The McQuesten Urban Farm: A Look at Food Accessibility Using Service Areas and Origin-Destination Cost Matrices
Posted 5 years ago
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
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
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), […]
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 […]
App Challenge 2019, UPWIND
Posted 6 years ago
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 […]
App Challenge 2019, GISquad
Posted 6 years ago
The App Challenge project that Michele discusses below can be viewed from her team’s profile on the ECCE GitHub website: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/teams/mac/GISquad/ This year I participated in the ECCE App Challenge for the third time. My team included Matthew Brown, lead designer, Tasos Dardas, lead developer, and myself, lead researcher. Our App, Sustainera, is a web […]
Processing Millions of Bikeshare GPS Points with ArcGIS
Posted 6 years ago
For this post I wanted to dive into some of the work I’ve been doing for my Master’s thesis in the Transportation Research Lab at McMaster. Our lab has a partnership with the folks at SoBi Hamilton, who manage the city’s bike share program. If you don’t know what a bike share program is, it […]
11 Reasons You Should Attend the Esri Developer Summit
Posted 6 years ago
1) You don’t have to be a developer to benefit Technical literacy and systems of engagement are proliferating in geographic disciplines, so even if your interests are far removed from software development, you will come away understanding new ways to augment your work and connect with your audience. The plenary session at the 2019 Esri […]
A Glance at Enterprise Geodatabases and Publishing Content
Posted 6 years ago
Introduction All of us in the field of GIS already know what a geodatabase is. Most of us know how to properly create one, especially for single-use or for our own personal projects. Depending on the GIS project, most of the time academic institutions just need personal or file geodatabases. For industry and government, it […]
