Poster session and paper session scheduled
Published November 17, 2003; Category: EVENTS
As part of a global promotion of mapping technology, Dartmouth will
celebrate GIS
Day on Wednesday, Nov. 19. The hub of GIS Day is a technology fair in which
faculty members, students, Upper Valley businesses, government agencies, and
nonprofit organizations will explain their work with GIS, or geographic information
systems.
The poster session will last from noon to 4 p.m. in the Baker Library Main Corridor, and
will be followed by a paper session from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Carson L02.
The Center for the Evaluative
Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth (CECS) has used layering technology to study
people's access to medical services. Nancy Marth, a CECS research analyst, will
explain the benefits of the technology on GIS Day 2003-specifically, how GIS
technology has impacted a CECS health care project defining areas of primary
care and regionalization of surgery. Marth will speak at the paper session in
Carson.
GIS technology uses database tools to order and separate information,
presenting thematic layers of a location. One of the principles of GIS
technology is efficiency: the less time a client spends struggling to make
sense of data, the more time the client will have to devote to larger issues.
By presenting all of the data on one map, GIS helps clients grasp the ways in
which statistical components relate to one another.
Daniel Karnes, Research
Assistant Professor of Geography, is a member of the Curricular Computing unit
of Academic Computing
and one of the organizers of the event. Karnes, who sees geography as a
socially and environmentally conscious field of study, says that GIS Day is the
perfect opportunity to showcase the use of GIS technology in businesses and in
the Dartmouth curriculum.
In addition to CECS, GIS Day exhibitors will include the Orton Family Foundation's Community
Mapping Project, Geographic
Data Technology, Microsoft MapPoint,
the Evans Map Room of
Baker/Berry Library, the College Forester, and Dartmouth's departments of
biology, earth sciences, and geography, among others. The paper session will
feature speakers from the Remote Sensing/GIS Center at the Army Corps of
Engineers' Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover,
Tele Atlas NA in Lebanon, N.H., and researchers and teachers of GIS at the
College.
According to the National
Geographic Society, which has sponsored Geography Awareness Week since
1987, thousands of organizations worldwide will host GIS Day events. The theme
of this year's Geography Awareness Week is habitats. More information about GIS Day.
By NOAH TSIKA '05
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