This intermediate-level workshop is focused on common tools and workflows in QGIS. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to set up a QGIS project, find and load data onto a basemap, edit vector data from inside the GIS interface, perform joins and selections, and answer spatial questions using basic vector analysis. Familiarity with GIS is prerequisite for this workshop.
Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
1 – 3pm PST
Online via Zoom
$2000 award + software & training • Deadline Tuesday, May 7, 2024 • Open to current UBC students
Esri Canada GIS Scholarship is open to currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students at UBC. Successful applicant(s) will receive:
Each ESRI Scholarship applicant should provide 1) A poster demonstrating a project or research in which Esri technology was used. The poster submission should be creative, display an appropriate colour scheme and hold the dimensions of 24 inches wide by 36 inches high. You must include your name, the name of your department/faculty and an appropriate title. 2) A written report that is less than 1000 words or an ArcGIS StoryMap (preferable) or an app (include information about its purpose and use) that goes together with your poster expanding on the project.
You may find more details about the required formats are available here:
Submission deadline is on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.
To apply:
GIS day 2023 is coming soon! Join us on November 16th, 2023 at the Dodson Room, Number 302, Third Floor, of the Irving K Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus.
GIS Day is an annual worldwide celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and community, with a goal to promote geospatial literacy, education, and awareness. Target audiences for GIS Day include students, educators, and researchers with interest in academic areas touching on geography, cartography, geographic information systems/science, maps, etc. Everyone is welcome!
An investigation into the different sensors and indices that can be used to track and measure the progress of reforestation projects in western Madagascar. Comparing Planet and Sentinel data through a number of indices, and attempting to identify if/when the Google Earth Engine Mangrove Mapping Methodology can be used by forest managers to monitor projects.
Mangroves are distributed in tropical and subtropic areas near water in more than 120 countries (The World’s Mangroves 1980-2005, n.d.). They provide crucial biodiversity values to the ecosystem and provide building materials and fishing environments to the local communities (Jones et al., 2016). Moreover, the mangrove ecosystem’s carbon dioxide sequestration capacity helps mitigate global climate change (Donato et al., 2011). Given the diverse ecosystem and economic values, mapping how mangroves change over time is crucial for mangrove management and protection.
In 2020, the Google Earth Engine Mangrove Mapping Methodology (GEEMMM) was introduced to accessibly map and monitor mangroves (Yancho et al., 2020). The mapping task may be complex if the study area is large given its accessible features (Yancho et al., 2020). The module in GEEMMM automatically gives the result of mangrove dynamics using multi-data maps (Yancho et al., 2020). GEEMMM can be used to map sub-national mangrove dynamics to demonstrate the change of mangrove species as well as deforestation and recovery status in Saloum Delta, Senegal.
I’m a graduate student in UBC’s MGEM program. I have field experience in forestry, marine biology, and environmental monitoring.
Selecting a location for a restoration project is like standing in front of a fire with a few buckets of water–we have limited resources and need to optimize our efforts. Hotspot analysis is an optimization approach for deriving the most suitable project location. We can leverage spatial datasets to analyze areas of interest against the criteria guiding the restoration efforts. This lightning talk outline a subnational level hot-spot analysis for the NGO Blue Ventures to determine the most suitable location for their next mangrove restoration project.
Tom Koch is an adjunct professor of medical geography at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of a number of books on the history of medical mapping and papers in which he has demonstrated its utility in understanding both local outbreaks and pandemic events
This brief talk reviews some of the ways in which mapping serves not only descriptively but in the analysis of bacterial and viral events and the policies we promote to contain them.
In this workshop the UBC GIS club will teach users how to manipulate spatial data to build fictional worlds. In doing so, users will learn to use a suite of geoprocessing tools in the unconventional way of creating a fictional space using real-world data. This event is suited for people with beginner to advanced GIS skills alike and can be done on both ArcGIS and QGIS.
Paul Pickell is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia and a Faculty in Residence at the Emerging Media Lab. He primarily teaches GIS and remote sensing across multiple professional graduate programs. Many of the lab assignment materials he teaches with are also available as Open Educational Resources (OER) from his GitHub (pauldpickell). His research looks at the use of immersive virtual reality and augmented reality in teaching spatial reasoning. Various projects he has worked on include the construction of an augmented reality sandbox, publishing an interactive OER geomatics textbook, and the development of Minetest Classroom for teaching in a voxel-based sandbox video game.
