Harrisburg University student Steve Cline is using a balloon to capture imagery of a local island. The big issue in using these kits: helium shortage. Maybe it's time for kites!
- Penn Live
A new Kindle book (the authors refer to it as a manual) titled Gaining Competency With GIS: How-to Manual for ArcGIS Desktop Version 10 [Kindle Edition] offers help in gaining competency with ArcGIS. It references the ArcGIS 10 docs and I gather provides step by step instructions for tools and extensions. It claims to be based on the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) but refers to the that document as "Geotechnical Competency Model" throughout. I wonder if that editing error is in part related to an English class cited in the acknowledgements.
via URISA Digest
Students with the Paragould High School EAST Lab Program [AR] are using their computer knowledge to help Paragould Police monitor sex offenders living in the city limits.
"They are updating our sex offender zoning map," said Captain Greg Trout with PPD.
- KAIT
The University of Redlands has received a $75,000 grant from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to develop a Spatial Decision Support (SDS) system that calculates and maps the potential impacts of energy projects on wildlife.
- press release
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An expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the map, which shows where hundreds of objects and pieces of the presumed-unsinkable vessel landed after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people.
- Telegraph
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/09 at 05:48 AM |
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Latest addition to our Open Educational Resources at PSU - our new Location Intelligence for Business class: e-education.psu.edu/geog497b/
- via @A_C_Robinson
PCI Geomatics announced it has signed an Education Alliance agreement with Northeastern University (NEU), located in Boston, MA.
- press release
The 2012 GIS Internship Program with the City of Philadelphia is an opportunity for current
graduate and undergraduate college students with experience in Geographic Information
Systems to learn about and contribute to the city government that manages operations for the
nation’s 5th largest municipality. We host the best and brightest students from around the nation
to come to Philadelphia every summer and see all our great city has to offer.
- brochure (
pdf) via @mapdelphia
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/07 at 03:00 AM |
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Land Cover Classification Competition: Join Now!
First Prize: The top ten validators will become co-authors of the paper:
Generation of a global hybrid land cover dataset.
Other Prizes
• Best Classifier – highest quality with the highest number of validations: 35 Euro Voucher from Amazon
• Second best Classifier: 20 Euro Amazon Voucher
• Third best Classifier: 20 Euro Amazon Voucher
This is part of the Geo-Wiki effort. Competition ends March 30.
- via SlashGeo
Google Map Maker University Mapping Contest for the US and Canada
Register now and start mapping February 13, 2012 through March 9, 2012!
Be a part of a university mapping contest open for US and Canadian students who currently study at a university in these two countries! From February 13, 2012 to March 9, 2012, improving the maps of your campus can give you a chance to be a local hero and the highest scoring entries will win prizes like Samsung Galaxy tablets, Samsung Android phones, Google Map Maker messenger bags, and more!
URISA's student paper/poster contest is on again. Different rules for undergrad/grad vs. community college/certificate students. Prizes: publication of paper on website, student membership (value $20) and/or registration (NO travel/hotel) to annual or regional URISA event. Submissions due May 21, 2012.
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/16 at 03:00 AM |
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What's wrong with the geospatial workforce? Victor Valley College (California) adjunct professor Fon Allan Duke knows:
There’s not a good enough pool of trained individuals to step up and work in these catastrophic events. And the problem you have in industry is either you have people with master’s degrees that are overqualified doing work that they don’t really want to do and you’re overpaying for it, or you have people that have been trained on the job who don’t really understand all the specifics and so you get poor product.
He was quoted as the school launches a new certificate program, moving on from courses focused on geo use in agriculture:
VVC’s new GIS for Emergency Response and Management certificate aims to equip community college students with skills needed to develop GIS tools for governments or private companies.
There are still openings for the new program which begins the week of Feb 13.
- Victorville Daily Press
The Univeristy of Minnesota has some great, inexpensive courses in LiDAR coming up. Some are full already.
- Montevideo American News
Huntington High (WV) teachers and students attended the White House Science Fair to show off their geospatailly themed project.
Their project involved gathering data about how cloud cover affected the temperature of different surfaces such as pavement and grass, and it captured the attention of NASA. The students were asked last week if they wanted to attend the science fair, hosted by President Barack Obama. They jumped at the chance, and the school system worked hard to make it happen, Sharpe said.
The school is part of the GLOBE program.
- Herald Dispatch
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/10 at 07:08 AM |
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