Most people think GIS is about making maps. In reality, the most valuable GIS work happens when spatial analysis supports real decisions. This lab focused on a practical problem faced by many communities: how to identify open-space parcels inside flood-prone areas that may qualify for FEMA Community Rating System (CRS) credits and potentially reduce flood insurance costs. What makes this
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Approval feels good. Data availability humbles you. The False Victory You think the hard part is getting your topic approved.You polish your proposal, you lace it with academic keywords like geospatial, climate, temporal analysis, and you hit “submit.” You wait. You overthink. You refresh the page as if Canvas is a stock ticker. Then one day, the professor replies: Approved.
Intro This project demonstrates how an existing deep learning model can be refined to perform better on local data. It walks through how transfer learning allows a pretrained model to adapt to new imagery and conditions, using ArcGIS Pro as a complete workspace for deep learning. Preparing the Project The lab begins with the Seattle_Building_Detection project, which contains NAIP aerial
Introduction: From Pixels to the Real World Every satellite image tells a story, but that story only makes sense when you can trace each pixel back to the ground. In remote sensing, this connection between imagery and reality is called ground truthing. It ensures that what we interpret from orbit reflects what truly exists on Earth. As Campbell and Wynne
Every engineer eventually outgrows text. Git LFS is what stops that growth from killing Git itself. The Moment of Discovery I’ve used Git for years and I thought I knew it. Until someone mentioned Git LFS. Large File Storage. Three words that sound like something I should have cared about long ago but didn’t. I’ve never used it. Never needed
The Temptation It always begins the same way. You open a browser for something innocent. Maybe to check a reference. Maybe to confirm a version number. Then it appears.A new Esri Press title glowing on your screen like salvation. Getting to Know ArcGIS Enterprise. Ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Hardcover for one fifty-nine if you hate your wallet enough. You
Data quality is not a feature you turn on. It’s a discipline you build into every edit, every rule, and every record. Introduction For this tutorial, you help the City of White Rock improve the quality of its streetlight inspection data in ArcGIS Pro. Each pole has four inspection tests: hammer, pole, wiring, and panel. Each test is scored from
Intro Multispectral scanning allows for the acquisition, display, and interpretation of the thermal properties of the Earth’s surface. Many multispectral systems sense radiation not only in the visible and reflected infrared but also in the thermal infrared range (3 μm – 15 μm). Thermal remote sensing differs from optical imaging: it measures emitted energy rather than reflected sunlight. The boundary
I get asked a lot as to why GIS. Why study it when I already hold a Master’s in Cybersecurity and more IT degrees and certs than anyone cares to count. By now I could have stopped. I could have sat back, waved the certificates, and called myself an expert. But here is the truth. I do not consider myself
Mention the years 1905, 1939, and 1959 in the opening lines of a geography paper and most readers will roll their eyes, expecting some crusty old theory from the 1960s gathering dust in the archives. But Pattison’s Four Traditions of Geography refuses to be a relic. It is the skeleton that still props up the flesh of the discipline. And