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Esri Education User Conference talk: Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engagement

Posted on Sunday 26 June 2016 by mukih

The slides below are from my keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference 2016. The conference focused on creativity and its relevant to education and the utilisation of GIS (especially Esri software) at different levels of education. My talk explored the area of citizen science and extreme citizen science and the way geographical technologies … Continue reading Esri Education User Conference talk: Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engagement

#EsriEdUC, arcgis, ArcGIS Online, citizen cyberlab, citizen science, citizen science association, Conference, creativity and learning, esri, Esri Education User Conference, European Citizen Science Association, ExCiteS, Extreme Citizen Science, Geographic information science, Geographic information system, GIS, GIS education, GIS Usability, OpenStreetMap, VGI

Extreme Citizen Science in Esri ArcNews

Posted on Friday 29 January 2016 by mukih

The winter edition of Esri ArcNews (which according to Mike Gould of Esri, is printed in as many copies as Forbes) includes an article on the activities of the Extreme Citizen Science group in supporting indigenous groups in mapping. The article highlights the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) aspects of the work, and mentioning many members of … Continue reading Extreme Citizen Science in Esri ArcNews

Amazon, arcgis, ArcGIS Online, citizen science, Congo basin, esri, Extreme Citizen Science, GIS, GIS Usability, indigenous knowledge, PPGIS, Research projects, VGI

Modelling Africa’s trade routes

Posted on Friday 23 October 2015 by roblevy

People talk a lot about how development aid might be used to improve a country’s attractiveness as a trade partner. (Mostly the World Trade Organisation, but not exclusively!) “Aid for Trade” is a controversial project because it has a distinctly globalisation-friendly vibe about it, and a fundamental belief in the kind of trickle-down economics so […]

aid, aid for trade, arcgis, arcgis pro

Esri survey123 tool – rapid prototyping geographical citizen science tool

Posted on Wednesday 15 July 2015 by mukih

There are several applications that allow creating forms rapidly – such as Open Data Kit (ODK) or EpiCollect. Now, there is another offering from Esri, in the form of Survey123 app – which is explained in the video below. Survey123 is integrated into ArcGIS Online, so you need an ArcGIS account to use it (you … Continue reading Esri survey123 tool – rapid prototyping geographical citizen science tool

arcgis, ArcGIS Online, citizen science, Crowdsourcing, data collection, Data Management, esri, GIS, GIS Usability, PGIS, PPGIS, Survey123, Usability, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Create a 3D Holographic Print from ArcGIS and SketchUp

Posted on Tuesday 7 August 2012 by digital urban

We like this more than we should, the thought of going from ArcScene to a 3D Colour Hologram for public participation in planning seems light years away from the traditional setup: The concept also works via SketchUp and other 3D software, below is a 3D holographic print of Downtown Seattle: Head over to http://www.zebraimaging.com/ to create […]

arcgis, Front Page

Picking Up Raster GIS Skills

Posted on Friday 20 July 2012 by Linda See

Do you need to work with satellite images or datasets that are gridded? By gridded I mean data that are stored in grid like cells such as heights of the earth (or a digital elevation model), a global land cover map or gridded populations of the world? There are many other gridded datasets available, e.g. … Read more →

arcgis, capacity building, DEMs, geostatistics, GIS, interpolation, raster data, Training

CityEngine: ESRI and Lumion a first look.

Posted on Thursday 9 February 2012 by Andy Hudson-Smith

Yesterday a license for CityEngine landed on our desk from the nice people at ESRI and to be honest we were a little too excited for our own good, after all its only software. However, CityEngine and its integration with ESRI ArcGIS, while ma…

arcgis, Architectual Visualisation, CityEngine, data viz, esri, Lumion, Procedural Cities

CityEngine: ESRI and Lumion a first look.

Posted on Thursday 9 February 2012 by Andy Hudson-Smith

arcgis, Architectual Visualisation, CityEngine, data viz, esri, Lumion, Procedural Cities

Data Space: Agent Based Models, SketchUp, Visualisation, ArcGIS and Lumion

Posted on Thursday 2 February 2012 by Andy Hudson-Smith

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring exploring new methods and techniques for visualising data. Developed as part our Masters course in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation we are now looking into issues of scale, realtime renderi…

3D GIS, 3DMax, ABM, arcgis, CASA, CASA MRes, data visualization, Lumion, Twitter Data, twitter maps

Data Space: Agent Based Models, SketchUp, Visualisation, ArcGIS and Lumion

Posted on Thursday 2 February 2012 by Andy Hudson-Smith

3D GIS, 3DMax, ABM, arcgis, CASA, CASA MRes, data visualization, Lumion, Twitter Data, twitter maps

GIS Systems ?!? from acronym to a term…

Posted on Tuesday 18 January 2011 by mukih

Yesterday, for the first time, I came across the phrase ‘GIS Systems’ in an academic paper, written by geographers (not GIS experts). I have also noticed that the term is being used more often in recent times when people talk about packages such as ArcGIS or Mapinfo. On the face of it, talking about a […]

arcgis, Concepts, Geographic information system, GIS, GIS System, Mapinfo

ArcGIS 10 – Field Calculator and Python

Posted on Monday 11 October 2010 by Daniel Lewis

Python has been more tightly integrated in the new release of ArcGIS 10, allowing scripting to occur directly through a Python process without even opening up ArcMap. Admittedly this was available before, but now everything is more tightly coupled and a lot cleaner in it’s implementation. However, what has really interested, and indeed confused me […]

arcgis, esri, field calculations, GIS, python