Project Name: Integrated Fisheries Application for Eastern Ontario Lake Abitibi Region Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 2 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: The Ministry of Finance Assessment Region No 9 GIS Project Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.897271 , -78.864426 Organization Name: Ministry of Finance Project ID: 3 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Integrated Lake and Fisheries Application for Eastern Ontario Rice Lake Region Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 4 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Mississauga Transit Routing Information System Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.58894 , -79.643135 Organization Name: City of Mississauga Project ID: 5 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Final Report Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.279388 , -78.355461 Organization Name: Trans-Canada Nissan Project ID: 7 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Cooperative GIS Project Proposal Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 8 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Presentation of Traffic Operations Study Data in GIS Environment Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354546 , -78.739494 Organization Name: Town of Lindsay Project ID: 11 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: The Use of GIS with the Compliance Activity and Violation Reporting System Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 13 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Mineral Aggregate Management in Durham Region Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 15 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Aggregate Permit Site Plans Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 16 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Allocation of Postal Codes Based on Modelling of Rural Development Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.376051 , -75.69114 Organization Name: Canada Post Corporation Project ID: 17 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Designating Sites for Wildfire Suppression Tactics Using GIS Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.014687 , -74.748604 Organization Name: Domtar Forest Products Project ID: 18 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Cooperative Project for the School of Natural Resources Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.474793 , -79.531036 Organization Name: Oro/Medonte Township Office Project ID: 19 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Cooperative GIS Project Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.313684 , -79.242202 Organization Name: Algonquin Forest Authority (AFA) Project ID: 20 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Winter Deer Habitat Mapping Using Predictive Models Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 21 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Enhanced Analysis of Forestry Cutting Areas for Haliburton Scouts Reserve Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.650151 , -79.525984 Organization Name: Haliburton Scout Reserve Project ID: 22 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Mapping and Facility Management System for the Halburton Scout Reserve Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.773093 , -79.33606 Organization Name: Scouts Canada Project ID: 25 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Analysis of Land - Water Linkages Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 27 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Black Spruce (Picea mariana) Associations With Geology Layers from the Griffen-Seaton Townships Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 49.409615 , -82.402641 Organization Name: Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company Project ID: 28 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Burnt/Irondale River Watershed Classification Project Description: The primary goal of this analysis was to identify areas suitable for trout habitat and spawning using a GIS; the project was initiated as a rehabilitation strategy of native fish species into Ontario's central river systems. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.924805 , -78.723831 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 29 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: A GIS Application to Automate Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Analysis of Habitat Selection and Den Characteristics Using Different Spatial Models of Fix Error Distribution Project Description: The team members for this project proposed to develop a GIS application to automate habitat analysis of black bear populations using different spatial error distribution models of the estimated fix location. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 30 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Landscape Analysis Toolkit Project Description: Ducks Unlimited requires a toolkit to be used with ArcView for the analysis of classified Landsat imagery for a portion of the Northern large claybelt region in Northern Ontario. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.339868 , -79.670291 Organization Name: Ducks Unlimited Canada Project ID: 31 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Web GIS: Business in Lindsay Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.854127 , -79.368349 Organization Name: Autodesk Canada Project ID: 33 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Land Information System of Property Owner's in Percy and Seymour Townships Along a Proposed Trail Corridor Project Description: The vision for the Ecological sustainability Institute (ESI) was to establish a five-county multi-use trail 'corridor' based on existing public trails. The purpose of this particular project was to create two maps and attach two databases to organize information for Percy and Seymour Townships in Northumberland County one area of the client's overall project outlook. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.363217 , -78.742147 Organization Name: Ecological Sustainability Institute (ESI) Project ID: 35 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: A Land Information System for the Townships of Galway and Cavendish - Phase V : Crystal Lake Project Description: This study is the fifth component of an ongoing pilot Land Information System (LIS) project. An LIS is a GIS used by upper and lower tier municipalities for various applications such as land parcels and utility networks. Phase V will build upon the experiences learned from the previous phases to allow for the collection of data from the northwestern and north sections of Crystal Lake. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.772305 , -79.256973 Organization Name: City of Scarborough Project ID: 36 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Lindsay LRIS Project Description: This project involved the creation of a topologically correct coverage in AutoCAD Map R2. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354546 , -78.739494 Organization Name: Town of Lindsay Project ID: 37 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Mapping and Facility Management System for the Haliburton Scout Reserve: Phase II Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.773093 , -79.33606 Organization Name: Scouts Canada Project ID: 38 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Forest Resource Inventory Yield Estimation for Second Growth Forest Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 49.409615 , -82.402641 Organization Name: Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company Project ID: 39 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Housing Query System Using GIS Technology: An Integrated Approach Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 41 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Niagara Escarpment Commission: Development of a Graphic User Interface for the Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program Project Description: The purpose of this project is threefold: 1. to develop and integrate several different digital and non-digital data sets into ArcINFO coverages for a single pilot project area along the Niagara Escarpment 2. to produce a graphic user interface in ArcView that allows a user to select a property from the completed GIS and determine its eligibility for a land tax rebate and 3. a detailed documentation of the methodology used to build the GIS. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.649944 , -79.9002 Organization Name: Niagara Escarpment Commission Project ID: 42 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: An Interactive View of Ontario's Road Networks: Lesson Manual A Student's Guide to GIS Project Description: The client for this project had made a request for a GIS to be created that would be useable by Grade 10-11 students to allow them to query and analyze Ontario's highways. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 44 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Developing a GIS Application for the Provision of Health Care Services to the Elderly: A Pilot Study in the Greater Toronto Area Victoria County and Peterborough County Project Description: The prinicple objective of this project was to design a GIS application using Visual Basic v5.0 that would prove to be efficient and user-friendly. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 45 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: The Use of GPS and GIS in Precision Agriculture Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 46 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Internet GIS Phase II: SSFC Off-Campus Housing Department Housing Query System Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create a user-friendly and adaptable method for students to search for off-campus housing. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 48 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Using GIS to Estimate Soil Loss into an Oligotrophic Environment in North Western Ontario Project Description: The project team intends to build a model using the Universal Soil Loss Equation that will calculate the amount of soil entering a given water body based on the width of the buffer. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.423308 , -89.262048 Organization Name: Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research Project ID: 49 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: A GIS Database for the Trail Studies Unit Project Description: The purpose of this pilot project was to convert the City of Peterborough trail information into database format and link the information to a graphic user interface. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 50 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Using GIS to Find Suitable Vineyard Sites on the Fonthill Kame Project Description: The main objective of this project was to show the potential for grape production on the Fonhill Kame. The secondary goal was to creat a Graphic user interface which enables the client to access and query the coverages with ease. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.122158 , -79.243036 Organization Name: Brock University Project ID: 51 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Mapping Customer Location and Census Attributes Analysis Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.431047 , -75.666314 Organization Name: Canadian Geographic Project ID: 52 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Pilot Project: Using Geographical Information Systems to Develop a Tourist Information System for the Trent Severn Waterway Project Description: This pilot project was an effort to demonstrate geographic information systems (GIS) as an effective and efficient tool to present spatial and non-spatial information. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.300024 , -78.302178 Organization Name: Trent Severn Waterway Project Project ID: 54 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Pilot Project: Developing a Publication Subscribers GIS Database for Lindsay Daily Post Project Description: The goals and objectives of this project were to provide the Lindsay Post with a Digital and Hard copy of the Route MR09 Road Network that incorporate the approximate location of subscribers. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.358288 , -78.736275 Organization Name: Lindsay Daily Post Project ID: 55 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Lake Abitibi Model Forest Interactive Fisheries Application Project Description: A graphic user interface was developed to access fisheries data collected by Fish and Wildlife students at Sir Sandford Fleming College and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources over the past five years. It will provide a tool for analysis and decision making. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 56 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: InfoWell Hydrological Well Query Software Project Description: The project team's objective was to develop a GIS application to link Ontario Base Maps (OBM's) from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ministry of Environment and Energy's well data into a standardized format. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.547117 , -80.253775 Organization Name: Arrow Geomatics Inc Project ID: 57 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Natural Areas Map and Area Summary of the Greenspaces for the City of Peterborough Project Description: The objective of this project was to create a detailed greenspace map that portrays the Otonabee Region Consevation Authority's identified greenspace areas and to run a summary statistical analysis on the new greenspace map. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.306961 , -78.305168 Organization Name: Otonabee Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 58 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: A Pilot Project Identifying Potential Soil Loss Areas in the MacDonald Creek Watershed Project Description: The MacDonald Creek Pilot project was intended to provide the Severn Sound Remedial Action Plan with a GIS that will enable them to estimate soil loss by applying the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation For Application in Canada model update land managemnt practice information associated with this model and perform "what if" analysis for the MacDonald Creek watershed. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.439556 , -79.160217 Organization Name: Severn Sound Remedial Action Plan Project ID: 59 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Cooperative GIS Project Proposal Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create a graphic user interface that would allow users access to information normally contained in the Ministry of Energy and Environment's bi-annual publication entitled 'Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish'. This publication outlines the quantities of sport fish per month that may be safely consumed according to Health Canada. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 62 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Graphical User Interface for the Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish Project Description: The goal of this project was to develop a Graphic User Interface for the "Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish" so that the public would gain easy access to the information. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 63 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Graphic-User Interface Development for Erosion Analysis of the Scarborough Bluffs Project Description: The MTRCA requires a tool for updating soil erosion data for the Scarborough Bluffs this will help speed up the process of data collection and interpretation. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.770006 , -79.516161 Organization Name: Metro Toronto Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 64 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Employment District By-Law Conversion System Project Description: The Employment District By-Law was a prototype set out to ocnvert AutoCAD line work to topologically corrected ArcINFO coverages with corresponding attribute data. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.776722 , -79.250664 Organization Name: City of Scarborough Project ID: 66 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Assessment and Development of an AM/FM -GIS Application for Sir Sandford Fleming College Plant and Property Department Using AutoCad Map Project Description: The purpose of this pilot project was to judge the effectiveness of using a customized version of AutoCAD Map R1 for the analysis and display of fire related devices as well as utility devices in the main building of Frost Campus Sir Sandford Fleming College. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 68 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Regional Municipality of York Land Information System Development for the Town of East Gwillimbury Project Description: The Region of York requires the addition of several layers of information to create a more comprehensive database for the east Gwillimbury portion of their GIS. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.68972 , -79.477325 Organization Name: City of York Project ID: 69 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Development of a GIS and GUI for the Town of East Gwillimbury Project Description: It is the responsibility of the team members for this project to develop a Graphic User Interface that will enable the end user to determine suitable and non-suitable areas for development. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.68972 , -79.477325 Organization Name: City of York Project ID: 70 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: GIS Database and Query System for CAATS Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.400829 , -75.705318 Organization Name: Geomatics Canada Project ID: 72 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Stanhope Township Mapping Project Project Description: The goal of the project was to test the feasibility of a regional GIS for the township of Stanhope in order that a GIS may be used for Official Planning and Emergency Response Routing. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.926053 , -78.719279 Organization Name: County of Haliburton Project ID: 74 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Woodlot Classification Geographical Information System Graphical User Interface Project Description: The objective of this project was to design a classification scheme for a Geographic Information System (GIS) to delineate significant woodlot areas. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.770006 , -79.516161 Organization Name: Metro Toronto Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 75 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Spatial Indexing And Information Catalogue with Quadtrees Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 49.058942 , -81.029665 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 76 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Aquaculture Site Selection in Georgian Bay Ontario Project Description: The purpose of this project is to outline the selection of suitable sites fro commercial cage aquaculture of rainbow trout in Georgian Bay Ontario using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 77 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: A Comparison of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Creation Techniques Project Description: This project will entail a comparison between two methods of generating Digital Elevation Models (DEM) to aid in the Remedial Action Plan to preserve the beneficial uses of Severn Sound for the present and for the future. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.439556 , -79.160217 Organization Name: Severn Sound Remedial Action Plan Project ID: 78 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Suitable Aquaculture Site Selection Tool for Georgian Bay Project Description: With this project GEOMATICS Canada should be able to explore the aquaculture potentials in Georgian Bay area. It should also provide them with a good indication of the suitability of raster GIS as the system of choice to perform a full scale site selection analysis. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.400829 , -75.705318 Organization Name: Geomatics Canada Project ID: 79 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Implementing GIS into Secondary School Geographics Course Curriculum using IDRISI for Windows and ArcView Project Description: The intention of the project team was to develop practical exercises for students to use as they progress through the Geographics course at the high school level. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.424886 , -78.72447 Organization Name: Weldon Secondary School Project ID: 80 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Water-Well Inventory Project Project Description: The objective of this project was to conduct an analysis of a water well inventory databse to determine concerns including water well information water quality information and ground water flow. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 81 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Building a Front-End PC-Based GIS: Traffic Accident Analysis System for the City of Vaughan Project Description: The primary objective of the Traffic Accident Analysis GIS System were to provide the City of Vaugnan's Engineering Department with a Geographic Information System that will store Ministry of Transportation of Ontario traffic accident report information and conduct a geogrpahic analysis of those incidents. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.856144 , -79.508804 Organization Name: City of Vaughan Project ID: 82 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Raster GIS in Aquaculture Site Selection Project Description: The scope of this project lies within the conversion of existing data layers used for the site selection analysis of aquaculture in the Georgian bay area. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.400829 , -75.705318 Organization Name: Geomatics Canada Project ID: 83 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Measuring Forest Fragmentation with the Implementation of FRAGSTATS through Arc/Info and IDRISI Software in The Lake Abitibi Model Forest: Iroquois Falls Ontario Project Description: This project will primarily focus on the aspect of promoting biodiversity using software technology capable of quantifying landscape structure; the objective in particular is to improbe biodiversity for the Lake Abitibi Model Forest through the reduction of forest fragmentation. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.412201 , -89.270111 Organization Name: Abitibi - Price Inc. Project ID: 84 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Evaluating Land Cover / Land Use Change and Forest Fragmentation in the Northern Niagara Escarpment Plan Area Project Description: The purpose of the project was to quantify and evaluate changes in land cover/land use and forest fragmentation for the northern part of the Niagara Escarpment Plan Area between 1975 and 1996. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.664356 , -79.387741 Organization Name: Ministry of Energy Project ID: 86 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Harvest Allocation Layout with Provisions for Late Winter Moose Habitat on the Magpie Forest Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.474159 , -81.29586 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 89 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: Landscape Analysis for Planning Reform: An Evaluation of ArcView 2.0 as a Spatial Analysis Tool Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 91 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Arc/Info Database Design and Application for Lake Abitibi Model Forest Project Description: This project has produced a working model ArcINFO database creating the digital link wihtin ArcINFO between the Areas of Concern's attributes and their spatial locations. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.412201 , -89.270111 Organization Name: Abitibi - Price Inc. Project ID: 92 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Utilizing a Geographic Information System for Watershed Analysis and Optimum Culvert Selection Project Description: The Kenora project team would develop a prototype Geographic Information System (GIS) process for the storage manipulation and analysis of data that will be applied to the design of water crossings for forest road construction in the Canadian Shield. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 94 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Prioritization of Sites for Reforestation for the Protection of Watershed Values Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.306961 , -78.305168 Organization Name: Otonabee Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 95 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Database for Aquaculture Site Selection Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 96 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Ontario Hydro Stream Crossing GIS Model Project Description: This report describes the methodology followed by SML GIS Analysts and Envrironmental Planners in the automation and testing of the "Impact Assessment and Stream Crossing Selection Methodologies for Transmission Facilities. This manual hydrology model prepared for Ontario Hydro can assist planners to locate optimal stream crossings for transmission lines in order to minimize environmental impacts. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.6589 , -79.3902 Organization Name: Ontario Hydro Project ID: 97 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Spatial Data Capture: An Evaluation of Techniques to Transfer and Register Non-Digital Data to the Digital Ontario Basic Mapping System Project Description: The project goal is to test and evaluate four techniques to transfer and register non-digital resource data to the digital Ontario basic Mapping Series (OBM) at a scale of 1:20000. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 98 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Recycling Routing for Appartments for the City of Toronto Project Description: This pilot project is a network analysis dealing with recyclable routeing for apartments in the City of Toronto. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.64566 , -79.389233 Organization Name: City of Toronto Project ID: 100 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Historical Forest Mapping Project Description: The Application of Geographic Information Systems for the Interpretation of Historical Land Surveys: The purpose of this project was to ascertain if GIS's are a practical means of storing analyzing and displaying survey information. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.016388 , -75.647675 Organization Name: Eastern Ontario Model Forest Group Project ID: 102 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Jackson Creek Flood Control Weir Downstream Impact Reduction Study Project Description: The goal of this project was to complete a benefit-analysis of the flood control weir placed on Jackson Creek at the South end of Lily Lake in Peterborough. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.308489 , -78.320147 Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 103 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Analysis of Saskatchewan Forest Resource Inventory Classification Differences Between Two Successive Inventories Project Description: The main objective of this project was to provide a comprehensive comparison and summation of two Forest Inventory Maintenance maps (FIMMS) each within the same geographical area. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 50.427333 , -104.616285 Organization Name: Environment and Resource Management Project ID: 104 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Land Suitability Analysis for Determination of Crop Growth Potential Project Description: The goal of this project was to take an existing method for determining land suitability for crop growth and use various computer tools to simplify the procedure and increase its user-friendliness. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 105 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: An Evaluation of Total Information Management System as a Municipal GIS Project Description: A Total Information Management System (TIMS) is a software package designed to link AutoCAD drawings to database files create topology and perform spatial analysis and queries. This project was designed to test the viability of TIMS as a GIS in a municipal setting. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354546 , -78.739494 Organization Name: Town of Lindsay Project ID: 106 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Canoe Route Planning with Arc/Info Project Description: The goal of this project was to assist in creating canoe routes which minimize any possible contact between recreational and commercial activities such as forestry thereby maximizing the enjoyment of the canoeist. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.412201 , -89.270111 Organization Name: Abitibi - Price Inc. Project ID: 107 Status: Completed Project Year: 1993 |
Project Name: Creation of an Arc/Info User Interface to Allow Selective Buffering of Roads & Production of a Timber Volume Report to Assist the Timber Management Planning Process Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 110 Status: Completed Project Year: 1993 |
Project Name: Arc Macro Language for the Production of Prescribed Burn Planning Maps Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 112 Status: Completed Project Year: 1993 |
Project Name: The Use of AML's in the Generation of Suitability Maps for Recreational Trails Project Description: The overall objective of this project was to generat a series of AML's for use with an existing data set as well as critieria for trail development which will in turn be used to produce a series of suitability maps for the development of various types of recreational trails. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.412201 , -89.270111 Organization Name: Abitibi - Price Inc. Project ID: 113 Status: Completed Project Year: 1993 |
Project Name: Child Search GIS Version 2.0 Lindsay Police Service Project Description: This project was designed to assist the Lindsay Police Service in the search for missing children through the use of a Geographic Information System application. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354681 , -78.740994 Organization Name: Lindsay Police Service Project ID: 114 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Emily Provincial Park Utility Feature Mapping Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create an Automated Mapping Facilities Management Geographic Information System for Emily Provincial Park which would contain a complete record of the parks utility feature information. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.593749 , -78.106305 Organization Name: Emily Provincial Park, MNR Project ID: 115 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Visual Assessment Applications fo the Niagara Escarpment Commission Project Description: The team members for this project had the task of performing a visual assessment of viewshed slope and drainage analysis upon the proposed north side expansion site of the Alpine Ski Club's current ski hill. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.649944 , -79.9002 Organization Name: Niagara Escarpment Commission Project ID: 116 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Geographic Information System for the Trails and Tourism Development Project Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 117 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: The Canadian Ecology Centre Multi Use Trail System Project Description: The focus of this project was to create an automated application for the trail system in the Mattawa area. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 46.283892 , -78.855149 Organization Name: Canadian Ecology Centre Project ID: 118 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Automated Conservation Assessment Routine Project Description: The objective of this project ws to provide a software package that would allow the World Wildlife Fund of Canada to perform analysis on protected areas. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.708352 , -79.389696 Organization Name: World Wildlife Fund Canada Project ID: 119 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Pilot Study: Sir Sandford Fleming Student Catchment Area Profile and Trends for the Province of Ontario Project Description: The objective of this pilot project was to develop a GIS database which contained: 1. Postal Code Information (Forward Sortation Area FSA) 2. Census Subdivision Information (spatial and attribute features) and 3. SSFC enrollment data for the 1996 1997 and 1998 school years (FSA study program Academic year etc.). Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 120 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Prototype Forest Fire Dispatch System Using GIS Technology Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 51.020107 , -93.825478 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 121 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Forest Ecosystem Productivity Assessment Project Description: A Geographic Information System was used to develop an application that would provide forest resource managers from the Ministry of Natural Resources with a simple means of querying a variety of databases including Forest Resource Inventory Drainage Roads and Field-Sampled Plot Data. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 123 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Identifying White-tailed Deer Winter Habitat: A Predictive Model Predictive GIS Project Description: The primary objective of this project was to produce an efficient reliable remote predictive tool as an alternative to the current practice of mapping deer habitat based on costly and condition-specific aerial inventories. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.526701 , -80.224908 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 124 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: A Positional Accuracy Analysis of CompuStreets Version 2.0 Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.652135 , -79.360764 Organization Name: Compusearch Micromarketing Data & Systems Project ID: 125 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: GIS Program to Model Predicted Fire Growth Project Description: The Ministry of Natural Resources Wawa District requested that a user friendly program for predicting fire growth be constructed. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.474159 , -81.29586 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 126 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Scouts Canada Trail Mapping and Management System for Haliburton Scout Reserve (Phase 3) Project Description: The primary objective of this project was to further develop and enhance the efforts of Scouts Canada in applying GIS technology to maintain and manage the Haliburton Scout Reserve. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.773093 , -79.33606 Organization Name: Scouts Canada Project ID: 127 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Geoscarp: A Geoscience Spatial Analysis Tool Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.649944 , -79.9002 Organization Name: Niagara Escarpment Commission Project ID: 128 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Recreational Fishing Regulations and Stocked Waters in the District of North Bay Northeaster Ontario Project Description: The overall emphasis of this project was to produce a kiosk-type information station. The GIS can be used by the MNR Northeast Regional Office to effectively communicate the recreational fishing regulations and stocked waters information to their staff and to members of the general public. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.474159 , -81.29586 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 130 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Development of an ArcView Tool for Identifying and Correcting Geo-Referencing Errors in the MOE Water Well Database Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.710494 , -79.545167 Organization Name: Ministry of the Environment Project ID: 131 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Precision Farming Project Description: The purpose of this project was to implement a Geographic Information System using ArcView Software in order to create visual displays (a series of maps) and to analyse different characteristics of the plot of land that had been under study for several years. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.543202 , -80.298975 Organization Name: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Project ID: 133 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Bathymetric Mapping of Big sound (Parry Sound) Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.572006 , -80.933037 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 134 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Kawartha Conservation Tourism Development Project: Development of an Internet Application for the Ken Reid Conservation Area Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.382854 , -78.765587 Organization Name: Kawartha Conservation Project ID: 135 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Town of Oakville Parking Spaces Availability in the West Central Business District Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.466812 , -79.690025 Organization Name: Town of Oakville Project ID: 136 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Forest Cover Study of the Etobicoke and Mimico Creek Watersheds Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.770006 , -79.516161 Organization Name: Metro Toronto Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 137 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: A Multimedia GIS Application for the Lake Abitibi Model Forest Building Linkages between Aerial Images Vector Data and its Associated Attributes Project Description: The purpose of this project wast o provide Camp 34 at Lake Abitibi Model Forest with a GIS application to increase their access to data (specifically OBM coverages the database and aerial photographs) needed for daily operations. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.412201 , -89.270111 Organization Name: Abitibi - Price Inc. Project ID: 138 Status: Completed Project Year: 1990 |
Project Name: Linking Postal Codes to Demographic Data Using a Geographical Information System Project Description: The project was designed to be a pilot project for managing a subscription database using census and subscriber data within th context of a GIS to make more informed business decisions. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 139 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: The Traffic Operations Information System (TOIS) Project Description: The project intends to demonstrate the benefits of using a geographic information system to store display and analyze traffic study data related to the Town of Lindsay. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 140 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: AutoCad Map Cooperative Project Project Description: In August 1996 AutoDesk Inc. released its first GIS software: AutoCAD Map. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the new software and create a tutorial for it. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.854127 , -79.368349 Organization Name: Autodesk Canada Project ID: 141 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Customizing Business GIS Applications Project Description: Working in conjunction with Teranet it was the teams responsibility to develop two pilot graphic user interfaces -- one utlizing Teranet POLARIS database and the other that would be comprised of new home sales data provided by the Greater Toronto Home Builders' Association. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.6503 , -79.378351 Organization Name: Teranet Land Information Services Inc. Project ID: 142 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Recreation Demand Application for the City of Scarborough Parks Recreation and Culture Department Project Description: The recreation demand study is a project that will develop an application to enable the department of Recreation Parks and Culture for the city of Scarborough to model its potential program participants based on a thirty percent concentric circle around L'Amoreaux Community Center. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.776722 , -79.250664 Organization Name: City of Scarborough Project ID: 143 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Classification of Casi Data for Landcover Wetland Fisheries and White-Tailed Deer Habitat Natural Resources Inventories Project Description: This project investigated the suitability of multi-spectral Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imagery (CASI MSS) as a source of data for generating digital baseline inventories of landcover white tailed deer habitat wetlands and fisheries habitat. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.361668 , -79.792397 Organization Name: Geomatics International Project ID: 144 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: ShoreView: A Prototype Near-Shore Fish Habitat GIS Based on the Lake Simcoe Littoral Zone Study Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 145 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: The Use of Lake Survey Sounding Data to Create a Digital Model to Generate Bathymetric Lines Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 147 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: Backpacking Trail in Missinaibi Provincial Park Project Description: Idrisi wsa used to develop a methodology for determining a suitable route for a backpacking trail across a surface. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 49.058942 , -81.029665 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 148 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: Viewshed Simulations as a Planning Tool for High Voltage Transmission Lines Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 149 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: Technology Transfer: Taking GIS from the Pilot Projects to the District of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Project Description: With the Model District Pilot Project being complete in the implementation process at the Ministry of Natural Resources the purpose of this project was to transfer the (GIS) technology to the separate districts by creating a map library for an operational area and linking the library to the Ministry's Spatial User Interface for ArcINFO. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 150 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: Implementing GIS into Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources: A Look at Educating Users to Successfully Use GIS Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 151 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: The Implementation of GIS int the Planning and Management of Ontario Provincial Parks Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 152 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: Evaluation of the Implementation of a Geographical Information Systems Curriculum at Sir Sandford Fleming College Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 153 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: The Identification of Forest Stands with High Medium and Low Sawlog Potential From FRI Covertype Maps and Operational Cruise Data Project Description: The Hunter GIS and pc/ArcINFO were utilized in this project to develop a process that incorporated raw operational cruise data predetermined sawlog specifications and Ontario Forest Resource Inventory digital data to identify forest covertypes that produce high medium and low sawlog potential. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 49.409615 , -82.402641 Organization Name: Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company Project ID: 154 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: Incorporating the Moose Habitat Suitability Index Model for the Gt. Lakes - St. Lawrence Forest Region into a Vector Based (Arc/Info) GIS Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 155 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: D_Vaxstanf_export and Madcalc C Program Modules for the Plonski Forest Management Decision Support System Project Description: The objective of the project was to develop C programs that export forest stand data from the Plonski FMDSS in D_VAXSTANF format and that calculate maximum allowable depletion. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.351654 , -78.753387 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 157 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: A Computerized Transit Guide for the Vancouver Regional Transit System Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 49.260777 , -123.103955 Organization Name: City of Vancouver Project ID: 158 Status: Completed Project Year: 1987 |