Join Prof. Pickell on a virtual journey and explore campus in a free and open source software video game using free geospatial data from OpenStreetMap. You will see and interact with campus as no one has before. Prof. Pickell will discuss how geovisualization can be reimagined with the use of video game engines. You will learn how to create and play your own digital twin worlds in this feature release frenzy of the Minetest Classroom game, developed here at UBC.
Dr. Everhart is a sociospatial scientist, health geographer, and theorist. Her work bridges geographic information science, public health, demography, and critical data studies. She draws from feminist and critical race theories, intersectionality, and transgender studies to better understand the life chances, health, and lived experiences of marginalized communities. Dr. Everhart has published in journals from a diverse array of fields including Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and Spatial & Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology. She also co-founded the non-profit academic organization the Center for Applied Transgender Studies.
While the extant literature has established that transgender people face significant barriers to accessing healthcare, no studies to date have offered an explicitly spatial analysis of their access to trans-specific care. This study aims to fill that gap by providing a spatial analysis of access to gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) using Texas as a case study. We used the three-step floating catchment area method, which relies on census tract-level population data and location data for healthcare facilities to quantify spatial access to healthcare within a specific drive-time window, in our case 120 min. For our tract-level population estimates we adapt estimates of the rates of transgender identification from a recent data source, the Household Pulse Survey, and use these in tandem with a spatial database of GAHT providers of the lead author’s creation. We then compare results of the 3SFCA with data on urbanicity and rurality, as well as which areas are deemed medically underserved. Finally, we conduct a hot-spot analysis that identifies specific areas where health services could be planned in ways that could improve both access to GAHT for trans people and access to primary care for the general population. Ultimately, we conclude that our results illustrate that patterns of access to trans-specific medical care, like GAHT, do not neatly follow patterns of access to primary care for the general population and that therefore trans communities’ access to healthcare warrants specific, further investigation.
Technical Support Specialists
Discover the exciting potential of integrating FME with GIS through local success stories. This presentation will share how real clients have employed FME to tackle spatial challenges, optimize workflows, and drive innovation in their respective fields. Get inspired to envision how you can harness FME’s robust capabilities in your future GIS endeavors.
Zane White has a BSc in Environmental Geoscience and Geomatics from the University of Guelph. He has an immense passion for GIS and remote sensing, and tries to apply his education and training to solve problems that often lack spatial context. He currently operates as a GIS Specialist at Candrone, creating a wide array of high-quality LiDAR and photogrammetric deliverables, typically captured by RPAS. When he is not working on an immediate deliverable, he enjoys developing small software packages that assist in automating repetitive GIS tasks.
From spatially modelling GPS-denied caves and tunnels, to assisting in serious global conflicts via GIS, the world of remote sensing has a lot to offer. Many students and young professionals experience uncertainty regarding how they can apply their knowledge to solving real challenges in our spatial environment. This presentation aims to provide context to the world of geomatics and how one GIS professional uses their day to solve spatial problems with new and innovative solutions.
Workshop: Building Distorted Worlds With GIS
This is not required, but recommended as we can notify you of any changes to the event.
This workshop offers an introduction to georeferencing historical maps with QGIS. Georeferencing is the process of taking a digital image or map and connecting it to a real world geographic coordinate system, allowing you to overlay historical and current maps, and to analyze relationships between them using GIS tools.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
1 – 3 pm
Koerner Library 216 – Staff Classroom
Detail from Nick Mantegna’s Ecological Connectivity Map Tool
Nick Mantegna, a fourth year Urban Forestry student in the Faculty of Forestry has won the 2023 Esri Scholarship.
His research examines how the topics of biomimicry and ecological connectivity can inform UBC’s Climate Action Plan.
View the winning submission and find out more about his project.
Congratulations to Nick for his winning submission.
$2000 award + software & training • Deadline Friday, March 31, 2023 • Open to current UBC students
Each ESRI Scholarship applicant should provide no more than three or four pages, two pages of text and one or two pages of graphics (maps, tables, figures, models, diagrams), outlining why they should receive the award. The text pages should describe the applicants’ background in one paragraph and then detail their use of GIS, including when it was done and for whom. The graphics page(s) should include an exported image of the graphics that they have produced that illustrates the outcome of their analysis. Applications will be reviewed according to the clarity of the presentation, the level of GIS innovation, and the quality of the graphic presentation.
