Free GIS Course: Skills for the Digital Earth

Skills for the Digital Earth
The Use of Location Technologies for All

Elmhurst College’s Skills for the Digital Earth MOOC (massive open online course) is a 4-week, online course designed to introduce how location technologies are used in society. The Digital Earth MOOC is being offered through Desire2Learn (D2L) Open Courses.

Run Dates: March 30 - April 26, 2014 (4 weeks)
Registration Opens: March 3, 2014
Cost per student: Free

Webinar: 13 Ways to Avoid a Raster Disaster

It can be difficult to master raster data and prepare it to your exact specifications. To avoid a raster disaster, join our webinar to see how you can:

• Restructure raster data by clipping, mosaicking, tiling, and more
• Create more valuable rasters by integrating data from other sources
  
• Convert rasters into the format and coordinate system you need

Webinar: ArcGIS Online – Transforming GIS and How You Do Your Work

  

 

ArcGIS Online, Esri’s open cloud platform, brings together many of the unique capabilities of desktop, server, and mobile platforms enabling you to participate in using Web GIS and all the related new capabilities. Web GIS will help your organization become more flexible and agile, and transform how your organization works – how you plan, design, evaluate and communicate.

Webinar: Multi-Language Discovery of Big Data for Mission Success

 

Security threats and incidents can arise in an instant, and the availability of real time on-the-ground intelligence can mean the difference between life and death. In addition to leveraging traditional classified intelligence sources, responders and analysts often turn to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gleaned from news feeds, blogs and social media to help predict where an incident may occur, understand what’s happening on the ground and manage and mitigate repercussions.

However, as the Web contains countless sources of information in myriad languages, analysts and decision-makers rarely have the time or resources for manual translation processes. How can users sift through the Web’s vast, multi-language repository of open-source content to locate the intelligence that is most relevant to the mission at hand? A qualified Human Translator can translate up to 2500 words per day. Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) language engines can translate up to 2500 words per minute, per CPU.

WEBINAR: KML 101 – How to Create Amazing Maps in Google Earth and Maps

Overview

Find out how to transform virtually any data into KML – regardless of format or structure – using FME. You'll see how to easily create and style balloons, customize icons and colours, as well as intelligently organize placemarks – all using repeatable processes that let you create amazing displays in Google Maps and Earth. Plus discover how to share real-time data by using FME with HTML5 WebSockets.

Impervious Surface Mapping (Webinar)

Please join us for this one hour webinar and learn how ENVI can be used to map and analyze impervious surfaces for federal, state, and local government applications. Impervious surfaces, which include roofs, sidewalks, driveways, and parking lots, are directly affected by water runoff quantities. Runoff can lead to changes in flood modeling, vegetation cover, and taxation assessments. Additionally, by mapping these impervious surfaces, changes in urban sprawl and building development can be detected.

Webinars

June 2 - Webinar: Location Standards – How Do They Help Government?
June 16 - Webinar: Exploring Google Earth Builder with the Product Team
June 22 - Webinar: Filling Your Sales Pipeline - Tips and Best Practices for Internet Marketing and Webinars
June 28 - Directions OnPoint - A Conversation with Matt O’Connell, CEO, GeoEye
Recently Archived Webinars

Our mission at Directions Magazine is to keep our readership informed regarding all things location. In the next few weeks, we are producing several webinars, and want to give you the full list of them in one communication.

In addition, we have produced several webinars in the past month, and provide links to the archived recordings below, in case you missed them.

You may apply attendance at most Directions Media webinars to GISCI's GISP EDU-3 Educational Achievement Points Schedule.

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ERDAS Webinar: Getting Started with ERDAS IMAGINE

June 15, 2011

Register now | 11 AM (GMT-4)

 

Webinar: Hyperspectral Data Analysis for Coastal Environmental Monitoring

Please join us for this one hour webinar and see practical applications for using hyperspectral data in coastal environmental monitoring applications. ITT VIS and SpecTIR, a premier hyperspectral data provider, will co-present this webinar and demonstrate the numerous ways in which hyperspectral data analysis can further your scientific analysis.

