ECCE Blog – Page 31 – Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence

SolVES 3.0: A Software to Map Social Values in Marine Spatial Planning

Posted 7 years ago

By Simon Ryder-Burbidge in the Dalhousie Blog

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is now recognized internationally as an important part of marine and coastal management. MSP offers a tool for policymakers to demarcate specific areas of distinct stakeholder values when managing shared-use spaces. This process places public participation, communication, and collaboration at the centre of ocean governance (Nutters & Pinto da Silva, 2012). […]

Automating Suitability Mapping with ArcPy

Posted 7 years ago

By Sean Leipe in the McMaster Blog

For my undergraduate thesis last year, I created maps representing susceptibility to calanchi erosion in the Basilicata region of Italy using 3 different Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) decision rule techniques. All of these procedures involve several repetitive steps that could have been automated by a Python-based tool, but I didn’t have any experience with programming […]

Using GIS to Model Transportation Problems – A case study of Hamilton, Ontario’s Highways

Posted 7 years ago

By Matthew Brown in the McMaster Blog

As I hinted at in my last post, I want to now take the opportunity to share some of the research that I conducted for my undergraduate thesis. My topic stemmed from an idea about the controversy I grew up around in my home town of Hamilton, Ontario surrounding the two local highways – the […]

Carleton to SFU: Connecting through education

Posted 7 years ago

By Danielle Derrick in the SFU Blog

I am delighted to be someone who previously wore the ECCE label proudly as a Carleton undergraduate student, and am just as excited to be carrying that honor onwards to Simon Fraser University as a master’s student. My background is a little abstract in comparison to the majority of the students that are a part […]

Accessibility on Campus

Posted 7 years ago

By Josh Karon in the YorkU Blog

Hi Everyone, My name is Josh Karon and I am a fourth-year student in Geomatics at York University. I am currently working on an engineering capstone project with the goal of assessing York’s Keel campus with respect to people with accessibility needs. Many of the buildings on campus are, let’s just say, from another generation […]

GIS Day at McMaster

Posted 7 years ago

By Michele Tsang in the McMaster Blog

McMaster University held their annual celebration for GIS Day on November 17, organized by Patrick DeLuca. The day consisted of lightning talks focusing on research from both the natural and social sciences. The talks showcased how interdisciplinary GIS is as there were presenters from the McMaster Institute of Transportation and Logistics, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, […]

Monitoring of seasonal changes in snow cover area in the Apex river watershed using ground camera and in situ observations.

Posted 7 years ago

By Yulia Antropova in the Carleton Blog

Monitoring of snow cover area in the Apex river watershed in Nunavut, Canada at different temporal and spatial scales is important to better understand and predict freshwater resource supply in that area. My previous post describes retrieval of changes in the snow-cover for a large area using MODIS 8-day composite snow cover products with a spatial resolution […]

GIS in Education and Research and ESRI Canada User Conference: My Experience

Posted 7 years ago

By Rajveer Ubhi in the McMaster Blog

A few weeks ago, I got the chance to attend the GIS in Education and Research Conference hosted at the University of Toronto. The day started off with a plenary session in the Hart House. Alex Miller, President and founder of Esri Canada, began the conference with a short talk on GIS: the science of […]

Contrasting Conferences: GIS in Education and Research and ESRI User Conference Toronto

Posted 7 years ago

By Ed Taylor in the McMaster Blog

As a new addition to the ECCE group of student associates at McMaster University I was rife with anticipation to attend two compelling events hosted by Esri Canada – the GIS in Education and Research Conference (held at Hart House, University of Toronto) and the Toronto User Conference (held at the Toronto Congress Centre). Being […]

Natural Language Processing: The Frontier to Qualitative GIS

Posted 7 years ago

By Anastassios Dardas in the McMaster Blog

When people talk about GIS, there are several factors that come up to mind instantly, such as creating beautiful maps, spatial analyses, and quantitative data. But what about qualitative GIS? Does that come up in your mind? At this time of writing (2017), there is a good chance that the answer is no; however, I […]