GIS Day – 4 November 2009

Manoa MAGIS of the UH-Manoa Library is pleased to announce that we will be celebrating GIS (Geographic Information System) day for the first time ever on November 4, 2009. Under the auspices of the Library Forum we will host two speakers on GIS related topics.

Where: Room 301 of the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus.

When: 9.30 am and 11. am, refreshments at 9 am.

Details as as follows:
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First Speaker, 9.30 am
Title: Role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Social Sciences—some applications.
Speaker: Shriram Bhutada, GIS Specialist, Extension Faculty, Center on the Family, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

There has been growing interest in application of GIS in social sciences recently. The intent of this presentation is to provide an introduction to the role of GIS in social sciences. GIS can play various roles in social science research such as geovisualization, spatiotemporal analysis, information integration and geographically weighted regression. Some examples of GIS projects will also be discussed. Additionally, the audience will be introduced to geocoding and custom geocoding programming along with a list of available GIS and non-GIS data sources.

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Second Speaker, 11 am.
Title: Global Positioning System – GPS 101
Speaker: Karyn Nolan, President, Pacific GPS.

This presentation will give an overview of basic GPS principles including sources of error, GPS settings, accuracy requirements and differential correction (real time and post processed). We will focus on Trimble Mapping and GIS hardware and software and also discuss Geographical Information Systems (GIS) integration.
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Refreshments are being sponsored by the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing.

Manoa MAGIS offers Free GIS classes

Manoa MAGIS (UH Manoa Library), in collaboration with the Botany GIS Lab and Pacific EMPRINTS will be conducting two free GIS classes this Fall. Each class will meet on three afternoons and will cover introductory, intermediate and advanced GIS concepts and skills. Each class will provide intensive hands-on training in which you will learn how to do a GIS-based project from start to finish.

The course has two tracks.  Each track covers the same material, but uses a different class project.

What: Fall 2009 GIS Essentials Class

When:
Track 1: Tuesdays: October 6, 13 and 20, 2009: 1 pm to 5 pm
Track 2: Thursdays: October 8, 15 and 22, 2009: 1 pm to 5 pm

Where:
Pacific EMPRINTS Lab, Room A210
Biomedical Sciences Building
1960 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822

Seats are limited.  For more on this class and to register, please visit:

http://magis.manoa.hawaii.edu/gis/training.html

Many thanks to Pacific EMPRINTS for working with MAGIS and the Botany GIS Lab to help make this happen.  For questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Stephanie (saephan@hawaii.edu)

More Digital Hawai Maps!

Recently announced by our maps department:

MAGIS is pleased to announce that a set of Hawaii Historical Topographical Quadrangle Maps 1910-1933 is now online and available for download.  As far as we tell, these are not available elsewhere in a downloadable format.

http://magis.manoa.hawaii.edu/maps/digital/quads.html

-These are in 1:31,650 scale for all the islands except for Oahu which
is at 1:20,000 scale.
-These are downloadable as a geotiff, which means that it can be
imported into a Geographical Information System.  You may also simply
view the tiff as a jpeg with any image viewer.
-Maps for Oahu, Kahoolawe, Lanai and Niihau are forthcoming.

This project is truly a collaboration/partnership.  Many many thanks go to:

Henry Wolter at the United States Geological Survey who provided us with
the maps.
Ev Wingert of Geography and his colleagues who scanned the maps and
converted them into geotiffs.

Manoa MAGIS Open House

Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 11 am to 5 pm

Hamilton Library, Room 310

The library is making available GIS workstations and geospatial reference assistance to the campus and the community at large.  The center has three workstations equipped with ArcGIS suite of software and will be open to library users Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 1 to 5 and by appointment.  Other software and additional hours will be added as funds and staff become available.  The center also houses the large format printer/scanner and copier, which is set up primarily for geospatial data users.

The open house will feature an aerial photograph contest, maps on display and demos of the large format printer/scanner/copier. Refreshments will be served.

Hawaii Digital Aerial Photos Available

From our Maps & GIS Librarian, G. Salim Mohammed:

Our entire digital aerial photograph collection, consisting of 7,000 images of Hawai’i taken between 1950-2000 is now available for viewing and download at the MAGIS (Maps, Aerials and GIS) Web site:

http://magis.manoa.hawaii.edu/viewer/

The photographs are organized by county and then by island within each county. Coverage denotes the approximate area where the photograph lies within the USGS quadrangle (1:24,000) of the same name.

Most of the aerial photographs were taken by USGS and USDA, we also have a few flightlines and corresponding photographs from NOAA.

A jpeg version is available for free download.  However, should you need a high resolution image, please let us know.  All we need is the unique identifier located in the metadata section, next to the thumbnail view..

Hawaii Quadrangle Maps Available at MAGIS (Maps, Aerials and GIS)

UH Manoa Library Maps Collection now has the most recent (1989-1999) set of United States Geological Survey 1:24,000 topographical quadrangles for Hawaii available on-line. They are available as downloadable 300 DPI tiffs with a visual thumbnail index. These are some of our most requested maps often used to provide a base map or layer for other Map/GIS outputs. These maps were digitized by the Library and are available at http://magis.manoa.hawaii.edu/maps/digital/quads.html

Saving Hawaii’s Maps

Those of you who were here for the “Great Flood” or are just interested in the rebuilding of our paper map collection should enjoy this special event. Saving Hawaii’s Maps: The WONDERS of Paper Conservation UH Manoa Hamilton Library Science & Technology Wing Presentation Archives Reading Rm. A-550 March 19, 2008 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Presenters include: Kyle Hamada, UHM Preservation Dept: Can do! Angelica Anguiano, UHM Preservation Dept: From Manoa Mud to Amazing Maps J. Franklin Mowery, Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library: Leaf-Casting PLUS all-star panel of visiting specialists: Elena Amodei, Palazzo Spinelli Art Restoration Institute ∞ Sonia Jordan-Mowery, Johns Hopkins University, ∞ Kirk Lively, BELFOR USA ∞ Peter Mecklenburg, MuseuM Services Corporation ∞ Gary Menges, University of Washington Libraries ∞ Barclay Ogden, University of California Berkeley ∞ Linda Ogden, Paper Conservator, Berkeley ∞ Jesus Sanchez, Bookbinder, Hilo. ALSO: Open-house Preservation Department Rm. A-552 On-campus parking $3.00 after 4:30 p.m

New Maps, Aerials and GIS Web Site

From our Maps/GIS Librarian, G. Salim Mohammed:

The Maps/GIS area of the Department of Government Documents/Maps is pleased to announce that it has expanded its web presence. The URL for the new website is:

http://magis.manoa.hawaii.edu

MAGIS is an acronym for Maps, Aerials & GIS.

Of particular interest is the new on line georeferenced visual index under the Aerials section of the website. To see how this works, look at our aerial photographs of Oahu by clicking on the island of Oahu here:

http://magis.manoa.hawaii.edu/remotesensing/aerials/viewer.html

We are continuing to process aerial photographs for the other islands – and will have them online as soon as possible.

For more information on the process – including who did what:

http://magis.manoa.hawaii.edu/remotesensing/aerials/about.html