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- GIS Day 2009
Mulford Hall
Wednesday, November 18 at 3:00am - GIF Open House
111 Mulford Hall
Friday, August 28 at 1:00pm - Photo-point ground truthing: C...
Mulford 111
Thursday, May 7 at 9:00am - Creating your own webGIS with ...
Mulford 111
Tuesday, April 28 at 9:00am - Intro to species distribution ...
Mulford 111
Thursday, April 16 at 9:00am - Intro to species distribution ...
Mulford 111
Tuesday, April 14 at 9:00am - Ecological Modeling Presentation
Mulford Hall, Room 132
Tuesday, March 17 at 11:00am - Intro to Geographic Informatio...
124 Mulford Hall
Wednesday, March 4 at 2:00pm - ASPRS Technical Session
111 Mulford Hall and GPB 100
Wednesday, February 25 at 5:30pm - Advanced Remote Sensing: Objec...
Mulford 111
Thursday, February 19 at 9:00am
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Please join us for GIS Day 2009 on Wednesday, November 18. The list of speakers and topics are now available on the event site, including this year’s keynote presentation from James Fee!
GIS Day is free, but we encourage you to register, so that we know how many people to expect. We still have room for posters, if you...’d like to display a poster (project, map, imagery) just sign up online.
This year's event is co-hosted by the Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA) and Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF), with support from the Northern California Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Come join us in the GIF on Friday, August 28 at 1PM -3PM for our open house. We will be offering information on our upcoming workshops,and how you can use geospatial technologies including GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing, WebGIS, and 3D Visualization to enhance your own research!
Root beer floats will be available while supplies last!
Time:1:00PM Friday, August 28th
Location:111 Mulford Hall
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley GIF Summer Hours: The GIF Workspace will continue to be open during the summer (M-F, 9am-5pm). Keep an eye out for upcoming workshops and events!
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Title: The ecological model web and a vision for a modeling infrastructure
Dr. Gary Geller
Deputy Manager, NASA Ecological Forecasting Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA
Abstract:
Rapid climate and socioeconomic changes may be outrunning society's ability to understand, predic...t, and respond to change effectively. Natural resource managers of all kinds want better information about what these changes will be and how it will affect the resources they are managing. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, for example, needs to understand the impacts of these changes when assessing whether to list a species as threatened or endangered, and needs to know which of a variety of possible management strategies is most effective. Nearly all of these activities require computer models. However, despite a large number of excellent models in ecology and related disciplines, there seems to be no coordinated modeling infrastructure that can be consulted to shed light on important ecological questions. While some of this shortcoming is due to the complexity of the science, lack of critical observations, and other issues, the data and model sharing that such an infrastructure can facilitate would benefit resource managers, researchers, and modelers.
The concept of a modeling infrastructure will be discussed and an approach analogous to the World Wide Web will be described for implementing it. This Model Web would be a system of interoperable computer models and databases communicating primarily via web services. It would not be planned and built--instead, like the World Wide Web, it would grow organically, without central control, within a framework of broad goals and data exchange standards. Models and datasets would be maintained and perhaps operated and served by a dynamic network of participants. While not a new idea, technology, science, observations, and models have all advanced to the point where it is now possible to start creating such a system, although it remains a long-term endeavor.
Dr. Geller is Deputy Manager of the NASA Ecological Forecasting Program. He has a M.S. in Botany from the University of Wyoming and a Ph.D. in Biology from UCLA.
The ecological model web and a vision for a modeling infrastructure
Time:11:00AM Tuesday, March 17th
Location:Mulford Hall, Room 132
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley GPS Art (http://www.gpsdrawing.com/info.html) created recently by GIF workshop participants.
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Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley updated Extended Info.
The field GeoLunch has been updated.
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Register here: http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshop
Description:
This workshop offers hands-on experience using GPS based photography, and has been designed for participants with little to no experience. GPS photos are taken both with GPS-enabled cameras, and time-syncing coordinates with photos using a separat...e GPS and camera.
* Agenda:
* Presentation
o Understanding ground truthing and event visualization
o Considerations in collecting ground data
* Interactive
o Collecting ground data using GPS-enabled cameras and separate GPS and digital cameras
o Inputting GPS photo-point data into ArcGIS (hyperlinks) and QGIS (the event visualization tool)
Time:9:00AM Thursday, May 7th
Location:Mulford 111
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley Photos from GIF user's field work around the world
11 new photos
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
http://gif.berkeley.edu/asprs_tech.html
Please join us Wednesday, Feb. 25, 5:30-8:00PM for a geospatial technical presentation sponsored by the Northern California Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS). ASPRS is a national scientific association of over 7,000 members, dedicated to... advancing the knowledge and understanding of mapping sciences. This is a great opportunity to meet Bay Area professionals and learn about current research projects that utilize geospatial technology.
