A ‘Mind Map’ of GIScience Basics

Posted 3 years ago

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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 […]

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Citizen Science and Survey123

Posted 4 years ago

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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 […]

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Get started with the ArcGIS world Geocoding service

Posted 4 years ago

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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 […]

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Mapping Cultural Character

Posted 4 years ago

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As a second year Masters of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) student at the University of Calgary, I have applied Esri software to a wide variety of topics and problems, often to areas not traditionally thought of as applicable to GIS. This past summer, I had the opportunity to see how GIS and sociology can come […]

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