May 2012

CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

May 2012

 

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • CGA Post-Doc, Junior GIS Specialist and Research Assistant Positions Open
  • CityEngine for ArcGIS Available
  • Census 2010 Geography Available
  • June ABCD-GIS Presentation on ENVI 5
  • WorldMap and Wildlife Enforcement
  • Applied Geography Conference
  • Burma Conflict Maps
  • Value-by-alpha Maps
  • ORBIS – The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
  • GIS at Stanford Article
  • ArcGIS Product Slides for Teaching and Learning
  • Free online ESRI GIS Training
  • Summer Internships Opportunities at ESRI
  • Topomapper split screen
  • Earth On a Drive
  • Trimble Buys SketchUp from Google
  • AirCasting – Smartphone Environmental Mapping
 

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CGA NEWS

 

CGA Post-Doc, Junior GIS Specialist and Research Assistant Positions Open

Please see our Jobs page for descriptions of these positions:

http://gis.harvard.edu/employment

 

CityEngine for ArcGIS Available

CityEngine for ArcGIS allows for generation of high quality 3d content within ArcGIS, and can be of great use for urban designers, planners, and modelers.  The CGA has purchased licenses of this product for use by Harvard affiliates.  If interested in using CityEngine, please contact the CGA at: contact@help.cga.harvard.edu

More on CityEngine: http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine/index.html

 

Census 2010 Geography Available

Census 2010 block groups, tracts, core based statistical areas, and many more geographic layers are now available at the HMDC lab at 1737 Cambridge St., for any Harvard affiliates to use.  They are in the T:/Census_2010 folder, in ESRI layer package format.

 

June ABCD-GIS Presentation on ENVI 5

The next ABCD-GIS presentation will be on Wednesday, June 6th, from Noon - 1:30, in Room S050 of the CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St.  The presentation will be “ENVI 5: The Next Generation of Image Analysis” by Brian Farr and Adam O’Connor, of Exelis Visual Information Solutions.  

View the flyer: http://hvrd.me/K89HVW

 

WorldMap and Wildlife Enforcement

A Harvard Gazette article “New tool to battle illegal trade in animals”: http://hvrd.me/Jx4WCB

 

 

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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

 

Applied Geography Conference

This conference will be held in Minneapolis, 10/10 – 10/13 of 2012.  Abstract submissions are due June 3rd, 2012.  More on the conference, and to submit an abstract: http://applied.geog.kent.edu/

 

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

 

Burma Conflict Maps

https://conflictsinburma.crowdmap.com/#

http://www.handheldhumanrights.org/

http://www.burma2010election.com/

 

Value-by-alpha Maps

http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/value-by-alpha-maps/

 

ORBIS – The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

http://orbis.stanford.edu/

 

GIS at Stanford Article

http://bit.ly/JB2rBI

 

ArcGIS Product Slides for Teaching and Learning

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc11/tech-workshops.html

 

Free online ESRI GIS Training

http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm?fa=search.results&cannedsearch=2

 

Summer Internships Opportunities at ESRI

http://www.esri.com/careers/students/summer-internships.html

 

Topomapper split screen

A nice way to view different imagery side by side for the same location:

http://www.topomapper.com/splitscreen.html

 

Earth On a Drive

Global imagery datasets for purchase:

http://www.earthondrive.com/

 

Trimble Buys SketchUp From Google

The announcement:http://ww2.trimble.com/3d/

An article: http://bit.ly/Kf6BBM

 

AirCasting – Smartphone Environmental Mapping

http://aircasting.org/

 

 

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