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IGIS Academic Coordinator Sean Hogan teaches a workshop on drone technology at CalGIS 2017
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Reflections from CalGIS 2017

June 2, 2017
By Andrew J Lyons, Sean D Hogan
Last week we enjoyed attending the CalGIS 2017 conference in Oakland. This year the meeting was co-hosted with LocationCon, so it was larger than usual and had a good mix of participants from government, non-profits, academic and consulting companies.
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Mapping the Mojave Desert with Drones

May 15, 2017
By Andrew J Lyons, Sean D Hogan
As part of our mission to test drone technology and provide mapping services to the ANR community, IGIS recently completed data collection for our largest drone mapping project to date - 3600 acres of the Mojave Desert.
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Cloud-based raster processors out there

May 2, 2017
Hi all,Just trying to get my head around some of the new big raster processors out there, in addition of course to Google Earth Engine. Bear with me (bare?) while I sort through these. Thanks for raster sleuth Stefania Di Tomasso for the leg work. 1. Geotrellis (https://geotrellis.
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DS421 Data Science for the 21st Century Program Wrap Up!

May 2, 2017
Today we had our 1st Data Science for the 21st Century Program Conference. Some cool things that I learned: Cathryn Carson updated us on the status of the Data Science program on campus - we are teaching 1200 freshman data science right now. Amazing. And a new Dean is coming.
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Planet Lab wants YOU to work with their data!

April 24, 2017
They say: Are you a college student, researcher or professor? Were looking for innovative academics, researchers and scientists to unlock the power of a one-of-a-kind dataset. You can now apply for access to Planets unique dataset for non-commercial research purposes.
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