ArcGIS Pro Workshop March 31st

ArcGIS Pro is now Esri's main GIS software platform, and this introductory workshop will help GIS students and professionals get up to speed quickly with ArcGIS Pro terminology and the new, intuitive tools to efficiently complete mapping, editing, geoprocessing, and analysis projects. Students will explore the new interface, practice using 2D and 3D capabilities, and learn how to share GIS content more quickly and easily than ever before. The workshop is March 31st, from 1:30 - 3:30. Register for the Workshop.

Call for Registration - 2017 CGA Conference: The Drone Revolution in Spatial Analysis

This year's CGA conference aims at illuminating the profound changes drones have brought to mapping practice, from platform and sensor selection, flight path planning, field operations, data processing, image analysis, feature extraction, 3-D model construction, and visualization. Experts will share their experiences with application cases and first-hand operational logistics. The conference preliminary program is available online. To register, please click here.

Upcoming GIS Technical Training Workshops

CGA offers several non-credit technical training workshops related to GIS (Free to Harvard affiliates but registration is required). The workshops are:

• Getting to Know ArcGIS Network Analyst, by Fei Carnes, 1:30-3:30pm, March 24^th, 2017
• ArcGIS Pro Workshop, by Esri, 1:30-3:30pm, March 31^st, 2017
• Making Sense out of Spatial Data - Longwood, by Giovanni Zambotti, 1:30-3:30pm, March 31^st, 2017
• ArcGIS Online & ArcGIS Maps for Office, by Giovanni Zambotti, April 7^th, 2017

CGA's Monthly GIS Presentations - come join the discussion

• ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
  "Billion Object Platform (BOP)- an Open Source, Real-Time, Billion Object Spatio-Temporal Search Platform", presented by Devika Kakkar and David Smiley. Thursday, March 23^rd, 2017. Click here for presentation abstract and speaker bios.
  "ArcGIS Pro and Platform Introduction", presented by Mark Scott and Tom Schwartzman from Esri. Friday, March 31^st. Click here for the talk abstract and speaker bios. 2017, 12:00-1:00pm. Room K450, CGIS Knafel building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.
• Geography Colloquium
  The next Geography Colloquium will be April 6^th by Rene Westerholt and Guibo Sun. Talk title and abstract will be added soon to the Colloquium website.

Call for Applications

• EDC Student of the Year Award Deadline Extended to March 12
  The application deadline for this award has been extended to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 12th, 2017. For more information and to apply, please click here.
• 2017 Fisher Prize and Davis Center Award Competition
  The 2017 Fisher Prize for excellence in GIS will be given to one graduate and one undergraduate student who must be enrolled in the academic year 2016-2017 and in good standing to be considered for the award. Group projects are allowed. The Prize is a cash award of $500 given to to the best undergraduate and graduate entry. The Davis Center Prize for GIS Projects in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies is also a $500 cash reward, and is being offered in conjunction with the Fisher Prize. For more on the Davis Center Prize, click here. The deadline for both prize is 11:59p.m. Monday, April 24th, 2017. To submit your work, follow the guidelines listed on the Fisher Prize page.
• Call for Applications: GIS Institute Summer 2017
  This 2 week instructional program is designed for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty who want to learn spatial analysis and apply GIS methods in their research. More on the GIS Institute. Register for the Summer 2017 Institute (registration deadline March 17).