DGGS: A New Way to Model Geospatial Information
Posted 6 years ago
A few weeks ago, I attended the 2018 Esri Canada User Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick. As this was my first GIS conference, I learned a lot from the user presentations and technical sessions given by Esri Canada staff, as well as other students and industry partners. It was eye-opening to see how GIS can […]
GIS Day 2018 at Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence
Posted 6 years ago
This year, on November 14th, GIS professionals, citizens, educators, and students around the world will celebrate the 20th annual GIS Day since it was first initiated in 1999. This coincides, of course, with Geography Awareness Week, or GeoWeek, which takes place this year from November 11th to 17th. GIS Day plays a vital role in […]
Impressions from the Esri Canada UC Fredericton
Posted 6 years ago
Hi Everyone! I’m Nicole Peters and I’m enrolled in the Advanced Diploma in Geographic Sciences program at COGS. Recently, a group of us attended the Esri Canada User Conference in Fredericton, and I would like to share some insights on both the structure and content of that conference. It was my first Esri conference, and […]
“Nuggets” from the ESRI User Conference Toronto!
Posted 6 years ago
This post is inspired by the attendee I overheard at this year’s Toronto User Conference saying “It’s the little nuggets you pick up at conferences that really make them worth it.” So here are the “nuggets” I picked up at the UC, hopefully there’s something golden here for you! Visual Studio Code is a free […]
A bit about me, and how I ended up here
Posted 6 years ago
Hello Internet! My name is Ryan Parker, and I’m a first-year masters student at Carleton University. I am doing a master of science in geography with a specialization in data science being supervised by Murray Richardson. When I’m not slaving away behind a computer you’ll normally find me skateboarding, snowboarding, rock climbing or some other […]
About Me
Posted 6 years ago
Hello Everyone! My name is Alex Oestreicher. I am currently in my fourth year of my Geomatics major at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON). My background is largely in Geology, but after I discovered GIS in my 2nd year, I knew I had found my true calling. I was referred to the ECCE program by my […]
Using Mobile GIS Applications to Collect Data in New Mexico, USA
Posted 6 years ago
This year I spent most of the summer in Utah and New Mexico, USA, collecting data for my undergraduate thesis, attending conferences related to petroleum geology, and helping process the data of Master’s and PhD students part of Dr.Bhattacharya’s Quantitative Sedimentology Laboratories. My work included recording GPS coordinates of ground control points (GCPs) used for image […]
Integrating GIS and Field Work in Wolf Creek, Yukon Territory
Posted 6 years ago
I’ve spent the past summer working as a research assistant for my M.Sc supervisor Dr. Sean Carey, before officially starting grad school in September. Through helping out the other grad students in our lab, I’ve learned tons of valuable hydrology-specific GIS skills (which I could write about in a future blog post), but I want […]
Going Beyond the Horizons of ArcGIS Desktop
Posted 6 years ago
Any of you visiting the Centre of Excellence or visiting Esri’s main site is likely a user of ArcGIS products, especially ArcGIS Desktop and to certain extent ArcGIS Online. What the academic courses taught you are the GIS concepts, how to think like a GIScientist, and how to use the tools, mainly ArcGIS Desktop. But […]
The Importance of Scale (A brief introduction)
Posted 7 years ago
When we look at life from the viewpoint of an ant, and then compare it to that of a soaring bald eagle, we come to the realization that they are quite markedly different from one another. What may seem like a mountain for an ant to climb is just a rock settling in between the […]
