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2002
GIS Showcase
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The annual 2002 GIS Showcase is hosted by Florida International University Library GIS-RS Center. This year we are focusing on the following tracks:
A) Interactive mapping
and spatial data delivery via WWW
B) GIS in Urban Planning and Demographic Economic Analysis
C) Environmental Research and Engineering
D) 3D and Spatial Modeling and Visualization
While most of our speakers and presenters are FIU faculty and graduate students, we do have a guest speaker, Dr. Kathleen Sullivan from University of Miami. Many county and local agencies will be participating in forms of posters and e-demos.
- Host of a South Florida Geo-Spatial Data Depository (http://gislab.fiu.edu/search): Upon the initiatives of Federal Geo-spatial Data Committee (FGDC), the GIS-RS has developed a Geo-Spatial Data Depository with FGDC Compliant Metadata and a SQL and ColdFusion based Web Search Engine. This on-line geo-spatial database has benefited the South Florida scientific community and the general public a great deal, with its user friendly interface, accessibility of raw data, descriptiveness of metadata records, and most importantly, scope of contents including selected South Florida vegetation coverages, landuse/landcover, 1-foot resolution aerials, LandSAT images, hyper spectrum LIDAR data, TIGER/Line Files, networks and communications, water/sewers, property and tax appraisals, public facilities, etc.
- Contracts and Grants: The year of 2000-2001, the Center has totaled $90,000 contracts and grants from City of Miami, USGS, and other private sectors. Jennifer Fu, is the Co-PI of a $375,000 City of Miami Florida East-coast Corridor (FEC) Project. The GIS-RS Center has created and hosted a City of Miami Community GIS Web site featuring the transportation analysis, streetscape design, and GIS market/economic/demographic analysis of the FEC area. (http://gislab.fiu.edu/gisrsal/frames/fec/home.html) An interactive GIS mapping interface was designed and created for urban planner and the public to facilitate the access spatially to land use, zoning, property appraisal, 1-foot resolution aerials, and demographic information. In a similar fashion, the center also participates in the 79th Street Corridor project in collaboration with Metropolitan Center of FIU, with Dr. Ned Murray, as the Principal Investigator.
- GIS Workshops via
University Outreach: The GIS-RS Center has developed a series of GIS
workshops for the general public. Topics include ArcView introductory
and intermediate courses, image processing using ERDAS Imagine, Spatial
Analysis using ArcView Spatial Analyst. Future courses also include
ArcView Avenue, introductions to ARC GIS, ArcIMS, and etc. Most of these
short courses will be fully available for the public in Spring 02.
Awards
Winner of the 2001 South Florida GIS Expo
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