There have been many exciting changes for at CNR's Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) -- formerly the Geospatial Imaging & Informatics Facility (GIIF).
The facility has a new and improved website, gif.berkeley.edu, with simplified navigation and a useful search tool, making it easier for users to locate geospatial tools and techniques, workshops and training opportunities, and facility locations and events.
Along with the new visual identity, the GIF is offering a variety of fresh additions to its already well known support and services. New workshops this year will include advanced geospatial topics in Land Cover Change Analysis, Species Distribution Modeling, and Photo-point GPS Monitoring.
Keep an eye on the website for the latest workshop schedules. GIF staff, Kevin and Jeremy, will also continue to provide support geospatial queries with office hours available throughout the week. This is a great opportunity to get advice on developing a project or to get help with software. The staff share a wide range of experience and are happy to assist. For more complex geospatial research, staff is always interested in collaboration. Contact them to learn what innovative geospatial components the GIF can offer to research projects and grant opportunities.
Maggi Kelly, director of CNR's Geospatial Imaging & Informatics Facility, associate cooperative extension specialist, and adjunct associate professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, recently earned the "Excellence in Education" award from the California Geographic Information Association.
The award honors programs with an extraordinary approach, contribution, development or commitment to GIS education in California. Nominees are judged on the basis of the breadth of courses offered, accessibility of classes, population served, technical facilities, and post-graduation support.
Kelly's research and outreach program has several themes and is informed by the disciplines of GIS science, geography, and landscape ecology. She links ecological patterns with process in spatially heterogeneous and dynamic landscapes -- providing data and expertise needed to understand current and projected drivers of landscape change in California. Her approach also embraces the evaluation of new technologies and development of best practices for ecological monitoring and landscape quantification. She is particularly interested in integrating high spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery and output from new active sensors with innovative image processing and spatial modeling techniques.
Many of Kelly's workshops combine instructor led classes with Internet-based workbooks. Both introductory and advanced classes are available.
For more information about webGIS, visit the GIIF website.
Related: Location, Location, Location - WebGIS puts science on the map (Berkeley Science Review).