Project Name: Digital Mapping Production of the Town of Lindsay Project Description: The purpose of this project was to produce an accurate digital base map of the town of Lindsay using GeoVision's RAMS. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354546 , -78.739494 Organization Name: Town of Lindsay Project ID: 159 Status: Completed Project Year: 1987 |
Project Name: Study of GIS Format vs Manual Regeneration Mapping in the Sioux Lookout Crown Management Unit Project Description: The project entailed creating a GIS to overcome problems involved when performing Free-To-Grow (regeneration) surveys on all cutover sites in the Ignace District especially those portions of cutover which did not receive prior treatment. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 49.419941 , -91.665009 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 160 Status: Completed Project Year: 1990 |
Project Name: Integrating Road Inventory Management System (RIMS) in a GIS Environment Using MunMap Project Description: The purpose of this project wast o provide a system or information source to the Engineering Department that would assist the Town of Lindsay in the decision making process of any current or future repair needs of the roads within the Town. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354546 , -78.739494 Organization Name: Town of Lindsay Project ID: 161 Status: Completed Project Year: 1990 |
Project Name: Using GIS for the Mapping and Analysis of Element Occurrence Point Data Project Description: The purpose of this project was to evaluate GIS applications as a means to support the existing Biological and Conservation Data Base by providing the necessarry link toa valuable source of spatial relationship data new information that could significantly contribute to planning and management decisions. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302504 , -78.318847 Organization Name: Nature Conservancy of Canada Project ID: 162 Status: Completed Project Year: 1990 |
Project Name: Using MunMap GIS and the OASYS Data Tape to Produce and Query the Lindsay Property Boundary Map Project Description: This pilot project for the Town of Lindsay entailed the digitizing of the "old part of town" the conversion of the OASYS tape into dBasse III+ databases and the building of a spatial database using MunMap. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354546 , -78.739494 Organization Name: Town of Lindsay Project ID: 163 Status: Completed Project Year: 1990 |
Project Name: Temporal Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the City of Guelph Project Description: The final goal of this project was to have a user friendly easily navigable MapInfo application that all people regardless of computer experience would be able to use inder to obtain information on the city of Guelph at the census tract level. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.540922 , -80.245856 Organization Name: City of Guelph Project ID: 164 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: City of Cambridge Potential Site Contamination Database / GIS Project Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.361748 , -80.315315 Organization Name: City of Cambridge Project ID: 166 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Peterborough Examiner Market Proposal Project Description: The Examiner Project Team's Challenge was to create an application capable of generating a Market Analysis for Peterborough County. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.279066 , -78.338967 Organization Name: Peterborough Examiner Project ID: 167 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Significant Woodlands in Brant County: Development of a Customized Arcview Tool for the Identification and Geo-Referencing of Provincially Significant Woodlands Project Description: The MNR - Guelph District requested an ArcView application that could be used by staff to identify and map significant woodlands more efficiently. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.526701 , -80.224908 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 168 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Creation of a Geographic Information System Application and Database to Explore Relationships Between Crime and Demographics for Peterborough County's Enumeration Areas Project Description: The main objective of this project was the creation of a GIS application and database management tool for use in an exploration into the relationships between crime and demographics. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.301005 , -78.329408 Organization Name: Peterborough Police Service Project ID: 169 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: White Lake Fish Culture Station: Stocking Occurrences for the District of Bancroft Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create an interactive map display that would provide both stocking and access information. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302525 , -78.318794 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 170 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Travel Routing Application for Southwestern Ontario Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.725192 , -79.488121 Organization Name: Ministry of Transportation Project ID: 171 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Atlas of Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest Project Description: The main objectives of this project consisted of designing a graphic user interface for a non-ArcView user and to post views of the application using the Internet Map Server extension. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.526701 , -80.224908 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 172 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Aquaculture Monitoring in Eagle Rock and Fisher Harbour Project Project Description: The final product for this project would entail a series of ArcView maps illustrating 2 or 3 dimensional zones of seasonal variation of water quality data. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.710494 , -79.545167 Organization Name: Ministry of the Environment Project ID: 173 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: A Pilot Project Designing a Database and GIS System for Infrastructure and Land Inventory Management Project Description: The objective of this pilot project was to create an ArcView and MS Access application which would include a graphical user interface to allow for the easy identification and querying of infrastructure and parcel inventory belonging to the municipality of Campbellford/Seymour. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.312873 , -77.789533 Organization Name: Cambellford/Seymore Public Utilities Commission Project ID: 174 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Aurora District MNR Planning Process Project Description: A GIS application tool to help aid the Aurora District MNR in the GTA planning Process Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.962862 , -79.460489 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 177 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Automating Yield Stability Indexing Project Description: Autmation of yield indexing using Visual Basic to produce statistics maps and maniputlae the data base Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.543202 , -80.298975 Organization Name: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Project ID: 180 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Development of Application for Wetland Analysis in Avenue Using ArcView software in Douro and Dummer Townships Project Description: The focus is on the development of and application that will aid the MNR in Wetland analysis. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 181 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Interactive Gravel Pit Site Plan for Domtar Project Description: Converting GPS surveyed gravel pits to ArcView shapefiles where the pits locations can be checked to see if they meet government regulations. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.014687 , -74.748604 Organization Name: Domtar Forest Products Project ID: 182 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Geomatic Student Association Web Page and Web GIS Application Project Description: The objective was to create an application whose functionality would benefit the propagation of the Geomatics Student Association by showcasing a GIS application. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 183 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Interactive Trail Guide For Haliburton Scout Reserve Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.773093 , -79.33606 Organization Name: Scouts Canada Project ID: 184 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Illinois State Police Department Intranet Application Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 39.793335 , -89.698775 Organization Name: GIS-Solutions Inc Project ID: 185 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Customized GIS For Yukon Geology Program Project Description: The objective of this project was to create a customized GIS application program that would perfom queries on sample points involving goelogical elemnets and would calculate their percentiles. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 60.72094 , -135.053268 Organization Name: Yukon Geology Program Project ID: 186 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Provincial Emergency Support Response Tool and Datasets/ Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.543202 , -80.298975 Organization Name: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Project ID: 187 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: GIS Integration and Digital Terrain Analysis for the Haliburton Scout Reserve Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.773093 , -79.33606 Organization Name: Scouts Canada Project ID: 188 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Regional Speed-Zone Mapping Project Description: Project will be used for the repeatable production of hard copy maps to be appended to by-laws pertaining to York Regional Roads. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.68972 , -79.477325 Organization Name: City of York Project ID: 191 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Whitby Urban Tree Inventory Project Description: This project created for the town of Whitby will allow users to locate all urban trees within a portion of the town of Whitby along with their attribute information; it will assist in the management of the urban trees by creating an efficient database structure. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.898976 , -78.943163 Organization Name: Town of Whitby Project ID: 192 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Development of a Water Well Assessment Tool Project Description: WWAT is a stand alone executable with a web-based version that offers users several methods of assessing risk to ground water via wells. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 194 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Gray Jay Nesting Territory GIS Application Project Description: This project undertook the challenge to create a GIS extension that will allow analysis of gray jay nesting data and forest resource inventory data to eliminate nesting territory size and calculate an index of the abundance of Spruce within these territories. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.4965 , -78.242249 Organization Name: Algonquin Provincial Park Project ID: 195 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: GIS Cemetary Data Management Application Project Description: The purpose of the project is to develop a cemetary data management application that employs the latest techniques in GIS. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354884 , -78.734307 Organization Name: Vector Soft Conversion Services Limited Project ID: 196 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Forest Management for Corner Brook Pulp and Paper A Kruger Division Inc Newfoundland Project Description: The objective of this project was to develop a customized Graphic User Interface (GUI) that offers GIS functionality. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.956988 , -58.006335 Organization Name: Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Company Project ID: 197 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Milton LACAC Heritage Property Project Project Description: The purpose of this project is to improve the current Heritage and Architectural Archiveer System (HAAS) used to manage all relevant information converning heritage proerties within that community. A more user friendly MS Access Interface will be developed and a link from the database to ArcView will also be made. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.510661 , -79.884179 Organization Name: Town of Milton Project ID: 198 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Custom Query Tool for Aquatic Resource Area Project Description: The cooperative project involved developing a customized user interface using ArcObjects in ArcMap with Visual Basic for Applications and Active X Data Objects (ADO). Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 199 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: A GIS Application Designed for the Selection of Bicycle Lanes Project Description: The lack of mobility for bicyclists has increased awareness that the City of Peterborough needs to build and implement bicycle lanes. Based on spatial and demographic creiteria the user will be able to determine where suitable bicycle lanes can be made. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.308489 , -78.320147 Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 200 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: TOPAZ - ArcGIS Interface Project Description: TOPAZ (Topographic PArameteriZation) is used as an automated technique to extract topographic information directly from a raster DEM. It is not a GIS however ArcGIS can provide an efficient and convenient environment for executing TOPAZ. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.532986 , -80.227829 Organization Name: University of Guelph Project ID: 201 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Map Reflections ArcIMS Website Project Description: The primary goal of this project is to create a platform enabling the sharing of geographic information. A customized Graphic User Interface will be developed to spatially demonstrate possible factors that may affect water quality within specified areas within the Map Reflections Website. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.308489 , -78.320147 Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 202 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Developing GIS Tools for Helimax Energy Inc. Project Description: This project consists of developing a) a translation tool to convert between specialized file formats and b) an analysis to facilitating the process of locating suitable areas for construction of a wind farm. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.541665 , -73.565254 Organization Name: Helimax Energy Inc. Project ID: 204 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Design and Implementation of a Method to More Accurately Predict Headwater Stream and Location of Culverts Project Description: The Ministry of Natural Resources Comparative Aquatic Effects Program is studying the effects of forest harvesting on small headwater streams; The purpose of this project is to develop a methodology to delineate individual cell values from a stream cell ina flow accumulation grid to detect effects on streams. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.421736 , -89.26365 Organization Name: Lakehead University Project ID: 205 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Baseline Studies of Water Quality Parameters in Algonquin Park Project Description: Baseline studies of water quality parameters had been conducted in Algonquin Park 2001. This project will develop a web-based GIS application Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 206 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Borehole Drilling Log Interface for ArcView GIS Project Description: The final product provides the client with a more effiecient method of storing and maintaining geological information as well as giving them the ability to estimated the unknown soil depths throughout the CLOCA watershed. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.876011 , -78.85112 Organization Name: Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority Project ID: 210 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: LSRCA GIS Trail Mapping Project Description: Trail networks of nine conservation areas around Lake Simcoe were mapped using GPS receivers the acquired data was massaged and compiled into ArcView Shapefile format for easy access and analysis; the data was organized into Microsoft Access database for effiicient management; the data was used to crete an ArcIMS website for user firendly public access. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.063173 , -79.456701 Organization Name: Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 211 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: A GIS Approach to Eco Regional Mapping of Ontario Project Description: The purpose of the project is to produce a map series of the regions of Ontario (or any other province in Canada) at the ecoregional level based on four data sets: Forest Fires Climate Protected Areas and Mining Fabric. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 212 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: Fur Bearers GIS Project Description: The objective of the project is to design and implement a GIS that will aid in the management of fur bearing species in the Minden area of the Bancroft Districts Ministry of Natural Resources. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.924805 , -78.723831 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 213 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: Customization of the ArcGIS Environment for the Petroleum Resource Centre of the Ministry of Natural Resources Project Description: The purpose of this project is to develop an automated method of updating and creating the necessary data in order to determine suitable areas for oil and natural gas exploration Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 214 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: GIS Application To Predict Watershed Characteristics in the Upper Gull River Watershed (2HF10) Project Description: The main objective is to develop a GIS application model to predict watershed characteristics as the relate to the Benthic invertebrate populations. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 215 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: Ontario Low Water Response Project Description: An ArcIMS application created by team members will be used by the Ministry of Natural Resources staff to assist in updating the MNR database containing information concerning low watersheds in Ontario; the application will also allow the users to statistically analyse the data and asssess water levels across the province. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 216 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: Ontario Prairie Savanna GIS Management and Restoration Pilot Project Project Description: The main objective is to locate potential Tallgrass PrairieSavanna restoration sites using GIS Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 42.925207 , -81.222944 Organization Name: Tallgrass Ontario Project ID: 217 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: Hazardous Spills Emergency Response GIS for the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) Project Description: The goal of this project is to create a GIS designed exclusively as a Decision Support System for the MOE when dealing with hazardous spill emergencies. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 46.491061 , -80.989175 Organization Name: Ministry of the Environment Project ID: 218 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: Child Find GIS Project Description: The purpose of this project was to develop a GIS model that would assist Lindsay Police in search for missing children. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.354681 , -78.740994 Organization Name: Lindsay Police Service Project ID: 220 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Forest Development Land GIS Application For Kalum Forest District Project Description: The purpose of this project was to develop an analysis tool that would allow the client to predict and analyse both timber and non-timber values withing the Forest Development Plan area. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 48.427796 , -123.367401 Organization Name: Ministry of Forests Project ID: 221 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: GIS Application for Trails and Tourism Development Project Project Description: The purpose of this project was to produce a GIS application that would be used as a marketing tool throughout the development of the trail corrider created through the counties of Peterborough. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 222 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Integrating Remote Sensing Into Sir Sandford Fleming College's GISAS Program Project Description: The purpose of this project was to test three specific software modules: ImageWorks classification GCP Works registration and OrthoEngine mosaicking for possible integration into the existing course framework of the GIS program at Sir Sandford Fleming College. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 223 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Student Off-Campus Housing Query System Using GIS Project Description: This project ws completed at the request of the Off-Campus Housing Department at Sir Sandford Fleming College for the purpose of creating and implementing an application to assist students in locating suitable residential accommodations. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 226 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Sales Distribution of Recreational Vehicles - A pilot study for Fleetwood Canada Project Description: The purpose of this project was to develop a Geographic Information System application to determine the sales distribution of Recreational Vehicles sold by selected Ontario dealerships of Fleetwood Canada. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.368401 , -78.724923 Organization Name: Fleetwood Canada Ltd. Project ID: 228 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Application of Geographical Information System to Ozone Measurement Campaigns Project Description: The focus of this project was to manipulate and integrate data sets into a Geographic Information System specifically the user would have the ability to query any section of a flight path and obtain graphs pertaining to the measurement during the flight. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.780962 , -79.469768 Organization Name: Environment Canada Project ID: 229 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Comparative Evaluation and Customization of Landscape Ecology GIS Applications Project Description: The purpose of this project was to develop a Resource Management Decision Support Tool for the Oak Ridges Morraine. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 232 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Moose Population Estimations in Algonquin Provincial Park Project Description: The ultimate goal of this project was to creat a Geographic Information System Application that will aid in prediction and spatially demonstrate the distribution and population changes of the moose in the Algonquin Park Area over time. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.4965 , -78.242249 Organization Name: Algonquin Provincial Park Project ID: 233 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Magnetic Mapping Database Project Description: The purpose of this project was to desing and create a GIS application that Paterson Grant & Watson (PGW) would be able to use in order to manage and access information regarding the airborne geophysical surveys the company has acquired from different countries around the world. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.650696 , -79.382905 Organization Name: Paterson Grant & Watson Project ID: 234 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Analysing Changes in the Wintering Distribution of American GoldFinch in Eastern-Central North America Project Description: The purpose of this project was first to determine if goldfinch populations have been increasing throughout their range in Eastern North America then the proponent looked at the nature of American Goldfinch distribution shift to ascertain if wintering populations are shifting northward. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 42.755437 , -80.265528 Organization Name: Bird Studies Canada Project ID: 235 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Emily Provincial Park GIS Mapping and Maintenance Analysis Project Description: The purpose of this project was to upgrade and continue the implemenation of a GIS for Emily Provincial Park. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.593749 , -78.106305 Organization Name: Emily Provincial Park, MNR Project ID: 236 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Recreational Land Resource Inventory System for Northern Ontario Project Description: The goal of this project was to produce an application that inorporated the Land Resource Inventory System (LRIS) data gathered into a multi media presentation that would appeal to a wide variety of people. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 237 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Pilot Project to Develop a Street Network File and emergency Response App. for the Kennisis Lake Region in the Township of Dysart. Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create an emergency response application for the Township of Dysart in the County of Haliburton. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.926053 , -78.719279 Organization Name: County of Haliburton Project ID: 238 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Delineation of the Peterborough Drumlin Field using a DEM Project Description: The goal of this project was to delineate drumlins in the Peterborough Drumlin field and attempt to automate a process that would aid in highlighting the footprints and axes of orientation of individual drumlins. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 45.401871 , -75.705849 Organization Name: Geological Survey of Canada Project ID: 240 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: The Use of a GIS Predictive Model to Determine Potential Archaeological Sites in the GTA Project Description: The general purpose of this project was to create a Geographic Information Systems application to be used by the Archeaological Department of the Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.770006 , -79.516161 Organization Name: Metro Toronto Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 241 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Academic Institution Management System - GIS Web Application Pilot Project Project Description: The main objective for this project was to create a pilot web GIS application that would act as a tool for evaluating and profiling Sir Sandford Fleming College's enrollment and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 242 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: A GIS Tool to Automate Watershed Information Extraction Project Description: This project was designed to create a GIS application that would automate watershed boundary delineation and extract the watershed characteristics available for the site of interest specified by the user. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 243 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Flood Elevation Model for Jackson Creek Peterborough Ontario Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create a GIS model of the Jackson Creek floodplain by which the user could query for flood data such as flood elevations at building sites in the event of a regional flood. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 244 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Refuse Call-In GIS - City of Oshawa Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create two user-friendly interfaces in Microsoft Acces and in ArcView. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 43.895786 , -78.865112 Organization Name: City of Oshawa Project ID: 245 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: A GIS Tool to Automate the Definition of "Valley Segments" Project Description: The aim of this project was to develop an application that would allow the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to delineate river valley segments based on specific attributes. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 246 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Information Retrieval System Project Description: The Ontario MNR requested a GIS application that would distribute administrative information efficiently for the province of Ontario when required by the general public. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 247 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Impact of Surface Discharge from a Proposed Groundwater Treatment Plant on the area surrounding Utica Nebraska Project Description: The Argonne National Laboratories suggested that the team members of this project build a database that showed topography soils landuse and a storm drain location map for the the study area of Utica Nebraska. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 41.712931 , -87.960459 Organization Name: Argonne National Laboratories (ANL) Project ID: 248 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Dynamic Web-Based GIS Application for Mapping Landscape Genetics Project Description: The objective of the project is twofold: a) the first application connects and queries the (NRDPFC) database allowing the end user to map specific data from the database with the click of a button and b) the second application is an ArcIMS web site that allows users to interactively display and query data from the NRDPFC database. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 252 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: Fur Bearers GIS Project Description: The objective of the project is to design and implement a GIS that will aid in the management of fur bearing species in the Minden area of the Bancroft Districts Ministry of Natural Resources. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.924805 , -78.723831 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 253 Status: Completed Project Year: 2003 |
Project Name: Geomatics Graduate Tracking Tool Project Description: In the past the cartography program at SSFC surveyed its graduates six months after graduation. The data from these surveys helped the program build a "Cart Contacts" list of employers across the country. This list was very useful for new graduates looking for employment. More recently the provincial government has begun surveying graduates and has based college funding on the results of these surveys (Key Performance Indicators or KPI ). At Fleming we have a department which collects data for use within the college (Fleming Data Research or FDR). The collection of data has always been a part of the Geomatics world and this project would be a natural "next step" by enabling information about Geomatics graduates to be presented in a spatial context. Potential uses of this project include management student job placement and marketing of the Geomatics program: Marketing – the ability to track graduates of the Geomatics Program at Fleming and show where they are located in Canada and around the world gives us the ability to promote our Fleming Geomatics programs with a clearer picture of Fleming’s role in the Geomatics industry Keep detailed employment info for future job placement Determine potential sources for new GIS students (specific Universities) Observe hiring trends in the Geomatics industry Observe Fleming Grad placement trends over 30 yrs of Cartography and GIS Use actual Geomatics technology to showcase our programs Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Database Design/Processing Spatial/Statistical Analysis Programming/Customization Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Possible Project Deliverables: A live interactive map ideally based on Google Earth A Thematic Map series (static) showing location of SSFC Geomatics grads Ability to Query: by grad year job type industry software region (as per existing geocommunity.net database) province postal code A poster presentation showing the project work flow process A simplified Flash version of the data Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 264 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Web GIS Application for remote access to research data Project Description: The Natural Resources DNA Profiling and Forensic Centre (NRDPFC) has been developing a central database to house all data collected and analysed by its researchers. The centre would like to integrate the database with a mapping component in a distributed environment whereby researchers and collaborators can remotely access to the integrated application. ; Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Database Design/Processing Spatial/Statistical Analysis Programming/Customization Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: This project will be prototyped to Ontario (and Canada depending of data availability). Acquire various layers for the rest of Canada from other stakeholders such as Natural Resources Canada provincial natural resources ministries etc. Acquire various layers for Ontario such as municipalities counties WMU etc. (LIO) ArcIMSr instructions of how to set up the application on a server other than the colleges server A printed users guide and an online help for the application Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 265 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Off-Campus Housing: Part 2 Project Description: Prospective students planning to attend Sir Sandford Fleming College can visit the Off-Campus Housing Web Page and search for rental units. During the summer of 2005 a web application was created to allow the user to display the location on a map examine surrounding facilities and get an idea of relative distances using a dynamic map of the City of Peterborough. For this application to be fully operational several enhancements are required. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/PreprocessingDatabase Design/ProcessingSpatial/Statistical AnalysisProgramming/CustomizationPresentation/Visualization Deliverables: Increasing the area of coverage to all of Haliburton Victoria County and Peterborough CountyDynamic geocoding so that Off-Campus Housing staff may enter and delete addresses without entering address coordinates Add a distance function and buffering to measure the distance between the college and the rental property and select rental properties within a specified distance Add spatial queries to locate facilities and services(stores schools) close to rental properties Determine general descriptive statistics about available rental properties in each county Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 269 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Historical Driving Tours in Waterloo Region - Interactive Website Project Description: Students will create an interactive mapping website providing historical routes within the Townships (Wilmot Wellesley North Dumfries and Woolwich) of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. This website will be utilizing ESRIs ArcIMS to provide the on-line interactivity.Users will be able to view the four historical routes created by the students based solely on the routes originally published by the Regions Planning Department.Users will be able to click on any historical point of interest and view information pertaining to that point as well as have access to up to ├óÔé¼╦£X number of pictures of the particular point of interest. This functionality will mirror the ├óÔé¼╦£out of the box identify function within an ArcIMS site with the exception of retrieving image and information blurbs in lieu of basic attribute reports.Additionally the Region would like the website to have a buffer functionality that would allow users to view and access information of historical sites within a specified radius. Due to the nature of the projected users of this website we would like to be able to provide the user a drop down list of hotels/motels in the area. This layer would be used to buffer against returning all historical points of interest within a specified radius. Also the user would have to option to type their address into the search in order to create a radius around the geocoded address.Lastly the students will program four predefined extents so that a user will be able to view the full extent of each of the four historical routes. This could be completed with the user of a dropdown box with each of the four routes written in the drop-down. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/PreprocessingDatabase Design/ProcessingSpatial/Statistical AnalysisProgramming/CustomizationPresentation/Visualization Deliverables: Interactive WebsiteArcIMS Website (using either the HTML Viewer or the Active X Connector) utilizing Microsofts Internet Information Service (IIS) and New Atlantas Servlet Exec 5.0 ISAPI. The ArcIMS website will mirror the colour scheme used in the original hardcopy pamphlets (brown grey and black shades)New GIS Dataset: Historical Points of Interest based on the .dbf file obtained from the Planning Department at the Region of Waterloo. New GIS Dataset: Historical Routes based on the Historical Routes pamphlet obtained from the Planning Department at the Region of Waterloo.Cartographic Output: Four cartographically sound maps outlining each of the four historical routes within Region of Waterloo. These maps will be available in hardcopy in a size determined by the student group or supervisor utilizing any cartographic software (ie. MicroStation). Additionally these four maps will also be available for download as part of the ArcIMS website. These maps will be in .pdf format available only in 81/2 x 11. These digital .pdf maps will mirror the colour scheme outlined in the first deliverable.Metadata: Metadata for all new GIS datasets following FGDC or CGDI standardsIntroduction Page: The Region would like a small Flash presentation before users enter the Historical Routes Interactive Website. This Flash should not run longer than 30 seconds and should outline the Historical Routes project. Flash supports sound bytes and may be the best way to present the website to potential users. The Region will let the students decide on the look of the page however we would like the same colour scheme as outlined in the first deliverable.Documentation: Students should know that the Region is considering adding this interactive mapping site to its own regional website. Because of this we would like to students to produce a write up outlining each of their responsibilities and their own background mirroring a resume. This document in concert with the website would do a great deal in promoting both the students own skills but also promote the GIS skills taught and learned as part of the GIS post-graduate programs at Fleming.Documentation: Secondarily it is important for any interactive website to have a robust and all-inclusive ├óÔé¼╦£Help Document. All functionality should be thoroughly explained so that any casual internet user could easily navigate the site. Project Location: 43.45256 , -80.484222 Organization Name: Region of Waterloo Project ID: 271 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Bluebird Nest Box Evaluation Project Description: For several years the parks program has placed eastern bluebird boxes at the Frost campus Dahl property and at the Ken Reid Conservation Area. As part of a course called Wildlife Technologies the Fish and Wildlife Program will begin to undertake an evaluation of the boxes. This will be a digital data collection exercise for this group and the data will be collected over several years. We will be using HP iPAQs to collect several parameters based on three journal articles and information from the North American Bluebird Society. The data will be used to compare our results to those of the journal articles and develop guidelines for placement. The nest box data will also be provided to others doing research into this area. This year we will be using an Excel spread sheet to collect the data on the Frost Campus but would like to have a database entry program developed for the iPAQ for future years. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Design and create a database for attributes of bluebird boxes breeding success predation local habitat features Develop application for HP iPAQ model 2410 that allows the user to enter attribute values in the database while collecting GPS coordinates and also associates the GPS coordinates with the appropriate features in the database.Develop an application to calculate nest box spacing from UTM locations conduct simple queries and analyses (attribute and spatial) Application(s) and database should be applicable to all three study sitesCreate a base map to display bluebird box locations and habitat features associated with roads buildings etc.Create a cartographic product that explains the project with a map of property nest box placement and habitat features.Map for cartographic product should also be available in a separate file (jpg) for future student field work and reports.;Data Acquisition/PreprocessingDatabase Design/ProcessingSpatial/Statistical AnalysisProgramming/CustomizationPresentation/VisualizationInterest in breeding biology of birds programming and database Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 274 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Intensification in the Greater Toronto Area Project Description: The phenomenon of urban sprawl is not new or novel. There are a number of ways of addressing this problem one of which is through a policy of urban intensification. Recently the Ontario government launched a provincial planning initiative with it's Places to Grow plan which attempts to address urban sprawl in and around the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The plan's promotes urban intensification stipulating that municipalities are required to direct 40% of new growth within the existing built up areas. How can municipalities identify which areas are appropriate for intensification? Which areas offer the most promise? Which areas sensitive and should be avoided? The goal of this project is to design a framework/model for identifying appropriate areas for urban intensification. The project will use a case study approach zeroing in on one municipality in the GTA (to be determined) Project Requirements: Deliverables: The key deliverable should be in the form of a manual explaining how municipalities can identify areas that would be appropriate for intensification.The specific deliverables will be:develop a model using GIS that allows the user to identify locations Project Location: 43.772711 , -79.336327 Organization Name: Dillon Consulting Limited Project ID: 275 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Emergency Planning Application for City/County of Peterborough Project Description: A web GIS application designed to assist the emergency response team in the City and County of Peterborough in a real world emergency. The potential functions have yet to be finalized but as a minimum the project will involve the evacuations centers available with real-time update to the web GIS on critical information (e.g. how many beds are currently available). Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: It is understood that the project should satisfy the need described above plus one or two of the following emergency scenarios (these functions have yet to be prioritized and finalized):Plumb mapping to map the flow of a chemical spill. Ability to show flood areas based on elevation and/or established flood plains.Specify an evacuation area by drawing a polygon on map or generating a buffer on existing feature(s) and have the system respond with the number of residents in the area.As an extension of 3 identify the evacuation centers (highlight on map and generate report) required to handle the residents in such an evacuation based on their proximity and capacity.Ability to use web GIS display as a "chalk board" on which symbols and text can be added on an ad hoc basis (e.g. location of emergency vehicles roads that are closed location of emergency clinics etc.). Ideally all dynamic annotations will appear in expandable "balloons" (see http://maps.google.com). Ability to generate large-format hardcopy maps to be taken into the field.A subset of the GIS could be accessible by the public in which case available response facilities (for evaluation or treatment) could be mapped and included in a search function (e.g. find closest facility).Map occurrences of individual cases of any sort of outbreak based on postal code and/or civic address. Project Location: 44.289421 , -78.317604 Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 279 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Traffic Sign By-law Application Project Description: Build a database from the existing regulatory right-of-way control bylaws (stop and yield signs) each of which apply to specified side and portion of one or more street segments. Using this database spatially cross-reference the existing signs database (point features) to locate any stop or yield sign not covered by the regulatory sign bylaws. If time permits the project may be extended to include speed limit bylaws. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: A GeoMedia WebMap application that cross-references the bylaws and signage so the City Traffic department will be able to:run a query to display and report on any regulatory signage that is not covered by a bylaw identify a specific sign and have the system respond with the corresponding bylaw ID and display the full bylaw (PDF). Project Location: 44.308489 , -78.320147 Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 287 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: A spatial tool for planning and predicting successful gravel pit rehabilitation Project Description: This project involves the development of a spatial tool that can be used by planners ecologists and aggregate operators to guide and predict the spatial patterns of plant communities which will establish on aggregate sites once extraction has finished. For this project successful rehabilitation of these highly disturbed sites is considered to be the establishment of functioning native ecosystems.A key input will be species abundance/time curves which have been developed by the client using a chronosequence (sites of various ages) of gravel pits across southern Ontario. Other key features influencing successional processes include pit topography water table position deliberate rehabilitation efforts and linkages to natural features in the surrounding landscape. These will also be incorporated into the model. Only certain species and ecosites are possible in certain topographic settings.Aggregate sites are often clustered in the landscape due to the non-random spatial distribution of prime sand and gravel deposits. Opportunities for the successful establishment of native ecosystems in such areas may be enhanced by linking these sites together to avoid the bathtub landscape syndrome and to co-ordinate individual site rehabilitation efforts within a broader landscape scale plan. Another aspect of this project therefore will be to determine the best ways to link adjacent extraction sites without causing significant disturbances to other landscape features. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Data will be provided for a pilot landscape area within the eastern portion of the Oak Ridges Moraine where there are significant clusters of active gravel pits.For this pilot area the tool should be able to indicate the best routes to spatially link clusters of gravel pits given certain restrictions which can be input by the user. These could include the least number of roads lowered no houses removed no mature woodlots removed no streams crossed the least volume of material to be excavated etc. It is important that the user be able to change these restrictions easily and then observe the resulting extraction pattern.The tool should be able to plot expected vegetation cover patterns of the pit complexes (both by individual species and ecosite type) for a given amount of time in years since the end of extraction. The number of years should be easy to specify by the user. However there will have to be an upper limit as the chronosequence of sites surveyed upon which the species abundance curves are based do not extend beyond 80 years.Eventually the tool should also allow the user to modify certain starting conditions within each pit especially topography and rehabilitation technique used. These parameters would determine the categories of ecosites possible and slow or speed the species abundance/time curves in a clearly defined mathematical way. This step may be completed in a future coop project Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 297 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Grey County Emergency Managment System Project Description: We propose a web GIS application designed to assist the emergency response team in the County of Grey in an actual emergency. The project will involve the appropriate resources needed in an emergency situation. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Develop an ArcIMS application for use by the Grey County Emergency Group that will be able to:Define event/incident location(s) by:visually placing a point line or polygon on the web map or by entering/selecting the civic address.Generate a buffer zone around the incident entered above and use it to identify resources and data required to deal with emergency. Examples would be:contact information for evacuation listsmunicipal fire police ambulance and other services with jurisdiction at the incident location Identify the resources within the buffer and exclude them from the those availableIdentify and locate nearest emergency resources located outside effected zoneGenerate large format paper maps for use of Emergency Response personnel in the fieldIn conjunction with the Grey County Emergency Group determine which data layers will be needed for the project. Develop pre-determined event types (power outage tornado outbreak) template that would automatically display the relevant map layersDevelop a road closure and road block location layer for the county that can be updated dynamically.Create an Emergency Response database with a user interface for its management. The database would contain data on things such as emergency evacuation centers and their capacity and resources Project Location: 44.56173 , -80.926446 Organization Name: Grey County Project ID: 299 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Watershed Tools Project Description: The Comparative Aquatic Effects Program (CAEP) is a long-term ecological study of the effects of timber harvesting activities on coldwater stream fish habitat. CAEP is investigating how the interaction between terrestrial and stream systems is influenced by the spatial scale under consideration (i.e. watershed size). The comparative approach taken for this project exploits variability (natural and man made) that exists among streams. The following is a general outline of the approach:Sampling sites are selected using a GIS database based on catchment area (1 10 and 100 square km in a nested design) and landscape disturbance history (extent and timing of harvest or forest fire)Stream sites are surveyed using a repeatable spatially independent sampling protocol developed by the MNRs Great Lakes Salmonid Unit. The survey provides information on biotic (fish and invertebrates) and physical (including hydrologic characteristics substrate composition and cover) characteristics of the stream. Fish are sampled using a backpack electrofishing unit weighed measured and releasedResearch Program Goals:To determine the extent of catchment deforestation required to impact stream habitat (where impact means a change in the state of a habitat variable correlated with stream fish productivity beyond the range of natural variability)Provide an indication of how spatial scale is related to harvest impact (e.g. how might harvesting 50 per cent of a 1 square kilometre catchment differ from harvesting 50 per cent of a 10 or 100 square kilometre catchment?)Results could lead to changes in timber harvest guidelines with steps taken to minimize impacts on aquatic systems at the appropriate spatial scale throughout the timber management planning processGoals of the GIS Project Delineation of watersheds from DEM data and quantification of watershed characteristics using DEM and other GIS data (points lines polys grids)Delineation of surficial runoff pathways from DEMs Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Part 1 Watershed Delineation/QuantificationDelineate watersheds according to user-defined flow accumulation thresholds or based upon a set of pour-points supplied by a user in a shapefileDelineated watersheds will initially be in grid data format however these must be converted to shapefiles Nesting of delineated watersheds can not occur within individual grids or shapefiles; therefore all 1 sq km watersheds nested within 10 sq km watersheds must be in a different grid/shapefile from that containing the 10 sq km watersheds (i.e. one grid/shapefile for all 1 sq km watersheds and one grid/shapefile for all 10 sq km watersheds etc.)Generate summary information for each watershed by:Intersecting watershed polygons with a set of user-selected shapefiles (points lines and/or polygons) Note: area perimeter and length fields must be updated after each intersection has been run!Using watersheds as zones to summarize a set of user-selected grid data (integer and/or floating point)Part 2 Delineation of Surficial Runoff PathwaysProvide through a GUI a utility that will allow a user to reclassify a flow accumulation grid based on his/her own class limitsConvert the reclassified grid into a line using the STREAMLINE commandOutput the line data as a shapefile Project Location: 48.422787 , -89.263824 Organization Name: Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research Project ID: 300 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Durham Region Sign Inventory System Project Description: The Region of Durham Traffic Dept. requires the development of an enhanced traffic sign inventory system. Currently a shapefile with an accompanying Access table are used to manage the traffic sign inventory. The primary deliverable of this project is a Geodatabase which due to the complexity of the dataset (30000+ different signs) it is imperative that the geodatabase be able to store and manage the data in an efficeint and logical manner. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Deliverables: In particular this project should address:The design of a ESRI Geodatabase to house the traffic sign inventory. (subtypes domains feature classes relationship classes etc.) Address the design issue of multiple signs existing on one pole.Address the mapping issue of displaying clearly the existance of multiple signs on one pole.Develop customization to ArcMap to facilitate the addition/updates to 100-200 2004 and 2005 sign installations.In addition the project should address some of the following items:Include support for data collection using a GPS integrated tablet PC using ESRI ArcView not Arcpad.Provide a user friendly interface to edit existing and add new sign information.provide capabilities for generating sign inventory summary reports to assist with budgeting and maintenace programs.Provide supporting documents (ie. mapbooks work orders database) to assist field and office staff involved with daily signing operations. Project Location: 43.899117 , -78.942459 Organization Name: Region of Durham Project ID: 301 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Automated digital conversion of forest cover from paper topographic maps Project Description: Produce a GIS/Remote Sensing tool which would analyze a scanned 1:50000 paper topographic map and produce a digital vector map of a woodland (green) and possibly urban (pink) land cover types. The general problem is to be able to assess change over time in woodland cover (and possibly built-up area) from the historical record of previous editions of these maps. Project Requirements: Deliverables: A report on methods attempted and estimates (with estimates of accuracy and precision) of amount forest cover for the three historical map sheets supplied.software tool to run the procedure(s) to convert a scanned map to a digital vector map filea procedures users manual so the best process can be repeated by othersa relational database to manage data compiled by the method(s) developed Project Location: 44.302528 , -78.318832 Organization Name: MNR - Natural Heritage Information Centre Project ID: 304 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Fish and Wildlife Specimen Database and Web Application Project Description: The Fish and Wildlife program has a specimen collection containing fish bird mammal and reptile specimens. These specimens are kept in a freezer on campus and used for student labs. Samples taken from these specimens are sent out to professional labs and analysed for diseases. The Fish and Wildlife program is participating in a Leptospirosis study (a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection causing hemorrhages) and possibly a collaborative project with Trent involving DNA analysis. It is important that the Fish and Wildlife program have a database and application that tracks the specimens the samples sent for analysis the collectors of the specimens and their licenses the results of necropsies performed by the students on the specimens and external lab test results. The application and database need to be accessible to users in a variety of locations within the college making a secure dynamic web application the best solution. Specifically the program requires: An enterprise database to log collection data on an ongoing basis starting with current data collected but also with the addition of new data and future options. The ability for students and faculty to enter data and query through the web. Password use for data entry and queries and separate password to change data. The database should be able to print information in a form format also be able to print spreadsheet format for a summary of data. The ability to perform queries is necessary. The ability for the data to be mapped and linked to a query. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- web Technology Deliverables: Enterprise database (currently PostgreSQL but could be migrated to SQL Server)Input and edit formsMethod to attach scanned dataInteractive Web application allows input query spatial and attribute queries and display of results in both text and map formatPassword protection Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 340 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Peterborough County Tourism Project Description: The County of Peterborough would like to develop a web site to promote tourism. The web site would need to be visually appealing clean and easy to navigate providing the user with an opportunity to select from various tours data groupings or geographic regions.More information may be obtained from the Coop Project Liaison. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: a relational database capable of future expansiona web site capable of:displaying clean and professional information accessing tour sites as per the users requestuser should be able to visualize tour locations using a simple GIS (Google Maps)More information available from Coop Project Liaison; Project Location: 44.307892 , -78.317076 Organization Name: County of Peterborough Project ID: 350 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Watershed Images Application Project Description: Kawartha Conservation would like a custom application that will display attribute information buffer and query various image files when a geo-referenced point is selected. The use of this application will benefit staff in the Planning Department and projects that deal with Stewardship initiatives field work and technical indentification. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: The following functions are required for this custom built application:The ability for a user to display attribute information for a geo-referenced pointAbility to buffer the geo-referenced point to user defined or preset distancesSelects all images that fall within the specified buffer distanceAbility to list in a dialog box the images that are associated with the geo-referenced point and that fall within the buffered areaAbility for the user to interactively select what images they would like to view and then view the image in the proper image software (both geo-referenced and nongeo-referenced images)Ability to add different file types to the catalog Kawartha Conservation would like the following deliverables to be met on the completion of the project:Project Overview SummaryCustom Built ApplicationCode and Procedures behind the applicationGeo-referenced shapefile with attribute informationReport Project Location: 44.382854 , -78.765587 Organization Name: Kawartha Conservation Project ID: 352 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: View Durham Fly over Project Description: Provide an awareness to the public of the unique characteristics of Durham more specifically Port Perry and Uxbridge. Durham Region has developed an interactive web map of the region but to attract people to the area for Tourism or Business Development more needs to be done to showcase specific areas. One way to accomplish this is to have a fly-through of Port Perry and or Uxbridge to emphasis the quaint downtown core. Ideally a user should be able to click on a point feature of Port Perry and/or Uxbridge and some kind of flash play of a fly-over. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: A web enabled presentation that works on Internet Explorer that does not require any type of plug-in or download of software so that anyone can view the fly-through.Port Perry Fly through of the Port Perry area with an emphasis on the downtown strip on Queen St and around the harbour.And / orUxbridge Fly through of downtown Uxbridge and possible golf courses. Project Location: 43.899117 , -78.942459 Organization Name: Region of Durham Project ID: 364 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Land Acquisition Decision Support Tools Project Description: The County of Simcoe requires a spatial analysis tool to analyze candidate sites for land acquisition for a number of business units. The land acquisitions decisions support tool would provide business specific analysis for the acquisition of whole or partial parcels for:1. Forestry Lands consolidation2. Roads Reconstruction and Widening3. General Infrastructure Development suitabilityEach area has specific requirements around the analysis of parcel data to determine suitability. The analysis criteria must be further developed with each business unit within the County. Priority for tool development is as listed above.Forestry Lands Consolidation: This tool will provide the user with the ability spatially analyze the current Forestry Lands and will generate a listing of suitable parcels from the Countys assessment parcel mapping. Criteria for ranking suitability of lands to acquire will include adjacency/proximity to existing Forest Tracts Size of parcel and percentage in vegetated cover assessed status (i.e. vacant farm residence) presence of natural heritage features (provincially significant features) etc.Roads Reconstruction and Widening: This tool will provide the user with the ability to select specific County Road Segments for road widening/reconstruction. The user will then specify an offset for the widening. The offset will select any land parcels affected by the widening split and retain the portions of the parcel within the offset and generate a report describing each parcel its address the area in square metres that will need to be expropriated for the widening and a map of the specific parcel location.General Infrastructure Suitability: This tool will provide the user with the ability to specify several criteria to narrow a search for vacant lands for the purpose of developing a new County facility. The user will be able to graphically select a subject area or municipality and specify the size of parcel required. Analysis will query all parcels coded as vacant and will also consider existing County owned lands regardless of vacancy status. Additional criteria could include adjacency to County Roads or Highways and proximity to centres of population.The County of Simcoe is presenting these as distinct tools in order to provide options for achievable goals. Each item can be treated as a distinct phase and considering the students workload and changes to the scope of each item the project can be limited to one or multiple tools.;Fully commented code and documentation to implement the developed tools using the specified software environment available at the County of Simcoe. Development should be either ArcObjects or VB/ASP.net depending on the platform options settled on. Project Requirements: spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: We expect the student or students to apply themselves and do their best to deliver a solution that can be implemented in production at the County of Simcoe. Knowledge of ESRI software is a must. using the most current technologies is encouraged. Project Location: 44.445932 , -79.744951 Organization Name: Simcoe County Administration Centre Project ID: 417 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Development of Biodiversity Indicators for Xstrata Zinc Project Description: The objective of this standard is to develop and implement scientifically-sound technologies and procedures for the effective management and conservation of biodiversity and rehabilitation of disturbed land to a planned post-closure use. All operations and projects are required to describe biodiversity richness and sensitive areas and to implement biodiversity conservation plans.In order to fulfill that commitment studies need to be conducted to assemble the site-specific biodiversity and land use information in order for each operation to i) establish the current biodiversity conditions ii) assess the potential risks and impacts related to the presence of the sites and/or activities on biodiversity and iii) identify relevant standards and key monitoring indicators for biodiversity. This information will be used by each operation to develop and implement a site-specific biodiversity conservation plan which will ensure effective management and conservation of biological diversity and rehabilitation of disturbed land to a planned post-closure use if necessary. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Dynamic geodatabases for each Xstrata site where users can add and edit data for future monitoring purposesBiodiversity index for each Xstrata site Biodiversity impact assessment for each Xstrata site Biodiversity indicators that will represent change in diversity for terrestrial freshwater and coastal/marine species and habitats. Project Location: 43.35848 , -79.7879 Organization Name: LGL Project ID: 546 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Asset Management System Project Description: For several years the Town of Georgina has been collecting spatial data about its infrastructure. There is a need to create a model to organize the spatial and nonspatial data in a database and provide some functionality. In addition beginning in 2009 municipalities must report on their tangible capital assets. The Town Of Georgina is currently evaluating municipal assets as part of P.S.A.B.(Public Sector Accounting Board). They would like to start an asset management and a work order system. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Organize public works infrastructure for a selected neighbourhood in a spatial database. This includes creating the structure and loading the data. Include in the database the ability to rate the condition of various assets.Create Work Order system that ensures records of assets are kept current: selected administrative functions such as identifying what valve to close in the event of a watermain break generate a list of people to notify for a planned water shutdown determine what street to reconstruct based on age and repair history of underground plant spatially log public complaints ie. road-sidewalk repairs accidents garbage collection issues create work orders update records upon work completionCreate and participate in a presentation to sell the process to senior management and council Project Location: 44.238548 , -79.467232 Organization Name: Town of Georgina Project ID: 574 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Mapping With Excellence - For Cartographic Specialists only Project Description: Maps are a means of communication. The basis of effective cartographic communication is a clear focus on the message to be conveyed to the intended audience coupled with an understanding of how maps function as visual abstractions of selected aspects of reality. An elegant efficient cartographic product paper or web based is required. The product needs to a) be a stand-alone visual communication of considerable sophistication b) illustrate the synthesis and development of symbology and c) increase the knowledge base of the viewer. The process needs to a) indicate growth as a cartographic designer and b) increase the knowledge base of the cartographer.The project must have a useful purpose beyond meeting the course requirements. Cartographic communication in both concept and design must be clear and effective. The quality of data accuracy of calculations and spatial precision will be factors in the success of this product.A description of intent (Project Charter see Project/Documents) must be submitted as a MS Word Document to the Project Liaison before the close of bidding.;Produce a new map or other geographically ordered product that does not now exist in any similar formatA first class cartographic product demonstrating a level of crafting appropriate to the professionPaper or web basedA database that supports the thematic mapCartographic review of literature applying to thematic content and symbolization choicesA project log file that records the projects evolution;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.341481 , -78.740924 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College Project ID: 577 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Analyzing Environmental Conditions that Underlay Tallgrass Community Features in Southern Ontario Project Description: Using existing data for environmental factors such as soil types physiography elevation and possibly aspect create a GIS layer to show where these factors stack up so as to provide evidence where tallgrass communities likely were to exist prior to European settlement of Southern Ontario. This information would be incredibly helpful in directing land managers and conservation groups like Tallgrass Ontario to undertake tallgrass conservation and creation projects. There is a considerable amount of data on the exact locations of known tallgrass community remnants but there has been no mapping and analysis to demonstrate where the historical extent of prairies most likely occurred. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: The creation of 1) a GIS layer indicating where historical tallgrass habitats were found prior to European settlement of Southern Ontario. 2) a hard copy map indicating where historical tallgrass habitats were found prior to European settlement of Southern Ontario Project Location: 42.925207 , -81.222944 Organization Name: Tallgrass Ontario Project ID: 610 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: City of Barrie Web-based Emergency Operations Center Project Description: The City of Barrie is committed to providing excellence in municipal services for the 130000 citizens of this vibrant and prosperous community one of the fastest growing and most beautiful lakefront cities in Ontario. An emergency operations center or EOC is a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of emergency preparedness and emergency management or disaster management functions at a strategic level in an emergency situation and ensuring the continuity of operation of a company political subdivision ( City or County) or other organization. The City of Barrie is looking for a Web-based GIS Application designed to assist the emergency response team in a central command center in the event of a real world emergency. This application could also potentially be used by first line responders who would be in the field accessing the information via laptop or tough book.;Develop an ArcGIS server based application to be used by the City of Barries Emergency Response Team that will be able to:Basic Functionalities:Basic map navigation (zoom in/out panning next /previous full extent)View attribute information of layersTurn layers on and offDistance and area measurementsQuerying on active layers for both Spatial and Attribute informationAdvanced Functionalities:Define event/incident location(s) by: visually placing a point line or polygon on the web map or by entering/selecting the civic addressGenerate a buffer zone around the incident entered above and use it to identify resources and data required to deal with emergency. Examples would be:Address information for evacuation lists as well as number of residents in the areaCity Fire and Police and other services with jurisdiction at the incident locationIdentify and locate nearest emergency resources located outside the effected zone e.g. Emergency Shelters Temporary Medical CentersAs an extension of #2: identify the evacuation centers (highlight on map and generate report) required to handle the residents in such an evacuation based on their proximity and capacity.Ability to use the web display as a chalk board/acetate layer on which symbols and text can be added on an ad hoc basis (e.g location of emergency vehicles roads that are closed location of temporary medical facilities ect.).Ability to generate hardcopy and .pdf maps and reports to be used in the fieldDevelop Database Model in Access 2007 or SQL ServerDevelop predetermined event types (e.g. gas explosion tornado flood outbreak)In conjunction with the City of Barries GIS and emergency group determine which data layers will be needed for the projectThe final deliverable should consist of a fully functional ArcGIS Server web mapping application as well as Documentation outlining methodology code and installation manuals.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology- Enterprise geodatabase design with Microsoft Access or SQL Server - Web programming skills particularly for ArcGIS Server - Graphical interface design;1. The City will be able to supply all base mapping data required in the following formats: .shp .sid .dwg .dbf or .mdb2. The information on shelters may need to be created by the students based off of other City data layers this and all other attribute information will be provided by the City.;;The Students will be required to sign A Data License Agreement as part of the Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 44.390566 , -79.686173 Organization Name: City of Barrie Project ID: 656 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Lake Simcoe Shoreline Inventory and Interactive Mapping Web-tool Project Description: Policy 6.12-SA of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan calls for the development of Shoreline Management Strategy (SMS) by June 2012. This SMS will provide an inventory of the shoreline and navigable portions of the large rivers flowing into Lake Simcoe that will include information of shoreline condition riparian condition and anthropogenic alterations as well as survey structures around the lake. This inventory is meant to provide important information for fish and wildlife habitat assessments such as identification of significant fish and wildlife areas and habitats such as wetlands woodlands spawning habitat and biological productive areas. This inventory would also be used in determining priority areas of restoration along the shoreline. The goals of this project are to have a complete and updated record of the shoreline using current ortho-photography as well as recently acquired oblique imagery. Policy 6.47 of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan calls for the delineation of priority areas for restoration and other areas to focus natural heritage protection improvement restoration securement and enhancement efforts. The Ministry of Natural Resources has identified these priority areas but we now need to make the mapping available to community stewardship groups in the Lake Simcoe Watershed. Part of the mapping to be made available will be the record of the shoreline mentioned in 1).The goals of this project are to develop an interactive web-tool which will allow community stewardship groups to view the mapping display various layers and zoom in on areas where they may undertake a specific project. If possible it would be beneficial if users could use the tool to make and save their own maps. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- web Technology Deliverables: Complete and accurate inventory of shoreline reaches as well as shoreline and near-shore structures in a ArcGIS geodatabaseStatistics of the amount of each type of shorelineInteractive mapping web-toolStatistics of the amount and type of priority area for restoration Project Location: 43.962862 , -79.460489 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 672 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Spatial modeling of lake sturgeon habitat in the Mattagami River near Timmins Ontario Project Description: The objective of the project is to identify and describe habitat features of lake sturgeon based on spatial modelling. Telemetrymonitored lake sturgeons are demonstrating a high propensity for certain sites in the Mattagami River. What are the unique features of these sites that may be compelling the fish to remain there? Our goal is to describe the physical attributes of these sites using spatial models created from elevation/depth data. We see an opportunity for the Fleming Coop program to assist the project by creating the spatial models. This project is part of a broader effort to rehabilitate lake sturgeon in the section of river near Timmins. Several local partners including MNR are involved in monitoring the movements of transplanted fish. Northeast Science & Information is complementing the project through these habitat studies. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: The Coop students will be required to:Import provided bathymetry data into a GIS environment. This data is in a text file format which requires the use of Microsoft Access for example as an intermediate step in order for ArcGIS to accept the correct table format. Once the shapefile is created further data prepping is required such as calculating the depth values into a new field as minus values (when creating bathymetric models we need to show depth versus elevation with positive values). Other examples of data prepping is selecting and exporting the unique values in the created shapefile database field named [Channel] (Downscan SideScan and Primary) as the depth TIN/Raster/Hillshade/IDW (student will determine the best bathymetric representation) is derived from the downscan values only. The student will also need to resolve projection issues with the proprietary data (Lowrance projection is unique). We see this as a first-step problem solving requirement prior to model buildingGenerate TINs (3-D models such as Raster/Hillshade/IDW) of three small sections (300m 2km) of the Mattagami River from bathymetry data Build terrain model (above water) using data from project partners. This may require digitizing contour lines from floodplain maps (MNR is currently investigating data availability). Spatially and visually link terrain and river channel models. Explore the possibility of adding the positive contour lines to the TIN that was created from the bathymetry.Explore different interpolation methods to see what gives the best results Project Location: 48.474309 , -81.296031 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 673 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Citizen Service Request Web Portal Project Description: The City of Barrie is committed to providing excellence in municipal services for the 130000 citizens of this vibrant and prosperous community one of the fastest growing and most beautiful lakefront cities in Ontario. The City has recently started a computerized maintenance management system as a means to track work done against its infrastructure assets. This is an internal web-based application that allows staff to manage their work orders and call takers to submit services requests from the public. The City is looking for assistance in the creation of an external public facing GIS application that will allow the public to submit service requests (pot holes graffiti streetlight outages) online through a website (compatible with mobile devices) and if possible a mobile phone based (smart phone) application. The public will be able to enter in full details of the issue enter in a spatial location of the issue (gps address or intersection) attach a photo and provide their contact information for follow-up. Each request will get filtered through City staff for action. This portal will be similar to the ESRI Citizen Service Template available on esri.com Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: Develop an ArcGIS server based application to be used by the Public that will be able to:Basic Functionalities:Basic map navigation (zoom in/out panning next /previous full extent)View attribute information of layersDistance and area measurementsSelect a feature on the mapQuerying on active layers for both Spatial and Attribute informationAdvanced Functionalities:Define asset/issue location(s) by: visually placing a point line or polygon on the web map using GPS location (of mobile device) or by entering/selecting the assetForm which allows the user to input information about the service request related to the asset affected:Issue Type (street light outage pothole graffiti etc)Issue descriptionLocation (intersection address point of interest)User Contact information with option for follow-up notificationsAllow a picture of the asset/issue to be attached to the form.Ability to map the user generated requests and symbolize them based on the current status of the event. PendingIn ProgressDispatched/IssuedCreatedComplete Buffer the incident event and perform a selection of all other events listed to determine if this is a duplicate request. If the event is a new incident it will be logged as soIf the event is a duplicate issue their information will be added to the pre-existing event.The information captured will be sent to a City email account in a format that is importable into SQL Server.The final deliverable should consist of a fully functional ArcGIS Server web mapping application and/or preferred mobile phone application as well as documentation outlining methodology code and installation manuals. Project Location: 44.390566 , -79.686173 Organization Name: City of Barrie Project ID: 675 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Ontario Agricultural Resource Inventory (AgRI): A New Approach to Field Observation Database Attribution using ArcPad Project Description: Background:The new Ontario Agricultural Resource Inventory (AgRI) has been developed incrementally by OMAFRA as a high-resolution digital polygon framework for Ontarios farm landscape with multi-temporal databases of cropping and tillage system attributes for cropped fields. Farm field observations are the key ground truth data acquisitions for accretion of these databases for each cropping season. Paper maps with orthophoto backgrounds printed at 1:10000 on 11 X 17 paper have been the standard field mapping data collection method. Their tedious preparation printing and observation extraction-data entry consume considerable geomatics time and resources on both ends of the field mapping missions. ArcPad offers a geomatics alternative to the current paper map AgRI database development method.The Challenge:OMAFRA would like to move from sole reliance on the current paper-based AgRI field data collection-to-database method of populating its AgRI GIS database to a more direct GPS-technology based attribution method using ArcPad. This will eliminate two tedious and time-consuming process steps in the current method - the production of the field paper map sets and subsequent extraction of the field information from them. The desire is for this new ArcPad-based method to be mounted on field-portable laptops or tablets equipped with accurate GPS technology.;
Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- programming/Customization Deliverables: A fourth requirement will need to be added to this project Project Location: 43.526695 , -80.224899 Organization Name: OMAFRA Project ID: 677 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: URISA OC Membership Analysis Project Description: Here is your chance to collaborate and network with established Ontario GIS professionals! The Ontario Chapter has over 500 individual and group members from all levels of government GIS applications vendors consultants educators students and business professionals. URISA OC provides educational programs workshops and services related to spatial information systems and integrated solutions. With over 500 members attending events from all over Ontario it is important to locate events that suit the needs of members. This project Analyzes the members database to produce a weighted list of proposed event locationsAnalyzes areas where membership drives may be requiredProduced a cartographic or web based product to explore and present map resultsAnalyzes categories of membership to determine if events topics can be targeted based on geography (i.e. a high concentration of Natural Resources members in Eastern Ontario or a high proportion of Municipal members in Southwestern Ontario.)You will have the opportunity to present the results of the project at a URISA-OC Event!;Proposed Event Location List and MapMember Gap Analysis List and MapPast Event Attendance List and Map (ie. Where did the attendees travel from?)Industry AnalysisProjected Membership Target AreasSpatial Database of census population dataSpatial Database of Road Network for Drive Time AnalysisHeat Map of GIS users/companies sorted by primary GIS software usage (collaborate with existing members i.e. ESRI to determine some of this information) Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Project Location: 43.816074 , -79.401787 Organization Name: URISA Ontario Chapter Project ID: 678 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Ontario Agricultural Resource Inventory (AgRI): Development of a detailed polygon framework for Ontario Under Glass Project Description: Background:The new Ontario Agricultural Resource Inventory (AgRI) has been developed incrementally by OMAFRA as a high-resolution digital polygon framework for Ontarios farm landscape with multi-temporal databases of cropping and tillage system attributes for cropped fields. Other AgRI polygons developed for the rural landscape include farmsteads fencerows rural residential rural business recreational and institutional features. Ontarios greenhouse industry footprint has substantial acreage under glass. These greenhouses are readily distinguishable in high-resolution digital orthophotography. These horticultural enterprises have yet to be captured explicitly as distinct polygons in the new Ontario AgRI across the province.The Challenge:OMAFRA needs a means to systematically identify delineate and digitize polygons for all of the greenhouse acreage across the province in order to build a component layer for the new Ontario AgRI. At this point manual digitizing remains a reliable but time intensive process to accomplish this task. Moving forward to implement an automated or semi-automated method will eliminate much of the tedious and time-consuming process steps in the current method. The desire is for a new method to become part of the arsenal of tools used to build the detailed Ontario AgRI provincewide.;The current Ontario AgRI digital polygon framework is a guide to the level of detail being built into this agricultural landscape information resource. Using the associated digital orthophotography as the base for identification delineation and digitizing select some sentinel regions where greenhouses are clustered (ex. Leamington) to develop test and validate an automated or semi-automated method (ex. Definiens eCognition etc ) to create an example portion of what will become eventually an Ontario Under Glass digital polygon layer.OMAFRA has developed a means to assign unique identification labels to each farm field in the Ontario AgRI data layer. Adapt this method to enable each greenhouse polygon to have its own unique ID.Develop a brief and very straightforward instruction/training manual for this new Ontario AgRI greenhouse digitizing application that provides the following:How to set up the required background orthoimagery for digitizing.How to operate the automated/semi-automated method to create new greenhouse polygons.How to save these new polygons and safely turn off the application.How to access these greenhouse polygons and view them with the existing Ontario AgRI database to display with the crop or tillage system maps on the GIS.How to change/update the background orthoimagery for future mapping work (in different locations for different years to track changes etc.)Note: This instruction/training manual should be aimed at both professional and student users of this digitizing application whose geomatics experience/expertise varies widely.Assess computer hardware options for using this new digitizing application to build the Ontario AgRI digital polygon framework. This may include testing it on different platforms (as available) or simply providing results of some time-limited research into potential platforms (and their pros and cons).;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Programming/CustomizationA fourth requirement will have to be added to this project by the students Project Requirements: Deliverables: High-resolution digital colour orthophotography (20cm and 30cm pixels).High-resolution AgRI polygon framework (developed from these orthos) Project Location: 43.526695 , -80.224899 Organization Name: OMAFRA Project ID: 679 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Road Closure and Conditions (advisory) Internal Application Project Description: To create an application that will allow the transportation services staff to click on a map and shut down sections of the road during winter (bad weather) and summer (construction) months. Update the County road based on visibility and conditions advise the public through the website.The section that has been closed or the conditions reported must be logged in a text file in case of insurance claims. Optimally if time permits is to develop a tool to find the best route around the closure that can be turned off and on. Project Requirements: Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- web Technology Deliverables: To create an application that transportation services staff can manipulate based on conditions of roads make it available for public to view be able to embed either a static or dynamic map (JavaScript or jpeg) based on a check of a boxDevelop pre-determined condition types (closed open future construction├óÔé¼┬ªetc) template that would automatically display in a formEmail the foreman on the conditions when it is updatedTo develop a tool to find the best route around the closure (detour)Text based output from intersection to intersection. Keep a text file back up for insurance logs Create a road closure website that will meet the accessibility 2 website guidelines Project Location: 44.56173 , -80.926446 Organization Name: Grey County Project ID: 684 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Ganaraska forest resource inventory update Project Description: To update our Forest Resource Inventory (FRI) database and mapping from several years ago and create a system to allow us to review conditions and enter data. This system will allow for desktop GIS viewing and data maintenance. Some of the final deliverable will include a web based mapping application and an updated Geodatabase as the data storage. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: Updated Geodatabase for FRI data (spatial and tabular data)Desktop viewing and data maintenance system (ArcGIS Customization)Web based mapping application to show historic and planned Forestry activities in the Ganaraska Forest.Wall Map showing Historic forestry activities in the Ganaraska Forest Project Location: 43.959736 , -78.30056 Organization Name: Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 687 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Orono Crown Lands Trail Map Project Description: To support the Orono Crown Lands Trust by providing GPS trail mapping of the trail system at the site. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Programming, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: GPS data for all trails on the site Create and load and clean the feature classes in a GeoDatabase of the trail data. Create a web based system that will allow for interactive display of the trails at the site. Create a large format Trail Head map for the site. Project Location: Organization Name: Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 844 Status: Completed Project Year: 2015 |
Project Name: Urban Forest Canopy and Land Use for the Region of Peel Project Description: The Peel Urban Forest Strategy (Strategy) was completed in 2011 through a partnership of The Regional Municipality of Peel (the ÔÇ£Region of PeelÔÇØ), the Cities of Brampton and Mississauga, the Town of Caledon, Credit Valley Conservation, and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. In developing the Strategy, a canopy cover assessment was undertaken in the urban areas of Peel Region (cities of Mississauga, Brampton, and the communities of Bolton and Caledon East in the Town of Caledon) based on 2007 Quick Bird satellite imagery. One of the action items in the Strategy is regular monitoring of the canopy cover in order to refine targets, develop and evaluate urban forest programs, and prioritize management actions. The current information is now eight (8) years old and many areas in Brampton and Caledon have seen the development of greenfield areas. There have also, in the intervening years, been on-going naturalization and planting projects and areas of the communities where trees are now of a sufficient size to have identifiable canopies. At the same time there have been a number of pests and environmental conditions (eg. excessive heat, freezing rain) that have seen the demise of trees. For these reasons, an update to the canopy cover data is being proposed for 2015 based on summer leaf on conditions. A large part of Peel Region is rural with a pattern of hamlets, villages, agricultural and rural lands. This canopy cover assessment will also include these areas as well. An analysis of this information would update the canopy cover data based on current land cover conditions (eg, tree canopy, shrub, field/grass, paved surfaces). Background The Region of Peel was incorporated in 1974 on the principle that certain community and infrastructure services are most cost-effective when administered over a larger geographic area. The Region includes urban and rural areas serving more than 1.35 million residents in the cities of Mississauga and Brampton and the Town of Caledon. The urban areas for the purposes of the urban forest constitute the cities of Mississauga and Brampton, and the communities of Bolton and Caledon East in the Town of Caledon for an approximate area of 580 square km. The total area of Peel Region is 1,258 square km. The current canopy cover data indicates an overall canopy cover of 11% in Brampton, 17% in Bolton, and 29% in Caledon East in 2007. Mississauga undertook an update to the canopy cover in 2014 with a change from 15% to 19%. The canopy cover assessment identifies existing canopy cover, potential pervious canopy cover, potential impervious canopy cover, and areas not suitable for canopy cover. This Project will update the analysis for City of Brampton and City of Mississauga, and include both an update and have new assessment and analysis for the Town of Caledon. The assessment will characterize land cover and assess conditions for current canopy cover, analysis of canopy cover changes, and ecosystem services benefits. The update recently completed for the City of Mississauga using 2014 imagery will be used as a baseline / verification of the analysis undertaken through this project. Prepare 2015 land cover mapping for the entire Peel Region (i.e. urban and rural areas) based on 10 classifications using 4 band satellite imagery. The land cover mapping will identify tree canopy from forests to individual trees, other vegetated areas, bare earth, water, paved areas, roads, buildings/rooftops, shrubs, and wetland marsh. Identify manual refinement of potential planting areas which would be unsuitable for planting, such as sports fields, golf course playing areas, airport runways, and agricultural fields. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Visualization Deliverables: A kick off meeting with a presentation from the students to the Project Manager and the Project Team on work plan and methodology to complete the Project. Project is to deliver: Land cover mapping for all of Peel Region Data and workspaces in ESRI GIS format, mapping in pdf Comprehensive assessment of forest canopy cover for Peel Region Complete a statistical and spatial analysis of 2015 tree canopy cover change from between 2007 and 2015 using the land cover data for the urban areas of Brampton and Caledon. The analysis will indicate the quantity of change that has occurred and identify that identifies spatially where the gains or losses have occurred. Produce a statistical and spatial analysis of the 2015 canopy cover for the rural areas of Caledon in the remainder of the study area. Undertake an ecosystem services analysis that will provide separate and combined estimates of the value of the current 2015 canopy cover in the urban areas in the City of Brampton and Town of Caledon and for the rural area for the remainder of the study area in Caledon. For the purpose of undertaking the analysis of tree canopy cover change, 2007 tree canopy cover data from the Peel Urban Forest Strategy will be provided to the Vendor. Provide: tabulated data of the urban forest canopy at the Area Municipal and Regional Boundary; Ward; Small Geographic Unit; Dissemination Area; and parcel level scales tabulated data of the urban forest canopy based on land use; and maps (hard copy and GIS format) illustrating existing canopy cover at the Area Municipal and Regional Boundaries; Ward; Small Geographic Unit; and Dissemination Area scales A report documenting the methodology and results of the analysis for Brampton and Caledon portions of Peel Region Monthly Project status reports. One draft set and one final set of maps and report (six hardcopies and one electronic copy compatible with Microsoft Office 2010 and ArcMap 10.2). A draft of the maps and reports must be provided to partners for review and comment in advance of final submissions. Minimal digitizing will be required. It is expected that GIS outputs (spatial analysis) from the imagery analysis will define boundaries within the comprehensive assessment Project Location: 43.7315,-79.7624 Organization Name: City of Brampton Project ID: 855 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Visualization of a Market Square at the Louis Street Urban Park Project Description: The City of Peterborough is working towards developing an urban park in the current location of the Louis Street Parking Lot. There is an adjacent property (former ShopperÔÇÖs Drugmart) that could contribute to the flow and dynamic of the site. The City of Peterborough is looking for an interactive 3D model that presents the potential of a Market Square, utilizing the current parking lot, former ShopperÔÇÖs Drugmart site and surrounding street fabric (Charlotte to King, Aylmer to Water). The group will have to work closely with the Planner, Urban Design to configure a vision for this site. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Programming, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: A realistic 3D model of the area surrounding the proposed Louis Street Urban Park ÔÇô From Bethune Street to Water Street, Charlotte Street to King Street. A series of drive through or fly through animations of the model at different streets/points of interest (Such as views toward Market Hall, movement through the market/park area, interface with Charlotte Street, etc). A web map using the City of Peterborough base map zoomed in to subject location. The map will show point symbols (i.e. a camera) depicting the starting point of each animation. When the user clicks on the point symbol, a pop up will appear showing the location name, still image of the animation, and a link to the animation. The final downtown model will be provided to the City of Peterborough so it can be expanded upon to other areas of the city and put to use for future planning and urban design. Project Location: 44.3028126,-78.321959 Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 857 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Downtown Community Improvement Plan Implementation Visualization Project Description: Since 2012, the City of Peterborough has awarded grants to property and business owners in the downtown to undergo improvement of their Facade. This has resulted in improvements at over 30 downtown properties and a resulting improvement in the look and feel of the dowtown, as well as further investment. The City would like to capture these improvements in a 3D/interactive manner ÔÇô highlighting the improvements that have been made and provide an interactive display of the buildings before and after work has been completed. This will be included on the City of PeterboroughÔÇÖs Community Improvement Plan Home page as a link ÔÇô www.peterborough.ca/cip Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Programming, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: An interactive model displaying the progress made as a result of the Fa├ºade Improvement Porgram in Downtown Peterborough. A ÔÇÿslidingÔÇÖ before/after tool that clearly depicts the improvements made. A means of highlighting the locations of the improved properties in a visually pleasing manner. Final deliverables need to be able to be displayed online or at meetings. Needs to effectively communicate the success of the program to audiences such as Council, interested applicants, other municipalities, the public etc. The City is open to discussing deliverable options with the interested group of students. Road surface, buildings, trees will also be added as a reference and extrude thos buildings that are part of the program(s). Project Location: 44.3030454,-78.3305301 Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 858 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: The Land Between Blueway Project Project Description: The Land Between region extends from Georgian Bay and Parry Sound, skirting the Algonquin Dome to Kingston. It is the headwaters for southern Ontario, and whose waters feed aquifers and streams across the southern extent of the Province and towards the Trent Severn Waterway. The Land Between also has the highest percentage of shoreline to area than anywhere in the province stemming for the abundant small lakes, rivers, wetlands, ponds and pools in Ontario clustered across the landscape. At the same time this region has the least soils with an average of less than 15cm across the land, and with much exposed bedrock. Finally, this region has no conservation authorities or broad reaching stewardship groups beyond The Land Between organization to facilitate monitoring, research, outreach and stewardship at a watershed or regional scale. Development pressure in this area is highest around shorelines for seasonal cottagers and landowners adding significantly to the pressure on sensitive lakes. Therefore these headwater lakes that are primarily cold water lake trout systems are sensitive and easily polluted or degraded due to little absorption capacity offered by shallow soils and the removal of shoreline buffers from major development. The limited relative understanding of the state of the resource and a coordinated stewardship adds to the struggle for sustaining healthy lakes. This project represents the second and enhanced phase of The Land Between Blueway Project, which aims to map and rank those sensitive oligotrophic (lake trout) lakes in the region; and provide a portal for the public to contribute data. The project therefore assesses the relative condition of the lakes using analyses or scoring including of: levels of Median Dissolved Oxygen (supplied by OMOECC) levels of shoreline development (extrapolated script and modeling from existing model); type and presence of fish stocking (data supplied by OMNRF); This phase of the project involves importing into the database and model, all of the small lake trout lakes; running the first standardized pilot analyses and generating the first report cards; and then creating a standardized portal/entry form for anglers which will automatically feed the database. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Visualization Deliverables: Addition of shapefiles/attributes of the small lake trout lakes of The Land Between within the existing database/model and additional attributes/linked excel files of expected and existing Dissolved Oxygen Levels (D.O) A pilot analysis of expected D.O. levels against existing D.O. levels A pilot analysis of all parameters resulting in a full report card for lakes in Hastings County and if feasible across the region A statistical correlation between the shoreline development of lake trout lakes against DO levels of the lakes A linked excel database and linked standardized portal/entry form for angling data In-Person Presentation to stakeholders (if time allows) an online portal and with companion mobile application (may be saved for phase 3 or later contract work) Project Location: 45.04703,-78.50636 Organization Name: The Land Between Program Project ID: 859 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Widget Tool Development for Environmental Assessment Project Description: The Environmental Assessment (EA) Team screens applications for environmental impact and policy compliance. In order to this they utilize an internal data viewer (FlexViewer) to visually assess criteria. This involves turning on/off layers in the area of interest and printing maps. What we want to the tool to do is provide a reporting function on the criteria found in the area of interest. The report would tell them what is found in this area of interest such as what features were found (ie. wetlands, flora, fauna, etc), size of features (i.e wetlands area), species of concern, if the area is in flood protected zone. These are just to name a few. This would then streamline what maps the EA team needs to produce for their projects. Project Requirements: Programming, Web Technology Deliverables: A Widget Tool that can be utilized in existing data viewing projects. The tool itself and any coding behind it. Project Location: 43.828016,-79.596488 Organization Name: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 862 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Community Health: Evaluating food choices surrounding college and university campuses Project Description: When planning for the location of universities and colleges the design of the surrounding communities is not always a key concern. The resulting access of students to healthy food choices may not be ideal. This project will compare college and university campuses in Ontario and their surrounding communities. More specifically the Frost campus of Sir Sandford Fleming College and the campus of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Examining the food choices and when they are available may lead to insight regarding choices students are making concerning their nutrition. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: The project will require a poster for presentation detailing the food choices available in close proximity to the campuses. There will also be a web application that allows users to view the food choices that surround the area at differing times throughout the day. Project Location: 43.945376,-78.896408 Organization Name: UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Project ID: 863 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: SciCap Online Fish Database Project Description: Cambodia has hundreds of fish that migrate to the Tonle Sap each year, however anthropogenic and climate changes are impacting the composition of these fish species. Since the 2012 fishery reform, Tonle Sap is now managed as common resource which makes community monitoring essential. SciCap is trying to collect information on these fish species through the aid of local fishers throughout the Tonle Sap Basin. With this project, we are hoping to create an online login where fishers and SciCap employees can fill in online forms with information about the fish they caught including field restrictions and the data is automatically uploads to the database. We hope that there will also be an online map where the public can see general information about the fish being caught that was retrieved from the database. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Programming, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: For this project, we would like: Website with: An online login page requesting a user name and password and allowing new fishers to request an account, Online form that has quality control and restrictions on what can be filled in for each field and is automatically uploaded to a database, The option to download the form as a pdf where certain fields such as the name of the fisher and date, are automatically downloaded, A public online map that shows general information from the database (i.e. where certain fish are being caught) such as data distribution, and Statistic button on the website that allows basic queries and performs the same function as the macros currently running excel that show statistics for an individual user's data and the overall database. Database with dictionaries and restrictions on data that must be filled in. Project Location: 12.883333,104.066667 Organization Name: SCIENTIFIC CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IN CAMBODIA Project ID: 864 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Headwater Mapping 2016 Project Description: This project seeks to extend the number of the sets of headwater map on OHMapping, the section of the OHIÔÇÖs website that provides maps for public education and awareness and which was established following a pilot mapping project completed by SSFC students in 2011/12. Background and More Complete Description The OHI publishes two sets of maps for a watershed. The first is a PDF with layers that show stream order, headwater catchments, and other layers of data on a clear-background PDF. The second is a rendering on Google Maps. While early maps produced by Fleming student teams (the Credit and Kawartha watersheds) were split in to 2 maps to handle the volume of data, the 2014/15 team applied a template from Derek Nader, as noted on the map of the Rouge Watershed, that accommodated all data on one map. Following the conclusion of the 2014/15 project, OHI personnel then used the template to render the map of the Grand watershed in the same format as that of the Rouge. The objective of this Request is for a Project Team to select a watercourse to prepare data for a fifth set of maps on OHMapping. While we request consideration of either the Humber or Lake Simcoe, any other watershed between the Grand and the Kawartha and south of Lake Simcoe would be welcome. Once the SSFC team chooses a watershed, the Project Team would develop a recommended scope of work and complete the data acquisition and/or mapping to provide the Headwaters Institute with maps for a full watershed in the spring of 2016. As per the existing four watersheds on the OHI website, the students would be expected to provide summary data, to be shown on the PDF, depicting total watershed area, stream length, and the area in wetlands, as well as the raw data and percentage of these three features in headwater catchments. In addition, a new deliverable for 2016 shall be a data layer to depict sub-watershed boundaries, which when activated shall include the name of the sub-watershed. Students interested in this project should be aware that all required datasets are available through LIO, and that there are summaries of the past four projects, the last one of which included guidance and comments on infrared layers of data that were helpful to the scholastic aspects of the project, although this data is not able to be included in OHI mapping due to licensing restrictions. Finally, the Ontario Headwaters Institute will be happy to provide project vision and guidance in teleconference calls to the student team as needed. Last year, this included an informal hike of a headwater area near Lindsay, to give the team a practical orientation to the importance of headwaters, followed by a discussion in a Fleming GIS lab on team progress and perceived outcomes. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: Select a target watershed / CA jurisdiction between Kawartha and the Grand, and south of Lake Simcoe. to be the subject of a watershed / headwater map and summary data as described above; Prepare an estimate of the volume of work and a project management framework assigning tasks and deadlines to the members of the Project Team; Participate in a discussions as needed with the OHI to ensure the Project meets the goals of the OH. The Project Team will also be expected to discuss the project with College faculty to ensure it provides both meaningful practical experience for them while ensuring reasonable work-loads amongst the Project Team; and, The provision of final data so that either the Project Team or the OHI GIS Specialist can post the maps to the OHI website. Description of work by course requirements Spatial data acquisition/preprocessing Identify and acquire the geographic datasets needed to produce the maps required by the OHI, as well as any additional data to be required for reports recommended by College Faculty. Database design/processing Using the most recent project as a guideline, students can use the same geodatabases and modify them if required. As a final deliverable, students must provide all the map layers in ESRI shapefile format. Spatial/statistical analysis Spatial queries are required to determine specific metrics, including the percentage of area, stream length and wetlands covered by the headwater areas in each watershed. These metrics, as well as other potential data requested by College Faculty, are to be displayed on the PDF map of each watershed. Cartographic presentation A layered PDF map is required for each watershed. These maps must be presented in a printable format and with good cartographic design and layout. The PDF map of the Credit Watershed map can be used as a guideline but students are encouraged to propose ways of improving the presentation of the maps. In addition, a new deliverable for 2016 shall be a data layer, on both the PDF and the Google maps, to depict sub-watershed boundaries, including the name of the sub-watershed. Web GIS The maps also need to be displayed on a free interactive online map with the ability to turn on satellite imagery in the background, as well as all data layers (see Rouge and Grand watershed for examples). If possible, students can propose a better method (without restrictions) of displaying the maps online. As mentioned above, the Project Team may pursue the acquisition and/or analysis of infrared layers of LIO data for scholastic purposes as agreed by College faculty, but this data cannot to be included in final products to be posted on the OHI website due to licensing restrictions. Project Location: 44.3011,-79.2051 Organization Name: ONTARIO HEADWATERS INSTITUTE Project ID: 865 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Northumberland County Forest online trail maps Project Description: What we are looking to have done is create an online mapping resource where people can build maps by turning on and off layers on our online mapping resource (through ArcGIS for server) and be able to open these maps and follow their location using the ESRI app. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: ground truth and correct some geodata smooth, generalize, simplify and re-project some of the trail data to ensure consistency and enhance the aesthetics of the data develop a visually appealing layout for the layers transfer the data to Northumberland CountyÔÇÖs ArcGIS server so that it can be accessed publicly publish the map layers to the CountyÔÇÖs map service using ArcGIS for server research methods to develop an app for public consumption (whether it is the development of a standalone app developed using ESRIÔÇÖs AppStudio for ArcGIS or, if it can be done, using ArcGIS online) Project Location: 44.096,-78.105 Organization Name: The County of Northumberland Project ID: 869 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Wild Rice Abundance and Distribution Monitoring Protocol Project Description: Wild Rice grows naturally in the Trent Severn system and throughout central and southern Ontario. The rice has an important cultural and dietary significance for First Nations communities throughout eastern North America. In the Trent Severn, wild rice abundance seems to be increasing and returning to its former distribution and density. For First Nations this is a welcome change and an indication of the health of the system. For cottagers and recreational users of the watershed, wild rice is seen as something to be reduced or eliminated from the system as it impacts their activities on the water. This project will establish a method to monitor wild rice using aerial photography and spatial analysis using GIS software. Aerial photos will be obtained through the use of a drone and then the images will be processed using spatial analysis tools in ArcMap. Only a small area on Pigeon Lake will be used to capture these images as part of the protocol development. The scope of this project does not include the entire Trent Severn system. The student team working on this project will be required to establish how to best acquire, organize, summarize, analyze and report on the data. Once the protocol is established, then the intent will be to implement the protocol for ongoing monitoring of the distribution and abundance of wild rice in the Trent Severn system. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Visualization Deliverables: Visualization Component: Maps of historical distribution of wild rice and current distribution of wild rice in the Trent Severn system Data Acquisition/Pre-processing Component: Aerial photos of areas where wild rice is present in Pigeon Lake Database Design/Processing Component: Design a database to handle the data acquired as part of the research project. Spatial and Statistical Analysis Component: Quantitative summary and analysis of the abundance and distribution of wild rice from the aerial photos obtained from Pigeon Lake Presentation and Visualization Component: Written protocol describing each step of the process from data acquisition to analysis and reporting Project Location: 44.360542,-78.515912 Organization Name: Fleming College Project ID: 871 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Transformer Station Reliability Web Map Project Description: At PowerStream, reliability of the electric distribution network is of central importance to our customers, and we make it a priority to continually improve the system. In order to do this, information must be collected and presented in useful ways to aid decision making on where we can best focus our rehabilitation efforts across the network. This will result in the most efficient use of capital spending. This project will aim to provide reliability information (statistics) at the highest level of the network ÔÇô transformer stations ÔÇô while also providing a user friendly interface to explore the network downstream of each station. A web map (or multiple) must be used as the medium for making this information available. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: File GDB containing reliability data/statistics. FME workbench used to process data from outage XY events into GDB mentioned above. Web Map(s) depicting reliability for each of PowerStreamÔÇÖs transformer stations. Project Location: 43.911,-79.43 Organization Name: PowerStream Project ID: 874 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Water and Electrical Mapping Project Description: Using CAD files map out the pipe/drains and electrical network for the school campus. Include depths of service laterals. Map elevation of southern end of campus to specifications required for building service road. Map flow grade characteristics for drainage to sewer drains. Bonus: explore any interconnectivity with SchoolDude Facility Management System Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: Web map so Maintenance staff can easily access maps. Maps need to include data on water line and power line depths. Detailed elevation model of south end of campus. Flow grade characteristics into drainage system. Maps need to include all relevant special data required by Brian for building new road Project Location: 44.438482,-78.265976 Organization Name: Lakefield College School Project ID: 875 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences (SENRS) Virtual Tour/ Web App Project Description: Most applicants to this campus live at a distance from the School and are unaware of the opportunities available at this campus. It is the largest college campus in Canada, offering the most programs dedicated to environmental and natural resource studies. The goal is to increase awareness of the School, campus assets, and the unique opportunities for study available here, while demonstrating the talents of our GIS students. It will be a valuable tool in the student recruitment process, both for potential applicants who are considering applying to SENRS and are comparing options available, and for those who cannot visit the campus before enrolling. Currently no such resource exists. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Programming, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: Develop a virtual tour that can be used both as a mobile (web)app, and that can be hosted on the college external website (flemingcollege.ca). This will include a campus map featuring buildings/ locations, plus photos and video of campus highlights, and text (copy) that describes the building(s) or feature(s) on the tour. The tour must be accessible on popular browsers/platforms, web-ready, scalable, and not require that users download software in order to run it. Students will need to locate software available to create the app/ virtual tour. A budget may be provided if required in order to achieve these goals. Photos, video, and copy describing highlights will be supplied by Marketing Dept. Students will follow direction from the Marketing Department regarding the list of highlights/ buildings to be included on the tour, e.g. Fish Hatcheries, Room 295 Forestry Dendrology Lab, Bio Commons, AukÔÇÖs Lodge, Constructed Wetland (CAWT), Pathology Lab, GIS labs etc. (complete list to be provided) Students will follow branding standards provided by Marketing dept. to achieve consistency with SENRS brand. Project Location: 44.3401941,-78.7445224 Organization Name: Fleming College Project ID: 878 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Visualization of ecological data collected at fixed sampling sites over time Project Description: In ecology, data are frequently collected using networks of fixed sampling stations deployed across an area of interest. The goal of these studies is generally to explore how a variable of interest changes over both space and time. While the statistical methods used to analyze these data are well established, visual representation of the data is difficult as the variable will vary in both space (across the extent of the sampling stations) and time (over the study period). The usual methods of representation (i.e. graphs and maps) can generally show the variable across either space or time but not both simultaneously. For the purpose of both data exploration and the public presentation of those data, animated representations that show the data across space and time are extremely effective. However, they are often difficult to produce, especially if the investigator is not well versed in GIS. An open source tool that is capable of taking a spreadsheet of data records that are referenced both spatially and temporally and outputting an animated video file would be extremely valuable. As a component of my PhD thesis work, I collected deer behavioural data using a pair of trail camera networks. One network was placed in an area where hunting takes place and the other was placed in an area with no hunting. Each network consisted of 25 stations with a motion sensitive trail camera and a pile of deer feed at each station. The cameras ran from Oct. to Dec. in 2012. Photos were collected at the rate of 1 frame/second. Each time a deer was in front of the camera that deerÔÇÖs behaviour was recorded for each frame. Deer behaviour was scored as either scanning, feeding or other (moving, interacting with other deer, etc.). By comparing how much time deer spent scanning compared to the other activities, it is possible to estimate the degree to which the deer felt at risk of being killed by a deer hunter at that particular location and time. The goal of this study is to see how this risk changes over time and space, as well as for different deer (age, sex, group size, etc.). This project offers a very complex example of the data that could be visualized with the proposed tool. Several of my colleagues working on snow depth monitoring and water levels within bogs have expressed interest in the tool. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Programming, Visualization Deliverables: The group would be expected to produce an open source tool that, based on an input dataset with records representing observations at georeferenced sampling stations over time, could: Enable the user to filter the dataset based on non-spatial or temporal attribute fields. For example, for my data I may want to filter the dataset to only display the risk values from adult male deer. Allow the user to set the rate at which the data are displayed, the length of time (temporal window) over which the data are averaged or summed and the time period over which images are created (temporal extent). While I may want to display data summed over an hour with a time step of an hour for two weeks prior to the hunt to two weeks following the hunt, displayed at a frame rate of 10 frames per second other users may be interested in seeing their data averaged or summed over a month, advanced by day, to show a whole year, at a rate of 30 frames a second.. These examples are only two of many possible display permutations and therefore the tool would be required to have a well thought out interface for defining display attributes. Allow the user to symbology for the data much as symbology is specified in ArcGIS. For example, each site could have an icon with the size corresponding to the size of the effect or alternately a continuous surface could be generated by inverse distance weighting or kriging the data between sampling stations. Early versions of the tool should use point symbols; for which we wish to see design proposals from the project team. Subsequently, the team should propose how to map data as a surface interpolated, possibly by kriging or simple inverse distance weighting, and implement this if time allows. Overlay the data on a base map or imagery which would portray other features which may be important to understanding the distributions and patterns of the data of interest. Display the animation for the user. Early versions of the tool could include only a top down view of the area of interest. If feasible the final version would include a three dimensional view displaying the data as a series of peaks and values Export the animated visualization as a video file. Provide the tool in a stand-alone open source format that does not require internet connectivity. Project Location: 45.30781,-75.85264 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 879 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Ganaraska Forest Signs Inventory and Harvest History Visualization Project Description: The Ganaraska Forest covers 11000 acres of Oak Ridges Moraine land at the headwaters of the Ganaraska Watershed. It was planted starting in the early 20th century and now stands as a testament to the feasibility of mixed-use forest protection. To date, the forest has no inventory for signage on the roughly 400km of recreational trails in the forest, and has no means of communicating the history of forest management in what is very much a managed landscape. This project would address both of these gaps. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: Develop an inventory framework for signage in the Ganaraska Forest or a portion thereof. This would be in conjunction with EdgeAuditor (http://www.geoauditinc.com/products/) and would involve customization for attributes to record, a format to attach photos, as well as other customization to ensure compatibility. Collect data in field (Mountain biking, hiking, x-country skiing, etc involved). Develop compatible database to digitize paper records for Ganaraska Forest to update records and link within existing GIS. Input data from harvest histories and develop a time-sequence to show harvest history over time through Forest website. Ensure Ganaraska Forest GIS are compatible and updatable over time with harvest history paper records. Project Location: 44.0739866,-78.5048892 Organization Name: Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 880 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Agriculture in The Southeast Kawartha Lake Triangle Landscape Project Description: Fleming College geomatics program students have made substantial contributions to the systematic collection of local and provincial agricultural landscape information over the past several years. They have met the challenges provided to them by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) with great enthusiasm as they developed and refined their geomatics skill sets. A student team in 2011-12 developed the first mobile mapping technology applications for collecting field-by-field agricultural cropland observations with portable GISenabled rugged computers using ESRIÔÇÖs ArcPad 10. A 2013-14 student group built the first multi-temporal detailed agricultural landscape polygon framework from high-resolution (20cm) orthoimagery for both 2008 and 2013 for the ÔÇ£Lindsay-360ÔÇØ project area of the City of Kawartha Lakes (K-Lakes). That team digitized agricultural and rural landscape features in a seamless polygon framework following the development protocols of OMAFRAÔÇÖs Ontario Agricultural Resource Inventory (AgRI). They also used the Ontario AgRI mobile mapping technology to conduct a focused field mapping campaign across that project area to collect observations for the crops grown in this area for the 2014 cropping season. In 2015, another Fleming College student team advanced this Kawartha Lakes agricultural landscape project even further. They produced both 2008- and 2013-version digital polygon framework versions of their ÔÇ£Central Ontario ArrowheadÔÇØ project mapping area. They challenged the digitizing procedures to be augmented by an automated classification approach in order to expedite the production of the detailed polygon framework. They also produced a very solid 2015 crop map product based on ground-truth field work and timely use of a quadcopter drone equipped with a GoPro camera. This strong foundational legacy of Ontario AgRI development, built by Fleming College geomatics students, has paved the way for new project opportunities for a new student team to propel this important work even further. Agriculture dominates the K-Lakes landscape south of the Precambrian Shield (northern 1/5th of the municipality). The land area of the southeastern corner of K-Lakes takes the shape of a triangle. It is bounded by eastern bank and shore of the Pigeon River and Pigeon Lake, respectively, on the west. The K-Lakes boundaries with Peterborough County on the east and south form those sides of this triangle region. This project will focus on developing detailed geomatics map products and analyses of this "Southeastern Kawartha Lakes Triangle" (Southeastern K-L Triangle) agricultural landscape. Students with strong interests in integrating GIS, mobile mapping, programming, remote sensing and cloud technology applications will be challenged to build an interactive, multi-temporal suite of agricultural map products that showcases the power of the Ontario AgRI polygon framework core and its cropping season-specific mobile mapping results for crop type distribution patterns. You will be provided with many geomatics information and technology resources for this project. These include the Ontario AgRI polygon framework and the 2014 and 2015 cropping season field observation databases developed previously by Fleming students. You will be able to use the South-central Ontario Orthophotography Project (SCOOP) 2013 high-resolution colour imagery (20cm pixels) and the Digital Raster Acquisition Project for the East (DRAPE 2008) imagery (20 cm) to build the Ontario AgRI polygon framework for the ÔÇ£Southeastern Kawartha Lakes TriangleÔÇØ project area. This will permit both 2008-version and 2013-version polygon framework products to be developed. A change detection layer, that highlights all landscape feature changes that occurred between 2008 and 2013, will then be crafted. You will also be provided with a rugged, field portable, GPS-enabled Panasonic ToughBook tablet computer for use in a time-limited field mapping campaign for Spring 2016. The ArcPad 10 software script used for Ontario AgRI observation capture will be available for use and programming enhancement for this project. You will also be challenged to adapt ESRIÔÇÖs new ÔÇ£CollectorÔÇØ application and cloud technology to facilitate Ontario AgRI field observation information collection. OMAFRA personnel and vehicles will facilitate this ÔÇ£blitzÔÇØ mapping effort. A quadcopter UAV drone with a GoPro video camera mount will also be made available for technology application testing. Students with remote sensing skills will be encouraged to use a suite of multitemporal satellite imagery products and available ground truth observation data to evaluate the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada annual national crop map results for the Arrowhead study area for the 2011 to 2015 time window. This project will challenge a student team to pool their collective talents. They will focus their time expanding and refining their geomatics skills sets to craft an suite of geomatics products and mobile mapping approaches. Their map products will remain with the College and be showcased across Ontario as an enduring legacy story of both this regionÔÇÖs agricultural landscape and the strength of the students who represent this Fleming College program. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Programming, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: A detailed, high-resolution Ontario AgRI digital polygon framework coverage that builds upon the 2014 Lindsay-360 and the 2015 ÔÇ£Central Ontario ArrowheadÔÇØ project area products to cover the ÔÇ£Southeastern Kawartha Lakes TriangleÔÇØ region. Both 2013-version and 2008-version AgRI polygon framework products will be crafted concurrently. A change detection layer for the 2008-2013 time window will also be crafted. This work fits well under the ÔÇ£Data/Acquisition/PreprocessingÔÇØ course requirement as geospatial data is crafted via this polygon framework development work. A Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) protocol will be developed, described and provided as a brief summary report to outline the effort made to review these Ontario AgRI digital polygon framework products to ensure they are of high quality. Detailed metadata records will be crafted to accompany these geomatics products to credit your work to build them and the sources upon which they are built. The Land Information Ontario metadata record protocol will be provided to guide this work. Develop a detailed spatial/statistical analysis of the agricultural landscape feature classes covered in the ÔÇ£Southeastern Kawartha Lakes TriangleÔÇØ study area for the 2008- and the 2013-version polygon framework products and for the 2008-2013 time window ÔÇ£Change DetectionÔÇØ layer. Both table-form and pie-chart representations of the relative percentages of each feature class within the study area footprint will be produced for each polygon framework version. Your cartographic talent and skill will be put to use in crafting three map products at this point based on your digitizing work. The 2008- and 2013-version polygon framework map products will also include your pie-charts to convey the relative percentages of each feature class from your analyses of your digitizing results. You will also craft a map of the 2008-2013 change detection results. The current Ontario AgRI field mapping campaign ArcPad 10 script will be provided to your team. If you are interested in covering the ÔÇ£ProgrammingÔÇØ course project requirement, you are welcome to improve on this script and even develop a version specific to the diversity of the agricultural landscape of this part of K-Lakes. This will permit your group to explore programming in ArcPad 10. You are also welcome to explore programming by crafting an alternative means of observation collection with ESRIÔÇÖs newer product called ÔÇ£CollectorÔÇØ. For both of these programming approaches, you will also explore your course ÔÇ£Database Design/ProcessingÔÇØ requirement as your ultimate outcome is to ensure immediate population of the Ontario AgRI annual cropping system database. You will explore the existing Ontario AgRI database, critique it and improve on its structure and functionality. The ÔÇ£cloudÔÇØ aspects of ESRIÔÇÖs ÔÇ£CollectorÔÇØ technology package will necessitate interface facilitation and possible modifications to the Ontario AgRI database structure. The deliverable for this project avenue would be a beta test approach to a ÔÇ£CollectorÔÇØ Ontario AgRI ArcPad 10-equivalent for observation information capture and a proof-of-concept Ontario AgRI database mock-up for retrieval of the cloud-based intermediate data storage. Remote sensing image classification product results have been developed for the 2011 through 2015 cropping seasons for this Southeastern Kawartha Lakes Triangle project study region and the rest K-Lakes. These crop interpretations are made publicly available by an Agriculture and Agri-food Canada remote sensing science team each year. You will clip out the K-Lakes footprint coverage for each these 5 cropping seasons and craft rasterbased Ontario AgRI-equivalent maps for each of them. As a second annual AAFC crop map-associated deliverable, you will overlay the current Ontario AgRI polygon framework coverage (2013-version) for the KLakes area over those raster products in order to evaluate them. This work will involve attribution of the different crop and landscape feature type interpretation rasters to their associated farm field and other polygons within the Ontario AgRI framework. A similarity/difference assessment of the 2015 Ontario AgRI information collected by the ÔÇ£Central Ontario ArrowheadÔÇØ project team students with these RS-interpreted results for this region will provide opportunity for Spatial/Statistical Analysis. It also provides a means of added value crop attribution to the fields of that polygon coverage area for crops that were either not yet planted or not viewable along sight-lines from public access roadways. Maps and associated statistical analyses of the similarities/differences between the 2015 cropping season mapping results are the deliverable for this project component. In Spring 2016, after snow melt and as the earliest of the 2016 season crops are being planted, you will have the opportunity to beta test the ÔÇ£CollectorÔÇØ Ontario AgRI cropping system information observation application and associated cloud and database development scheme. A GPS-enabled Panasonic Toughbook rugged tablet computer will be provided with which to use the current or modified ArcPad 10 mapping script. OMAFRA staff and vehicle support will be made available for a time-limited field mapping blitz. Training in crop recognition at this early season time will be provided. The deliverables for this activity will be a body of georeferenced 2016 cropping system observations that have been captured with mobile mapping technology, storage of them in the Ontario AgRI 2015 cropping season database layer, an associated metadata record and a map of the study area coverage that has been accomplished by the time of the course project completion date. By that time, some of the local 2016 corn and soybean crop may have been available for observation. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) quadcopter drone will be made available for use in cropland observations that are out-of-sightline from public access roadways. It will be available for a limited time period in the Spring 2016 blitz mapping effort. The deliverable associated with this activity will be a short photo-documented report showing that each team member has gained experience operating the UAV drone, collecting Ontario AgRI observations and creating of the resulting Ontario AgRI crop map product for the project mapping area. A map that identifies where this drone technology or another remote sensing technology would have to be deployed to make observations or from which interpretations could be made in order to develop a fully-attributed map product will also be crafted. Associated statistical summary information for this ÔÇ£eye-in-the-skyÔÇØ portion of the project map area will also be developed. A ÔÇ£web technologyÔÇØ portion of this project can be met with the ESRI Collector application and cloud portion of this project. If the student team has members with particular web tech talents, they are most welcome to develop a beta-version web-based application whereby farmers can access the digital polygon framework and populate their land management information from their home computers to populate the Ontario AgRI database for a particular cropping season. The deliverable will be either a concept diagram that explains what is needed and how it would all work together to make this farmer-input crowd sourcing application work or an operational beta version of it for the Kawartha Lakes Ontario AgRI coverage areas. Project Location: 44.316258,-78.49059 Organization Name: OMAFRA Project ID: 881 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Mapping demographic characteristics and social indicators of public health for the HKPR jurisdiction Project Description: Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit (HKPR) is in the preliminary stages of setting up a GIS with the purchase of ESRI products. We are interested in beginning to develop a database and completing digital mapping of many demographic characteristics and health indicators in order to demonstrate the utility of using GIS in our jurisdiction for the purpose of planning and health assessment. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Potential Deliverables (may need to be reduced)Small area mapping of demographic characteristics and determinants of health using census geography boundary codes:Population (density)2006Population in reproductive years (15-49 years males and females)Identify areas of high density medium density and low density for population in their reproductive yearsTotal lone-parent familiesThree categoriesUnemployment rate (total)Quintiles (student to investigate mapping schemes for how to make best visual use of the data)Mode of transportation to work (total employed labour force 15 years and over with usual place of work or no fixed workplace address by mode of transportation - 20% sample)Driver (including motorcycle) passenger public transit walk or bicycle otherGraduated symbol for best visual use of dataTotal population 15-24 years by highest certificate diploma or degreeTotal population 25-64 years by highest certificate diploma or degreeTotal population 65 years and older by highest certificate diploma or degreeTotal income in 2005 (0 to <$20000; $20000 to <$40000; $40000 to <$60000; $60000 to <$80000; $80000 to <$100000; $100000 or greater)Income quintiles representing map layersIncome quintile as a proportion of the populationTotal persons less than 6 years of agePrevalence of low income (before or after tax) (% of population)Small area mapping of diseases and health conditions (tabular information provided using census boundaries):Project to investigate whether health indicator information is appropriate to map given the low population density in HKPR (look at precision of estimates)Mapping of road networks and resources (data to be retrieved through Land Information Ontario; data to be supplied by HKPR will be provided using census boundaries): reserve areas roads county and municipal boundaries trails parks shade areas (e.g. bus shelters) recreational facilities farmers markets Long-Term Care Homes and Retirement Residents and other health care facilities (e.g. hospitals community care centres).A base map for HKPR has already been developed that includes several of the above characteristics; this will be provided to the student (format is a shapefile)Project to refine the base map to make it comprehensive with appropriate reference years for mapping characteristics that are includedBase map should be suitable for professional audiencePlot mosquito pools within HKPR jurisdiction in 2011 (tabular information using geocodes) Project Location: L1A 3V6 Organization Name: Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health U Project ID: 665 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Prediction of Suitable Habitat for Red Wolf Reintroduction in Ontario Project Description: The objective of the project was to develop a customized Graphic User Interface that offers GIS functionality an aid in developing a habitat suitability model for the red wolf which will consequently be used to predict suitable habitat for wolf reintroduction inOntario. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 203 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Real Estate Development Through the Use of GIS Applications Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create a GIS application for ESRI Canada that would prove to be user friendly and profitable to real estate companies. It would allow queries to be made on the already existing Mulitple Listing Service database. The queries would be based on housing features including price and location using the world wide web. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: M3C 3R8 Organization Name: ESRI Canada Ltd. Project ID: 239 Status: Completed Project Year: 2000 |
Project Name: Using GIS to analyze collisions on the Provincial Highway Network Project Description: The Traffic Office Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) uses the Accident Information System (AIS) for reporting and analyzing collisions on the Provincial Highway network of Ontario to improve safety on highways. There is an opportunity to better leverage GIS for querying analyzing and presenting collision information. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: The two key goals of this project are to present sample AIS information in GIS or web mapping and to demonstrate how GIS can be used for analysis of collision data.;Industry Review Brief industry review of Provincial transportation organizations and State DOT use of GIS for collision (crash) analysis and reporting. Include a review of ESRIs Crash data hot spot analysis for ArcGIS 10 and Intergraphs I/Incident AnalysisPresent AIS data in GIS. The locations of accidents are provided by a linearly referenced location along the highway network. Use a sample data set from MTOs Accident Information System (AIS) and linear referencing data to present collision information in ArcGIS or a web mapping service. Model any data manipulation from raw AIS and linear referencing data to a required GIS data structure such that any data transformation can be re-used. Present the accident information so that non-expert GIS users can easily visualize accident by key attributes (eg. time road conditions vehicle types driver condition accident severity weather conditions). Consider approaches to present stacked accident information in a map. Spatial Analysis of collisions Use spatial analysis and statistics to determine hot spot locations for collisions. Present the results in a meaningful manner for ArcGIS users or web mapping users. Identify any data gaps that limit the analysis of crash data.Recommendations Provide recommendation and suggested next steps for GIS reporting and analysis of collision data at the MTO. Project Location: L2R 7R4 Organization Name: Ministry of Transportation Ontario Project ID: 666 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Potential Streams in Bancroft District Project Description: Many streams have not been captured in the corporate data set. These linear water features were originally digitzed by photo interpretation at a 1:10000 scale. Smaller streams and underground streams have been missed and yet are important for Forest Management Planning and Brook Trout Feeder Creeks.Preliminary experimentation with using ArcMap analysis tools on a Digital Elevation Model (DEM v2.0) produced some promising results. These results were high potential drainage corridors that potentially represent streams. A crude map (using colour to highlight high accumulations of rain) was used in the field to direct and concentrate search efforts. Some streams previously unmapped were found and GPS data was collected. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K0L 1C0 Organization Name: OMNRF - Bancroft Project ID: 667 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Asset Management Toolset for Sanitary Sewer dataset Project Description: The goal of this project is to provide the Town of Cobourg with an Asset Management Tool for capital and operating forecasting and devaluation of the sanitary sewer system. In 2012 the Town of Cobourg will be undertaking the task of implementing City Works which is a work order software. It ties in with PSAB asset management requirements but doesnt fulfill the valuation requirements. In doing some research about available tools it was found that the field of municipal GIS is lacking a really well rounded valuation and capital forecasting toolset yet it is a major requirement of municipalities to report on these things about our assets (an asset being anything the municipality owns ex: manholes catch basins hydro poles street signs pavement sidewalks playground equipment etc).While we will be continuing to look for toolsets while this project is underway we recognize the creativity that could come from students and also the great work experience this will be for a group of students. Recently York Region posted a position whose main task is to build and implement asset management tools for the region. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Web Technology Deliverables: A tool or toolset to be used in Access DB and ArcEditor for capital/operating forecasting and devaluation of sanitary sewer infrastructureSomething that allows for queries or models to be run to automatically calculate devaluation of an asset or group of assets (i.e. one pipe section or all the pipe sections in a specific road section based on existing accounting info) and then from that have the option to run another model that could create a forecastFor the Capital forecast we may work with you to create levels like a refurbish or a replace forecast based on some blanket input questionsThe output could be in two formats the first being a simple stats table the second being a formal report sheet (we can supply an example or you could make it up)If possible scalable to other datasets (i.e. storm sewer street signs water roads parks equipment etc.)Query and report tool for use in ArcGIS Server web application basically the same as above but deployable online choose an asset or group of assets and calculate the devaluation or choose a group of assets and produce a capital forecastDetailed processes and procedures i.e. the processes and procedures you used to create the tools Project Location: K9A 2M2 Organization Name: Town of Cobourg Project ID: 668 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Survey Site Analyzer Project Description: One project of the Water Resource Information Program (WRIP) is the generation of large-scale Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). This work involves research with soft-copy photogrammetry methods filtering and classification of elevation points field survey data analysis and dataset integration among other processes. This proposed project focuses on the elevation data obtained from field surveys which is used as part of the QA/QC process when testing DEMs. There are many organizations which collect topographic points and/or ground control points (GCPs) to augment their databases. However we find that there is currently no method to discover obtain or centrally store datasets containing topographic points. As such we have identified a need for a centralized ├óÔé¼╦£living repository to retain distribute and collect up-to-date elevation data from multiple organizations within the MNR and outside partners such as conservation authorities and other ministries. WRIP is requesting students to develop a solution which will allow partner organizations to discover existing data and have the ability to either download the data or to request it from the data owner. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Web Technology Deliverables: GeoDatabase designed to meet our needs (store metadata records of elevation datasets store geographic extents of elevation datasets)Web interface to control/manage database Ideally a user will be able to query an attribute of the data (geographical extent precision density date obtained/updated data owner organization etc) to determine if there is existing data matching their needs. The web interface will have a map which will display queried points/data boundariesCustom toolbox that extract summary information from databaseProject report database and web interface manual Project Location: K9J 8M5 Organization Name: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Project ID: 669 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Ontario Stream Sediment Survey - Geospatial Analysis of Chemical Contaminants in Stream Sediments from across Ontario Project Description: Background: The Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) has collected ~2300 stream sediment samples from across southern Ontario from the Windsor Area in the west to the Cornwall area in the east and north to the Georgian Bay / Algonquin area. Together with Conservation Ontario and OGS the Ministry of the Environment has analyzed or had analyzed a subset of approximately 400 samples for a suite of organic contaminants including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) polychlorinated dioxins & furans (PCDD/Fs) flame retardants and pesticides. The OGS has analyzed all samples for a suite of metals.This dataset provides a unique opportunity to utilize geospatial analysis techniques to explore factors contributing to observed chemical and/or metals contaminant concentrations assisting in state of the environment reporting and prioritizing future actions.To initiate the analysis it is necessary to use GIS tools to:Build a file geodatabase of potential source contributors with watersheds for each of a selected sub-set of sites. These may include various industrial sectors and types of industries waste management operations brownfields rail and road transportation heating/power generation as examples.Build a file geodatabase of potential land-use census-based indicators within watersheds for each of a selected sub-set of sites. These may include urban/industrial/commercial/agricultural land-use population dwelling counts impervious surface etc as examples.Either of these tasks may be a project on their own or can be combined into one. Depending on the progress of the project and the skill set of the participants the next step will be to test either variable set (or both) using statistical approaches such as land-use regression correlation analysis proximity analysis etc. The aim is to evaluate the data analysis approach(es) before expanding to the dataset as a whole.;Examine the provided contaminant concentration data and site information for accuracy missing informationCreate and present tables charts and cartographic outputs of the results of for example contaminant information incorporating existing sediment quality guidelines illustrative land-uses and other aspects recommended by the studentsA file geodatabase and set of layers of potential point source influences within and specific to the selected sub-set of watersheds upstream of sampling sites for test analyses with chemical contaminant data.Where necessary appropriately scale variable for incorporation into data analyses (e.g. km of road or rail # of employees of facilities area of facilities etc)A file geodatabase of land-use and census-based parameters specific to the selected sub-set of watersheds upstream of sampling sites for test analyses with chemical contaminant data.Where necessary calculate land-use percentages for sub-watersheds upstream of sampling sitesConduct spatial analyses of contaminant data in conjunction with land-use features (e.g. urban industrial rural forested agriculture) and potential point source information (industry sectors dichargers) using a variety of techniques (e.g.):proximity analysis correlations land-use regressioncorrelations Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Project Location: M9P 3V6 Organization Name: Ontario Ministry of Environment Project ID: 671 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Rural Lambton Stewardship Network Restoration Project Interactive Map Project Description: The Rural Lambton Stewardship Network (RLSN) is one of 46 stewardship councils in Ontario. It was established in 1994 as the pilot program for Ontario Stewardship. Since that time RLSN has taken a grassroots approach to stewardship by allowing leaders in the community to be involved in natural resource decision making. The goal of RLSN is to achieve and maintain a healthy and sustainable rural environment that will contribute towards both the viability of agricultural and natural resources in Lambton County as well as the social and economic well-being of its residents.RLSN has focused its efforts of habitat restoration conservation and enhancement (including tallgrass prairie wetland and tree and shrub habitat restoration). Information about approximately 200 of these projects has been organized in a Microsoft Access database (species planted partners involved project costs in-kind contributions restoration activities etc.). This existing database has querying abilities and reports about variables can be created but it is not connected to a GIS platform. Spatial data has been collected with GPS for many of the projects to varying degrees others have spatial boundaries showing restoration features that have been digitized by hand in ArcGIS. Organizing all of this information so that it can be easily searched by project type species planted project costs funding sources partners involved hectares restored region and location etc. would help the RLSN staff have access to information for year-end reporting creating grant proposals and identifying habitat corridors or areas that could be restored in the future Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Web Technology Deliverables: Students will create an interactive map application that integrates information from the Microsoft Access stewardship project database and the ArcGIS spatial data. This application should be searchable by several variables (including those listed above and a final list to be determined by the student and client). The search results should be displayed on the interactive map and in tables with column totals where appropriate. RLSN staff should be able to enter new projects into the application as well. It would be most efficient if the new data could be entered into one place (the existing Microsoft Access database would be ideal) when updating the application. An instruction manual explaining how to use the system and how to maintain this system (for new RLSN staff who will have varying levels of GIS experience) should be included. This manual should also include forms for data input and output including an explanation of how they are used.An additional feature could also be the ability to upload photos associated with each project. For example if a project is selected on the map a photo could also be viewed. Project Location: N7M 5L8 Organization Name: Rural Lambton Stewardship Network Project ID: 674 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Zebra Mussel Distribution and Abundance Predicition Model Using a Geographic Information System Project Description: Working in conjunction with Parks Canada this project will develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) prediction model to determine population density and spatial distribution of zebra mussel invasions. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 6Z6 Organization Name: Trent-Severn Waterway Project ID: 93 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: A GIS Application for the Management of Permanent Sample Slots Within the Petawawa Research Forest Project Description: The aim of this project wsa to develop a user-friendly Geographic Information System Application for the Petawawa Research Forest Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada. The application would allow users to view spatial data and easily perform queries on PSP features and research data. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Chalk River, ON, Canada Organization Name: Natural Resources Canada Project ID: 122 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Creation of an Arc/Info User Interface for Habitat Mapping of Wildlife Species Project Description: The purpose of this project is to create an ArcINFO user interface (SUI) for habitat mapping of individual wildlife species from forest resource inventory data contained in ArcINFO forest and habitat INFO databases and forest stand coverages. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Temagami District, ON, Canada Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 99 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Cooperative GIS Project - A Road Planning Tool Based on Environmental and Recreational Values in Algonquin Provincial Park Project Description: The main objective of this project wast o develop a Geographic Information System application to be used as a forest access route planning tool. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Algonquin Provincial Park, ON, Canada Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 101 Status: Completed Project Year: 1994 |
