Informatics and GIS Program

IGIS is proud to announce its collaboration with 4H on a new and exciting, three-year, USDA-funded grant, Ag from Above x Ag for All (AFA2), aimed at sparking interest in food and agriculture among teenagers by using cutting-edge drone and mapping technologies.

R and Python together at last, the AI takeover, and Quarto ups its game. Posit::Conf, Posit's annual conference, was held last week in Seattle, WA. While the name might be unfamiliar, many of you might recognize Posit's previous iteration, RStudio.

At a time when GeoAI, machine learning, and big data analytics remain the most popular topics in data science, ESRI maintains its commitment towards classical statistics and spatial statistics.

The third day of the ESRI User Conference was an exhilarating deep dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence. The AI Summit, the first of its kind hosted by ESRI, focused on the integration of AI into the ESRI ArcGIS Suite of software and tools.

Where is the nearest oak tree close to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington? How many trees are in Washington DC? When is the trash pick-up date for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW? These are some of the questions that residents can answer using AI feature in the Open Data Portal.

The first day of the 2024 ESRI User Conference was filled with exciting announcements and innovative stories of Conservation and GIS. With around 21,000 attendees in San Diego and an additional people joining virtually, the energy and enthusiasm were palpable.

We bring you stories from DroneCamp 2024, now in its 8th year and wrapping up a successful week at CSU Monterey Bay. Meet Barbara Satink Wolfson, one of the 5 fire advisors in UC Cooperative Extension.

DroneCamp June 24-28, 2024 CSU Monterey Bay (plus virtual open) DroneCamp is a premiere five-day training program that covers everything you need to know to use drones for mapping and data collection.

Settling into a new county can be challenging. One has to figure out where things are, how to get from A to B, and where the greatest needs and opportunities are. To help new Cooperative Extension Advisors navigate these waters, IGIS in the past year has booted up a new service called Maps for CE.

IGIS is pleased to share that beginning January 22, our servers will be migrating to the new data center near Sacramento. As part of the move, our equipment is being upgraded to a more stable and secure platforms.

There is some potentially big news for drone users within the university systems that came out last week.

A copy of this blog post can also be found on the Together@Work blog. We were thrilled to attend the 2023 Land-Grant Partners Summit last week in Denver.

In the past year IGIS has had the pleasure to work with Juniper Unmanned inc.

The IGIS Team is pleased to share our workshop schedule for Fall 2023. See the dates and descriptions below. If you're not available to attend one that really interests you keep an eye open for the recordings on our YouTube Channel.

I don't know if the 18,000 attendees at this year's ESRI User Conference makes it their biggest conference ever, but it certainly seemed like the number and diversity of sessions, products, teams, vendors, and use-cases was at an all time high.

The thing that I possibly like the most about the ESRI Users Conference is that you not only get to see all of the recent updates that the company has recently developed but also glimpses of what is coming soon.

The first day of the ESRI User Conference was a good day of new technologies and good stories of Conservation and GIS. There were approximately 18,000 attendees in San Diego for the Conference with an additional 10,000 attending virtually.

Interested in hearing about the latest projected climate data just released from California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment? Have a burning question about how climate change will impact California's agricultural systems?

Find out what our GIS experts say about ChatGPT's answers to GIS questions ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Most of the media coverage has been around its ability to write essays, cover letters, and even poetry. But its language model is drawn from the web, which covers a lot more than prose.