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Monthly Archives: March 2020
Local GIS Jobs This Week
Senior GIS Specialist – Riverside County
Data Science Analyst, Senior & Principal GIS Analyst – Orange County Transportation Authority
GIS Intern – City of West Covina
GIS Analyst – Chatsworth area Continue reading
GIS Position at SCAG
Southern California Association of Governments has an opening for a GIS professional to join their team. They are looking for a highly motivated individual to fill the position of Regional Planner Specialist in the Planning Division. This position will serve as the technical expert working to develop and maintain SCAG’s geospatial models, tools and value-added data sets that support innovative 3D visualization project development.
StoryMapper of the Year
Just found this one. “Pancakes and Silver” by Stanford University Libraries took the grand prize in ESRI’s 2019 StoryMapper of the Year competition. Check out that storymap and others by clicking below.
Webinar: Use of Drones in Solid Waste Operations
Webinar, March 24, 2020, 12pm
Instructor: Sean Christian, PE, FAA 107
The use of geospatial technologies plays a critical role in Civil Engineering and is the underlying data that most construction, daily operations and permit compliance to rely on when operating sanitary landfills.
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs coupled with advances in GIS/CAD capabilities is quickly changing how construction management, field operations, surveying, and design work together.
The presentation provides an overview:
- GIS and drone technology have in managing traditional operations of sanitary landfills
- Recycle centers and how low-cost investments in software and hardware
- Technology can yield significant payback in efficiency gains
- Infrastructure management and improved decision-making
ArcGIS Drone Collections
Apparently ESRI has a product called ArcGIS Drone Collections.
ArcGIS Drone Collections includes four prepackaged configurations of ArcGIS products specifically tailored for processing drone imagery and creating information products such as 3D visualizations and remote-sensing analysis. Each collection provides a different level of scalability and functionality to meet your organization’s imagery needs.
More info about it here.
Universities for Master’s in GIS
Looking to pursue a Master’s in GIS, Remote Sensing, or Geosciences? Click below to see the university listing. An interactive map is included too!
2020 Map Contest at GISCI
The GIS Certification Institute is hosting a Map Contest. Submissions are open through the end of March 2020. First prize is $250. For more info click here.
Local GIS Jobs This Week
GIS Supervisor – Orange County
GIS Technician – City of Fontana
Temp GIS Specialist I – Riverside County
Student GIS Intern – San Bernardino County Transportation Authority
2020 ESRI UC and Coronavirus
A colleague sent me a picture taken at the ESRI Developer Summit going on right now in Palm Springs, and I can tell you very few people are there. Kind of looks like a ghost town. Further, according to the DevSummit Twitter feed, ESRI decided to make it a virtual event and not a live in-person conference.
ESRI sent out an email today about the 2020 ESRI Conference that will be in San Diego in mid July. This was at the bottom of the email:
Health and Safety at Esri Events: Coronavirus Response
In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we will be taking precautions at our events to protect the health and safety of all attendees. Please see the Esri User Conference FAQ for more information about current guidelines, event details, and assistance.
The conference is still on, but might change depending on the circumstances.