Project Name: Change Detection Analysis in the St. Lawrence Islands National Park Using Historical Aerial Photos: Thwartway Island Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: St Lawrence Islands National Park, Canada Organization Name: St. Lawrence Islands National Park (SLINP) Project ID: 14 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Shade Audit of Peterborough Area Parks Project Description: The Peterborough County-City Health Unit is interested in utilizing GIS to assist with program delivery and policy recommendations in the areas of: cancer prevention; tobacco prevention and protection; substance misuse; and environmental and health hazards. Cancer prevention (i.e.: shade audit) is the priority project Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Hard copy and digital maps (including all relevant tables and shapefiles) for the following areas:A shade audit of a) all public childrens play structures in area parks and b) school yardsTobacco retailer location and density location of area schools buffer analysis of number of youth in walking distance of tobacco retailerDensity analysis of alcohol vendorsTime series of mould inspections pre-post 2004 flood + area affected by flood (if available)Density analysis of housing complaint calls (garbage rodents infestation)West Nile Trap locations and positive mosquito tests historical Project Location: K9J 8M1 Organization Name: Peterborough County-City Health Unit Project ID: 676 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Minke Whale Distribution in the St. Lawrence River Project Description: This project is designed to raise public awareness of the Minke Whale by means of GPS tracking of whale sightings organized in an Acesss database and imported into ArcView 3.2 so the data can be used in analysis Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Tadoussac, PQ, Canada Organization Name: ORES Centre for Coastal Field Studies Project ID: 249 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Smithville Phase IV Bedrock Remediation Program Project Description: This project is designed to develop a customized Graphical User Interface enabling the user to draw powerful maps and perform powerful spatial queries. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Smithville, ON, Canada Organization Name: Not Available Project ID: 251 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Migrating Custom VBA Tools to Python and Analyzing Ground Elevation Values for Petroleum Operations MNR Project Description: Petroleum Operations of the Ministry of Natural Resources utilizes a custom ArcMap application (PetroGIS) as their primary solution to their GIS and mapping needs. With ESRIs deprecation plans for the discontinuation of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support in ArcGIS 10 converting the VBA code in PetroGIS to Python code is necessary. Part two of the project involves creating a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) surface from supplied point data then statistically comparing differences between this DEM with the data in the Ontario Petroleum Data System database (OPDS). Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization Deliverables: An .mxd with custom tools running Python code to execute a selection of the existing tools in PetroGIS (currently running under VBA platform).The individual Python scripts thoroughly commented.The PetroGIS tools to be migrated are:Mapping Tools: Zoom to Well Lot Boundary Coordinates Tool Extract Wells Using List Tool View OGSR Well CardGeology Tools: Geology Identify Oil/Gas/Water Identify Log Identify Formation Query Penetration Query View Cross Section Diagram View Borehole DataLIS Tools: Zoom to Block LIS Identifyal surfaces of the DEM and OPDS ground elevation values.Spatial/Surface analysis of the differences between the surfaces.Statistical analysis of elevation values at the point locations of the wells. Comparisons between age of well record GPS ground elevation and location of well can be performed. Project Location: N6M 0A9 Organization Name: Petroleum Resources Centre, MNR Project ID: 680 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Developing a GIS support tool to identify access and service levels for water and sanitation in Il Ngwesi a Maasai community in central Kenya. Project Description: Il Ngwesi is a group ranch spread over 6 communities. Part of their next 5 year strategic plan is to improve water access to community members. As part of this we would like to develop a detailed map of the region and identify houses / communities with poor access in order to prioritise intervention projects. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: GIS databaseDigitised map of region based on topographic map and GPS data pointsRoad network (topographic map and GPS data points)Water point layer based on GPS data pointsSanitation layer based on GPS data points (if available)Water quality data layer based on field sample dataHouses based on GPS data pointsAverage monthly precipitation (based on available global climate data)Average monthly temperatures (min mean and max) (based on available global climate data)Diasadvantaged Neighbourhood analysisProximity to schoolsProximity to clinicsProximity to water points (separated into type spring; river bed; tap etc)Proximity to sanitation facilities (depending on GPS data availability)Proximity to roads / travelability index / isolation indexCombined variable analysis for prioritization of intervention activitiesRegions of access equityMap layer showing regions that reduce inequities and maximize population with access Project Location: Ngwesi, Kenya Organization Name: United Nations University Institute for Water, Env Project ID: 681 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Employment Geo-viewer Web GIS Application Project Description: This web application enables external users and the general public to easily access and query results of the Regions Annual employment survey. The application also enables users to view summarized data based on pre-defined criteria for a geographic area of interest (Traffic Zones). Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: Completed Live Web GIS Application which meets the following requirements:Interactive Mapping - diplay geographical data and numerical results based on user inputs with the ability to navigate a Regional mapQueries - Allow users to create custom queries based on specific survey data parameters and display the outcome geographicallyMap survey results thematically based on criteria defined by user inputsReporting - Open PDF page(s) based on user selected criteriaEditing access for update to spatial and nonspatial dataApplication launches a help page outlining specific tools and functions of the map viewerPublish Web GIS Application to external Region website Project Location: L6M 3L1 Organization Name: Halton Region Project ID: 682 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: GeoExplorer Cemetery Application Project Description: Municipalities normally maintain and administer cemeteries within their jurisdiction. For the most part the records regarding these locations are on paper plans dating back hundreds of years. They have difficulty keeping these records like most document management systems in a paper format and would like a simpler way to manage these. A cemetery may seem like a fairly small project for most. But from a spatial connotation it is quite unique. There is the concept of family plots as well as plots that are vertical in nature. Family members are often buried together or vertically in nature. There are those locations that have special locations for cremation tombs as well as being able to reserve plots for people. Those that have memorials or grave stones also must be identified. ;The purpose for this project is to: Determine the needs of a municipality. It would be beneficial to interview different municipalities of different sizes to see what challenges they have in dealing with cemeteries. Once the needs assessment is complete a database definition needs to be prototyped and architecture for GeoExplorer needs to be completed. Attribution must be carefully considered to capture all relative information. People trying to trace their family tree or to locate a loved one may only have partial information. The GeoExplorer model will then need to be built. A municipality will be selected to use this application for trial purposes to test the application. ;Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Database Design/Processing Spatial/Statistical Analysis Programming/Customization Presentation/Visualization Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: M2N 6N5 Organization Name: TELUS Geomatics Project ID: 267 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: The Puslinch Tract Trails Assessment & Masterplan Project Description: A newly formed public user group the Puslinch Tract Recreation Association has requested IMBAs assistance in the conducting of a trails assessment and masterplan development for the Puslinch Tract a section of land managed by the Grand River Conservation Authority. The PTRA is looking to steward the trail system on this land but it requires a full assessment and masterplan before any new trail construction or existing trail maintenance can commence. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- spatial/Statistical analysis- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: A series of maps that outline the existing trail system identifies the areas of unsustainable trail provides new trail alignments and redesigns and presents a final masterplan map of the future trail system. An interactive web based version of both the assessment map and the final masterplan map that integrates social media for public user input is also desired. Project Location: N2B 3V1 Organization Name: International Mountain Bicycling Association Project ID: 683 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Peterborough's Time Map - Exploring Imagery Through the Years Project Description: Historical aerial images are an ideal resource for assessing changes in time and performing land change analysis. The City of Peterborough has a collection of historical images that lack spatial reference, and as a result are not useful in a GIS context. The goal of this project is to transform the aerial images from their raw state to a data product which can be used in a GIS environment. The final outcome once the images are referenced and rectified is to publish them as an image service and create a web based mapping application. This will be a central location to show the newly georeferenced aerial images alongside existing imagery services that the City of Peterborough has. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: - Scanned images will be georeferenced and mosaicked together by year - Images will be published as an image service (May have to visit City Hall for this) - New web mapping application will be created to show all of the CityÔÇÖs imagery in one location (Could be created through Geocortex) - The application should have the ability to use a slider tool between years and search for specific addresses Project Location: 500 George St N, Peterborough, Ontario, K9H3R9 Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 890 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: GIS Assessment on the Impact of the Permafrost within the Mackenzie Basin NWT due to Climatic Change Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Inuvik, Mackenzie Basin, NWT, Canada Organization Name: Geological Survey of Canada Project ID: 132 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Brampton Economic Development Site Selection Tool Project Description: The City of BramptonÔÇÖs Economic Development Office supports existing Brampton businesses as well as encourages new businesses to set up and soar in the thriving environment that Brampton has to offer. The City of Brampton is looking to have an Economic Development Site Selection Tool built that would provide economic, geographic, demographic data in a user-friendly interface, to allow for potential Brampton businesses to make informed location decisions. This project would see the development of an Esri Web App Builder, Developer Edition web application that allows users to search for vacant land, offices and buildings appropriate for the proposed development through the use of various filters. The tool would also allow for visualization of demographic data, economic data and other datasets that factor into selecting an optimal location for locating a business. The Site Selection tool should allow the user to export a report organizing all of the attributes associated to the layers in a concise and meaningful report document. Project Requirements: Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: ÔÇó A project kick-off meeting with a presentation from the students to the Project Manager and the Project Team on work plan and methodology to complete the project. ÔÇó A requirements gathering session to document the projectÔÇÖs full set of requirements ÔÇó A design (or series of) meeting(s) to review the applicationÔÇÖs design ÔÇó Monthly Project Status Reports ÔÇó Economic Development Site Selection Tool built with Esri Web App Builder, Developer Edition ÔÇó User Guide ÔÇó Configured Web Map (ArcGIS Online) to drive the Web App ÔÇó All ArcGIS MXD(s) and File Geodatabase(s) for data and map service definitions ÔÇó Custom built search/filter/results widget ÔÇó PDF Report generation for site selection results ÔÇó Parcel based relational data model for Zoning Bylaw that would include zone code, permitted uses and definitions and documented maintenance process. Project Location: 2 Wellington St West, Brampton, Ontario L6Y 4R2 Organization Name: City of Brampton Project ID: 891 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Provincial Arc Hydro Implementation and Query / Scenario Tool Development Project Description: Students will be required to undertake an Arc Hydro implementation for a specific watershed to provincial standards using provided data model and provincial dataStudents will be required to develop a tool to return catchment statistics for typical Source Water Protection Scenarios (i.e. Total Area of Catchments > 125Ha = 23934Ha)Students will be asked perform a standard XML export files for import into other modeling packagesStudents will be asked to document this process and develop and guide for NEW Ontario Arc Hydro users Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/PreprocessingDatabase Design/ProcessingSpatial/Statistical AnalysisProgramming/CustomizationPresentation/Visualization Deliverables: Arc Hydro technical ImplementationImport the provincial Arc Hydro Geodatabase SchemaRunning Semantic Checker within ArcCatalogRun Schema Wizard within ArcCatalog Determining/Implementing HydroID Management StrategyAssign stream order to existing water course layer using AML and WRIP toolsSegment watercourse at confluence point culverts bridges and water bodygenerate hydroJunction layerDefining Topologic rules and verifying themBuilding watercourse network from existing watercourse and HydroJunction LayerLoad EDRIR from WRIP to startStream definition and segmentation with different thresholdsCatchment Grids at different levelsGenerating catchment polygons and drainage linesGenerating Drainage Areas to HydroJunctions Set/Store/Reset flow directionPopulating lengthdown fieldPopulating NextdownID fieldAttach catchment to network using Drainage Point Approximate Method Attach catchment to network using Next Down Drainage Point MethodAttach waterbody to network using Minimal lengthDown methodQuery / Scenario Tool Development.- Scenario Results / Statistical Analysis based on scenarios provided by ClientWhat and Where are the catchments with catchment sizes greater than 125 HaWhat and where are the total upstream drainage areas of catchments greater than 125 HaBe able to change the threshold size (125 Ha -> 20Ha)Arc Hydro Users Guide for Provincial Implementation; ;None Test Data Project Location: L3Y 4W3 Organization Name: Conservation Ontario Project ID: 272 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Proposed User Interface for the Trent Severn Waterway Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 6Z6 Organization Name: Trent-Severn Waterway Project ID: 9 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: A Pilot Land Information System for Townships Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Kinmount, ON, Canada Organization Name: Township of Galway and Cavendish Project ID: 10 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Staff and Student Commuting at Fleming College Project Description: Fleming College is committed to reducing GHGs from transportation. Currently we have calculated GHGs from intercampus travel and would like to calculate Scope 3 carbon emissions for staff/student commuting/travel to work/school. Parking permit information (e.g. address, postal code, campus site) is available from the parking software. The project would be correlating this date to spatial maps, calculating the travel distance and related GHGs (Fleming uses a modelling formula for GHGs and this would be provided ). If possible, an additional scope would be a web interface (which could be housed on our website) where staff and faculty can input information and calculate their GHGs - carbon footprint for commuting or intercampus travel. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: GHG emissions related to commuting and an application that can be updated/used for calculating each year. Project Location: Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario Organization Name: Office of Sustainability, Fleming College Project ID: 896 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: A GIS Application Developed for the Brantford Township Hydro Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create a GIS application to perform maintenance inventory and anaylysis on several entities within the Brantford Township. The Brantford Township acquired the services of ASI for which this project was completed. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Brantford, ON, Canada Organization Name: Automated Solutions International Project ID: 26 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: A GIS Model for Wellington County Upland Woodlots Project Description: The purpose of this project was to assist the Wellington County Stewardship Council to perform database merging and analysis with ArcINFO in order to produce a prototype model indentifying upland woodlots for one Township in Wellington County. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Guelph, ON, Canada Organization Name: Wellington County Stewardship Council (WCSC) Project ID: 32 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: GIS Inventory of Grand River Archaeological Sites Project Description: The Six Nations of the Grand River have lived along the Grand River for centuries and continue to occupy these lands The Grand River is very rich in archaeological sites it is also experiencing impacts from urbanization and development. This project will aid Six Nations in tracking existing sites as well as providing a method for recording new sites thus providing a much better picture our ancestral activities in the area. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: The deliverables will be the creation of a GIS based system for collection and tracking of new and existing archaeological sites within the Grand River Watershed (or Haldimand Tract?)Thematic map of existing archaeological sitesGPS locations of existing archaeological sitesTransfer of paper record of existing archaeological sites into digital formCreation of a database containing spatial and attribute data of existing sitesCreate a spatial 3D model of the terrain showing the location of sites in relation to other features such as soilOptionally development of queries to select sites based on lot and concession Optionally set up a template for future mappingInvestigate the hardware and software needs to accomplish this project and provide a recommendation to Six Nations. Project Location: N0A 1M0 Organization Name: Six Nations Eco-centre Project ID: 691 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Cultural Mapping Project Description: There are two components to this project. 1/ The first is to update and modify the mapping categories of local cultural assets for the Tangible Cultural Maps. A preliminary excel database for the tangible cultural maps that will be a digital live portal. The database was created in 2013 and geocoding of the entries was completed. However it is now not up-to-date and the categories need to be modified so that they are more consistent with the format that is generally used in municipal Cultural Maps across the country. The instructions for re-categorization have been completed. Additionally sub-sets of the Tangible Cultural Maps should be created (because the entire municipality of Kawartha Lakes is so large) to produce location-based hard copies of the maps for tourists who are visiting specific areas such as Bobcaygeon, Fenelon Falls, or the Bethany area. The overall goals for this component of the project are: update the database sort entries from the various categories of cultural assets and move to other specified categories create location-based sub-sets of the data in order to produce hard copies of the maps for some of the towns and visitor areas in Kawartha Lakes 2/ The second component is to create a ÔÇ£prototypeÔÇØ framework for the Intangible Cultural Maps that will be an online digital map series using ESRI software. The Intangible Cultural Maps are a location-based presentation of ÔÇÿstoriesÔÇÖ that illustrate the history and cultural identity of the municipality. They go beyond factual history books by connecting stories and events to places and offer the opportunity to incorporate multi-media components such as photographs, audio files, video files as well as text in pop-up boxes. Multiple stories or perspectives can be entered for one location or event. The goals of this component are to: Explore and select or create templates for the intangible map series create or select icons and other tools such as time lines that can be integrated into the maps to most effectively communicate intangible culture content enter preliminary samples of stories and associated material that have been gathered into the templates, test and modify where necessary to maximize the presentation of the information Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: 1/ Tangible Cultural Maps an updated geo-coded database that is current and reflects the cultural categories that are traditionally used in municipal Cultural Maps that can be utilized for the CityÔÇÖs online digital maps that are to be launched mid-2015 sub-sets of the database that identify cultural assets and resources around targeted communities and localities to produce hard copies of these maps potentially, the creation of a spatial database 2/ Intangible Cultural Maps prototype templates for the cityÔÇÖs Intangible Cultural Map series that can be utilized to enter the stories and events that are currently being collected in Kawartha Lakes communities test runs of the templates using existing stories on the CollegeÔÇÖs system (electronic or printed examples?) Project Location: City of Kawartha Lakes, ON, Canada Organization Name: City of Kawartha Lakes Project ID: 834 Status: Completed Project Year: 2015 |
Project Name: Geocommunity Web Site and Database Re-design Project Description: Fleming College GIS program's geocommunity web site was originally developed as a site for alumni of the Cartography program. For years the site served as a means for alumni to keep track of each other and advertise jobs. Ten years ago the site was modified to include collaborative projects for current and past students of the GIS Specialist programs. The site serves as a location for clients and students to view information about the course requirements. It allows clients to submit a project request and students to bid on projects they are interested in undertaking. The web site is a MySQL database with PHP used to provide functionality and maintain the database. It is hosted offsite to allow students and clients access away from the college. The GIS department would like the web site appearance modernized to reflect current standards in web site design. In addition a number of enhancements to the web site need to be included. Enhancements include, but are not limited to: simpler presentation of project and course information better security for database access and website improving separation between the public only view, the members view and the administrative view addition of a visual/graphic description of past projects including links to sites containing work developed by past projects mapping of the locations of past projects, clients, graduates and potentially students ability to view past projects, clients, students and graduates based on a number of spatial and attribute criteria Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Programming, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: Determination of an appropriate platform and location for hosting the web site. Enterprise database cleaned, updated and restructured database to include images of past projects spatial location of project and client organizations spatial location of students' permanent addresses(anonymous) ability to handle historical information for organizations/clients no longer active/moved multiple contacts and organizations per project Website modernized to reflect current standards in web site design security for bid matrix, registration, mapping of project locations, organizations, clients, graduates and students project page info about courses past projects application form spatial and attribute query of projects, clients, graduates and students Project Location: Fleming College Organization Name: Fleming College Project ID: 843 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: On-line Mapping Tool for Archaeologically Surveyed Properties in Ontario Project Description: The Heritage Operations Unit of the Ontario Ministry of Culture (MCL) plays a regulatory role licensing all archaeological activities in the province. One of the conditions of holding a licence is that researchers notify the MCL of archaeological work they will be undertaking as well as providing reports documenting all archaeological activities conducted in the field. For this reason the MCL has the most complete archaeological library documenting the survey of properties and the investigation of sites in Ontario. The MCL also maintains a database of all the archaeological site information and currently there are 50+ fields of data for each of the 17000 + known archaeological sites across the province. For the past 8 or 9 years the MCL has used a GIS to track archaeological site locations allowing us to inform archaeologists if the known sites are in proximity to projects they are involved in. While the archaeological site data is already in a usable digital format any information about where researchers have looked for sites ("archaeologically assessed lands") is information that only resides in archaeological reports as well as paper maps associated with project notification forms (called Project Information Forms or "PIF's"). A pilot project conducted in 2005 researched methods for converting archaeologically assessed spatial data from existing hardcopy reports. It was concluded that it is more efficient to acquire this information initially in the digital format rather than converting archaeologically surveyed data from hardcopy reports later. The goal of the MCL 2006 project then will be to create an on-line interface that researchers can use to define which lands they will be archaeologically assessing Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: The project involves designing and implementing a web interface which will:allow a pre-registered user to login;allow a user to fill in an online PIF and when submitted would populate the MCL's ArchLRB database with information. Geographical information derived from the spatial information should be used to calculate the entries of geographical fields (i.e. system should calculate county and township info);provide the user with an online map (once required fields on the PIF are submitted). The map should become increasingly detailed at higher zoom levels;prompt the user to find his/her study area on the online map the user would be prompted to define a polygonal area that they will be archaeologically assessing;allow the user to confirm that the defined area is accurate; andgenerate a unique identifier for the polygon and relate the spatial information to this identifier.measure the association of assessed land known archaeological sites to various physiographic criteria produce a formal presentation for MCL staff If the students were able complete the items above and had time leftover it would be valuable if they could build the following functionality:the user should be able to upload GPS or COGO co-ordinates representing the boundaries the properties surveyed and in this instance the information should replace the spatial information acquired earlier; andmodify the database so that once an assessment polygon is defined the polygon is buffered by a specified distance (i.e. 2 or 5 km) select previously reported sites within the buffer create a low resolution reference map and create a report of the sites within the buffered distanceuse a GPS unit to acquire boundary information and then test the web application by uploading the GPS information to it. Project Location: M7A 2R9 Organization Name: Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport Project ID: 276 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Eligible Area Calculator for Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program Project Description: Landowners having Provincially Significant Wetlands ANSIs or significant habitat on their property are eligible for tax rebates under the Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program (CLTIP). We require a customized GIS interface to allow our ecologist to calculate the amount of land within property parcels which is eligible for the CLTIP rebate. The input datasets will be the MPAC property parcel fabric wetlands ANSIs and significant habitat. The user will be able to select or identify a geographic area for the process to be run on such as a township a county or other user-defined area. The GIS application will calculate the eligible area for each property parcel within this geographic area and output the results both as a list in Microsoft Excel format and as a new spatial dataset which can be used to generate maps. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Customized ArcMap document with all required functionality.Help file preferrably directly linked to specific components of the interface (buttons menu choices etc.)Report describing project components including printouts of all codeSample outputs from application both tabular results and maps Project Location: N1G 4Y2 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 282 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Develop a Conservation Authority (CA) Web Mapping Site Project Description: Develop a generic Web Mapping Site for watershed data for a Conservation Authority.Students will have a choice of front end technology (Open Source Internet Mapping Framework Other)Students will have a choice of back end technology (IMS SDE SQL Server)Students will be provided with a Geodatabase of information of a watershed to work with in the project. Other base map data (i.e. OBM) can be obtained through download or Web Feature Service from the internet;Web mapping site template (Easily applicable to any CA) viewing and printing of canned reports and information.Display of CA Watershed Geodatabase information on the internet.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization A spatial/statistical analysis component may need to be added to this projectInterest / Familiarity with SQL server and Map Server preferredInterest / Familiarity with Ministry of Natural Resources OBM Program and Conservation Authorities mapping program and initiativesInterest / Familiarity with GeodatabaseInterest / Familiar with Web Mapping Project Requirements: Deliverables: Access to all OBM data layers through WFS / WMS (LIO or Geography Network.com)CA Watershed Arc Hydro Geotabase (Waterlines Dams Gauge Stations etc├óÔé¼┬ª)Other Base Data as required.;Base Data (Roads Imagery etc.) available through download or WFS services. Project Location: L3Y 4W3 Organization Name: Conservation Ontario Project ID: 285 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: A web-based dryland degradation assessment system based on the FAO/UNEP LADA framework Project Description: The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) began a global project for land degradation assessment in drylands (LADA) in order to comply with the millennium assessment goals. Trent University researchers (R. Ponce and R. Dixon) participated actively in the design of the LADA project methodology and in case studies. Today the LADA project is being implemented in a range of countries with dryland environments (e.g. China Senegal South Africa Argentina and Mexico) and lately in the Middle East. The LADA methodology is based on the Driving Forces-State-Pressure-Impact-Response (DPSIR) approach and relies on indicator variables for each of the DPSIR to conduct an assessment. Such indicators vary from country to country from one scale to another and from each of DPSIR. At present stakeholders conducting an assessment of the state of degradation of drylands in their jurisdictions cannot count on an automated tool to enable them speed of processing of an assessmentThus researchers stake-holders and decision-makers need access to a spatial decision support system that offers a comprehensive database of indicators of land degradation from which to choose those applicable to their areas of assessment then access an indicator processing and integration engine or tool to combine and integrate these indicators into an assessment reflected in an appropriate legend code in a map including also possible causes of the degradation processes (using the DPSIR approach).The project thus consist of developing an Internet-based spatially explicit system which would allow users anywhere in the planet for a given geographic area (initially the size of a district) access to a list of potential land degradation indicators from a comprehensive database (already defined) to select the appropriate indicators. Then access an indicator processing and integration engine or tool to combine these indicators (possibly a weighted linear combination of the indicators selected that reflects their degree of importance in the region or area) and finally a map display mechanism or tool that allows for the spatial display of the assessment results in map form all of which is carried out through the internet Project Requirements: Database design/Processing- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- spatial/Statistical AnalysisA data Acquisition/Preprocessing Deliverables: The Beta version of an Internet GIS service(Decision-Support System) enabling the calculation of a land degradation index derived from the combination of a set of selected indicators from a list offered by a database to be developed as part of the system. Functions for the combination of these indicators once selected and their display on a map of the area of the assessment in the internet are also part of the functionality required in this beta version of the internet based spatially explicit decision support system for land degradation assessment Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 288 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Employment Services Site Assessment Map Project Description: The MAESDÔÇÖs Employment Service (ES) program provides assistance to individuals in need of job search, job matching, placement, incentives, job and training retention support, and information and referral services. The ES program serves all Ontarians including vulnerable sections of the population. ES site locations need to be broadly distributed across the province and accessible to as much of the population as possible with particular attention paid to accessibility for populations facing multiple barriers to accessing services e.g. economic or transportation difficulties. Using ArcGIS students will assess the current ES sites based on drive times, proximity to public transit, and client demographics. Students will apply their analytical skills to assess what percentage of the population the current ES sites are serving within noted travel distances, as well as how well existing sites are reaching different client demographics, e.g. visible minorities, people with disabilities, newcomers, social assistance recipients, etc. The result will be used to support a review of the effectiveness of the existing ES service delivery site locations. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: ÔÇó A geodatabase containing: o A shapefile of public transit routes across Ontario o A shapefile of itinerant sites (Geocoded) o A polygon layer of aggregated client data by census division o Public transit layers for municipalities across Ontario o Drive time distances at 10, 20, 30 minutes, and walking distance to transit lines ÔÇó A story map showing an analysis of the proportion of the population being served by our current locations based on the above travel times/distances, and how client demographics relate to the census demographics. Project Location: Ontario Organization Name: Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development Project ID: 900 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Implementing an ArcIMS Application for Assessing Air Quality Project Description: Within the Ministry of the Environment one of the program delivery areas for Operations division air monitoring surveys auditing of third party air monitoring and assessing compliance of facilities that emit air contaminants. Both the regional and district offices play fundamental roles in delivering these programs. The findings of air quality studies from a wide range of clients including the public provincial and federal government and regional health offices and the results of provincial air monitoring network (which include Air Quality Index stations) record the concentration of pollutants that may adversely affect human and animal health vegetation and the use and enjoyment of property. Through the program compliance with ambient air quality criteria is tracked and long-term air quality trends are determined. The program is also successful in identifying pollution sources and assessing the results of pollution control measures. A component of the air compliance program is Selected Targets for Air Compliance (STAC). The STAC program requires selected facilities to submit an Emission Summary and Dispersion Modeling (ESDM) report that is used as a desk-top verification of compliance with Ontario air pollution regulations. More specifically the program is intended to assess the predicted aggregate effect of all emissions from a facility as if it were running a maximum capacity and to determine whether those predicted concentrations are within the standards and guidelines. When a facility is predicted to emit contaminants beyond an acceptable level the Ministry may require the emitter to put in place a plan that details specific actions to be taken over a specific timeframe to achieve the necessary compliance. While the STAC database is continually being updated the database continues to lack any spatial component. A number of records are identified with spatial coordinates however this is not required information and many are lacking this information. Once in place the spatial coordinates represent an opportunity to incorporate the STAC database into a GIS environment. A linkage between the STAC database and GIS would give a user direct access to view the information stored within the database. This linkage would allow various stakeholders within the Ministry to have access to the database and visualize the location of the STAC facilities by overlaying the information with other spatial datasets (i.e. roads wetlands schools etc.) as well as orthoimagery. The GIS component of the STAC program should also allow for a spatial analysis whereby a user can view the spatial relationship between a facilitys dispersion model results and the neighboring environment allowing for an assessment of potential risks to air quality. The objective of this project is to develop an ArcIMS application that will: Allow a user to access the STAC database through a web-based siteIncorporate air dispersion modeling results Allow for a spatial analysis to be performed using dispersion modeling results and a comprehensive list of spatial data layersReport and summarize STAC information as well as analysis results in maps chart and table formats.Incorporating the STAC database into a GIS system will allow staff within the Ministry to more readily interpret and analyze it. The initial project will focus on the STAC program but may also be extended to other air compliance and monitoring programs such as OnAir and the ESDM requirements for the recently promulgated Regulation 419.;A user-friendly ArcIMS application which will: Updated STAC database with Geographic (Decimal Degrees - 6 decimal places) coordinates.ArcIMS site to be in Lambert Conformal Projection (Provincial Ministry Standards File will be provided) and have a point and click tool that reports the UTM zone Easting and Northing.Allow potential users within the Ministry of Environment to visualize the locations of facilities and air monitoring stations with the capability of linking these spatial representations to any corresponding air quality data tables and/or reporting documents Report and summarize information in maps charts and tables using ArcGIS (Note: The product will possibly be modified by client in the future to add more capabilities to the application)Perform a spatial analysis of dispersion modeling results to assess potential risks to air qualityA technical report which documents the application (including software and databases) procedure findings and recommendations. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization Project Location: Hamilton, ON, Canada Organization Name: Ontario Ministry of the Environment Project ID: 291 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: An advanced GIS tool to capture edit and store information on Ontarios Potentially Contaminated or Waste Disposal Sites Project Description: The introduction of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into the Ministry of the Environment over the past several years has made the collection storage and analysis of our data much more effective and efficient in dealing with proactive issues. Currently however the Ministry of the Environment still does not have a central standardized repository for information collected on community contaminated sites and waste disposal areas. The CSMWG defines a contaminated site as; a site which substances occur at concentrations:above background levels and pose or are likely to pose immediate or long-term hazard to human health or the environment; orExceed levels specified in policies and regulationsScope:The Ministry of the Environment is currently looking to develop a more comprehensive Contaminated Sites inventory with the capability to visualize and edit this inventory.The objective of this project is to: Devise a Geodatabase data model and associated attributes in a structured manner (including subtypes domains etc.) for the following classes:Active Landfill Sites (roughly 79 active sites data available from numerous sources across the ministry)Closed Waste Disposal Sites (data available from various sources)Tire SitesCoal Tar SitesRecord of Site Conditions and BrownfieldsUnderground storage tanks (data from TSSA)Directors Orders and other information from EBR registryTransfer and Processing StationsSection 46 approvals (data from EAAB)Data set types: Point and Polygon were available / feasible.Projections and Datum to be used will be Provincial Standards (projection files will be supplied). Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Create user friendly forms and custom graphical user interface for data entry directly into the geodatabase.Develop / customize some easy-to-use editing capabilities for on-screen capture of these classes along with their data entry attributesDevelop an internal intranet ArcIMS website displaying the information A well organized Geodatabase housing the previously described data classes.Metadata for the Data classes must be completed.User friendly forms available to input or edit attributes within the Geodatabase data classes.Some user friendly editing tools for capturing and editing geometry data within the Geodatabase.Develop an internal ArcIMS website for viewing the contaminated sites database this could be a excellent area for editing data classes (for those with admin rights). Provincial base layers will be provided. Site to have a Ministry of the Environment look and feel would be nice to see a progressive look while being professional though.If possible create a point and click tool that reports the UTM Zone Easting and Northing information (map will be in Provincial projection standards)A technical report which documents the data sources used modifications / transformations and a description of all customizations resulting from the previous deliverables. Project Location: P3E 5P9 Organization Name: Ministry of the Environment Project ID: 293 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Significant Woodlands Mapping Project Description: We are looking for a way to identify forested areas via remote sensing to map Significant Woodlands in the Otonabee Region Conservation Authority. This can involve color matching, path recognition or digitization. From these identified forested areas, an algorithm will be supplied that will select potential significant forests from identified forested areas. We would then like the students to prepare a web application that will allow the Otonabee ecologists to review each potential significant woodland. While reviewing the woodland, the ecologist will need to grade several indicators while viewing the aerial imagery. These indicators will be the same for each woodland. An ArcGIS Online story map or web mapping application are possible options for the forest review app. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming Database Design/Processing Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology Deliverables: -A methodology on how the forested areas where identified from aerial photography. -The delivered identified forested areas -A web application that will allow an ecologist to review and grade each potential significant woodlot -The web application moved to ORCA servers Project Location: 250 Milroy Dr, Peterborough, ON K9H 7M9 Organization Name: Otonabee Region Conservation Autho Project ID: 908 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Nature Education and Awareness Development Strategy Project Description: The final product is an educational package intended for the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. The product will allow the organization to present large amounts of digital nature reserve data through an interactive graphic user interface. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Oakwood, ON, Canada Organization Name: Federation of Ontario Naturalists Project ID: 34 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Remote Sensing Data Application to Hydrological Models Project Description: The objective of this project was to deterine if remote sensing imagery could be used as a replacement for snow course measurement for the Mattagami Basin in Northern Ontario. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Mattagami, ON, Canada Organization Name: Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology Project ID: 40 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Wildlife Records in Ontario by County Project Description: This project would involve the analysis and display of whitetail deer moose and bear records for Ontario by county.The application will (1) allow users to specify multiple parameters from which to draw the desired results (2) highlight areas with the greatest densities and (3) display a printable report with numerical and graphical results.Depending on feasibility and time the project could be extended to enable the location of measurers (individuals who are certified to measure animals). Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: A web-based GIS application which portrays the density of big game records in Ontario by county and customized by multiple parameters provided by the user such as:selection between deer moose or bear specific year range of years or selection of non-contiguous yearsability to portray accumulated values for multiple years or the change between years (i.e. display trends)specific numerical score rangesdifferentiation between typical and non-typical animalstotal estimated populations (if that data is available) If possible the project could be extended to enable users to locate the closest measurer. The user would specify their own location (either by selecting their city from a list and/or by identifying a point on a map display) and then enter a search radius (e.g. 80 km). The system would respond by showing information for all measurers within that radius. In addition the ability to dynamically add new measurers to the system would be helpful. Project Location: K9J6X9 Organization Name: Foundation for the Recognition of Ontario Wildlife Project ID: 294 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Hydrologic Controls on Vegetation cover in the Hudson Bay Lowland Project Description: The general goals of the project are to estimate the greenhouse gas exchange between different surface cover types in a 110 km2 region of the Hudson Bay Lowland near Churchill Manitoba. Plant cover strongly influences CO2 uptake and soil wetness strongly influences decomposition and both CO2 and methane release. The proposed GIS will link changes in topography with plant cover within contiguous drainage basins and will then be used to apportion ground based flux measurements of the greenhouse gases. In polar regions water is in short supply and therefore is often limiting for plant growth. Areas of water accumulation (as in depressions) support distinctive types of flora (sedges) compared to areas that are well drained (lichens). Intermediate zones of relatively constant slope support alternate types of vegetation (mosses and vascular shrubs). Decomposition is severely limited by anoxic conditions induced by water logging. Again these are zones typically found in depressions. Near surface flow of water is controlled by elevational gradients which makes it possible to link DEM data with moisture accumulation. The relative absence or presence of accumulated water should be spatially correlated with both vegetation and the emissions of methane and CO2 from soils. Generating representative greenhouse gas fluxes from regions like the Hudson Bay Lowland requires a better understanding of the proportional contributing areas for gas uptake and release. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Add two layers to GIS corresponding to human features and streams (digitized from topographic sheet)Identify drainage basin boundaries from DEM and summary statistics on basin size with distance from Hudson BayIdentify surface drainage pathways (streams) from DEM and correlate with streams digitized from topographic map.Classify drainage source areas drainage throughflow areas and drainage collection areas from DEM and the proportional cover within 1 km2 grid cells. Add a vegetation layer to GIS from satellite image plant classification and summary stats on proportional cover of 1 km2 grid cells with distance from Hudson Bay.Correlate vegetation cover with drainage classification.Written report containing above and GIS model in a form that can be supplemented at a future date. Project Location: M3J 1P3 Organization Name: York University Project ID: 295 Status: Completed Project Year: 2006 |
Project Name: Temagami Stream Ecology Project Report Using PC Arc/Info Project Description: The objective of this project was to compile data pertaining to specific catchment areas of the Temagami Lake region in Ontario for Trent University. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 146 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: Airport Asset Management and Inspection Project Description: The ability to perform airfield inspections on various aspects of the infrastructure and issues typically faced by airports. Layers of information would be runway, taxiway, apron polygons, electrical (lights, signs) data points, airport geometric grid, satellite basemap image, and various other layers of info. Each ÔÇ£assetÔÇØ has associated tables with various attributes (this can also be contained in the shp file, but not required) When performing an inspection, the end user is interested to mark a discrepancy against an asset (say a light). When marking an inspection form (generated by the students in the programming using programming knowledge) that would allow the user to populate information. Various drop down lists to be available for easier description of problem, date and time auto populated, etc. In the end after a daily inspection, there may be 15 discrepancies. These will be summarized in a daily inspection report that will be automatically generated by the GIS, by a push of a button (after setting the report template up). Other options become available, such as querying inspection data. For example, please show me ÔÇ£for thisÔÇØ light, how may occurrences of failures it had for 2015ÔÇØ, or ÔÇ£map the centerline lights that required repair since Jan 01, 2014ÔÇØ A report with a map will be generated with stats and locations represented. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Programming, Web Technology Deliverables: A GIS, using ArcMap, and ArcGIS online platform, and perhaps the Collector App that allows a user to view the geometry on the map (all assets displayed), start an inspection, mark location of that inspection, fill out custom inspection form based on inspection type, i.e. bird/wildlife, electrical, etc., store each inspection occurrence in a database (SQL Server, or ArcGIS gdb), with ability to retrieve the data based on some criteria, and generate specific reports of the queried results. If ability of students is present, then we would also like to add GPS component, where they would track position using GPS input, whether from a tablet device, like a smartphone, or a laptop with a USB-type GPS receiver attached. Project Location: K0L 1L0 Organization Name: Team Eagle Ltd Project ID: 868 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Conservation Areas Web Apps Project Description: We are looking to create a GIS web app for each of the 100 ORCA owned lands. Each area would have a separate webpage that details an area map, trail map (with elevation profiles), videos or pictures of trails and significant feature, a story map, directions and a text description. A header and base template for the webpages will be provided. Project Requirements: Programming Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology Deliverables: With the numerous amount of ORCA lands, we do not expect this project will complete them all. We look forward to having a few done as templates and documentation on how to reproduce them. We are looking for a webpage with several apps and web maps for the areas and documentation on how they were created. We also would like the students to create elevation profiles for the trails and a DEM can be provided if necessary for this. Project Location: 250 Milroy Dr, Peterborough, ON K9H 7M9 Organization Name: Otonabee Region Conservation Autho Project ID: 909 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: LANDEAS: Web mapping system for global land degradation assessment at regional and local scales Project Description: Land degradation is the decline or reduction of primary productivity of ecosystems and ecosystem services. Land degradation is a pressing global problem and it is present in more than 120 countries affecting over 40% (1.4 billion people) of the global population). The LADA project is a global project supported by the United Nations Environment Program and executed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aiming at a comprehensive assessment of the global problem through developing assessment methodologies and enhancing assessment capacities in country members. Tools are required to enable assessments of land degradation allowing for the widest access and application possible of the methodology. A web-based spatially-explicit land degradation assessment tool (LANDEAS) based on the Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) indicator approach has been under development jointly between FAO and GEORESLAR of Trent University. The structure and functionality of the web-based system and its modular components have been designed and partly built and ported to the internet. LANDEAS main modular components are: an indicator selection module a multi-scale area selection module supported by Google EarthTM functionality which allows for geographical display at multiple scales on the globe. The central module is an indicator processing engine (IPE) which enables the processing of DPSIR indicator values entered interactively by users or through templates. The output module displays the results of an assessment through the display of a specially designed bubble legend showing on the globe the mapping output. The Indicator Processing Engine (IPE) is made up a set of alternative algorithms to combine data on indicators entered by the user into a synthetic assessment. So far only a few alternative algorithms of linear combinations of indicators are built into the IPE of LANDEAS . Further work is required to imbed other algorithms for processing indicators for user selection into the IPE and to enhance the mapping capabilities of LANDEAS through Google EarthTM and through accepting user-supplied GIS maps such as shape files or other proprietary GIS formats provided by users for the assessment of specific areas. An assessment of the usefulness of the LANDEAS system through its testing in specific assessment areas is also required.SCOPEThe goals for the project are as follows: Update the current functionality of LANDEAS by: Add functionality for alternative approaches to combine user-suggested indicators into an assessment by coding algorithms within the Indicator Processing Engine (IPE) Develop appropriate software code to synthesize the results of an assessment from the IPE and display them as a legend in either a Google Earth Globe shape files or other proprietary GIS format Output Management: To allow users to organize store and view the output from modeling results that are generated by the assessments.Quality Assurance: Port the system to the Internet and ensure functionality under a variety of assumptions about users and technology Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: A fully operational web-based LANDEAS system that includes full functionality for a range of spatial scales (global to local) and mapping on the Google Earth interface as well as on user-supplied shape files. Full Documentation of Software developed Customization including: System Manual Operation ManualFull Source Code of Systems developed and its documentationQuality assurance document through software test runs with case studies provided by client Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 566 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Otonabee Region Watershed Atlas Project Description: The development of a digital watershed atlas that would include various data layers (points of interst, catchments, ORCA properties, recreational opportunities, historical data, monitoring locations, etc.) categorized into themes such as water, land, cultural Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology Deliverables: Would include a report that documents the metadata behind each dataset and a digital product that could be accessed on or from the ORCA website using a desktop computer or handheld/mobile device Project Location: 250 Milroy Dr, Peterborough, ON K9H 7M9 Organization Name: Otonabee Region Conservation Autho Project ID: 910 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Indian River Corridor Tourism Revitalization/Enhancement Project Project Description: The project involves a strategic partnership of community agencies local government and the ORCA to examine economic development opportunities in tourism and recreation along the Indian River corridor (which extends from Stony Lake to Rice Lake). The students focus will be on gathering the background information and making it available in various formats that will support the development of this project.Essentially the partnership would like to know: what types of tourism and recreation businesses/operators are located along the Indian River; what natural features are present (ANSIs ESAs wetlands); what types and where are water control structures located (i.e. dams); where is the land privately owned or publicly owned (either by ORCA or the Crown etc.); what types and where are interesting cultural and heritage features/attractions located; and how the population is located on the landscape throughout the municipalities within the Indian River watershed.;Maps: that illustrate the information that the partnership is interested in (as described in the paragraph above)Powerpoint presentation that describes the research and the findings and any conclusions that the student may draw from conducting the researchWeb pages that create a sense of excitement about opportunities for revitilization and/or enhancement of tourism and recreation along the Indian River CorridorThe powerpoint and web pages should also capture the natural beauty of the Indian River corridor as a tourism destination!Photos digital photos that support this project should be delivered on CD in jpg format Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9H 7M9 Organization Name: Otonabee Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 342 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Kawartha Trans Canada Trail Economic and Management Maps Project Description: Using existing trail data for 44 km trail and website provide a drop down computer menu listing for all businesses providing services accommodations and food related to trail activities.Landownership- identify ownership properties North and South along KTCT and land uses- e.g pasture crops and livestockDivide 44 kms into management zones GPS sign locations photograph and locate on mapPrepare hand out trail map Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Web Technology Deliverables: Web site with map and drop down menu of all trail related businesses located within 2km each side of trail;One - Electronic and hard copy map indicating landownership land use and responsible trail manager for this zoneOne- electronic CD map of trail with all #2 and sign locations using GPS including photos of each sign and numbering;Print ready brochure of map of Kawartha Trans Canada Trail. Project Location: K9V 4R1 Organization Name: Friends of the Trans Canada Trail Project ID: 572 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Millbrook Valley Trails Mapping Project Project Description: The Millbrook Valley Trail is a 4km multiuse trail that connects downtown Millbrook to the MNR Provincial Fishing Area on Zion 4th Line. The Trail is managed by the Township of Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan through a partnership with Otonabee Conservation MNR and a volunteer committee of Council. Currently the mapping available for the Millbrook Valley Trail is not up to date or easily reproduced or added to brochures presentations etc. There are also many points of interest along the trail that are not recorded or identified anywhere. The management plan for the Millbrook Valley Trail and the Cavan-Millbrook- North Monaghan Trail Master Plan are both currently being updated and will require maps of the Millbrook Valley Trail adjacent lands and other existing or potential trails throughout the township. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: map of Millbrook Valley Trail including points of interest land ownership past projects completed future projectsmap of Township of Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan showing existing trails potential trails lands identified for future acquisition lands currently owned by township MNR and ORCAair photo mosaic of the entire Millbrook Valley trailmaps that can be added to existing websites brochures and promotional materialsAll maps should be provided to ORCA in both hard copy and digital formatsmaps showing location of Millbrook Valley Trail and proposed trails to Oak Ridges MorainePhotos digital photos that support this project should be delivered on CD in jpg formatA catalogue of the photosList of References Project Location: K9H 7M9 Organization Name: Otonabee Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 344 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Kawartha Lakes Flow Map Project Description: The KLSA would like to have a detailed comprehensive map of the Kawartha Lakes from Shadow Lake downstream to Katchewanooka and White Lakes showing watershed data including mean annual inflows and outflows. The key question to be addressed for each lake is:Where is our water coming from how do these sources affect water quality and finally where does the water go?The Kawartha Lakes receive water from both the north and the south and the relative amounts of north and south inflow seem to be a strong determinant of water quality. Water from the more populated limestone-bedrock areas to the south is higher in phosphorus and other chemicals typical of an agricultural and urban watershed. Water from the less populated Precambrian Shield forested areas to the north is usually lower in nutrients and other pollutants. Understanding how much water comes from where will help us understand how best to monitor water quality (where and when to test) and how to target our efforts to improve water quality. The KLSA feels that such a map would help shoreline residents better understand the close connections among the Kawartha Lakes and how a change in one lake or influent stream can affect many others downstream. Many residents believe their lake water is mainly composed of local runoff which is not the case!This map will appear in future KLSA annual reports but we hope many others will find it informative (e.g. tourism organizations cottager associations etc.). ;Base map of Shadow Balsam Cameron Sturgeon Big and Little Bald Pigeon Chemong Sandy Buckhorn Lower Buckhorn Lovesick StonyLake namesNames of rivers and streams flowing in and out of each lake showing direction of flow.Names of major townsCounty and municipal bordersDams canals and locksThis map needs to be as user-friendly as possible as we hope it will be used by other Kawartha Lake area groups for their own purposes. It would be valuable to have one version that can be easily downloaded by dial-up computers. We would very much like to have this base map by the middle of March so that it could be included in the KLSA annual report. Flow map (using above base map). This should show not only the inflows and outflows of all significant streams and other pathways but also their relative contributions to the volumes of the various lakes. For example Balsam Lake receives almost all of its water from the Gull River. However the next lake downstream Cameron Lake receives water from Burnt River so Cameron Lakes water is a mixture of the two. This adding and mixing of water continues downstream until the last lake Katchewanooka receives water directly and indirectly from 10 or more inflows. The map should give an indication of how much water in each lake comes from each inflow. Perhaps this could be done by showing each inflow as a different colour. For example Balsam Lake would be all one colour the colour of the Gull River inflow. Cameron Lake could contain two colours designating the Gull and Burnt River inflows etc. Students may have ideas as to how best to indicate the relative contributions of the various inflows.Anything that would add or remove more than one-hundredth the total volume of a lakes water over the course of the year should be included. Students would need to find out if this would include quarries golf courses or other water intakes/outputs. It would be very useful to have an additional map extending up to and including all headwaters. Minimal text explaining the maps but KLSA will add the text explaining the significance for water quality. Map of mid-summer phosphorus concentrations. If time permits it would be very useful to create the following layers:Wetland locations and their areal extent.Geology of the watershedOfficial PlansPopulation densityColoured topographical featuresLocation of quarries golf courses sewage treatment plants urban centres and other point sources of pollutantsCropland pasture forest and barren rock landsWater temperature from satellite imagesSatellite pictures showing extent of aquatic plant growthWe would like the maps to be available on our website and would like at least 2 copies of the base map and flow map to be printed poster size for display. Text narrative explaining data sources key assumptions study observations general conclusions etc. ;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization- Web TechnologyAbility to ferret out map information from various agencies. The KLSA will try to pinpoint the contacts but students will need to work with a number of people in these agencies.A knowledge of some basic hydrogeological calculations. Flows will need to be approximated from standard hydrogeological equations (e.g. hectares yield flow). KLSA can assist with the methodology.Ability to make the map(s) appealing and almost instantly comprehensible to the average shoreline resident or tourist. Ability to make maps user-friendly by computer novices. Maps should be easy to download and copy in different sizes.; Phosphorus and the Kawartha Lakes by Michael White. www.people.trentu.ca/miwhite/ This delineates watershed boundaries for each lake. This paper is on the KLSA website titled Phosphorus paper 05/06.The mid-summer phosphorus levels can be found in the 2001 2008 KLSA annual reports. Students can calculate an average of the 8 years at about 12 sites on the TSW. Excel spreadsheet of Dry-Weather Flows for the Kawartha Lake Watershed in .xls format prepared by Kevin Walters of KLSA. These are provided for information only. Certain data is to be reviewed and confirmed as part of the assignment. ;Water Surplus Charts. Source: Water Survey of Canada. These combined with the watershed areas (Michael Whites paper above) will yield amounts of water flowing into each lake. Actual flows used to check theoretical calculations. Source: Water Survey of Canada HYDAT Wetland maps. Source: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.Geology maps. Source: Ontario Base Mapping (1:10000)(order on line from the MNR Store)Topographical maps. Source: Natural Resources Canada for the Canadian Topographic Maps (1:50000)Official Plan maps. Source: County of Peterborough City of Kawartha Lakes.River and stream maps. Source: Trent Conservation Coalition Source Water Protection Committee (shp format) Contact: shan.mugalingam@ltc.on.ca.Other Conservation Authority data. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K0L 2H0 Organization Name: Kawartha Lake Stewards Assoc Project ID: 573 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: 3D Visualization at Peterborough Airport Project Description: In 2015 the City and County of Peterborough collaborated to collect 10 point/m2 LiDAR data in select pilot areas, including the Peterborough Airport. In 2016, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) will capture LiDAR at a similar density for all of the County of Peterborough. This new data is expected to be available in late spring/early summer 2017. In an effort to become familiar with and demonstrate the value of this data to users, the County is seeking highly motivated and innovative students to create an online 3D visualization tool that will bring together several datasets that planning, building, and airport staff can use to better understand the location of airport restrictions. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Cartographic Presentation Web Technology Deliverables: ÔÇó 3D feature data of Airport Obstacle Limitation Surface, full copyright to be available to County of Peterborough & City of Peterborough (source information available from & regulated by Transport Canada) ÔÇó Extrusion of 2D building footprints to provide 3D height information from LiDAR (optional) ÔÇó Online 3D visualization tool for existing elevation, parcels, roads, water, buildings o Ability for online users to add a proposed structure at a given location and view in 3D (optional) Project Location: 470 Water Street Peterborough, ON K9H 3A6 Organization Name: County of Peterborough Project ID: 912 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Education Pathways Mapping App Project Description: We would like to develop an interactive world map to display student mobility opportunities. Opportunities include inbound/outbound education pathways, field placement locations, service learning, research opportunities, etc. The goal is to increase awareness of the opportunities available to current Fleming students and prospective students. It will be a valuable tool in the student recruitment process for potential applicants who are considering applying to Fleming. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming Database Design/Processing Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology Deliverables: Develop an interactive map that can be used both as a mobile app, and that can be hosted on the college external website (flemingcollege.ca). The map application must be accessible on popular browsers, web-ready, scalable, and not require that users download software in order to run it. It will be user friendly (intuitive), easy to maintain, include a variety of filters, and have a responsive design. The map will include locations of partner institutions, field placement locations, service-learning locations, and locations where research opportunities exist. Project Location: Fleming College 599 Brealey Drive, Peterborough ON K9K 2N7 Organization Name: Fleming College Project ID: 913 Status: Not Available Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Modernizing MNR Field Data Collection Project Description: The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has a large role in the collection of geospatial information on Crown land. This information consists of features that we are required to track and/or protect and is referred to as a value on crown land. Information on our values is stored in a number of different repositories including provincial electronic repositories such as the Natural Resources Values Information System (NRVIS) and the Land Information Ontario (LIO) Warehouse Microsoft Access databases on district file and print servers or on personal computers. In the last several years in the Thunder Bay District MNR office field data collection has used GPS units to record the location of information but the technology available was not advanced enough to record the details about the item. Because of this GPS units are used in combination with paper forms to collect spatial locations as well as all of the required attribute information for items. In addition photos are usually taken of each item visited. There are several steps involved in the current process of values collection and several locations for associated documentation storage. This project will help to eliminate many of the unnecessary steps and improve field data collection and information management by utilizing mobile field data collection units to their full potential. Many staff members are not familiar with using modern filed data collection technologies. Technologies tested in the past have failed to meet our field data collection needs and have made staff skeptical of embracing and/or seeing the benefits. An example of a failed attempt is the purchase of the iPaq units. The battery life on these units was not adequate and they were nowhere near as rugged enough to withstand extreme hot and cold weather conditions working in the rain the occasional dousing of bug spray etc. This and other failed attempts have made further advancements in mobile field data collection very difficult. Staff have yet to see a data collection program that is easy to use trustworthy (days of data collection will not be lost) and faster than paper data collection. Many staff have put their fancy units on the shelf and reverted back to using laminated maps grease pencils and paper forms on clipboards to collect information on values in our district. This results duplication of efforts; 1- Enter the information onto a paper form 2- Enter it again into a GIS and 3- Enter or import it into an electronic database such as NRVIS 4- File the associated information appropriately. It also results in a having to go through several steps to get spatial data from each GPS unit into our corporate spatial database (the NRVIS system). A recent trial with modern data collection technologies has highlighted the value of collecting information in our corporate data format (shapefile) and has also emphasized the value of having good portable electronic data available to those working in the field. There is currently an initiative happening within the MNR to modernize field data collection. The vision is to collect information electronically and easily transfer the information into electronic central repositories. The first stage of this project which consisted of evaluating available data collection units and selecting units that best suited MNR field data collection needs is complete. Equipment has been purchased for electronic field data collection along with ArcPad software. The second stage of the project is developing a custom application to collect and maintain information on MNR values while conducting field visits. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization Deliverables: This project focuses to the second stage of the modernizing field data collection initiative. We require a customized ArcPad data collection application. Upon project completion this custom application will be used nearly everyday by district staff and has the potential to be used regionally and perhaps even provincially. This application should be robust enough to handle several situations that a technician or other MNR employee would likely face while collecting field data including additions (new values) and modifications and deletions to existing values. The application also needs to have a reporting function so the user can create a report after a day in the field to review all of the edits they made that day. We would also like to see photo functionality. It would be beneficial if the custom ArcPad application allowed the user to take a photo (blue tooth or integrated camera) as part of the value edit and automatically file and rename the photo based on the values unique identifier and some value to indicate how many photos there were of the particular location. Lastly a roll up tool is needed that grabs all of the data that was modified that day (additions deletions modifications and photos) filed in appropriate folders etc. to allow for easy transfer (probably via jump drive) from the data collection unit to a desktop PC. Custom ArcPad data collection forms are required. These forms will collect information that is needed for the MNR corporate database (NRVIS) (shapefile format) and district specific information (related Microsoft Access tables). Examples of what we are looking for will be provided. Note: Resolution and screen size will be discussed upon project start-up. A user friendly interface that guides a user through a value addition modification or deletion is required. In an ideal situation the user would hit a button in ArcPad when they are at a value where they would like to collect edit or delete information. Two things need to happen before the custom ArcPad form appears: 1) The user should be presented with a (Graphic User Interface) GUI that asks them which feature class they would like to edit and a drop down list of all MNR edited feature classes. This feature should automatically set the editable layer to the item selected in the drop down list. 2) The next GUI would appear that asks if this is a new value a change to an existing value or deletion of an existing value. Each would have to be handled differently. New Value ArcPad tally sheet opens and data is put into a blank new shapefile is created for each feature class with additions. (Additions could be entered into NRVIS via direct import)Change to an existing value Program would search for the nearest value (in the feature class that the user would like to edit) highlight the feature and confirm that the highlighted value is in fact the correct value they wish to edit. Once the user confirms this the ArcPad tally sheet would open with all of the existing attributes populated so the user simply has to change the fields they would like to update (i.e. verification date etc.). If the geometry of the feature was different than the existing data the user should be asked if they would like to update the geometry. This data would have to be stored in a separate shapefile because editing it in NRVIS would occur in a different fashion. NOTE: There would have to be a manual override in case the nearest feature selected is not correct. Deletions to existing features this could work similar to the way a change would work the program would search for the nearest value (in the feature class that the user would like to delete from) highlight the feature and confirm that the highlighted value is in fact the correct value they wish to delete. If it was the feature should be deleted out of the ArcPad view and moved to a separate shapefile. This shapefile could be brought into NRVIS where a select by location could be performed. Selected feature could then be deleted. NOTE: There would have to be a manual override in case the nearest feature selected is not correct. Report functionality should also be added. Users should be able to at the end of a day in the field hit the report button and generate a report of edit activity that occurred separated into additions deletions and modifications.Photo functionality It would be nice if the custom ArcPad application could in allow for someone to take a photo (blue tooth or integrated camera) as part of the value edit. This photo could be automatically filed and renamed based on Object ID and some value to indicate how many photos there were of the particular location (example 55555555-01.jpg 555555555-02.jpg). Note: users should still be able to take a photo unrelated to a value. A roll up tool should be created that grabs all of the data that was modified that day (additions deletions modifications and photos) filed in appropriate folders etc. to allow for easy transfer (probably via jump drive) from the data collection unit to the GSO or data techs PC. District specific information should be handled differently than corporate specific information. Corporate data has to be packaged for import into NRVIS district specific information has to be packaged for import into MS access. More on this item as project evolves. A data model will be provided that illustrates relations in the data and whether or not the data is corporate of district. A well written user guide is needed. This guide will serve to help the end user and will provide step by step instructions for collection values using the custom mobile data collection application. An installation package is required for both windows XP and Windows Mobile (CE). Well commented programming is required. Fleming students will not be responsible or available for the maintenance or upgrades of the application therefore well commented code is required so MNR staff will be able to take over maintenance upon project completion. Project Location: P7B 6S8 Organization Name: OMNRF - Thunder Bay Project ID: 575 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Evolution of land use and land management change in Rouge National Urban Park Project Description: The objective of this project is to ascertain changes in the park landscape over the period covered by aerial photography, in terms of changing natural and agricultural landscapes. The project will enable Parks Canada to assess the degree of change in the park landscape over time as a better way of understanding elements that have either increased, persisted, declined, or disappeared. This information will assist in understanding the natural, agricultural, and/or cultural value of such landscape elements, and provide a basis for understanding why this change has occurred. This information in its totality will help Parks Canada to develop management strategies in the park that are feasible and effective, and targeted to elements of importance to the park landscape. The project would involve the following: ÔÇó Research into the availability of aerial photography covering the park since the inception of aerial coverage, including that which preceded digital aerial photography. ÔÇó Securement of photo coverage at mutually-agreed upon time intervals, digital correction (orthorectification and mosaicking) of this photography suitable for use in a GIS mapping program. ÔÇó Classification of park landscapes using a relevant typology (such as Ecological Land Classification and / or the landscape typology developed for the RNUP viewscapes study) applied to digitally rectified aerial photography ÔÇó Spatial analysis to discern what landscape types have changed within each agreed-upon time interval. ÔÇó Assessment of discernable trends in landscape change uncovered by the analysis, in terms of relative abundance and distribution throughout the park. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Database Design/Processing Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Deliverables: ÔÇó Digitally-corrected image mosaics of historic aerial photography ÔÇó Landscape typology system ÔÇó Park landscape typology map for each agreed-upon photo acquisition date, in GIS and PDF formats. ÔÇó Maps and tables showing the degree of change in different landscape types between agreed-upon time periods. ÔÇó Written assessment of key observable trends in landscape change over the entire time period. Project Location: 105 Guildwood Parkway, PO Box 11024, Toronto, ON M1E 1N0 Organization Name: Parks Canada,Rouge National Urban Park Project ID: 914 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Landscape patterns of lake attribute data in support of aquatic habitat suitability analyses Project Description: The MNRF is investigating the effects of climate change on the spread and establishment of aquatic invasive species within Ontario. Thermal habitat within a lake is an important factor in the establishment of aquatic species within a lake and is likely to be altered significantly due to climate change (e.g. increasing volume of warm water thermal habitat, and decreasing volume of cold water thermal habitat). A Seasonal Temperature-profile Model (STM) can be used to estimate the volume of thermal habitat within a lake using morphometric data (i.e. lake area, depth, perimeter, etc.) as input. While these data are not available for all lakes in Ontario, high quality imagery, elevation, and geologic data may be available across the province. For this project, we require an assessment of the feasibility of using raster/elevation/other data available across the entire province to determine individual lake morphometrics. This includes initial research into availability of data and possible methods of analysis, as well as a report on the final algorithm and its applicability across the province. