GIS (Geographic Information Systems) hardware and software systems are used for storage, retrieval, mapping, and analysis of geographic data. With the help of specialists at the Center for Digital Scholarship and the Center for Research Computing, GIS has become critical to research across diverse disciplines at Notre Dame.
GIS Day at Notre Dame combines workshops, presentations, demonstrations, and more to show the exponential impact of geospatial technologies. Learn from a diverse forum of faculty and students about how GIS contributes to real-world research and community-based projects that make a difference here in South Bend and around the world.
The Center for Digital Scholarship and the Center for Research Computing invite proposals for our annual GIS Day symposium.
Brief presentations by podium or poster, should be related to GIS (tools, data or visualization) but do not need to be directly methodological and are open to all fields.
Podium presentations will be in the form of 5-10 minute lightning talks (length will depend on the number of presentations accepted). Work-in-progress presentations and posters will be accepted in order to help researchers receive methodological feedback.
To participate, please submit a short abstract with title and all author affiliation(s) to Matthew.Sisk@nd.edu by Monday, November 6, 2017.
| MORNING WORKSHOP SESSION I | |
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| 9:30am – 10:30am | What in the World is GIS? Presenter: Matthew Sisk, GIS and Anthropology Librarian Hesburgh Library Center for Digital Scholarship |
| MORNING WORKSHOP SESSION II | |
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| 10:30am – 11:30am | ArcGIS Online Presenter: Milan Budhathoki, GIS Specialist Hesburgh Library Room 247 |
| BREAK | |
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| 11:30am – noon | Morning Break and Networking Hesburgh Library Center for Digital Scholarship |
| GROUP LUNCH | |
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| Noon – 12:30pm | Lunch is Complimentary. Advance Registration Required. Hesburgh Library Center for Digital Scholarship The lunch registration deadline is noon on Monday, November 13. |
| AWARDS | |
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| 12:30pm - 1pm | Award Presentations Hesburgh Library Center for Digital Scholarship |
| LIGHTNING TALKS | |
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| 1pm – 2pm | Lightning Talks Hesburgh Library Center for Digital Scholarship |
| CAMPUS GIS SPOTLIGHT AND RECEPTION | |
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| 2pm – 3pm | Notre Dame Lead Innovation Team (ND LIT) and GIS Day Cake Celebration Hesburgh Library Center for Digital Scholarship |
| DROP-IN DEMONSTRATIONS | |
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| 3pm – 4pm | Map Scanning, Poster Printing and Oculus Rift Demos Hesburgh Library Center for Digital Scholarship |
GIS is a system of hardware and software for the storage, retrieval, mapping and analysis of geographic data. It provides a system for organizing spatial and related information into a single analytical framework and is used in a variety of academic and industry settings for understanding spatial relationships. This workshop will address the question "What is GIS?", provide a variety of examples, and present the resources available in the Center for Digital Scholarship.
ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based collaborative platform for web GIS application. Users can discover and share geographic data as well as create interactive maps and applications without any prior knowledge of web programming. In this workshop, participants will explore the functionality of ArcGIS Online like: displaying geographic data, creating interactive maps and applications, and performing basic spatial analysis on spatial data. More information about ArcGIS Online can be found here: ArcGIS Online.
Network with others who have a shared interest in GIS.
Lunch is Complimentary. Advance Registration Required.
Hesburgh Library Center for Digital Scholarship
Jane Wyngaard - #Drones4good: An emerging tool in the sciences, a tool for citizen science too?
Data Scientist, Center for Research Computing
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) - colloquially known as drones - are an emerging tool that are transforming how scientists are able to capture data. From flying over and into volcanoes, monitoring Elephants, whales, and Reforestation projects, through to monitoring the atmosphere as the sun rise, how polar ice is melting, and how agriculture practices change their green house gas emissions. At the same time, 2.4 million "personal consumer drones" were also sold in the US in 2016. There's an opportunity here for education and science. I'll discuss briefly how sUAS are being used in science and education currently and propose an idea for how we might develop a citizen science drone platform, and what barriers remain.