The scholarship consists of the following, to be provided by Esri Canada directly to the successful student candidate after they have submitted to Esri Canada a poster and a report (may be submitted as a story map) demonstrating their use of Esri technology:
The term license and ADS will expire June 30, 2026. The instructor-led training courses are to be used within twelve months of the student being nominated for the scholarship. User conference registration will be available when in-person conferences resume.
For general information about the Esri Canada GIS Scholarship program, visit scholars.esri.ca.
To apply:
This workshop will first give an introduction to web maps, including the differences between digital maps and web maps, their structure, and how they work. The second part of the workshop will be a short hands-on session where we will create our own web map showing UBC campus buildings – with clickable with popups – using Leaflet.js.
Monday, July 22nd, 2024
1 – 3 pm
Online via Zoom
This workshop is intended for anyone with a basic understanding of web mapping who wishes to expand their skillset and design more customizable maps. There are 3 main sections: an introduction to Mapbox and its products, a guided developer environment set-up, and a hands-on portion where we will modify given code to design an interactive map powered by Mapbox.
Tuesday July 23th, 2024
1 – 3pm
Online via Zoom
This is an introductory workshop focusing on the fundamental concepts and skills needed to begin using QGIS to explore and analyze spatial data. By the end of this workshop, attendees will have a basic understanding of spatial data, the QGIS graphical user interface, data attributes and symbolization, and how to publish a map for printing in a journal or report.
Monday, July 15, 2024
1 – 3 pm
ONLINE
GIS Day is an annual worldwide celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and community. Organized by Simon Fraser University Library, University of British Columbia Library, and UBC Faculty of Forestry, GIS Day 2022 will be an online event, to be held via Zoom. The full GIS Day program is below.
Registration is for free but required. The button below will direct you to where you can register and view the program.
Map-making is often privileged as a domain for experts only. Join us for a workshop and conversation that disrupts that! Participatory mapping approaches seek to include and empower communities in mapping their own knowledge. This workshop will be hosted by SFU CERi (Community-Engaged Research Initiative) at 312 Main St, Vancouver, and is open to members of UBC. We hope that this workshop also provides an opportunity for researchers, community members, and students to socialize and learn from each other. Light refreshment will be provided.
This workshop requires a separate registration. For more details and registration, please visit CERi’s website.
this is a hybrid event
You’re invited to participate in an open map editing session to help improve the information found in OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is an openly accessible map-based dataset covering the globe, and is built and maintained by volunteers. Join us as we guide you through the steps to edit OpenStreetMap data and submit your changes for the next steps in quality control. The session will begin by a short introductory session by UBC Geography Students’ Association YouthMappers chapter, so everyone will become familiar with the editing process. No previous experience is necessary. Information to learn more about OpenStreetMap will be emailed to registrants before the event.
Beginners are welcome and encouraged to attend!
No software technical requirements are necessary, other than to have a good internet connection and an internet browser, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
The schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Steve Mark, Eden McDonald-Yale, Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS)
Steve Mark is Director of Operations, and Eden McDonald-Yale is Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator at Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS). Their presentation is about the benefits of sharing geospatial data across different organizations, offering insights into the Society’s unique collaborative model.
The Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICI Society) is a leader in sharing geospatial information, promoting the integration, adoption, and use of spatial data for the social and economic benefit of British Columbians. In addition to data sharing, ICI Society works to facilitate opportunities for training, education, and collaboration across government, industry, and other interested organizations. Incorporated in May 2001 and registered under the BC Societies Act as a non-profit organization, the Society works to integrate spatial data from its 309 members across the province – which include 184 local governments, 75 First Nations, 12 utility companies, 15 Associate members, and all provincial government ministries. As a single source for data from multiple agencies, the Society continues to keep members connected, supplied, and engaged with data products and services that align with ICI Society’s vision. Unique to the ICI Society model is its commitment to collaboration; focused relationship-building, opportunities for education and training, and a granting program for members to perform data quality improvements have been key to the Society’s widespread success over the last two decades.
