My Experiences at Esri User Conferences in 2019

Posted 4 years ago

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Hi all! This is Manpreet from UW! This past year I had the great opportunity to have been able to attend the Esri International User Conference in San Diego from July 8-12. I received this opportunity along with some fellow grad students at UW from winning the annual ECCE App Challenge held in 2019. We […]

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Growth of the ECCE App Challenge!

Posted 4 years ago

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What is the ECCE App Challenge? The ECCE App Challenge is a coding competition held by Esri Canada. It is designed to help promote GIS innovation and creativity within the Centres of Excellence that are located across Canadian universities and institutions. Growth in the Number of Teams Although the challenge first started in 2015 with just […]

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Meet the winners of the ECCE App Challenge 2019

Posted 5 years ago

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This year we held the fifth annual ECCE App Challenge, which has proven to be another great success. We had another a record turnout, with 24 teams participating from all 11 ECCE schools across Canada. The teams participating in the challenge this year were all tasked to create an app that addresses issues related to […]

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ECCE App Challenge 2019 – How We Made an AR App in 5 Days

Posted 5 years ago

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The App Challenge project that Jaydeep discusses below can be viewed from his team’s profile on the ECCE GitHub website: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/teams/uw/SpectaculAR/ ECCE App Challenge 2019 – How We Made an AR App in 5 days This post is co-written by my teammate Manpreet Chahal. Since 2015, the Esri Canada Centres of Excellence (ECCE) has been hosting […]

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About Me

Posted 5 years ago

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Hi everyone! My name is Manpreet Singh Chahal, and I am a first-year master’s student at the University of Waterloo. I am doing a Master of Science in the Geography and Environmental Management program specializing in Geomatics.  I am working with Dr. Robert Feick and currently, my research entails using Public Participation Geographic Information Systems […]

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Streambank Erosion

Posted 6 years ago

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Over the past few months, I have been working with my advisor (Dr. Derek Robinson) on using new and emerging technologies for modelling streambank erosion. Due to the immediate hydrologic connectivity of eroded bank sediments to a stream network, the effects of streambank erosion can have significant impacts on surface water quality. The controls on […]

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Quantifying Agricultural Erosion

Posted 7 years ago

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This spotlight article is from Benjamin Meinen, one of the ECCE student associates at UW. He is a graduate of the Honours Geography and Environmental management undergraduate program at UW, and will be continuing his studies as a Masters student in Geography. Below he describes some of his work on a recent project for modelling […]

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