CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
December 2006
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HIGHLIGHTS
- GIS Courses at the Longwood Campus in Winter and Spring
- Remote Sensing Technology and Applications Workshop
- Want to take a short GIS intro workshop? Please let us know!
- ArcGIS 9.2 and ERDAS IMAGINE 9.1 Now Available
- Diseases on the Move
- ArcGIS Explorer Now Available
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CGA NEWS
Remote Sensing Technology and Applications Workshop
Friday, February 16, 2007
The Center for Geographic Analysis jointly with the Harvard University Center for the Environment (environment.harvard.edu) and the Sigma Xi Harvard Chapter (www.sigmaxi.org) will host a Remote Sensing Technology and Applications Workshop on Friday, February 16, 2007. The location is CGIS South Building, Rm.010, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA. The objective is to inform Harvard faculty members, researchers and students of the remote sensing technology, by showcasing ongoing research at Harvard that uses remote sensing, and by providing a high level, up-to-date overview of the technology and its applications.
Please register for the workshop on our website.
See the workshop schedule and speakers.
ArcGIS 9.2 and ERDAS IMAGINE 9.1 Now Available
ArcGIS 9.2, ERDAS IMAGINE 9.1 and Photogrammetry software are now available for use on Harvard-controlled subnets. ArcGIS 9.2 Desktop provides improved tools and interfaces, support for sophisticated cartographic design, advanced modeling tools for analysis, and enhanced CAD support. ERDAS IMAGINE ? 9.1 offers numerous updated capabilities and enhancements. GIS users now have more flexibility and choices with expanded platform support such as Windows XP Professional Edition 64-bit and Sun Solaris 10.
Learn more about how to download and install.
Want to take a short GIS intro workshop? Please let us know!
The CGA has offered two GIS intro workshops in the last month. If you are interested in taking such intro workshops, please let us know by sending an email. When we see substantial demands for the workshop, we will make arrangements to make it happen.
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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
GIS Courses at the Longwood Campus in winter and spring
This spring, the Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics are jointly offering a new course in applied spatial statistics (Stat 155, Biostat 283), jointly offered in Cambridge and Longwood. Also, this winter, the Department of Biostatistics is offering a new introductory GIS course (bio504).
New biostatistics winter course
Bio504 Introduction to Geographical Information Systems using ArcGIS This winter we are introducing a new short course on GIS. This course introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications. GIS is a combination of software and hardware with capabilities for manipulating, analyzing and displaying spatially referenced information. Emphasis on learning practical skills using ArcGIS software. Five combined lecture/lab sessions. No prerequisites.
M/F Jan 5, 8, 12, 19, 22, 9:30 am - 1 pm.
More information is available from the Registrar’s website, or contact the instructor, Sumeeta Srinivasan (ssrinivasan@cga.harvard.edu) or the HSPH course sponsor, Chris Paciorek (paciorek@hsph.harvard.edu).New statistics/biostatistics spring course
Stat155/Bio283 Spatial Statistics for Social Inquiry and Health Research Introduction to spatial statistics with application to public health and social science research. Emphasizes methods for the analysis and visualization of three basic types of spatial data: point-referenced (geostatistical), areal, and point pattern. Heavy emphasis on real applied problems through case studies, labs, discussions, and course projects. Prerequisites: Students should have a background in statistics at the level of linear regression (Statistics 139, Statistics 149, Economics 1123, Psychology 1951, Biostat 210, 211, or 213), plus experience in statistical computing (e.g., Stat 135, Biostat 503). We also recommend a background in GIS (coursework such as Gov’t 1008, ES103, Bio504 or hands-on experience). Students are encouraged to contact the instructors regarding prerequisites. The course is designed for non-statistics graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
T/Th 10:30-12, with a Friday lab
More information is available from the Registrar’s website, or contact the instructor directly: FAS inquiries: Rima Izem (izem@stat.harvard.edu) or HSPH inquiries: Chris Paciorek (paciorek@hsph.harvard.edu).
NETWATCH: Diseases on the Move
Visitors to the new site HEALTHmap www.healthmap.org can pinpoint the latest outbreaks of more than 50 human and animal illnesses, from avian influenza to chikungunya fever, a mosquito-spread disease of Asia and Africa. Created by epidemiologist John Brownstein of Harvard Medical School in Boston and software developer Clark Freifeld of Children’s Hospital Boston, the site automatically picks up and charts fresh case reports and other data from sources such as the World Health Organization, Google News, and the disease alert Web site ProMed-Mail. You can sort the information by disease and country and click on the world map to summon the original report or article.http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol314/issue5804/r-samples.dtl#314/5804/1363d
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GIS INDUSTRY NEWS
ArcGIS Explorer Now Available
ESRI is pleased to announce that ArcGIS Explorer is now available for download. Use your ESRI Global Account to log in and download ArcGIS Explorer http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/download.html. ArcGIS Explorer is a lightweight desktop client for ArcGIS Server, providing a way for you to publish ArcGIS Server capabilities within your organization or to anyone on the Web. ArcGIS Explorer is freely distributable and does not require any other ESRI software.Using ArcGIS Explorer you can connect to content published by ESRI and others and fuse it with your own ArcGIS services or local data. You can create your own content or tasks for ArcGIS Explorer by authoring globes and tasks using ArcGIS Desktop, then publishing it to ArcGIS Explorer via ArcGIS Server.http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/index.html
A Variety of Pathways Lead to GIS
When did you get involved with GIS technology? How did you get involved? What was your background? What were your application objectives? Answers to these questions define your personal “Geotechnology Adoption Path” and are as unique as you are. http://www.geoplace.com/uploads/FeatureArticle/0612_BeyondMapping.asp
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Editor of this issue: Guoping Huang
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