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Module 6: Geoprocessing In module 6 GIS Programming (GIS 5103) students built on the previous weeks lab of geoprocessing with ArcGIS ModelBuilder, by considering how to automate workflows directly with Python scripting. For the assignment, students write a script that performs three separate...

Whether you are celebrating with fireworks cookouts or studying, we hope you have a great 4th of July holiday! Did you know? There are thirty-one places nationwide with "liberty" in their names. The most populous is Liberty, Missouri with 29,581 residents. The state of Iowa boasts four such...

Module 5: Crime Analysis The Washington D.C. Crime Analysis lab kicked off the Homeland Security and Law Enforcement topic. Students utilized crime data from the DC Metropolitan Police Department to determine crime patterns in proximity to police stations and to identify underserved area(s)...

Module 7: Minimum Essential Dataset (MEDS): Protect The MEDS protect lab wrapped up our investigation of GIS in homeland security and law enforcement. This was a two part lab, with students first compiling and preparing a Minimum Essential Dataset for the Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area...

GIS 6110: Advanced GIs Final Project During Advanced Topics in GIS, students learned about SQL database technologies and Web GIS, which included HTML, server-side scripting via PHP and Python, mapping APIs and MapServer. For their final project, students were asked to take a typical desktop GIS...

Module 1: Project 1 Report Week During the first 3 weeks of Special Topics in GIS, undergraduate students completed preparation, analysis, and reporting on (at the time) hypothetical hurricane evacuation routes for Tampa, Florida using ArcMap’s Network Analyst extension. Local, state, and...

Module 3: GIS & Cartography The goal of this week's lesson in Introduction to GIS is to present some fundamental cartographic design principles that will help you produce more accurate and aesthetically pleasing map products using a GIS. Fundamental map design elements are described that can...

Module 4: Sharing GIS Maps and Data In this week's face to face GIS 4043 Lab "Sharing GIS Maps and Data", attention is shifted to designing for web maps vs paper maps. Specifically, students learn how to share GIS maps and data with others as a KMZ file accessible through Google Earth and as a...

Module 3 - Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Classification For Week 4 in GIS 4043, students were instructed to locate and identify features using Google Maps street view, construct an unbiased sampling system, and calculate the accuracy of Land Use/Land Cover classification maps. The blog postings...

Module 8: Lab 3 Lab 3 in Special Topics (GIS5935) had students comparing the quality of two different road networks. They used standard methods determine the completeness of road networks according to an ad-hoc methodology. There is no standard for completeness, but the methodology used here is...

Module 3: Analyze Week This week's blog spotlight is from Special Topics in GIS. For Module 3's Analyze Week, students were to perform Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis on various independent socioeconomic variables for West Virginia in an attempt to define a statistical model...

Module 8: Surface Interpolation Lab 8 in Special Topics had students carrying out different surface interpolation techniques in GIS, including the Thiessen, IDW, and Spline. Also required was a critical interpretation of the results from surface interpolation techniques where students had to...

Module 10: Supervised Classification The blog postings for Week 10 illustrated that a number of students had a good understanding of how to use Erdas Imagine to perform a supervised classification on multispectral satellite imagery. However, Ashlee Malone's blog was especially good and stood out...

Hello UWF GIS Students and Faculty We apologize for the absence on the blog, but we're back! We will continue to monitor and accept student posts. We'll also be highlighting the "Student Spotlight". If you feel like your map project is innovative or unique, let your professor know. We can help...

Attention students: We are sponsoring a digital media contest. This is a good way to have your work seen by professionals in the GIS field. Rules and details are below. You can also email me Brett Haskell at bhaskell@uwf.edu for more details. أكثر...

Mapping of Historic Pensacola CemeteriesGeoData Center researchers teamed up with the University of West Florida's Archaeology Institute to map gravesites at Pensacola AME Zion and Magnolia cemeteries. These two cemeteries served the Pensacola area's African American community since the 1800s...

UWF MS in GIS Administration Student has Work Featured During ESRI's Users ConferenceUniversity of West Florida Master's of Science in Geographic Information Sciences online student Amanda Clayton's map was featured during the 2021 ESRI User Conference in San Diego. Jack Dangermond, President of...

En français On May 22nd, 2015 I had the pleasure of attending a meeting hosted by the Sureté du Québec and Université Laval CRG. The topic was using GIS for missing person search operations. We introduced ourselves and quickly began sharing how each agency is currently using mapping for...

The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) and a small group of volunteers produced a charter document to establish a working group under this 501 (C) (3) not-for-profit organization. Here is an excerpt. "The Goal of this Working Group is to create an international network...

This week Caroline Rose successfully completed and defended her MS Thesis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I had the pleasure of attending virtually and was extremely happy to see her hard work and innovation culminate in a superb presentation. This blog is just an update to let you know...