Flood risk analysis of Chilliwack, B.C., Canada
Posted 7 months ago
By Lan Qing Zhao in the SFU Blog
In November 2021, a large flooding event happened alongside the Fraser River in lower-mainland B.C. and lasted for several weeks. The city of Chilliwack was among the most devasted cities. That being the inspiration, I designed an MCE research framework to assess flood risks in Chilliwack in B.C. and categorizes areas of the city into […]
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ArcGIS Urban For Visually-Oriented Collaborative Planning
Posted 2 years ago
By Kendra Munn in the SFU Blog
The analytical power of GIS has benefitted just about every industry. The nature of the GIS discipline also lends itself particularly well to urban planning. In response, and about eight years after the debut of CityEngine, Esri released ArcGIS Urban which is a web-based urban planning application. Whereas CityEngine is primarily a 3D mass urban […]
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Building Digital Worlds in CityEngine
Posted 2 years ago
By Kendra Munn in the SFU Blog
It took several days and a whole host of ArcGIS software applications before my entry for the recent Esri Canada 2021 Young Scholar Award contest eventually came together. One of the main highlights common to every Esri-based competition I’ve encountered thus far has been the opportunity to learn new things, and the excitement that comes […]
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Unprecedented
Posted 2 years ago
By Alexander Smith in the SFU Blog
If there was one word to describe the last year and three months, or more depending on when you are reading this, it would be “unprecedented”...
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Connections between marine conservation and GIS
Posted 3 years ago
By Danielle Derrick in the SFU Blog
It’s fascinating to see the diverse world of ecology, conservation and marine sciences becoming enveloped in every expanding niche of spatial research. I am now more often seeing and reading the exciting new avenues that conservation and GIS are taking for species, ecosystems and countries alike. Conservation is a constant uphill battle and knowing where […]
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2018 App Challenge – Lessons Learned
Posted 3 years ago
By Kendra Munn in the SFU Blog
The increasing disruptions to daily routines, loss of conveniences, and general disarray caused by the current pandemic led myself and my would-be team to make the difficult decision to withdraw from this year’s App Challenge. It’s unfortunate, as we already had a few good ideas brewing, though when we thought realistically on the situation, we […]
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Could the Esri International User Conference use a little more fish?
Posted 4 years ago
By Danielle Derrick in the SFU Blog
I can’t deny it, GIS has played a major role in both my studies and past jobs, but Esri was never on my radar as a place to explore for a future career because of where my academic background stems from. Let me provide you with some context. I’m an aspiring ecologist and conservation biologist, […]
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About Me
Posted 4 years ago
By Kendra Munn in the SFU Blog
Hi I’m Kendra and this is my second time as an ECCE student associate at SFU. My academic interests primarily revolve around GIScience, Environmental Science (the applied biology side of things), and how these two intersect to find solutions to spatially-based environmental problems. My current research focuses on how meaningful analyses can be carried out […]
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Esri UC 2019 under the lens of an SFU Geography Grad
Posted 4 years ago
By Alexander Smith in the SFU Blog
During July 8-12th 2019 I had the amazing opportunity to attend and present a paper at the 2019 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego. At the Conference, I had the chance to meet some of the other 19,000 attendees from around the globe who make the Esri UC the largest GIS conference in […]
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My Experience as a Student Associate with the SFU ECCE
Posted 4 years ago
By Anthony Lee in the SFU Blog
In addition to writing about his experiences as an ECCE student associate below, Anthony Lee was also a member of the winning App Challenge team last year, and joined us along with his teammates at the Esri International User Conference in 2018. You can view their team profile and live app demo hosted from the […]
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