Herman Louie, City of Burnaby
As the third largest city in British Columbia, Canada, the City of Burnaby has experienced exponential growth in the past two decades. The total number of requests received throughout the entire year in 1994 was 140, compared to a record number of 102 received in a single day on June 7, 2018. Bound by provincial legislation, the city then has three business days to turnaround an underground information package to the homeowner or contractor. An increase of development within the lower mainland had overloaded City staff and increased the timelines of supplying underground information package to our clients. For example, in 1994 the City of Burnaby had 140 information package requests for the year. By 2017, the volume of information package requests made to the City of Burnaby had increased to 8,469! That’s an increase of over 6,000% in 23 years. This increase in demand resulted in a longer than desired turnaround time for the underground information packages. In the past it could take hours or days to get the packages, with the new automated process, it is down to about three minutes! Using the data integration software called FME Server, the GIS team was able to meet this demand with an automated “BC One Call” system by extracting information from our GIS and Asset Management Systems. Some of the benefits of this solution include increased staff focus on other value-added services, no risk of legislative requirements not being met by delays in getting the underground information packages to clients on time, and enhanced customer benefits by quicker (almost immediate) receipt of the underground information packages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCpb1LlXLE
Paul Pickell, UBC
Paul Pickell is an Assistant Professor of Teaching of geomatics at the UBC Faculty of Forestry. He teaches GIS in several undergraduate and graduate programs and leads the development of immersive virtual reality, augmented reality, and web-based mapping applications for teaching GIS at UBC.
The metaverse is a proposed next evolution of the internet, involving the creation of “digital twin” environments that are virtual representations of the real world where people can interact in virtual reality. There are a wide-range of unexplored applications for an educational metaverse such as virtual field trips, creative sandbox play, and exploration-based learning. Game engines are a logical entry point into a metaverse because they provide the basis for simulating real-world environments including processes such as Sun position, lighting, shading, atmosphere, clouds, weather, gravity, and vegetation growth among many other processes. Minetest is a Free and Open Source Software clone of the popular Minecraft voxel-based sandbox video game. The appeal of this gameplay is the ability to build anything you can imagine including buildings and machines out of blocks that can be mined. Voxel-based video games are ideal for visualizing geographic data because it is relatively easy to convert mapped data into voxels. Additionally, first-person video games like Minetest provide low-barrier entry to 3D data exploration and visualization with intuitive movement and controls. In this presentation, I will show how geospatial data can be converted into digital twin worlds in Minetest for the UBC Vancouver campus and the UBC Malcolm Knapp Research Forest. I will discuss recent examples of teaching GIS with these digital twin worlds in Minetest at UBC and conclude with how this technology can be adopted in GIS classrooms.
Paul Pickell, Honghong Li, Marcellus Wang, Kailey Chelswick, Han Yan, UBC
Geomatics is a rapidly advancing field with constant technological and software changes, which make it challenging to ensure that instructional labs are up-to-date and relevant for teaching and learning. GIS educators will recognize the significant burden of continuously updating lab instructions to accommodate the evolving GIS technology and interests of students. We describe a student-led approach to developing new GIS lab topics for teaching GIS in the Faculty of Forestry. We produced four new GIS labs:
In addition to describing the workflows for the labs above, we detail our process and lessons learned for undertaking this collaborative and student-led process for developing new GIS labs.
Lauren Holzman, UBC
The Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) is among the newest of the 11 national scenic trails, stretching from Montana to the Washington Coast. Given the recent history of the trail, parts are still under construction, and currently, over 10% of the trail consists of highway walking. In an effort to reduce this percentage, the Pacific Northwest Trail Association (PNTA), in conjunction with the US Forest Service (USFS) is working to reroute sections that are currently along highways to trails. This analysis looks at a particular location for which the PNTA is currently examining and determines the best possible location to build the new section of trail. The location is just West of Hannegan Pass in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, where the trail currently travels along Highway 542 (the Mount Baker Highway). To do this, least-cost path analysis is used, taking into account multiple different factors that impact trail longevity as well as aesthetic appeal. The results are compared for two different endpoints as well as results with and without the implementation of a geographic restriction. In doing so, the recommended routes are produced.
