Bob will be providing an update to FCDA on Tuesday October 27th at 7 pm at AVC, Middleton in Room 111a and on Wednesday October 28th 7 pm to the Lunenburg Heritage Society. Click here to view the presentation.

Bob will be making a presentation to the Council for the County of Digby on Monday the 19th at 7 PM.

Geographic Information System (GIS) Research Assistant

Be listening for an interview with Bob regarding the Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve on CBC Information Morning, Wednesday September 3rd, at  about 8:15. If you miss it, it may end up on The Best of Information Morning.

We are preparing a proposal submission to the Rural Secretariat under the Community Development Program. It is entitled: Community mapping, web GIS and the Creative Rural Economy. As part of the proposal process, there is a Community Consultation and Validation report (see attached).There is a Powerpoint presentation on the proposal (see below). We anticipate the completed submission to be sent to Ottawa at the end of August.

The Summer 2009 Newsletter is now available. Don't forget to check out past newsletters as well.

Friday June 12th at 4 pm in the Ingeonuity Centre at the Middleton, AVC campus.

Michael Goodchild, Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus will be talking on the topic: “California reality and Nova Scotia dreaming” (see attached PDF, 6.7 MB). Mike is known for his global leadership role in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). I have asked him to reflect on the current use of GIS in California at both the university and the community level and to suggest lessons that may be relevant to our work in Nova Scotia. For background on some of Mike’s current research  go to spatial [at] ucsb [dot] edu

An article by Bob Maher, published in the Annapolis County Spectator on 20 April, 2009. 

Mapping Communities: Sharing knowledge for the benefit of the whole community

AGRG will be hosting a lidar summer training institute during the week of June 29th to July 2nd. The objective of this workshop is to get to grips with the complete airborne lidar operational workflow from mission planning to data integration. It is a condensed and more ‘hands on’ version of the lidar curriculum that we teach at the Centre of Geographic Sciences. We will have both private and academic sector attendees, and we aim to balance the need for theoretical and application-based background with hands on instruction on the installation/operation of equipment and post processing of collected data. The specific elements of the week’s workshop activities will be tailored to the needs of the workshop attendees.

Location: NSCC Annapolis Valley Campus Lawrencetown

Title: GIS and GPS in Ground Search And Rescue (SAR)

Eugene F. Peters, P. Eng., Digital Mapping Coordinator
Halifax Regional Search and Rescue

Probably the most important resource during a ground search for a lost person besides the human resource, that is a trained searcher, is an appropriate map and location determining technologies, i.e. a map and compass. Using current mapping, GIS and GPS for efficient search strategy and field team management in Ground Search and Rescue in the Maritime Provinces.