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Developing A Practice In Remote Sensing For Next-Generation Human Rights Researchers, Theresa Harris, Jonathan Drake, Umesh K. Haritashya, Wumi Asubiaro Dada, Fredy Cumes

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Remote sensing is increasingly recognized as an important tool for documenting human rights abuses. When used alongside interviews, case studies, surveys, forensic science, and other well-established research methods in human rights and humanitarian practice, remotely sensed data can effectively geolocate and establish chronologies for mass graves, forced displacement, destruction of cultural heritage sites, and other violations. But as a highly technical field of science that relies on ever-changing technologies, remote sensing and geospatial analysis are not readily accessible for human rights and humanitarian practitioners. The community of practice grew out of innovative work by practitioners at NGOs and specialized inter-governmental …

Introduction To The New Indiana Geospatial Coordinate System (Ingcs), Matthew Badger

Purdue GIS Day

The Indiana Geospatial Coordinate System (InGCS) was approved and adopted by INDOT in 2015 and will soon be the primary coordinate reference system used on INDOT survey and design projects. Other agencies and organizations in the geospatial arena are encouraged to make use of this system of low distortion projections as well. Many of the more widely used geospatial software vendors have since included the InGCS in their platforms to support their customers’ needs. Please refer to the InGCS webpage at www.in.gov/indot/InGCS.htm for additional information.

Speaker Bio: Matthew G. Badger, P.S. Matt has been a licensed Professional Surveyor in Indiana …

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)