Jay H. Matsushiba, SFU
LiDAR, AI, computer vision, and photogrammetry have become powerful components of autonomous vehicle systems. However, these technologies also offer considerable potential for real-time geospatial sensing and data generation, and post-processing contexts, in support of human-controlled vehicle operations in unprepared, remote field environments. Across Canada, landscapes that are remote and difficult to access, are becoming increasingly significant to characterize – in order to support indigenous communities, monitor remote trans-continental railroads, survey locations for renewable energy infrastructure development – in places that have previously been deemed prohibitively inaccessible. New vehicle systems are emerging that are capable of reaching these places. With their emergence come practical needs to enhance the physical capabilities of these systems, with 21st century sensing and data acquisition capabilities – to support real-time vehicle navigation, route planning, and geomorphometric hazard assessment. Closely linked to this, is the opportunity to also generate new high-resolution datasets of the landscapes that are traversed, as vehicles pass through them. This project – a collaboration between SFU’s Spatial Interface Research Lab, and KXI technologies – explores two themes of emerging geographical sensor and geovisual interface technologies (EGT) to elevate vehicle sensing and data acquisition from vehicle platforms in remote places. First, we will build and test sensor systems added to vehicles that are designed to extend and elevate driver spatial perception and situational awareness when navigating remote landscapes. Second, we will explore ways to simultaneously generate new 3D datasets from these moving vehicle platforms, using active and passive sensing technologies, and explore ways in which we may begin to mobilize these data, using new interface technologies.
Tsz Wing, Ng (Jackie), UBC
Grassland is an endangered ecosystem that cover 30% of the earth surface but didn’t catch ecologists’ attentions till 1990s (Gayton, 2003). Decline of grassland are due to development of cropland and pastures (Bardgett et al., 2021). In British Columbia (BC), it also resulted from forest encroachment and introduction of invasive species because of the fire suppression policy in 19th century (Dickson‐Hoyle et al., 2022). Conventional grassland monitoring practices only help rangers to manage grassland in a confined area. A province-wide study in mapping grassland is necessary for reviewing management approaches and drafting restoration plan. Yet, relevant inventory is incomplete and discrete in BC. Researchers have been mapping and monitoring grasslands by geomatic approaches (Reinermann et al., 2020). Grassland cover is determined through supervised or unsupervised machine learning classifier based on vegetation indices while phenology is studied by analyzing multitemporal satellite images (Reinermann et al., 2020). Challenge of mapping grassland lay in differentiating cover classes with inconspicuous differences in their vegetation indices, such as grassland and hay fields (Frank et al., 2022). My capstone project is going to map grassland annually through an automated tool. Common indices in monitoring vegetation cover will be derived from Copernicus Sentinel data, processed by ESA, over a pilot study area. 3 key indices will be identified by Random Forest (Breiman, 2001). We will map grassland in the study area by object-based supervised classifiers, including Random Forest (Breiman, 2001) and support vector machine (Boser et al., 1992). Multitemporal data (McInnes et al., 2015) and comparative triangles (Frank et al., 2022) will be incorporated in classifying objects with similar spectral signature. Grassland cover over the province will be mapped by the best model Stewardship of grassland in BC can identify critical ecotones and draft strategic management plans accordingly from the results.
Mohammadjavad Nouri, SFU
In Canada, there is limited empirical evidence on the role of neighborhood built environmental features in supporting mobility and participation for people living with dementia (PLWD). Municipalities, dementia advocacy organizations, and the general public do not have any specific tools and resources for raising awareness about the importance of neighborhood built environments for PLWD. Dementia-inclusive Streets and Community Access, Participation, and Engagement (DemSCAPE) project focuses on the spatial dimensions of the lived experience of PLWD at the neighborhood scale. This project aims to examine the role of built environment features in providing a supportive neighborhood socio-physical environment for PLWD. A total of 30 community dwelling PLWD in Metro Vancouver and Prince George in British Columbia are targeted for participation in this project. To collect spatial data, sit-down and walkalong interviews are used. Preliminary findings indicate that PLWD’s walking routes from their homes to their most common destinations was the most experienced neighborhood space. For collecting spatial data related to walking routes, several ArcGIS software and platforms are used. The project geodatabase and 30 feature datasets for participants are provided in ArcGIS Pro. With the help of ArcGIS Online, the field researchers were able to access created feature datasets for use in Field Map application to record spatial features, take notes, and take photographs while conducting walking interviews. The walking route and its characteristics have been recorded using the ArcGIS tracker application. Additionally, participants have recorded geotagged videos of their walking experiences using GoPro cameras. As part of the analysis phase, ArcGIS Pro is used for visualizing the codes extracted from interviews attached to the spatial features. With the help of the video multiplexer tool in the ArcGIS Pro environment, spatial dimensions are given to participants’ feelings, knowledge and experiences through the creation of related spatial features.
