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Creating Easy And Fun Gis Web Applications, Teresa L. Clark Nov 2014

Creating Easy And Fun Gis Web Applications, Teresa L. Clark

Purdue GIS Day

Applications for GIS can be far more than just maps, spatial and network analysis, or geocoding. The tools that are available can be fun and useful for many different types of people with varying levels of experience. With the availability with ArcGIS Online Web AppBuilder a person without much experience in GIS can make a professional quality presentation that highlights different related attributes. This talk will showcase recent applications that I created with the ArcGIS Story Map Tour and Story Map Text and Legend templates for a Purdue University GIS class. These tools show the countrywide travels of an airline …


Webservices And Gis-Based Management System For Qingshuihai Reservoir, Larry Theller, Yonggui Wang, Wanshun Zhang, Shan Hu Nov 2014

Webservices And Gis-Based Management System For Qingshuihai Reservoir, Larry Theller, Yonggui Wang, Wanshun Zhang, Shan Hu

Purdue GIS Day

The development of a modern integrated water quality model of Qingshuihai Reservoir and its watershed would permit decision-makers and water quality managers to address mechanisms underlying observed trends in water quality within Qingshuihai Reservoir, to assess the potential benefits of reductions in point source, non-point source inputs of nutrients, and to provide the Authority with a user-friendly management software for basin management and drinking water security system.


From Social Media Data To Human Behavior Patterns: Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Dynamics Of Tweets In Midwest College Towns, Yue Li, Jie Shan Nov 2014

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, …


Examining Environmental Justice In Context Of Federal And State Lands In Illinois: A Gis-Based Case Study, Jennifer N. Newton, Rob Porter Apr 2014

Examining Environmental Justice In Context Of Federal And State Lands In Illinois: A Gis-Based Case Study, Jennifer N. Newton, Rob Porter

National Environment and Recreation Research Symposium

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