McMaster Blog – Page 4 – Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence

The Privacy Implications of Smart Cities: Developing a Web App and Interactive Survey

Posted 4 years ago

Smart cities, and smart technologies, are emerging in many local contexts across Canada. Smart city technologies have quickly moved from development to adoption, often outpacing the social and political deliberations necessary to consider their effects in detail-particularly their effects on the privacy of Canadians (Bannerman, 2018). Dr. Sara Bannerman and her research team at McMaster […]

Data Wrangling with Python and R, Part 1: “Fun” with LiDAR Buffers

Posted 4 years ago

By Sean Leipe in the McMaster Blog

One realization that keeps hitting me throughout my MSc is how many little things need to be dealt with in order to do even basic analysis using real-world data. My supervisor once told me that about 70% of the work that gets done in our lab is what he calls “data wrangling”, which I would […]

The Esri Toronto User Conference: Day 2’s ArcGIS StoryMaps

Posted 4 years ago

By David Zaslavsky in the McMaster Blog

When I attended the second day of the Esri User’s Conference on October 9, I was excited for the day full of workshops and breakout sessions. While every session I walked away from had something that was useful, the session that I enjoyed and learned from the most was a walk-through of the updated ArcGIS […]

Clipping a big DEM to a small shapefile and using Con to get specific depths

Posted 4 years ago

By Sherry Chen in the McMaster Blog

For my undergrad independent project, I am creating an atlas of coastal Eastern Georgian Bay with the Pat Chow-Fraser Lab at McMaster University. The atlas covers wetland information such as fish and vegetation community, water quality indices, wetland area and volume, and more. I primarily work on calculating wetland area and volume at five different […]

The McQuesten Urban Farm: A Look at Food Accessibility Using Service Areas and Origin-Destination Cost Matrices

Posted 4 years ago

By Nicole Langdon in the McMaster Blog

My final year of undergrad at McMaster University was spent studying a local landmark case in urban agriculture in Hamilton (ON)—the McQuesten Urban Farm. It was built to address the food security concerns of an east-end neighbourhood in the city and is operated by a combination of paid farmers and local volunteers. Ultimately, the goal […]

GIS Summary of SNAP 2019 (Part 1): Null landscape Settlement Patterns using ArcGIS Pro and R

Posted 5 years ago

By Todd Wong in the McMaster Blog

Over the summer, I spent six weeks on the island of Naxos, the largest island belonging to the Cycladic sister islands. From the end of May to the beginning of July I acted as the GIS specialist in a team combining undergrads and grad students from Canada, Greece, and the UK, making up a large […]

PinPointr

Posted 5 years ago

By Patrick De Luca in the McMaster Blog

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 5 years ago

By Sean Leipe in the McMaster Blog

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), […]

ECCE App Challenge 2019 – Development and Design of a 3D Sustainability Web App

Posted 5 years ago

By Matthew Brown in the McMaster Blog

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 […]

App Challenge 2019, UPWIND

Posted 5 years ago

By Rajveer Ubhi in the McMaster Blog

The App Challenge project that Rajveer discusses below can be viewed from his team’s profile on the ECCE GitHub website: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/teams/mac/McMapsters/ Introduction This year I participated in the ECCE App Challenge for the second time. My teammates included Yorgan Pitt, Edward Seh-Taylor and Sean Leipe. Our app, UPWIND, is a web application that aims to […]