Jessica Li, SFU
SFU Facilities Services has been using GIS technology since 2011. In the past few years, we have built various GIS datasets and applications, such as utilities data, planning maps and operation apps as well. The presentation will showcase some of the GIS applications and address how GIS helps SFU in facilities management and campus planning.
Preetish Kakoty, UBC
Southwestern Canada is exposed to the Cascadia subduction zone that can produce large magnitude (~M9) earthquakes that can affect communities across Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver region. Earthquake risk in the Metro Vancouver region is exacerbated by the underlain sedimentary basin that amplifies shaking intensity and the high density of older tall buildings that were constructed prior to the advent of modern building codes. Due to the paucity of empirical data of ground shaking due to earthquakes from the Cascadia subduction zone, the impact of an inevitable future earthquake in the Metro Vancouver region is largely unknown. To this end, we develop a regional seismic risk model to estimate economic loss, post-earthquake housing recovery, etc. to aid risk-informed policy making for effective mitigation strategies. We use numerical models to estimate risk metrics for a scenario M9 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake and utilize Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) to analyze and visualize spatial variations of appropriate risk metrics. Post-earthquake housing recovery time is quantified using this framework for the West End neighborhood of the City of Vancouver, which has a high concentration of pre-1990 tall RCSW buildings that are identified to be vulnerable due to non-ductile thin shear walls. Although, this taxonomy of building is not the only source of risk but they disproportionately contribute to regional risk due to high occupancy levels and dated construction practices. GIS provides a powerful platform for identifying regions of high risk and exploring effectiveness of mitigation strategies on regional risk.
Brendan P. Murphy, SFU
Geospatial analysis provides a diversity of data, methods, and tools that can be used to address critical environmental problems facing society. However, standard, “off-the-shelf” GIS tools can only get us so far. While this limits the utility for many end-users, this gap presents exciting research opportunities for developing useful new GIS tools. My research focuses on the impacts of increasing wildfire activity across western North America, with a primary objective of improving models of erosion, flooding, and geohazards after wildfire to better predict risks to natural resources, infrastructure, and ecosystems. These processes and their impacts are spatially explicit, and the factors controlling them are fundamentally linked to spatial characteristics of topography, land cover, burn conditions, meteorology, etc. This makes GIS essential in nearly every research step, from mapping to data analysis and modeling. Although numerous empirical and statistical models exist to predict post-wildfire impacts, there are presently no resources that integrate them all into a single, comprehensive framework. Additionally, most existing models do not represent actual or available scripts or tools that can be readily implemented, particularly at large spatial scales. This presentation provides an overview of new geospatial resources my research group has developed for the analysis and prediction of wildfire-related processes and their associated impacts. This work leverages both ArcGIS and Google Earth Engine and involves methods in geostatistics, remote sensing, and coding Python-based, GIS tools. Specifically, we developed a new machine-learning model for predicting wildfire severity, a fully-automated GIS toolkit for hydrogeomorphic watershed delineation, and a modeling framework for integrated post-wildfire erosion and geohazard prediction. Finally, the utility of these tools is demonstrated in a real-world application predicting the vulnerability of water supply reservoirs to sediment infilling after wildfire.
Luke Bergmann, UBC, and David O’Sullivan, Victoria University of Wellington
Often, we analyze and map the world via a variable or two of interest. How might the world look if we insisted on representing it to ourselves as more multifaceted? We have been developing a set of techniques inspired by weaving and tiling to facilitate understanding landscapes in ways that embrace both synthesis and analysis. We will present our work, a software library that we have been creating, and some example applications that we have found interesting and helpful in working through the possibilities.
For more information please contact Evan Thornberry (evan.thornberry[at]ubc.ca).