Geospatial technology

job: Teaching Fellow in GIS

By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 07/12/2010 - 16:20

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cfp: CfP: OSGIS 2011

By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 30/11/2010 - 12:15

event: Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research - OSGIS 2011

By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 30/11/2010 - 12:13

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job: RA position: geographical information management and web development

By Valentina Asciutti at Fri, 30/07/2010 - 14:59

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Flickr is an online community service that enables registered users to upload, tag, group, comment and rate photographs, artwork, illustrations, screenshots and videos. Images may be shared via Flickr galleries or embedded in external blogs and social media. Hosting approximately 4 billion images, Flickr is also available for unregistered users to search and browse galleries and navigate geospatial maps.

Features:

100MB monthly upload limit (Free accounts); unlimited uploads (Pro subscribers)
High Definition video uploads
Available in 8 languages
Metadata tagging to form tag-clouds and folksonomies
Application Programming Interface (API) enables independent programmers to expand Flickr applications
Ajax emulates the functionality of desktop photo applications
Uploadr drag-and-drop desktop client allows users to upload photos outside the web interface
Private and public image storage
Guest pass allows private photos to be shared with unregistered users
SafeSearch filtering controls
RSS and Atom feeds
Direct uploads from email and cameraphones
Merchandising of canvas prints, posters, cards, calendars and photo books
Copyright and creative commons license options

A&H use case 1 description:

Over 1,500 items from the City of Edinburgh's printing collections were catalogued to highlight Edinburgh’s rich printing and publishing heritage through the online provision of photographs, film and sound recordings. The Open Access virtual museum uses Flickr to import images that are displayed as dynamic photo galleries on the website.

Creator:

Ludicorp

Publisher:

Yahoo! Inc

Specifications:

Data publishing and dissemination:

User contributed content

Data capture:

2d scanning and photography

Software/programming languages used:

flickr

Discipline:

Visual Arts

Practice-led research:

2d graphic design

2d illustration

Photography

Alternate tool(s):

Photobucket

Tags:

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: ERDAS Imagine

Purpose:

ERDAS Imagine is a suite of geospatial authoring software. The suite contains a raster graphics editor and remote sensing application that performs advanced remote sensing analysis and spatial modelling to create new information. ERDAS IMAGINE can also visualize results in 2D, 3D, movies, and on cartographic quality map compositions.

Features:

• Image Analysis, Remote Sensing & GIS
• Parallel Batch Processing
• Spatial Modeling
• High Performance Mosaicking Engine in IMAGINE Advantage
• Expanded Change Detection Tools (with Zonal Change Detection)
• ERDAS ER Mapper Algorithms
• Converts over 190 Image Formats to all Major File Formats, including GeoTIFF, NITF, CADRG, JPEG, JPEG2000, ECW and MrSID
• Implements Comprehensive OGC Web Processing Service (WPS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Catalog Services for the Web (CS-W)

A&H use case 1 description:

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used ERDAS Imagine to analyse 3D seismic datasets acquired on the United Kingdom continental shelf and explore Late Quaternary and Holocene geology over the area of the Southern North Sea.

Publisher:

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)

Creator:

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)

Software/programming languages used:

ERDAS Imagine

Data capture:

Remote sensing

GPS and total station surveys

Specifications:

Javascript

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

JPEG

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

Java

Ajax frameworks

J2EE

Erdas Macro Language (EML)

Communication and collaboration:

Resource sharing

Video-based interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ERDAS Imagine

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

Data analysis:

Data publishing and dissemination:

Desktop publishing and pre-press

Tags:

GIS

Remote sensing

Geospatial technology

Raster image

multispectral images

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Human factors analysis

Practice-led research:

2d illustration

3d modelling - vector

Alternate tool(s):

SPRING, Virtual Terrain Project (VTP),

Data structuring and enhancement:

2d modelling - raster

2d modelling - vector

Animation

3d modelling - interactive

3d modelling - vector

Geo-referencing and projection

Licence:

commercial

Platform:

All major operating systems

lifecycleStage:

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:22

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tool: ArcGIS

Purpose:

ArcGIS is a suite of software that comprises of Desktop GIS, Server GIS, Mobile GIS, and Online GIS. ArcGIS is a platform for building a complete geographic information system (GIS) that lets you easily create, edit, and analyse geographic knowledge on the desktop; publish data, maps, globes and models to a GIS server and/or share them online; and use them on the desktop, on the Web, or in the field.

Features:

• View and query maps
• Manipulate shapefiles and geodatabases
• Data manipulation, editing and analysis
• Mobile device enabled

A&H use case 1 description:

ArcGIS was used in the Mapping Medieval Chester project to integrate geographical and literary mappings of the medieval city using cartographic and textual sources and using these to understand more how urban landscapes in the Middle Ages were interpreted and navigated by local inhabitants.

A&H use case 2 description:

ArcGIS was used in the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project to investigate the relationship between people and their environment, from the Neolithic period to the present day on the island of Cyprus. ArcGIS was used to gather, analyse and map geomorphological data.

Publisher:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Creator:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Data capture:

Geophysical survey

GPS and total station surveys

Specifications:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

Java

Microsoft's .NET Framework