Informatics and GIS Program

On Sunday, April 27th, about 27 farmers got together at the UC Gill Tract. Coinciding with Earth Day, this event was aimed for students to present their research on urban agriculture policy issues to the urban farmers and for the farmers to network with each other and the USDA Farm staff.

Designing a survey from scratch can be daunting and a time-consuming affair. You have to go through previous literature and survey instruments and adapt it in the context of your work. Now you can leverage the AI Assistant in Survey123 to make your job easier.

As an advisor or a county director, you may want to insert a map of your county and overlay with relevant layers. Or you may want to explore different variables such as income and housing or population characteristics for the purpose of program planning.

The UC ANR IGIS Statewide Program is proud to have been a part of the 1st International Conference on Drones and Unmanned Systems (DAUS' 2025), which took place in Granada Spain between February 19th and 21st, 2025.

Maps created with the new PowerPoint template from IGIS Have you ever wanted to include a map of the ANR network in your PowerPoint presentation or proposal, but just couldn't find the right one? Or maybe you have some map clipart that is pretty close, but want to tweak the colors or labels.

IGIS is proud to announce its collaboration with 4H on a new and exciting, three-year, USDA-funded grant, Ag from Above x Ag for All (AFA2), aimed at sparking interest in food and agriculture among teenagers by using cutting-edge drone and mapping technologies.

R and Python together at last, the AI takeover, and Quarto ups its game. Posit::Conf, Posit's annual conference, was held last week in Seattle, WA. While the name might be unfamiliar, many of you might recognize Posit's previous iteration, RStudio.

At a time when GeoAI, machine learning, and big data analytics remain the most popular topics in data science, ESRI maintains its commitment towards classical statistics and spatial statistics.

The third day of the ESRI User Conference was an exhilarating deep dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence. The AI Summit, the first of its kind hosted by ESRI, focused on the integration of AI into the ESRI ArcGIS Suite of software and tools.

Where is the nearest oak tree close to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington? How many trees are in Washington DC? When is the trash pick-up date for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW? These are some of the questions that residents can answer using AI feature in the Open Data Portal.

The first day of the 2024 ESRI User Conference was filled with exciting announcements and innovative stories of Conservation and GIS. With around 21,000 attendees in San Diego and an additional people joining virtually, the energy and enthusiasm were palpable.

We bring you stories from DroneCamp 2024, now in its 8th year and wrapping up a successful week at CSU Monterey Bay. Meet Barbara Satink Wolfson, one of the 5 fire advisors in UC Cooperative Extension.

DroneCamp June 24-28, 2024 CSU Monterey Bay (plus virtual open) DroneCamp is a premiere five-day training program that covers everything you need to know to use drones for mapping and data collection.

Settling into a new county can be challenging. One has to figure out where things are, how to get from A to B, and where the greatest needs and opportunities are. To help new Cooperative Extension Advisors navigate these waters, IGIS in the past year has booted up a new service called Maps for CE.

IGIS is pleased to share that beginning January 22, our servers will be migrating to the new data center near Sacramento. As part of the move, our equipment is being upgraded to a more stable and secure platforms.

There is some potentially big news for drone users within the university systems that came out last week.

A copy of this blog post can also be found on the Together@Work blog. We were thrilled to attend the 2023 Land-Grant Partners Summit last week in Denver.

In the past year IGIS has had the pleasure to work with Juniper Unmanned inc.

The IGIS Team is pleased to share our workshop schedule for Fall 2023. See the dates and descriptions below. If you're not available to attend one that really interests you keep an eye open for the recordings on our YouTube Channel.