December 2009

CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

December 2009

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HIGHLIGHTS

·         Remote ∙Access to Business Analyst Allowed over Winter Break

·         CGA Non-Credit Workshop Dates Announced

·         IDRISI Taiga Service Update Available

·         ArcGIS Service Pack 9.3.1 Available

·         Call for Participation: New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion

·         Call for Nominations:  UCGIS Research and Education Awards

·         Statistical Methods for Geographic Data Workshop

·         COM.Geo 2010

·         Seeing the Forest through the Cloud

·         Food Stamp Map

·         Instructional GIS Videos

·         Denmark Energy Map

·         Israel-Palestine Searchable Archaeology Map

·         Historic Earth iPhone App

·         Google Maps Birds-Eye View

·         Open Scales Mapping Framework

·         Ignite Spatial Boston Event

·         Twitter User Cluster Map

·         Make a U.S. County Thematic Map

·         GIS Helps us Understand Climate Change Article

·         Geospatial Data in the Google Cloud

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CGA NEWS

Remote Access to Business Analyst Allowed over Winter Break

During the upcoming holiday break December 25 – January 3 the CGA offices will be closed.  Harvard affiliates will be allowed to remote access the ESRI Business Analyst Data for 2009 during that time.  If interested, please email us at contact@help.cga.harvard.edu prior to Friday, December 25.

CGA Non-Credit Workshop Dates Announced

Each semester CGA offers instructor-led non-credit technical training workshops to introduce GIS concepts and teach the basics on how to use GIS software. To view the workshop schedule for Winter and Spring 2010, and register for workshops:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page189848

IDRISI Taiga Service Update Available

Clark Labs has just released this service update for their IDRISI Taiga remote sensing software. For more information and to download:

http://www.clarklabs.org/support/downloads.cfm

ArcGIS Service Pack 9.3.1 Available

ESRI recommends downloading and installing this service pack for ArcGIS 9.3.  The CGA has used 9.3.1 on some machines with no complaints so far.  For more information, a list of issues addressed, and to download:

http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=66&MetaID=1576

Call for Participation: New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion

This two-day workshop will be held on March 12 – 13, 2010 in Harvard’s Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Political Economy of Religion Project, Taubman Center, Harvard Kennedy School and the Center for Geographic Analysis, Institute for 

Quantitative Analysis. For more details and to register visit our events page:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page148866

View the flyer:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Events/poster03_13_10.jpg

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CONFERENCES

Call for Nominations:  UCGIS Research and Education Awards

The 2010 UCGIS Research Award is given to the creator(s) of particularly outstanding research contributions to GIScience for recognition at the 2010 UCGIS Summer Assembly. Nominations are currently being accepted.  For more information and the nomination procedure: 

http://www.ucgis.org/News/PressReleases/UCGIS%2011242009-Research.htm

Statistical Methods for Geographic Data Workshop

The NICDS Workshop on Statistical Methods for Geographic and Spatial Data in the Management of Natural Resources will be held in Montréal, QC, Canada on March 3 – 5, 2010. Deadline for paper submissions is January 10, 2010.  For more details and to submit an abstract:

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic533305.files/Calls/NICDSWorkshop_03_2010.pdf

COM.Geo 2010

This first International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial will be held June 8 – 11 in Washington, D.C.  Submission deadline for papers is February 19^th, 2010.  More on the conference, and to submit a paper:

http://www.com-geo.org/index.htm

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Seeing the Forest through the Cloud

At the International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Google

demonstrated a new technology prototype that enables online, global-scale observation and measurement of changes in the earth’s forests:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/seeing-forest-through-cloud.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/MKuf+

Food Stamp Map

Food Stamp usage across the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/28/us/20091128-foodstamps.html?hp

Instructional GIS Videos

Short videos created by ESRI about GIS, SDE, and ArcGIS Server:

http://edcommunity.esri.com/im/videos/

Denmark Energy Map

http://www.energymap.dk/

Israel-Palestine Searchable Archaeology Map

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/wbarc/map.html

Historic Earth iPhone App

http://emergencestudios.com/historicearth/

Google Maps Birds-Eye View

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/changing-your-perspective.html

Open Scales Mapping Framework

http://openscales.org/index.php/p/openscales/

Ignite Spatial Boston Event

This event recently held at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge featured lightning talks on a variety of geospatial topics.  View the talks here:

http://www.youtube.com/IgniteSpatialBoston

Twitter User Cluster Map

http://cartographer.visualmotive.com/twitter.html

Make a U.S. County Thematic Map

How to make a U.S. County map with free tools:

http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/

GIS Helps us Understand Climate Change Article

http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=MultiPublishing&mod=PublishingTitles&mid=13B2F0D0AFA04476A2ACC02ED28A405F&tier=4&id=1AECEE2A5EB946B89FBC27F1F9E1E94B

Geospatial Data in the Google Cloud

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/12/maps-data-api-bringing-geospatial.html

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