Brief introduction to GIS, and the CGA workshop training series, to help students determine workshops that are appropriate for their individual needs. Students will use online and desktop GIS software.
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This workshop teaches how to use network data and ArcGIS Network Analyst software. We will explore street dataset to generate a network dataset and then use it to find optimal facility locations based on your criteria. We will develop an OD cost matrix to finds and measures the least-cost paths along the network from multiple origins to multiple destinations. Finally we will explore the location-allocation functionality to maximize health-care facilities attendance.
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Leader/Instructor Giovanni Zambotti
An introduction to spatial analysis for various kinds of problem solving in a GIS environment. Examples of both raster and vector data-based spatial operations like overlay, buffering, and interpolation will be covered.
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The ability to ‘wrangle’ various forms of data into a GIS is necessary in order to produce maps or analysis. Students will learn how to convert and properly geo-reference raw data in text form into GIS format, find and import relevant publicly available data, and produce a map of the results.
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One popular use of remote sensing is the analysis of land use change over time. In this workshop, students will learn how to search for and download free Landsat data; how to prepare these data for analysis; and how to examine land use change over time. We will be using ArcGIS and IDRISI Selva, both of which are available to Harvard affiliates on the CGA website. This class is meant to build off of introductory GIS and Remote Sensing workshops.
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An introduction to spatial analysis for various kinds of problem solving in a GIS environment. Examples of both raster and vector data-based spatial operations like overlay, buffering, and interpolation will be covered.
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The ability to ‘wrangle’ various forms of data into a GIS is necessary in order to produce maps or analysis. Students will learn how to convert and properly geo-reference raw data in text form into GIS format, find and import relevant publicly available data, and produce a map of the results.
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CGA Newsletter August 2016 PDF Download
CGA NEWS | |
2016 CGA Conference Videos Available The 2016 CGA Conference: Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities videos are now available online here. Whether you want to revisit one of these inspiring talks or were unable to attend this year’s conference, you can access these videos at any time. | |
Upcoming GIS Technical Training Workshops CGA offers several non-credit technical training workshops related to GIS (Free to Harvard affiliates but registration is required). The workshops for September are:
More information about all technical training workshops and registrations can be found here. | |
GIS Site License Software Upgrade (For Harvard Affiliates Only) | |
CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion
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CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT | |
Esri’s New Imagery MOOC Earth Imagery at Work is Esri’s newest massive open online course (MOOC). It introduces applications of imagery that provide solutions to challenges faced in agriculture, disaster management, electric utilities, and many other industries To know more about this course and to register, please click here. | |
Esri New Global Content Challenge Esri is challenging students all over the world to unleash the power of Esri content by way of their own geographic analyses, visualizations, predictive models and more to tell a compelling scientific story. The story must be presented using the Esri map journal app. Read more, and enter the challenge. | |
NEURISA Day 2016 GIS Competition The New England Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information System Association (NEURISA) is looking for GIS related posters and web applications from students and young professionals. The topics can include anything from climate change to drones to strategic planning. Read more | |
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editors of this issue: Fei Carnes, Jeff Blossom. |
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The Center for Geographic Analysis is developing WorldMap (http://worldmap.harvard.edu/), an open source platform designed to encourage collaboration between researchers who need access to geospatial information. Despite the many ways in which research materials can now be accessed and shared across the web, the methods suitable for geospatial materials lag. The reasons are many and interconnected: 1) the sparse implementation of standards, 2) the size and complexity of geospatial datasets, 3) the lack of a platform to support geospatial collaboration that is easy to access, 4) the lack of an incentive for researchers to upload geospatial datasets to a system that supports eventual sharing. WorldMap attempts to address all of these problems. Participants will learn about how WorldMap works and how to use it to become an accomplished online map maker.
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worldmap_workshop_mar_2017.pdf
worldmap_training_mar_2017.zip_.pdf
This project addresses the need to manage real-time streaming flows of Big-Data, and presents a method for storing, indexing, visualizing and querying a test dataset of archived Geo-tweets. The Billion Object Platform(BOP) provides a client and API to browse and search the latest 1 billion geotagged tweets (about 3 months range), using an open source stack of Apache Lucene, Solr, Kafka, Zookeeper, and frameworks Swagger, scikit-learn, OpenLayers, and AngularJS.
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Billion Object Spatio-Temporal Search Plaform
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