Kelsey M. Reese - Lived Landscapes: The Chaco Visibility Network
Graduate Student, Anthropology
The archaeological record limits our understanding of prehistoric identity, belonging, and social networks to commonalities in materiality, space, and place. Phenomenological approaches to landscape archaeology have emphasized the importance of understanding experiential landscapes, and in the US Southwest, several studies have been conducted to reveal visibility and intervisibility networks during the height of the Chaco regional system from AD 1000–1140. Previously applied geo-spatial analyses offer a theoretical basis for giving meaning to these networks, but the analyses themselves are limited in scope and connection to realistic human experiences. This presentation uses community studies to quantify daily travel for the purpose of interaction, recalculates the extent of visibility and intervisibility networks in this region, and offers a potential explanation to how this communication network may have been maintained.
Carolyn Yvellez - Measuring Vulnerability in Coastal Cities: The Cost of Sea Level Rise
The Urban Adaptation Assessment (UAA) is a measurement and analysis project that explores a city’s adaptability to climate change. It will provide data and interpretation on the current vulnerability and readiness of U.S. cities to climate change hazards such as extreme heat, cold, flooding, and drought. In addition, it will include sub-city level data to capture and allow exploration of, potential inequities within a city and elevate adaptation options for all residents. GIS is used for the calculation of several (UAA) indicators
Milan Budhathoki - Validation of Tile Detection Using Quantitative and Qualitative Approach
Ashish Sharma - Can Green Roofs Reduce Urban Heat Stress in Vulnerable Urban Communities
Faculty, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Urban areas provide organized, engineered, sociological and economic infrastructure designed to provide a high quality of life, but the implementation and management of urban infrastructure have been a continued challenge. Increasing urbanization, warming climate, as well as anthropogenic heat emissions that accompany urban development generates “stress”. This rapidly growing ‘urban stress’ affects the sustainability of cities, making populations more vulnerable to extreme hazards, such as heat. Cities are beginning to extensively use green roofs as a potential urban heat mitigation strategy. This study explores the potential of green roofs to reduce summertime temperatures in the most vulnerable neighborhoods of the Chicago metropolitan area by combining social vulnerability indices (a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity), and model output temperatures from mesoscale modeling. Numerical simulations using urbanized version the Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model were performed to measure rooftop temperatures, a representative variable for exposure in this study. Specifically, the study examines roof surface temperature with changing green roof fractions and how would they help reduce exposure to heat stress for vulnerable urban communities. This study shows an example of applied research that can directly benefit urban communities and used by urban planners to evaluate mitigation strategies.
Chissa Rivaldi - Anthropogenic Influence on Macaques in the Urban Environment of Singapore
Graduate Student, Biological Sciences
In Southeast Asia, humans and long-tailed macaques experience high levels of interaction. I use GIS to quantify these interactions by using aspects of the landscape of the macaques' home ranges as a proxy for anthropogenic influences. Currently, we are using parasite presence in the macaques as a response variable for human interaction but are exploring other hypotheses and therefore new ways of quantifying the environment. By analyzing the system in this way, we hope to see the impact of variation in anthropogenic environments on the health of the macaques.
This year our spotlight project will focus on the work of the Notre Dame Lead Innovation Team (ND LIT). This team, composed of faculty and students from across the University, works with the community to marshal the University’s technology to help address the ongoing public health crisis of lead exposure in children across Saint Joseph County. Team members will present on the innovative geospatial methods used for data collection and analysis.
Immediately following the Campus GIS Spotlight, please join us for our annual GIS Day Cake Celebration.
Milan Budhathoki is the GIS Specialist at the Center for Research and Computing (CRC) at Notre Dame. His laboratory, ND-GAL (Geospatial Analysis Laboratory), GAL is a collaboration between the CRC and the Environmental Change Initiative, intended to connect the Notre Dame community with geospatial services.
Budhathoki provides technical input to geospatial data users. He is specialized in GIS analysis, spatial data management, web GIS and server applications, and remotely sensed data processing. He often collaborates with researchers in grant proposal writing and research publication. He is also a certified Federal Aviation Administration Part 107 remote pilot and flies sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial System) for research related aerial photography. For more information about the GAL, visit: gis.crc.nd.edu.
Matthew Sisk is the GIS Librarian in the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). He received his Ph.D. in Paleolithic Archaeology from Stony Brook University in 2011 and has worked extensively in GIS-based archaeology and ecological modeling.
Some of Sisk’s current research is focused on assessing the spatial scale of urban lead exposure. In the CDS, his primary role is to assist Notre Dame faculty and students with general GIS questions, satellite imagery analysis, workflow automation, coding, and data curation. He also teaches a series of workshops and a credit bearing course on these topics.