Navigating GIS Without Computer Science Knowledge
Posted 7 years ago
I’m in my final push: 4th year at Carleton University. When I first started studying at Carleton, I had no idea what Geomatics was. A student who I met on my first day said he was majoring in Geomatics and the first thing I said was “ew”. But wait…I needed to meet a Geomatics requirement […]
Education and Research from Esri Canada @ the Esri UC, 2017
Posted 7 years ago
Last week, many staff from Esri Canada were fortunate to attend the Esri User Conference in San Diego. The conference hosted an impressive 16,000 attendees, 268 paper sessions, 324 workshops, and 354 demos (full stats reported on the Esri Blog). The plenary session was a great start to the week, with many talks highlighting the […]
Collision Course: the daunting repercussions of an ever-increasing human race in coastal waters
Posted 8 years ago
Looking out into Chatham Strait from Warm Springs Bay, Southeast Alaska. These past couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with the Alaska Whale Foundation (AWF) on both current and future research topics. AWF was founded in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving Alaska’s marine mammals and their habitat […]
Marine Pollution in the Halifax Harbour Pt. III: Academics into Action
Posted 8 years ago
A cruise ship enters the Halifax Harbour in the distance. Thus far, in a series of posts, I have chosen to use this space to describe a project that my graduate class with the Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University has undertaken to set up a long term data collection project monitoring marine pollution around the […]
Quantifying Agricultural Erosion
Posted 8 years ago
This spotlight article is from Benjamin Meinen, one of the ECCE student associates at UW. He is a graduate of the Honours Geography and Environmental management undergraduate program at UW, and will be continuing his studies as a Masters student in Geography. Below he describes some of his work on a recent project for modelling […]
Linking App-Building and Cartography – Experiences from the 2016 Esri Canada App Challenge
Posted 8 years ago
Hi Everyone, Congratulations to the winners and participants of the 2017 Esri Canada App Challenge! With the recent conclusion of the 2017 Esri Canada App Challenge, I’ve decided to write about my overall positive experiences with the 2016 Esri Canada App Challenge. Some of the students in my multimedia cartography (GEOG 351) class participated in […]
Capturing Balloon Airphotos with Waterloo Collegiate Institute (WCI) Geotech Magnet Program
Posted 8 years ago
The following post is also published by Dr. Peter Johnson on the Geospatial Participation research website. We are fortunate here in Waterloo Region to have access to a unique high school-level program focused on geospatial technologies. The Waterloo Region District School Board offers a Geotechnology magnet program at Waterloo Collegiate Institute (WCI) high school. This program […]
Blending R’s Hidden Gem and WebGIS Development: A Live Case
Posted 8 years ago
My teammates, Karl Chastko and Spencer Elford, and I competed this years Esri’s App Challenge on sustainable transportation. The development of our app (check it out) was something unique from the standard way of web development (i.e. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). Some of you guys may be thinking, “What’s so unique?” Others may think that […]
Mapping Packet Routes
Posted 8 years ago
Hello, I’m Zac, a student at University of Victoria majoring in Geomatics (a joint Computer Science and Geography program). Today I’ll be writing about one of the first programs I wrote years ago. Have you ever been curious about the path your packets take geographically, between your computer and the sites you visit? The unix […]
GIS-based Models for Forest Insect Infestation Eradication
Posted 8 years ago
This spotlight article is from Taylor Anderson, currently in her second year as an ECCE student associate at SFU. Recently, she participated as a member of the SFU team in the ECCE App Challenge 2017 to produce a custom solution using citizen-sourced data to help identify places areas in need of sustainable transportation infrastructure. In […]
