GIS Gazette

 GIS in Business:  I managed to score a job/internship at a seafloor mapping company called StrikeLines Charts. At StrikeLines Charts, GIS is at the core of our operations, focusing on creating high-resolution charts for fishermen using sonar data, primarily from NOAA multibeam surveys. We also conduct custom charter sonar surveys to identify private reefs for customers, providing them with exclusive waypoints. Utilizing ArcGIS and other GIS software, we develop and manage our products from start to finish, processing and analyzing sonar data to create detailed charts and custom surveys. This week, I chose to join the North West Florida GIS User Group (NWFL GIS), which can be found on Facebook . Attending a NWFL GIS User Group meeting in Destin with the UWF staff allowed me to make valuable connections quickly. This experience has the potential to lead to a drone certification at UWF and a personal project using ESRI Experience, a product I learned about at the conference. My ...

 Module 7: Google Earth  This module focused on the future of cartography and different interactive methods to display geographic information. This whole semester has been loaded with a ton of great tips and trick within the ArcGIS software, and this week we got to play with Google Earth. I became a lot more familiar with the rudimentary panning, zooming, and toggling discrepancies unique to Google Earth, which was valuable because each software has it's own tips and tricks. We created a tour of the South Florida area, taking advantage of Google Earth's 3D building feature present throughout metropolitan areas. I was especially impressed with the high quality Lidar data streetscape renderings throughout the Tampa area, the image quality is spectacular. The most important thing I learned in this lab was how to export raster layers from Arc Maps to KMZ Google Earth flies with the export raster layer to KML geoprocessing tool. The map we created had a labeled county layer, a uniq...