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Quality Assessment of the OpenStreetMap Road Network in Calgary, Alberta Using ArcGIS Pro Python Notebook

Posted 3 years ago

By Reza Safarzadeh Ramhormozi in the UCalgary Blog

By rapidly growing the volunteered geographic information (VGI) platforms in recent years, accurate and up-to-date geospatial data are being provided more and more every day. Moreover, these open sources data are easily and freely accessible to the users. This creates a challenge for the various governmental mapping organizations which have well-established mandates to map the […]

Creating an Animated Map of Oil and Gas Drilling Activity in Alberta, Canada with ArcGIS Pro

Posted 3 years ago

By Coleman Vollrath in the UCalgary Blog

Creating an animated map of oil and gas drilling activity in Alberta, Canada with ArcGIS Pro

Reflecting on the 2021 ECCE App Challenge

Posted 4 years ago

By Coleman Vollrath in the UCalgary Blog

Reflecting on the 2021 ECCE App Challenge as a first-timer where we mapped the problem that Indigenous Canadians continue to face accessing clean water.

Reducing Inequalities In Canada – 2021 ECCE App Challenge

Posted 4 years ago

By Chelsea Fitzpatrick in the UCalgary Blog

The ECCE App Challenge for 2021 focused on the United Nations Sustainability Goal 10, Reducing Inequality. My name is Chelsea Fitzpatrick (MGIS candidate) and I am one of the ECCE student associates for the Geography Department at the University of Calgary....

A ‘Mind Map’ of GIScience Basics

Posted 4 years ago

By Erin Li in the UCalgary Blog

This ‘mind map’ was originally created for my PhD candidacy exam preparation, to help me organize, understand, and memorize knowledge and concepts regarding GIScience. The ‘mind map’ includes four main parts: architecture design, database management systems, geospatial data, and data manipulation. Additionally, I briefly went over the basic concepts and technologies of photogrammetry and digital […]

Identifying Dense Oil and Gas Producing Regions for Methane Emissions Verification Screenings in Alberta, Canada Using ArcGIS Pro

Posted 4 years ago

By Coleman Vollrath in the UCalgary Blog

Identifying dense oil and gas producing regions in Alberta for methane emissions verification screenings with kernel density analysis

Visualizing Geolocated Methane Concentration Measurements in ArcGIS Pro

Posted 4 years ago

By Coleman Vollrath in the UCalgary Blog

How to use ArcGIS Pro for concentration mapping of methane concentrations measured with a portable device, helping to detect methane leaks from oil and gas production facilities.

Citizen Science and Survey123

Posted 4 years ago

By Zachary Lamoureux in the UCalgary Blog

Last year, I had the privilege of attending the Spatial Knowledge and Information (SKI) conference in Banff with my research team (Figure 1). It was my first time presenting at an academic conference, and overall a splendid experience. We went cross-country skiing and sight-seeing in the mornings and listened to some interesting presentations founded in […]

Modeling Line Features on DGGS Grids in the R-ArcGIS Environment

Posted 5 years ago

By Erin Li in the UCalgary Blog

A Glance at DGGS As a candidate for a new Earth reference standard, Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) was confirmed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as “a spatial reference system that uses a hierarchical tessellation of cells to partition and address the globe” in 2017. DGGS has been recognized as the most potential foundation […]

Get started with the ArcGIS world Geocoding service

Posted 5 years ago

By Changlin Yang in the UCalgary Blog

Hello everyone, My name is Changlin and I am a second year masters student from Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary. This post is about my recent experience working with the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service to find geographical locations of different places. This experience is related to one of the project tasks of a […]