geography

job: Lecturer in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

By Valentina Asciutti at Mon, 15/08/2011 - 11:43

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centre: Digital Humanities at Lancaster University

Host institution:

Lancaster University

Director:

Ian Gregory

Digital Humanities at Lancaster University has been led by Ian Gregory since 2006. Main research interests are:

The use of GIS technology to study long-term change in the societies of Britain and Ireland in particular through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Developing an understanding of what GIS has to offer to historical research more generally and developing Historical GIS as an established field within history.
Using computing technology across the humanities and social sciences to gain a better understanding of the past.

Membership:

Network of Expert Centres

Website:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/gregoryi/

Tags:

Geo-referencing and projection

geography

Network of Centres

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By I.Gregory@lanca... at Mon, 03/05/2010 - 16:55

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tool: ArcExplorer

Purpose:

ArcExplorer is a custom mapping tool that can be used in a web browser. ArcExplorer allows you to perform a range of basic GIS functions such as display, query and retrieve data.

Features:

• Display and query a variety of standard data sources including ESRI shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages Images, ArcIMS services
• Pan and zoom through multiple layers and identify, locate, and query geographic and attribute data.
• Symbolize data based on attributes contained in the data layers to create thematic maps.
• Perform basic spatial analysis tasks on the geographic data
• Freely distributable data

A&H use case 1 description:

ArcExplorer was used in the Montréal l'avenir du passé (MAP) project to create a historical GIS research infrastructure for mapping the city of Montréal.

Publisher:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Creator:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Software/programming languages used:

ArcExplorer

Data capture:

Use of existing digital data

Specifications:

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

JPEG

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Bitmap (BMP)

Java

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ESRI Explorer

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

History

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Data publishing and dissemination:

Web browser scripting

Tags:

GIS

geography

Geospatial computing

Geospatial technology

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Practice-led research:

2d illustration

3d modelling - vector

Alternate tool(s):

ArcGIS Explorer, worldKit, GeoCommons

Data structuring and enhancement:

2d modelling - raster

2d modelling - vector

3d modelling - interactive

3d modelling - vector

Geo-referencing and projection

Licence:

Freeware

Platform:

All major operating systems

lifecycleStage:

structuring

analysis

publishing

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:41

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tool: Google Earth

Purpose:

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004.
It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe.

Features:

• Editable and customisable maps
• Simplified touring with audio and voice recording
• Different layers
• 3D buildings
• Save and share maps

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania” project has used Google Earth to map data relating to Greek and Latin inscriptions from Roman Tripolitania onto Google Earth maps.

Creator:

Keyhole, Inc

Publisher:

Google

Specifications:

Bitmap (BMP)

Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

KML-Zipped (KMZ)

Web Mapping Service (WMS)

GPS data

Arcview Header (HDR)

Alias Pix

Portable Anymap (PNM)

Data capture:

Geophysical survey

GPS and total station surveys

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Software/programming languages used:

Google Earth

Suite:

Google

Data structuring and enhancement:

Geo-referencing and projection

Alternate tool(s):

Bing Maps Platform, Bhuvan

Tags:

GIS

geography

Geospatial technology

Platform:

Licence:

lifecycleStage:

By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:25

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tool: OpendTect

Purpose:

A software application for analysing and visualising multi-volume seismic data. OpendTect may be used to analyse 2D, 3D and 4D pre- and post-stack seismic data.

Features:

Visualization and analysis of 2D and 3D seismic data in a single survey
2D and 3D horizon tracking including auto-tracking, plane-by-plane, line and manual tracking
On-the-fly calculation and visualization of various attributes and filters
Plug-in architecture

A&H use case 1 description:

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used OpendTect to produce a 3D seismic model of the British continental shelf. The model was used to visualise landscapes that may have been populated by humans in the late Quaternary and Holocene period, but which are now submersed underwater.

Publisher:

Freshmeat

Creator:

OpendTect project

Specifications:

Open Graphics Library (OpenGL)

Data capture:

Geophysical survey

Data analysis:

Content analysis

Software/programming languages used:

OpendTect