{"id":6453,"date":"2017-12-18T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:07","slug":"gis-day-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/18\/gis-day-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"UM-Dearborn hosts GIS Day 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-6482\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-109-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-6482 ml-slider ms-theme-default nav-hidden\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"1711 GIS Day 2017\" data-height=\"400\" data-width=\"600\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_6482\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_6482\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6487 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-12-19 18:27:26\" data-filename=\"mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg\" class=\"slider-6482 slide-6487 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"margin-top: 2.9493600445186%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg 599w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785-125x76.jpeg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785-300x182.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">The exhibition area at GIS Day 2017 at U-M Dearborn. (Caitlin Dickinson, LSA IT)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6488 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-12-19 18:27:27\" data-filename=\"gis-e1513725524385.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"607\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gis-e1513725524385.jpg\" class=\"slider-6482 slide-6488 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"margin-top: 0.054914881933006%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gis-e1513725524385.jpg 607w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gis-e1513725524385-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Edward Lynch talking about Detroit Future City's comprehensive, citywide, data-driven report, which shows that for the first time in 60 years, Detroit is moving toward population growth, with the economy on the rise and neighborhoods beginning to stabilize. (Caitlin Dickinson, LSA IT)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6489 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-12-19 18:27:27\" data-filename=\"mongos2017-37-e1513725589112.jpeg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-37-e1513725589112.jpeg\" class=\"slider-6482 slide-6489 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"margin-top: 0.083333333333333%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-37-e1513725589112.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-37-e1513725589112-598x399.jpeg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Peter Knoop (LSA IT) helps students explore the world of augmented reality GIS using a Microsoft HoloLens. (Caitlin Dickinson, LSA IT)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6490 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-12-19 18:27:27\" data-filename=\"img_3452-e1513725632544.jpeg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_3452-e1513725632544.jpeg\" class=\"slider-6482 slide-6490 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"margin-top: 5.2039381153305%\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">GRACE Project student participants with their instructor. (GRACE)<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fourth annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/umich.edu\/gis-day-2017-at-um-dearborn\/\">GIS Day event<\/a>, held on November 15 on the UM-Dearborn campus, drew 270 participants. Students, faculty, and staff from the Dearborn and Ann Arbor campuses, as well as members of the community, used the opportunity to learn about GIS applications through 15 presentations, as well as from one-on-one meetings in an exhibit setting with representatives of 16 organizations that utilize GIS in their day-to-day work.<\/p>\n<p>The presentations ranged from reclaiming community spaces through environmental design through creating GIS infrastructure for public safety or using unmanned aerial vehicles in law enforcement to image analysis for updating wetland inventories.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees were able to try out a HoloLens to experience geospatial data first-hand in an augmented reality setting. The exhibitors represented civil engineering firms, non-profit organizations, academic institutions, vendors of geospatial equipment, and city, county and state government.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time this year, about 30 students from Lake Shore High School and Mumford High School who participate in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/igre.emich.edu\/igre\/gisresearch\/natinal\/GRACE\">GRACE Project<\/a>\u00a0attended GIS Day.\u00a0 The GRACE (<u>G<\/u>IS\u00a0<u>R<\/u>esources and\u00a0<u>A<\/u>pplications for\u00a0<u>C<\/u>areer\u00a0<u>E<\/u>ducation) Project is run by Eastern Michigan University and partners, and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. It aims to expand and disseminate technology-based education for STEM careers in k-12.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you to our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/umich.edu\/gis-day-2017-at-um-dearborn\/\">GIS Day sponsors<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth annual\u00a0GIS Day event, held on November 15 on the UM-Dearborn campus, drew 270 participants. Students, faculty, and staff from the Dearborn and Ann Arbor campuses, as well as members of the community, used the opportunity to learn about GIS applications through 15 presentations, as well as from one-on-one meetings in an exhibit setting with representatives of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/18\/gis-day-2017\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":6457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[414,36,158],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-community-engagement","tag-dearborn","tag-gis"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg",599,364,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785-125x76.jpeg",125,76,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785-300x182.jpeg",300,182,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg",599,364,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg",599,364,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg",599,364,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg",599,364,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785-200x140.jpeg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785-60x42.jpeg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785-599x300.jpeg",599,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg",599,364,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mongos2017-40-e1513791645785.jpeg",400,243,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Claudia Walters, UM-Dearborn CASL","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/ckwalter\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The fourth annual\u00a0GIS Day event, held on November 15 on the UM-Dearborn campus, drew 270 participants. 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