territory through fusion of remotely sensed data. My main objective is to use a combination of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), […]
My Experience as a Student Associate with the SFU ECCE
Posted 6 years ago
In addition to writing about his experiences as an ECCE student associate below, Anthony Lee was also a member of the winning App Challenge team last year, and joined us along with his teammates at the Esri International User Conference in 2018. You can view their team profile and live app demo hosted from the […]
ECCE App Challenge 2019 – Development and Design of a 3D Sustainability Web App
Posted 6 years ago
The App Challenge project discussed below can be viewed from the GISquad team’s profile on the ECCE GitHub website: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/teams/mac/GISquad/ Congratulations to Matt, Tasos and Michele for ranking as the first runner-up in the competition! This post is a collaboration between McMaster ECCE Student Associates Matt Brown and Anastassios Dardas. A few weeks ago, our […]
Highlights at SFU: the SIS certificate program and the Esri Canada Higher Education GIS Scholarship
Posted 6 years ago
This is a guest post by Cam McCulloch, the 2019 recipient of the Esri Canada Higher Education GIS Scholarship at Simon Fraser University. It was during my initial co-op work term that I had heard of GIS for the first time. I was working for a company trying to predict where mosquito populations would be […]
GIS as a Tool to Solve “Wicked” Problems
Posted 6 years ago
This year I am three quarters done my undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and had the opportunity to take “Application of GIS in Environmental and Ecological Issues” at Dalhousie University as a part of my certificate in GIS. One of the first things I learned in my first year of environmental science was that environmental […]
Top 5 Reasons to Switch to ArcGIS Pro
Posted 6 years ago
Why you should switch to ArcGIS Pro ArcGIS Pro 1.0 was released way back in January 2015 as part of the 10.3 update. The new application has struggled to gain traction among the Esri user base like any new software release. However, I decided to finally make the switch from 10.7 to ArcGIS Pro 2.3 […]