We will host an hour (5:30-6:30) of refreshments and networking in the GIF (111 Mulford Hall) followed by presentations and discussion (6:30-8:00) in the Genetics and Plant Biology Building (GPB), room 100. Stay tuned for up to date information on the session’s speakers.
Schedule:
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5:30-6:30 PM: Social Gathering
Location: Geospatial Innovation Facility - 111 Mulford Hall
Meet ASPRS members and others interested in geospatial technology.
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6:30-7:00 PM: Introductions and announcements
Location: Genetics & Plant Biology Building - Room 100
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7:00-7:30 PM: Presentation I
Location: Genetics & Plant Biology Building - Room 100
Presenter: Jeremy Freund (GIF)
Kite Aerial Photography: Vegetation monitoring in rural Senegal.
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7:30-8:00 PM: Presentation II
Genetics & Plant Biology Building - Room 100
Presenter: Maggi Kelly and Marek Jakubowski (UC Berkeley)
Use of lidar data and analysis in support of adaptive management in the Sierra Nevada.
Time:5:30PM Wednesday, February 25th
Location:111 Mulford Hall and GPB 100
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Register here: http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshop
Description:
This workshop is an introduction to webGIS. It has been designed for participants with little to no GIS or web experience, and serves as a practical exercise for you to begin developing you r own webgis with google maps.
* Agenda:
* Presenta...tion
o Brief introduction to webGIS
o Choosing the right webGIS development application for you
o Google Maps architecture
o Options for development Google Maps
o How to get started with your Google Maps
o Advanced examples with Google Maps
o Further resources
* Interactive
o Create a basic Google Maps website
o Customize your Google Map
o Add your field (or other) points
o Add photos
o Utilizing My Maps on your website
o Integrating your Google Map with your existing website
o How to research further tools and functionalities
Time:9:00AM Tuesday, April 28th
Location:Mulford 111
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Register here: http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshop
Description:
Following the Species distribution modeling I workshop, this workshop focusses on the practical details of obtaining and formatting data for use in models. After a brief lecture, you will follow a hands-on tutorial going through all of the steps i...nvolved in preparing your data for modeling with maxent, and displaying the results in a GIS. It is recomended that you have taken the Species distribution modeling I workshop, or have sufficient experience with the topics covered.
* Agenda:
* Presentation
o Data types and sources review
o Evaluating predictive performance
o Modeling future and past projections
* Interactive
o Find and format biological data from GBIF
o Find environmental data from Worldclim (current and 2080 future prediction)
o Format environmental data
o Load formatted data into Maxent and run model for current distribution
o Load formatted data into Maxent and run model for future distribution
Time:9:00AM Thursday, April 16th
Location:Mulford 111
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Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Register here: http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshop
Description:
This workshop introduces species distribution modeling, the process of combining species location (x,y) data with environmental data (climate, landcover, etc.) to predict where a particular species may occur. It is suitable for participants with l...ittle to no experience with species modeling, though the Intro to GIS is recommended. We will explore the theory behind species modeling, and complete some hands-on exercises to introduce the DIVA-GIS and Maxent modeling applications.
* Agenda:
* Presentation
o Overview of species distribution modeling
o Data types and sources
o Modeling algorithms
* Interactive
o Using DIVA-GIS to build a simple BIOCLIM distribution model
o Using Maxent to build a species distribution model
Time:9:00AM Tuesday, April 14th
Location:Mulford 111
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Register here: http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshop
Description:
This workshop introduces the Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA), an advanced method used to segment a pixel based image into map objects that can then be classyfied as a whole. This type of analysis is ideal for mapping with high-resolution imager...y, where a single feature (such as a tree) may have sevreal different shades of pixels. It is suggested that participants have taken Intro to Remote Sensing I, or have comparable experience viewing and enhancing imagery in remote sensing software.
* Agenda:
* Presentation
o Brief overview of remote sensing
o Focus on object-based remote sensing
o Imagery (terminology, resolution, platforms)
o Image Analysis (enhancements, classification)
* Interactive (using Definiens Professional 5.0)
o Getting around Definiens Professional
o Multi-scale segmentation
o Classification using Nearest Neighbor
o Accuracy assessment
o Exporting results from Definiens Professional for use in other application such as ArcGIS
Time:9:00AM Thursday, February 19th
Location:Mulford 111
Geospatial Innovation Facility - UC Berkeley
Register here: http://gif.berkeley.edu/support/workshop
This workshop introduces the process of analyzing imagery from multiple dates in order to map and quantify change over time. It is suggested that participants have taken Intro to Remote Sensing I & II, or have comparable experience viewing, enhancing, and cla...ssyfying imagery in remote sensing software.
* Agenda:
* Presentation
o Understanding land cover change mapping
o Techniques for identifying areas of change
o Understanding limiting factors to accurately identify change
* Interactive
o Visual comparisons of multi-date imagery
o Creating a quick multi-band change enhancement
o Multi-date composite classification
Time:1:00PM Wednesday, February 18th
Location:Mulford 111
