About Me – Congping Li
Posted 2 months ago
Hello everyone! My name is Congping Li, and I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. I’m excited to introduce myself to the ECCE community and the research projects I have been working on. My academic journey began in Tourism Management and Planning, where I completed […]
Designing the Cool City: From Wind Corridors to Green Roofs
Posted 2 months ago
Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the blog. Lately, as I dive deep into urban density projects, specifically working through an urban density and infill analysis for the City of Burlington, I constantly question the physical consequences of how we construct our urban environments. Planners frequently discuss density in terms of housing economics and transit efficiency, […]
The GIS-Blues
Posted 2 months ago
With this semester bringing a slew of new courses ranging across different topics, I have encountered one issue: none of my current classes make use of any Esri products. The courses I have taken over the past two to three semesters have helped me hone my skills with ArcGIS Pro and provided me with opportunities […]
Speed Up Geo-Feature Engineering With ArcPy – Using Land Use Regression as Example
Posted 5 months ago
Land Use Regression (LUR) is a widely used approach for modeling environmental exposure, such as air pollution or noise, by linking observations at specific locations to surrounding built and natural environment characteristics. In practice, LUR models rely on spatial predictors that summarize what is near a location (e.g., road density, land use composition, vegetation) and […]
Hi ECCE! I’m Devin 👋
Posted 5 months ago
Hello everyone—my name is Devin, and I’m a second-year PhD student at the University of Toronto. I’m excited to introduce myself to the ECCE community and share a bit about what I’m working on, what brought me into GIS, and the kinds of questions I’m hoping to explore with you all. My academic path didn’t […]
A 15-Minute City: An Accessibility Analysis of Toronto Healthcare Institutions
Posted 5 months ago
Over this past semester I had the pleasure of working on an analysis consisting of Toronto’s coverage of healthcare facilities based on the 15-Minute City model. The 15-Minute City is the concept where residents of the city are able to access essential services and amenities such as work, shopping, and leisure within a 15-minute walk […]
About Me – Faiza Saeed
Posted 5 months ago
Hello, everyone! My journey with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) did not begin in a university lab or lecture hall. Instead, it started through volunteering—digitizing roads, buildings, and infrastructure for disaster response projects with platforms like Zooniverse and the Red Cross. I also contributed to citizen science initiatives that mapped environmental patterns, ranging from land-cover changes […]
A Little About Me
Posted 5 months ago
Hi everyone! My name is Anjali Khan, and I am a fourth-year Geospatial Data Science (GIS) major and Computer Science specialist at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus. I never planned on being in GIS, I actually took my first course as a backup option, but somewhere between learning basic cartography to exploring spatiotemporal databases, […]
Creating Planetary Timelapses and Vegetation Index Profiles with Satellite Imagery Using Esri Landsat Explorer: A Tweedsmuir Complex Fire Example
Posted 5 months ago
Introduction Image Capture for Research Landsat – Spaceborne Satellite Imagery Background on Conventional Methods to Retrieve Landsat Imagery USGS EarthExplorer Landsat Imagery Made Available on the Cloud in 2020 Esri Landsat Explorer: A New Web-based Explorer that Democratizes Scientific Analysis Using Satellite Imagery for Everyone Creating a Timelapse of the Tweedsmuir Wildfire Using Landsat imagery […]
About me – Duncan Wan
Posted 6 months ago
Hi Everyone! My name is Duncan, and I’m currently an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. I’m pursuing a double major in Economics and Statistics, with coursework and interests that sit at the intersection of data analysis, spatial thinking, and public policy. I’m excited to be part of the ECCE Student Associates program this […]
