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Archive for May, 2008

GISSIG Events for this academic year

Our next two lunch meetings are scheduled for:
Thurs Nov 6, 2008 12-1pm - Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room

Dan Contreras, Lecturer at the Dept. of Anthropology, will report on an archaeological project which combines Google Earth and ArgGIS to detect looting.
Thurs Dec 4, 2008, 12-1pm - Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room
Mike Dvorak, Researcher at the Dept. [...]

May 23rd, 2008
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Lecture: Spatial Reasoning at Sea and Ashore

“Spatial Reasoning at Sea and Ashore: Directions and Challenges in Ocean Informatics”
Dawn Wright, Professor of Geosciences, Oregon State University
Tuesday, May 27, 4-5:15pm
Y2E2 Room 299
Informatics is a term that has been used with increasing frequency to represent the growing collaboration between computer scientists, information scientists, and domain scientists to solve complex scientific questions. Earth system [...]

May 23rd, 2008
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Urban & Environmental Modeler’s Datakit

The Urban & Environmental Footprint 2050 Project at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at UC, Berkeley have constructed a GIS toolkit consisting of a series of ESRI shapefiles and grids describing, “many of the physical, administrative, transportation, demographic, economic, land use and land cover, and environmental characteristics of the 48 contiguous United [...]

May 22nd, 2008
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