Remote Sensing Data & Processed Imagery
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“Affective and effective geographic information visualization“ Sara Fabrikant, Professor of Geography, University of Zurich.
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“3D Modeling on a Campus scale for UMass Amherst“ Niels la Cour, Alexander Stepanov, and Lukasz Czarniecki, UMass Amherst.
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Speaker: Sara Fabrikant, Professor of Geographic Information Visualization & Analysis in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich.
Title: Affective and effective geographic information visualization
Location: CGIS South S050
Abstract: For thousands of years cartographers have systematically transformed spatial data into two-, three- or four-dimensional visuo-spatial displays. This process is typically performed by applying scientific (i.e., systematic, transparent, and reproducible) cartographic design methods, as well as aesthetic expressivity. Cartographers have not only been driven by “what looks good”, and “what feels right”, but increasingly they become interested in how and why a particular design solution works well or not. I will highlight how knowledge from cognitive science and vision research, including physio-psychological science can help (geographic) information visualization experts systematically assess their design solutions, which are increasingly interactive and mobile. We have employed evaluation methods including eye tracking and ambulatory psychophysiological monitoring for this purpose. Cognitive/vision theories help us make sense of the collected empirical data, guiding the process of designing maps for salience and positive engagement, thus creating useful visual analytics tools. I will also discuss how cartographic methods themselves can help researchers make sense of data collected in user studies. This includes tools and methods such as sequence analysis and visual analytics.
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The complimentary use of Microsoft’s Bing Maps with ArcGIS software will be end on December 31, 2013. Readmore about using Bing Maps with ArcGIS.
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Esri’s Education Team is pleased to announce that the ArcGIS GeoEvent Processor for Server has been added to Educational Site Licenses at no additional charge. Authorization numbers and software download for this extension to ArcGIS Server are now available via the Esri Customer Care Portal.
The GeoEvent Processor allows you to connect with virtually any type of streaming data and automatically alert personnel when specified conditions occur—all in real time decision applications, helping you respond faster and with remarkable accuracy whenever and wherever change happens. With this extension, you can connect to sensors, process and filter real-time data, and monitor assets such as vehicles, aircraft or vessels.
For more information about how you can connect your streaming data to ArcGIS via ArcGIS Server or ArcGIS Online, please visit Esri’s GeoEvent Processor product page along with these other resources:
Regards,
Esri Education Team
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Speaker: Alan Mislove, Assistant Professor at the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University.
Title: Privacy in Online Social Networks
Location: CGIS South S450
Abstract: The sharing of user profiles and end-user-generated content has emerged as a popular activity over online social networks like Facebook. This content is used on the sites as a basis for grouping users, for sharing content, and for suggesting users who may benefit from interaction. As a result, the issue of online social network privacy has received significant attention in both the research literature and the mainstream media. In this talk, I provide an overview of my group’s work on social networking privacy. First, I present a study of users’ understanding of their privacy settings, quantifying the magnitude of the problem of managing privacy. We deploy a survey, implemented as a Facebook application, to 200 Facebook users recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. We find that users’ expectations match reality less than half of the time, and when incorrect, almost always expose content to more users than expected. Second, I present a study of the leakage of implicit data on online social networks. Due to homophily, linking to a friend often reveals information about the user himself; we show that hidden user attributes can be inferred with high accuracy even when as few as 20% of users provide them. I conclude with an brief description of my group’s work studying Twitter, focused on exploring how geography (both self-reported and automatically collected) can be used as a tool for better understanding online social networks.
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Speaker: Tim Cresswell, Professor of History and International Affairs at Northeastern University.
Title: On Friction
Location: CGIS South S450
Abstract: In this talk I consider the potential of the idea of friction as one theoretical device for the exploration of the politics of mobility. In physics friction describes what happens when two moving bodies (or a moving body and a stationary body) come into contact. Heat is produced as a byproduct. What happens when friction and heat are translated into a social and cultural realm? The significance of (social) friction is in the way it draws our attention to the way in which people, things and ideas are slowed down or stopped. One reading of the mobility turn in the humanities and the social sciences is to see it as an analysis of a world of flow where friction has been reduced or (nearly) eliminated. This would be a mistake. Foregrounding mobility in theory and methodology does not mean turning our attention away from friction but, instead, highlights it. Friction would not happen without at least the potential of movement (motility). The talk draws on classic writings on friction and logistics in wartime as well as contemporary theoretical endeavors to understand what happens when moving people, things, ideas get caught up in the sticky topographies of actually existing places.
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