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Archive for July 8th, 2009

Dr. Henk J. Scholten Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

In Conferences, ESRI, GIS, GIScience, Modeling, Science on July 8, 2009 at 3:19 pm

Henk_Scholten_01Dr. Henk J. Scholten has been awarded the Environmental Systems Research Institute’s (ESRI) Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contribution to advancing the science and technology of geographic information systems (GIS) throughout his career. He will receive the award on 13 July 2009 at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA, from ESRI president Jack Dangermond.

With this award, the ESRI recognizes Dr. Scholten’s accomplishments as “one of the first adopters of GIS in the world and a prolific author of books on spatial analysis.” ESRI also pays tribute to his prominence in the field, and his research work as scientific director of the Spinlab, the Spatial Information Laboratory at the Free University of Amsterdam.

Dr. Scholten is co-editor of the Springer books Modelling Land-Use Change, Geographical Information Systems for Urban and Regional Planning and Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science. He is also co-editor of The Added Value of Geographical Information Systems and Comparative Studies in Population Geography, both out of print.

Henk Scholten studied mathematics and geography at the Free University of Amsterdam and obtained his Ph.D. in 1988. Since 1990 he has been professor in spatial informatics at the Faculty of Economics of the Free University of Amsterdam and director of the Spinlab. Dr. Scholten is founder and CEO of Geodan, one of the largest European companies specializing in geospatial information technology. He has been advisor to the European Union and several ministries in the field of disaster management and GIS, and has written more than one hundred articles and nine books on the subject. In April 2005, Scholten received a Royal Dutch Decoration for his significant contribution to geoinformation, both on a national and international level.

Source: Springer

Using Geostatistical Analyst for Analysis of California Air Quality

In ESRI, Environmental Science, GIS, Modeling, Science, Spatial Analysis, Statistics on July 8, 2009 at 1:14 pm

caaqSouthern California experiences some of the worst air quality in the United States.  Konstantin Krivoruchko used air quality data collected by the California Air resources Board, Air Quality Data Branch, Statistical and Analytical Services Section, beginning in 1980 to showcase spatial statistical air quality data analysis using the Geostatistical Analyst extension to ArcGIS.

Geographically Weighted Regression (White Paper)

In ESRI, Education, GIS, Statistics on July 8, 2009 at 1:02 pm

gwrA collaboration of the National Centre for Geocomputation and the National University of Ireland Maynooth, this white paper discusses the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) version of the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) model which is implemented in ArcGIS 9.3.

Spatial Analysis of Urban Tree Canopy for Brunswick, Maryland

In Environmental Science, Imagery, Science, Spatial Analysis on July 8, 2009 at 6:48 am

uvm…from The Frederick News-Post…

“Tree canopy cover in Brunswick is good compared to Frederick , and even when compared with the cities of Baltimore and Washington.

“It stands at 38 percent, according to a recent study by the University of Vermont. That means 38 percent of land area in Brunswick has shade provided by trees, known as urban tree canopy.

“The University of Vermont conducted the study using satellite imagery taken in 2007, combined with LiDAR, which is similar to radar. DNR commissioned the imagery for the entire state. UVM’s Spatial Analysis Laboratory does the analysis in consultation with the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station.”