Webinar: Effective Disaster Response with ERDAS APOLLO

May 10, 2011

Register now - 11 AM (GMT -4)

 

Webinar: Delivering the Benefits of ECW with ArcGIS Server

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Register Now - 11 am or 7 pm (GMT -4)

 

Webinar: Fast and Accurate Feature Collection with Stereo Visualization

April 26, 2011

Register Now - 11 AM (GMT -4)

 

 

Webinar: Geographic Business Intelligence at Walmart

How an associate at the world's largest retailer develops data-driven analyses for informed strategic decisions

Join us on April 20th for a webinar about "Building High-Impact Presentations and Geospatial Reporting" – and discover how a senior manager at Walmart is unlocking the full power of his team's geospatial data.

In recent years, associates at Walmart have found unique ways to integrate and automate business intelligence (BI) workflows with geospatial insights. Like most organizations, associates at Walmart face the traditional obstacles in analysis and decision making: silo bottlenecks, slow data integration and processing, and tradeoffs between accuracy, speed and insight. They also have an urgent need for detailed, up-to-date reports that are easily understood, widely available and immediately actionable.

Walmart's Store Innovations & Sustainability team tackled these challenges with an open mind and the company's legendary focus on process- and cost-efficiencies. Using their existing IT infrastructure, they were able to leverage the many benefits of geographic business intelligence: “no-limits” access to data, rapid integration and processing, powerful analytics with ease-of-use, and on-demand reporting across the enterprise.

Webinar: Introduction to the ERDAS IMAGINE Ribbon: Tips & Tricks

April 5, 2011

Register Now - 11 AM (EST)

 

(Webinar) Digital Map Books: Taking Seamless Data Views to the Field and Back with TerraGo® GeoPDF® Solutions

Extend the access of your large-scale enterprise geospatial assets to the field and back with TerraGo^® Composer^™ and GeoPDF^® MapBooks. Join us on Thursday, March 24, at 2 p.m. ET for an informative webcast showcasing how to easily create, edit, and dynamically update digital maps, images, and GeoPDF MapBooks, simply and cost-efficiently.

Webinar: Viewing Earth Hyperspectrally - What's the World Made of?

Register:
Tuesday, March 8
8 AM (EST) | 1 PM (EST)

Is your organization moving beyond the multi-spectral realm into the world of hyperspectral remote sensing? Hyperspectral sensors such as HYDICE, Hyperion and AVIRIS collect data across a vast portion of the electromagnetic spectrum resulting in as many as 200-300 narrow, contiguous bands - a major difference for organizations used to the 3-4 broad, separated bands commonly used in multispectral imagery.
 

Get Extreme with LPS! (Webinar)

March 1, 2011

Register Now -- 11 a.m. (EST)

 

Are ORIMA and PRO600 key tools in your photogrammetry workflow? Don’t let changes to other software prevent you from using them. Bring the speed and accuracy you enjoy in ORIMA and PRO600 to your entire workflow by switching to LPS. With LPS, you get a flexible, precise, workflow-oriented photogrammetry system and guaranteed compatibility with ORIMA and PRO600.

GIS Professionals: Learn More About MapInfo Professional (Webinar)

Pitney Bowes Business Insight's location intelligence solution - MapInfo Professional is a powerful Microsoft® Windows®-based mapping and geographic analysis application from the experts in Location Intelligence. Designed to easily visualize the relationships between data and geography, MapInfo Professional helps GIS professionals to create and manipulate geographic data, gain new insights, share information-rich maps and improve decision making.

Esri Live Training Seminars: SharePoint and Spatial Statistics - Online (Webinar)

February 24, 2011

9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time)

If you want to work with ArcGIS in Microsoft SharePoint and familiarize yourself with the spatial statistics tools in ArcGIS, tune in to two free Esri live training seminars this month.

Esri will host Embedding ArcGIS into SharePoint on February 17. You will learn how to incorporate ArcGIS into Microsoft SharePoint 2010, a versatile web-based collaboration platform for file and information sharing.

Bing Maps & ERDAS IMAGINE: Leveraging Base Maps to Create Information

March 15, 2011

Register Now -- 11 a.m. (EST)

You can now fully utilize Microsoft’s Bing Maps’ rich imagery, maps and quality geospatial data as base layers in ERDAS IMAGINE 2011. This offering combines ERDAS’ industry-leading image analysis and exploitation expertise with Bing Maps high quality worldwide coverage, providing geographic context to any area of interest.