Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Geospatialtools / Data Provided By Itap/Rcac, Larry Biehl

Purdue GIS Day

No abstract provided.

Using Gis To Communicate Campus Construction, Angela Slocum

Purdue GIS Day

No abstract provided.

Broadening Access To Geospatial Capabilities, Carol Song

Purdue GIS Day

Responding to the need for geospatial tool and data capabilities in HUBzero from various communities, a Purdue team is developing and integrating geospatial capabilities into the HUBzero software. Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) initiative, the follow-on program to the DataNet program, the GABBs project is a four-year software development effort aiming at enabling researchers, students and citizens to share geospatial data and tools online without requiring significant amounts of software expertise or IT administrative privileges. The new geospatial functions are being integrated into the HUBzero framework such as RAPPTURE Toolkit for rapid tool development, …

Giscience Driven R&D: Interdisciplinary Gist Group At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Marie Urban

Purdue GIS Day

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the largest DOE multi-research facility in the US and is located in Oak Ridge, TN. One of the signature strengths of ORNL is Computational Science and Engineering and the Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) group contributes to that strength as part of the Computer Sciences and Engineering Division (CSED) within the Computer Sciences Directorate. The GIST group is at the forefront of High Resolution Population and Social Dynamics research and development resulting in innovative products such as LandScan Global (population distribution at 30 arc seconds) and now LandScan HD (population distribution at 3 …

Indianamap Gis Resources, Phil Worrall

Purdue GIS Day

The IndianaMap.org web site makes over 260 separate layers of GIS data and services easily discoverable, viewable and available in various formats for use by everyone. This presentation will discuss how IndianaMap provides statewide GIS data layers and technology.

1. Introduction to IGIC, the IndianaMap and how it works.
2. IndianaMap County Data Sharing initiative
3. Statewide Orthophotography-LiDAR data
4. Local-Resolution National Hydrography Data (NHD) Development
5. ISDP & IndianaMap resources
6. IndianaOpenTopography Server
7. What’s Next (Arcgis.com & Open Data Portal)

Indiana Statewide Gis Resources, Jim Sparks, Amanda O'Daniel

Purdue GIS Day

No abstract provided.

Tablet-Based Mobile Gis Approaches To Archaeological Data Collection, Ian Lindsay

Purdue GIS Day

Over the past 15 years, archaeological research in northern Armenia has documented the unique evolution of prehistoric complex societies in the South Caucasus, where complex, fortress-centered institutions emerged during the Late Bronze Age (c.1500-1150 BC) not from settled farming villages—as is more typical of archaic states—but from mobile herding communities. As the costs of archaeological fieldwork continue to rise, resulting in shorter and more intensive field seasons, researchers are leveraging new technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of data collection in the field. An increasingly popular solution in archaeology is the use of “paperless” site recording strategies that enhance …

From Social Media Data To Human Behavior Patterns: Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Dynamics Of Tweets In Midwest College Towns, Yue Li, Jie Shan

Purdue GIS Day

Twitter, the most popular micro-blogging site, having over 500 million registered users as of 2012 and creating over 340 million tweets per day, has caught the attention of socio-geographic researchers. With its availability from mobile phones, Twitter allows users to send messages with their geographic coordinates. Thus, with respect to the huge quantity and large diversity of crowds publishing tweets, massive valuable geosocial knowledge can be extracted, which can provide important implications for various applications, such as human geography, urban science, location-based services, targeted advertising, content delivery networks, and social media research. This study aims to uncover human behavior patterns, …

Great Lakes Basin Analysis Using L-Thia, Ibrahim D. Hinds, Larry Theller

Purdue GIS Day

The objective of this project is to provide a scientific estimate of the surface runoff and water quality within the Great Lakes watershed. A “Big Data” Long-term Hydrologic Impact (L-THIA) model was used for the analysis inside an ArcMAP user interface.

Gis Professional Certification 2.0: Putting Gis To The Test, Nancy Obermeyer

Purdue GIS Day

No abstract provided.