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming (some) Database Design/Processing Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Deliverables: - Identify and acquire landscape features / spatial data needed to determine lake morphometrics (specifically, surface area, perimeter, maximum depth, and mean depth) at the provincial scale (all lakes >40 ha). Source data could include topography, digital elevation maps, land class, soil type, geology, imagery, etc. - Conduct QA/QC of all data provided and acquired for project. - Develop and report on a method / algorithm to estimate lake morphometrics based on geographic/geologic data for all lakes >40 ha in Ontario. Report should include: rationale for selection of variables and classifications, summary analysis of lake morphometrics at various spatial scales, an evaluation of model performance, and confidence in model outputs. This summary may include tabular, graphical, and cartographic data, to be discussed as project progresses. - ÔÇÿMidtermÔÇÖ report (~2 pages) summarizing variables that are or are not related to lake morphometrics, possible methods for determining lake morphometrics, likelihood of methods being generalized across province, difficulties in generalizing from specific area to entire province, and key data gaps ÔÇô What data are important and what data are actually available across the province? - All data (input, output, metadata) will be organized into a logical database structure that could be used for future analysis. (1. An algorithm to calculate lake depth, area and perimeter from inputs (may be land class, DEM, Soil Type, Geology, Slope, Imagery,) ÔÇôthe depths would be by contour lines or raster squares so can show depths within lake polygons. 2. A database to hold the inputs and output values for each lake 3. A locality map of where we conducted our first couple of test lakes while creating the algorithm 4. A heat map of Ontario based on depth, area and perimeter (time dependent)) Project Location: Glenora Fisheries Station, 41 Hatchery Lane, Picton, ON, K0K 2T0 Organization Name: MNRF Project ID: 915 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Landscape Analysis for Recreation Resource Planning Crowe Bridge Conservation Area Project Description: Location: Crowe Bridge Conservation Area near Campbellford Ontario Crowe Valley Conservation AuthorityMapping analysis and communication outputs for establishment of physical landform units and sub-units used to determine management zones for recreational planning uses. Field verification of units/sub-units from mapping sources required and enhanced by GPS locations and descriptors (attributes) of key locations in study area. Ability to provide web-based search that illustrates and describes recreation opportunities and levels of difficulty for hiking walking canoeing etc. at an existing conservation area. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: Provide digital and hard copy baseline mapping of landform features through single overlay and composite methods. (i.e. terrain analysis/slope aspect floodplain woodlot extent etc.) that can be used to determine and update management zones.Key attribute tagging (i.e. GPS location elevation contour point photo characteristic etc.) at identified significant or key locations in study area.Website links to key locations to illustrate and describe recreation opportunities and levels of difficulty where applicable (eg; hiking/walking trails with moderate slope viewing points resting areas etc.) Project Location: L1E 2J4 Organization Name: Lakeland Associates Ltd. Project ID: 579 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Backcountry Canoe Routes of Ontario Project Description: Explore the Backcountry is a web-based organization, publishing maps (free for digital and paid for print), videos, tips, gear reviews, and other content for canoeists. Having completed dozens of trips in Ontario, Explore the Backcountry is seeking to have these routes published into user-friendly a format that can be distributed to the paddling community. This entails three primary outputs: cartographic, web, and a publishable guidebook. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology Deliverables: Digital maps of a number of canoe routes around Ontario.2)A guidebook containing these maps, with a written summary, photo, top-line route overview, locality map,and tips for each one. (See attached preview of Kevin Callan's Top 50 Canoe Routes of Ontario as a roughidea of what this output might look like.)3)Publishing the above items on Explorethebackcountry.com so that they are available for download( Project Location: 95 Breton Rd Unit 3, Sault Ste. Marie, P6B 5T8 Organization Name: Explore the Backcountry Project ID: 916 Status: Reserved Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Sir Sams map and web-map Project Description: To create an interactive web-based map for the ski trails (and potentially summer recreation trails) that can be displayed on their web site.To create an attractive map to be displayed at the ski area Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: Develop GIS based map displaying Sir Sam's Ski AreaCollect field data using GPS software for project databaseCreate a database of spatial and attribute data collectedUse software to create an interactive map for the web which is user friendly visually attractive and allows for zooming panning etc)Maps will show topological characteristics as well as specific themes developed from the attribute information collected. Project Location: K0M 1S0 Organization Name: Sir Sam Project ID: 580 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Generating a Watershed Information System to Support Land Use Planning in Sierra Leone Project Description: The significance of Land Use Planning in a watershed context is increasingly recognized and implemented in jurisdictions around the world. Many of the challenges facing Sierra Leone such agricultural optimization (particularly wetland agriculture) seasonal flooding soil erosion and soil depletion could in-part be addressed through Land Use Planning with access to well structured GIS watershed layers. Sierra Leone currently has very little structured GIS data and no watershed mapping. They do however have very rich legacy hard-copy 1:50000 scale photogrammetrically derived topographic mapping. The hydrology features depicted on this mapping such as rivers steams swamps swamp cultivation and rapids represent durable landscape features that could be most productively utilized if captured and made widely accessible as GIS layers. It is believed these data could be additionally combined with satellite derived elevation data products to produce authoritative watershed layers suitable for effective and scale appropriate Land Use Planning across the country. The primary focus of this project is to develop a hydrology digitizing manual (and potentially scripts) that would enable allow local Sierra Leonean groups (and potentially others) to capture these data to recognized and enforced data standards. A secondary focus of this project is to explore the potential of integrating these automated data with remotely sensed derived elevation data products in order to develop full watershed geospatial data layers.;The central deliverable is an ArcGIS hydrology digitizing manual for automating scanned legacy 1:50000 Sierra Leonean Topographic Maps. Users of this manual may have limited GIS experience. The data model to be employed should closely resemble Natural Resources Canadas National Hydrology Network (NHN) data model. Unique characteristics of the Sierra Leone data are in-part captured in the attached PowerPoint slides (SLDigitizing.ppt).Optional - Some QA and QC scripts to error trap and flag digitizing errors. For the selected study watershed utilizing the Digitized developed hydrology data layers (point line and polygons) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 3 arc-second elevation data construct a full ArcHydro database including terrain derivates and catchments for a selected watershed.Evaluation of the appropriateness of ArcHydro Stream Burning Processes (AGREE) for terrain processing using the SRTM dataset. Optional Comparison of ArcHydro Stream burning methods with Enhanced Flow Direction Methods (Kenny and Matthew 2005 Kenny et al. 2008).Optional Image Object Landcover mapping for the study watershed.References (provided):Kenny F.M Matthews B. and Todd K. 2008. Routing Overland Flow through Sinks and Flats in Interpolated Raster Terrain Surfaces. Computers & Geoscience Vol. 34 pp. 1417-1430.Kenny F.M. Matthews B. 2005. A Methodology for Aligning Raster Flow Direction Data with Photogrammetrically Mapped Hydrology. Computers & Geoscience Vol. 31/6 pp 768-779.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/VisualizationCore GIS students Background in natural resources (geography biology geology etc.) would be asset but is not necessaryBoth raster and vector data processing requiredA background in remote sensing and image processing would be advantageous ;1. Scanned and Georeferenced 1:50000 scale base mapping (Mr. Sid compressed format)2. A sample geodatabase (.mxd) with raster and vector files3. Arc Hydro Manual and Training courses (with training datasets);Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation datasets (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/Some small scale historical Sierra Leone Land Cover maps http://www.fao.org:80/geonetwork?uuid=5b1ff5e0-bb84-11db-ac8b-000d939bc5d8 Small scale soils mapping for Sierra Leone http://www.fao.org:80/geonetwork?uuid=67507cc0-f321-11db-9a22-000d939bc5d8 Lansdsat ETM (plus panchromatic image) Global Land Cover facility (GLCF) http://glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp National Hydrology Network (NRCan NHN) data specifications. http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nhn/index.html;There are no confidential or intellectual property restrictions Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Sierra Leone Organization Name: University of Guelph, School of Engineering Project ID: 581 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Arcvoyager Canada: Geographic Information Systems in K-12 Education Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: M3C 3R8 Organization Name: ESRI Canada Ltd. Project ID: 43 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Heritage Properties and Conservation District Mapping Project Project Description: The objective of this project is to develop a GIS layer of built heritage properties and heritage conservation districts from the provinces Ontario Heritage Portal (OHP) Properties module. Currently the Ministry has locational information pertaining to approximately 6500 built heritage properties such as street address municipality and upper-tier. The largest component of this project will involve using this information to geocode each property relative to the Ontario Road Network (ORN). Address information may need to be normalized through scripts to ensure all properties are successfully mapped. Areas that have been designated as heritage conservation districts would need to be spatially defined as polygons based on plans held by the Ministry of Culture.Once a complete layer of built heritage properties and heritage conservation districts has been created some spatial analysis will be required. If time permits a web-based mapping interface should be created so that a user can explore the provinces heritage properties possibly with photo links descriptions etc.;The primary deliverable is a GIS layer of geocoded properties and districts within Ontario. The other products will be a spatial analysis pertaining to the density and distribution of these properties across the province. Lastly the newly created layer will have to be added to a web-based mapping interface and customized so that a user can easily explore Ontarios built heritage .The students will be expected to give a final presentation on the application to the MCL. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: A background in architecture or heritage would be an asset but isnt necessary. Anyone wanting to apply what they have learned during their studies at Fleming could make a positive contribution Project Location: M7A 2R9 Organization Name: Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport Project ID: 582 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Final Report Mineral Potential Evaluation of the Meguma Terrane Nova Scotia Project Description: The main purpose of this project was to implement quantitative methods of mineral resource assessment using a Geographic Information System (GIS). The GIS will specifically allow statistical relationships of gold mineralization to be combined by integrating the data in the GIS. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Halifax, NS, Canada Organization Name: Geological Survey of Canada Project ID: 47 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: WNH Electrical Distribution System Code Inspection Compliance Tracking Project Description: Electrical utilities are regulated by the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) and must follow strict guidelines regarding the inspection and reporting on the condition of the electrical distribution system. The distribution system is broken down into its various components each with specific features to be inspected and reported upon at a predefined interval generally every 3 years for urban systems and 6 years for rural areas. (Please see attached Appendix C of the Distribution System Code (DSC) for components including specific features to be inspected).WNH would like to set up a geographically enabled inspection program to permit inspectors to plan inspection activities for the required components and record the results in a simple easy to access geodatabase.Similar to 1. above. WNH has identified and prepared an assessment plan for entrance into Confined and Restricted spaces. The documentation prepared discusses the nature of the hazards inherent to WNH personnel who must access these spaces for maintenance and repair. Safety apparel and procedures are identified to control these hazards.We would like to have these hazardous spaces identified in the electrical.mdb with associated data accessible. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Design a custom tool within the ESRI Arcmap interface that allows the user to select an electrical feature in our geodatabase (eg. Pole Transformer) that has been identified as having a defect. When the electrical feature is selected an associated custom form will appear and allow the user to record the defect(s) on a predefined inspection list as per Appendix C. Design the inspection forms that are linked to the custom tool 1..Create a new personal geodatabase that will record only the defective features with the associated inspection flaws. The inspection form will copy and write the defective feature and its list of flaws directly into the new geodatabase.Design a custom tool within the ESRI Arcmap interface that allows the user to select a Confined or Restricted space feature in our geodatabase and have the associated Hazard Assessment Plan launch Microsoft Word to display the document. Project Location: N2J 4A3 Organization Name: Waterloo North Hydro Inc Project ID: 345 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: LANDEAS: a web-based system for causal discovery and mapping the states and causes of land degradation through Bayesian Networks and FAO/UNEP LADA indicators Project Description: This project builds on the achievements of a past SSFC Cooperative Project titled LANDEAS a web-based dryland degradation assessment system based on the FAO/UNEP LADA framework which achieved basic functionality as far as the coding of indicators and the spatial display.This projects main focus is on the integration of Bayesian Network of Causal Discovery (already developed at Trent U) into the existent LANDEAS web-based decision support system. This second phase of the project should consist of two main activities:a). Provide full GoogleEarth interface functionality for selection of spatial objects or areas for their assessment and for mapping and spatial presentation of results of the assessment.b). To integrate within LANDEAS functionality a Bayesian Network Model (already developed at TU) for the mapping of states and causes of land degradation in selected areas through GoogleEarth interface.NOTE: This project may be of key importance to the FAO/UNEP LADA project already launched in August at FAO Headquarters in Rome and may become a testing tool for implementation of assessments by selected dryland pilot countries.;Fully functional LANDEAS Web-based decision support system that includes:The selection of areas for the assessment through a GoogleEarth Pro interface at either global national sub-national or local scales and for mapping of results through a LANDEAS legend (already developed). The implementation in the LANDEAS web system of a Bayesian Network model for causal discovery and for mapping the results of an assessment as CAUSES and STATES of land degradation for a given polygon map object or sets of polygons representing areas assessed.;- Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Web TechnologyThis project may need a Presentation/Visualization component addedEnthusiasm for the project and its potential global usefulness and impact. Ability and/or experience programming on PHP and some competence on webpage design and implementation. Experience with ArcObjects and/or equivalent software. Ability experience or enthusiasm to learn programming interfaces to GoogleEarth Pro. The student engaged in this project should also enjoy being creative and innovative. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 347 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Development of a Plantation Thinning Program using Arc/Info (Unix) Project Description: The project was to creat an application to read in attribute data from the Forest Resrouces Inventory file and stand densities from the Silviculture Information System file. The result would be a table listing by stand of all stands in need of thinning. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: M7A 1W3 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 156 Status: Completed Project Year: 1992 |
Project Name: City of Kawartha Lakes Trans Canada Trail Project Description: The City of Kawartha Lakes Trans Canada Trail project is designed to address the problem of a non-existing trail mapping database. A database is required that could be used to quickly find emergency access points adjacent land ownership properties and owners fencing conditions trail culverts bridges and other similar features adjacent sensitive area villages towns and schools along the trail as well as other features to be determined upon further consultation along the proposed TCT route within City of Kawartha Lakes. The TCT is 45 kms in length however it can be broken up into segments. A segment from Lindsay east to the Peterborough County boundary is a priority to be completed (a distance of approx. 20kms). Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: Collection of data using GPS GIS technology along a 20km route of proposed T.C.T.Creation of forms (stand alone application and/or on-line) for the input and editing of trail and other feature attributesCreation of an interface which allows an inexperienced user access to subsets of the data through/with predefined attribute and spatial queries (stand alone application and/or on-line) www accessibleA wall map that promotes the T.C.T. historical cultural environmental features Project Location: K9V 4R1 Organization Name: Friends of the Trans Canada Trail Project ID: 349 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Fleming College Base Map Development Project Description: There are several possible elements to this project. However the first element must be completed before any other parts of the project can be completed. 1) Data acquisition and data creation: using an appropriate software technology (preferably Esri's ArcGIS platform), gather and create the necessary topographic base data for any or all of the Fleming College campuses. This would include but not necessarily be limited to building footprints, roadways, water features, parking lots, trails, pedestrian walkways, trees, elevation, surface features, etc. For added detail, building interior layout (rooms, hallways, stairs) could be included as well as the development of any 3D features. Utilize existing data sources first (college building plans, etc) before embarking on data creation. 2) Assist in the migration of the data to the Community Maps data model and prepare the data for publication as part of the world topographic base map as it is hosted on ArcGIS Online. 3) Develop a 3D digital model of the campus(es) 4) Develop a way finding / room finding app that is accessible online that would allow users to route their path through the various campus buildings in a 3D format. Ideally this would utilize Esri technology. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual and logical data models may be required or developed, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: Negotiable, depending on the effort and interest of the students. At the very least, i would expect the completion of the collection and/or creation of all the required base data. Project Location: Fleming College, Lindsay, Ontario Organization Name: Esri Canada Project ID: 883 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Custom Electrical Utility Application Project Description: This project will be completed for a electrical utility. The general goal for the project is to create custom applications with in or outside ArcGIS to report on electrical outages areas that havehad tree trimming completed and up date customer transformer load information. There is also the request to have a ArcIMS page created so that internal staff can query view and print maps from a web GIS. This page must be customized to meet the needs of an Electrical Utility. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Web Technology Deliverables: This project will include customization of ArcMap to help report on outages on the electrical Network. This will be done using Network tracing though ArcMap. There must be an easy and friendly userinterface and printable reports.Update Transformer database with customer usage for load ratings on transformers. There has already been a custom application created for the load calculations however the database needs to be updated and a easy to use customized application to keep transformer database up to date.A custom ArcIMS Page to allow internal staff to query view and print maps from a web GIS. This must be a user friendly interface and a login so that only staff can access the information via the internet.Optional if time permits: The creation of a custom program using VB.Net or ArcMap (ArcObjects) to incorporate work management software with GIS. This is to be done to visually see where all Tree trimming work orders have beencompleted based on the users input. Project Location: P1H 2M2 Organization Name: Lakeland Power Distribution Ltd. Project ID: 353 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Cemetery Digital Mapping and Database Project Description: Currently the Township uses an Access database and hardcopy maps to track the information on the two municipal cemeteries in our borders. We would like to have digital mapping of one of these cemeteries specifically the individual plots of land for each grave. We would like the Access database to be redesigned in Access with a new interface (form) for data entry. The goal is to have staff enter data and have it automatically linked to mapping where the information can be visualized. The mapping will be viewed online by staff and should be implemented through the creation of an ArcIMS (AXL) map service that clearly presents the data and links to the database for information. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: The Township would require:an Access database populated with the data provided and a front-end form for data entry. The database should be designed with Oracle naming conventions and data types in mind as this database will be imported to Oracle in the future. an ESRI geodatabase containing all feature class data associated with the mapping of cemeteries.individual grave sites should be in polygon format with a UTM Zone 17 NAD83 projection and an annotation layer for all text marking each gravean ESRI Map document (mxd) file setup to interact with the database to visualize the informationa hard copy map for the cemetery size to be determined based on clearly communicating the informationtime permitting: an ArcIMS AXL file developed to incorporate mapping and database componentsThe ESRI geodatabase Access database MXD and AXL file should be delivered on a CD along with all of the original data used to start the project Project Location: N0B 1S0 Organization Name: Township of Centre Wellington Project ID: 354 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Map preparation for citizen science applications using Garmin Basecamp Project Description: We have a number of Garmin Etrex 10ÔÇÖs which we are using with students for an introduction to GPS and Geocaching, and are looking to get into GIS mapping. 2 years ago, we had a team from Fleming come and work to develop a map of the ponds etc. here P835 R: 2015-01-16 Mapping of Vernal Pools for possible Salamander Reintroduction And they did a good job. However, they were working in Arcview 10, which I had been assured the board could work with. It has turned out that it is too advanced for the school board computers. Even Arcview 9.3 has been unable to be used. I would like the map that the last team developed to be converted to Garmin Basecamp format and completed, and then to learn how to use it to submit sightings and records to various citizen science websites. This would be in order to allow us to match the grade 9 & 10 curriculum guidelines for GIS mapping Project Requirements: x Data Acquisition/Preprocessing XProgramming XCartographic Presentation XSpatial/Statistical Analysis Deliverables: 1) Convert the Arcview 10 map from the last class to Garmin Basecamp, and complete the map by getting the ponds that were not mapped onto the new map. 2) Develop a way to use Garmin Basecamp and the map from 1 to create GIS maps of different plant populations, where certain birds nest etc. for submission to Citizen Science sites on the internet. 3)Develop an instruction sheet detailing how to complete #2 in a way that the students can follow and work competently with. 4) Teach the naturalist on site the basics of the procedure, If he cannot figureit out from 3 Project Location: LLOEC c/o Terry Fox Public School, 1065 Riddell Ave, Cobourg, ON K9A 5N4 Organization Name: Northumberland Land Trust Project ID: 919 Status: Cancelled Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Database Library Development and TLB Aquatic Resources -Waterfowl Breeding Analyses Project Description: Database libraryKHC has identified the need to develop an advanced information management system to help organize its property data assess securement opportunities and to communicate its work to others. Key to achieving this is having access to well-organized and catalogued digital spatial base-data. Data CatalogueA data catalogue structure needs to be developed building on existing work by MNR NCC and other data partners. Data ConsolidationThird party basedata needs to be acquired and catalogued into the KHC information management system. This includes data provided by MNR CAs NRCan and othersKHC Derived DataMetadata needs to be developed for all KHC derived data. An example of this is the cultural inventory work undertaken by students in the summer of 2006. Other data includes property information priority areas farming analysis and the Land Between data sets. Map Templates and SymbolizationMap templates are needed for a variety of scales including the property level Township bioregion and Southern Ontario scales. Basedata features such as hydrology parks and toponomy needs to be symbolized and standardized. TLB Wetland mapping/shoreline quantificationIn order to facilitate improved and meaningful landscape and program planning a digital layer will be created using air photo mosaics provided and key attributes (provided as well) including wetland number and those associated with nesting activity will be tagged. The students will then conduct a spatial analysis of the shoreline relative to area for each township and contrast these to one township to the south and north of the Land Between ecotone. Analysis will be enabled through the use of waterlines/water polygons from the newly digitized resources and those provided through a data sharing agreement with OMNR for NRVIS data. Lastly waterfowl breeding activity will be analyzed using the nesting attributes/data from the Ducks Unlimited Canada and breeding potential estimated by the quantity of additional open water wetlands found in the area.More information available from Project Liaison Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Database libraryreport on data catalogue standardspopulated base-data libraryKHC internal data inventoried and cataloguedKHC map templates and symbolization standardsTLB Wetland mapping/shoreline quantificationUp to 7 georeferenced township maps each containing outlined wetland sites with key identifying numbers and further attributes within attached tables including number of nest boxes; breeding activity; beaver management etcAn analysis of percent shoreline (waterline) to area per township and including at least one township to the north and south of the Land Between ecotone.A gradient of breeding activityAn estimation of additional waterfowl productivity based on any newly found or unmanaged open water wetlands Project Location: K9J 7Y8 Organization Name: Kawartha Heritage Conservancy Project ID: 355 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Clearwater Area Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Project Description: Albertans enjoy a great abundance of natural resources. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (ASRD) works with Albertans across the province to ensure a balance between the economic environmental and social values of our province. We fight forest fires manage fish and wildlife oversee the development of Alberta's forests and manage the use of public lands. One aspect of ASRDs land management focus is recreation use. The Clearwater Management Area in west-central Alberta sees extensive and varied recreational use.Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (ASRD) is looking for assistance in preparing models and used to create the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS). The ROS provides information about recreation opportunities to resource managers and land use planners. The ROS identifies and classifies areas based on remoteness naturalness and expected social experience. This information not only aids in management of the resource but can provide users the ability to plan activities that suit their desires. ASRD would like to build ROS geoprocessing models for a pilot study in the Bighorn Backcountry west of Rocky Mountain House AB. These models would be used to test our parameters data inputs and ultimately the resultant ROS layers.Tools to create a Recreation Opportunity Spectrum will help us to better understand the potential that our land base has to support recreational activities. Once we understand this potential we can better manage the resource with this purpose in mind. ROS tools will also allow us to understand the impact of new and proposed developments on recreational pursuits. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: ASRD requires the following deliverables from the Clearwater Area Recreation Opportunity Spectrum project:ROS ArcGIS Geoprocessing ToolsThere are three ROS factors: Remoteness Naturalness and Social Experience. The prime deliverable of this project is a series of geoprocessing tools to assess/derive each of the ROS factors and combine them for final ROS creation. These tools need to be created using ArcGIS 9.2 (or 9.3) and may utilize ArcView ArcEditor or ArcInfo licensing. In addition to core ArcGIS functionality the tools may leverage Spatial Analyst or 3D Analyst. This functionality can be leveraged using ModelBuilder and/or Python. The use of any other software needs to be discussed an approved before proceeding.Refer to the following documents for a thorough description of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum and the application of ROS in British Columbia:Recreation_Opportunity_Spectrum.pdfBC_ROS_Procedures_Manual.pdfAs a starting point the parameters used in the British Columbia example will be used for the ASRD ROS tools. The ability to easily change these parameters is required. As ASRD Recreation Landuse Planners have not yet determined the viability of these parameters the ability easily change them is required. It is recommended that these inputs are parameters to a model or variables at the beginning of a script.ASRD will provide the data required to create and test the ROS tools. In the event that the ROS tools require the use of datasets that arent available anticipatory data may have to be created. ASRD staff will be available assist in the creation of these datasets.All outputs from the ROS tools should be stored in a file or personal geodatabase. The design of this geodatabase shall be the responsibility of the project staff.ROS Presentation and Cartographic ProductsThere are several stakeholders that are interested in recreational opportunities in the Bighorn Backcountry both within the Government and externally. In order to test and validate the methodology used in the ROS tool creation a series of cartographic products will have to be created. These products will clearly illustrate the interim steps and the final ROS products. Creative and cartographic license will be given to the project staff as long as the above objectives are met.A presentation will need to be made to ASRD staff involved in this project. This presentation will outline the methodology technology and results of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum tool creation. Project Location: T4T 1B3 Organization Name: Alberta Sustainable Resource Development Project ID: 584 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Barrie Open Data Project Description: The City of Barrie is looking to implement an Open Data portal for the dissemination of GIS and related datasets and mapping products for external and internal use in multiple formats. Information includes LiDAR, Aerials, and vector datasets (roads, parcels, parks, infrastructure, etc). The Open Data Portal will serve two purposes: 1. As the City expands and develops requests for digital GIS data is increasing, this portal will reduce staff time for data and mapping requests 2. Keep the City of Barrie aligned with other Governments agencies. Municipal governments are moving towards Open Data as a means to become transparent and provide better service to their clients. Project Requirements: Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: Esri Open Data Portal (custom to City of Barrie, searchable, simple user interface) Open Data Geodatabase ArcGIS Online Gallery Data ETL scripts converting production data to an open data SDE database Esri Story Maps if applicable Integration with Latitude if applicable Project Location: 70 Collier St, Barrie, Ontario L4M 4T5 Organization Name: City of Barrie Project ID: 887 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Threats Affecting Natural Systems in the Kawarthas Project Description: This project will map, analyze and predict a variety of threats that are influencing the natural heritage systems of the Kawartha region. These threats include: population increases, shoreline development, the 407 East Extension, habitat conversion and fragmentation, resource extraction, and invasive species. The project will portray and predict future impacts and identify areas and natural heritage systems that are most at risk from such threats. Project Requirements: ÔÇó Data preprocessing ÔÇó Spatial/statistical analyses ÔÇó Programming ÔÇó Cartographic presentation ÔÇó Web technology Deliverables: 1. Hard copy and electronic maps of current and predicted threats 2. Cumulative impact assessments 3. Report documenting the process, data sources, methodologies, and results, including statistical analyses. 4. Associated data layers Project Location: 1545 Monaghan Rd, Peterborough, ON K9J 5N3 Organization Name: Kawartha Land Trust Project ID: 920 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Energy Resource Assessment in Ontario Project Description: Ontario is currently debating our electrical energy supply and demand future. The Ministry of Natural Resources is responsible for a wide range of energy producing alternatives including the use of Crown resources for wind power water power forest biomass and oil and gas.The Ontario Power Authority is currently developing an Integrated Power System plan to ensure a sustainable supply of electricity.The MNR would like to conduct a thorough GIS analysis of the energy alternatives - where they are / how much is there / how close are they to existing transmission and distribution centres / land use constraints (ie parks topography etc) Project Requirements: Deliverables: A series of cartographic map products by energy theme including: -a provincial map showing status of existing inventory / opportunities-an overlay of existing generation facilities-an overlay of current land use constraints (ie parks)-an overlay of existing transmission and distribution lines-an analysis of "best bets" and options using GIS techniques to support the IPSPFinal products to include maps shapefiles Powerpoint slides and final report Project Location: K9J 4M5 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources, Renewable Energy Se Project ID: 357 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: CFIB Ottawa Area Districts by Postal Code Clusters Project Description: The Canadian Federation of Independent Business requires a map of the Ottawa region with major streets identified postal code boundaries and four CFIB territories (districts) as defined by postal code clusters. These maps are to be paper based. The maps will be used by District managers to identify the appropriate CFIB territory given the street address of a business. In addition a database containing summary information for each postal code and territory should be created along with thematics maps showing the results of data analysis. The ability to create further maps using data paired with the territories would also be nice.;Paper maps showing: for each CFIB district edge streets with address rangesfor the entire Ottawa Area CFIB districts and Postal Code clustersDatabase containingStreet Names by Postal Code and CFIB DistrictStreets on the border of CFIB Districts their address ranges and side of streetArea of each CFIB districtFor each CFIB district and possibly each Postal CodeRevenueTotal number of businessesTotal number of membersnumber of members or businesses for each industry code (if data is available)AnalysisPercentage of businesses that are CFIB membersFor each postal code and district total and average revenue from members per business For each postal code and district total and average revenue of businesses by industry code (if data is available)Comparison between districtsThematic map showing Analysis resultsTime permitting a web site showing postal codes and CFIB districts with interactive postal code symbols to list data from the databaseAll maps should meet cartographic standards and include the CFIB logo and colours.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization- Web TechnologySelf motivatedAn interest in businessGood cartographic skills Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: M2P 2A6 Organization Name: Canadian Federation of Independent Business Project ID: 586 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: Wye Marsh Management Plan Vegetation mapping Project Description: The Wye Marsh is currently partnering with CWS MNR and DU to develop an all encompassing management plan for the lands known as the Wye Valley. This process is entering phase two as collection of background information in the form of biological and economic values. Collection of biological values has begun with MNR researching within their capabilities the resources of importance within their realm. Vegetation mapping is an integral part of the development of a management plan to outline significant vegetation resources areas of sensitivity future trail development and an overall clear picture of vegetation communities contained within the Wye Valley. Though the MNR has committed to assisting they are not providing funds for this project. As a not for profit charity Wye Marsh relies on community support and initiatives to make projects like this happen. Students assisting in this project will gain valuable experience in field work Management Plan development supporting a valuable community charity and provide input directly into active conservation efforts. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: spatial data collected using GPS or from images mapping vegetation and natural featuresa well designed database for natural features populated with the attribute data for the features collecteda hard copy map illustrating the vegetation data collected in relation to Wye Marsh features and the surrounding areacreation of an interface which allows an inexperienced user access to subsets of the data through/with predefined attribute and spatial queries documentation supporting the data collected data accuracy how to query the data. Project Location: L4R 4K6 Organization Name: Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre Project ID: 359 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Future Climate Mapper: A spatially-explicit Web platform for modelling scenarios of climate change impacts on land degradation at national scale Project Description: The objective of this project is the design of a spatially-explicit web platform to enable users the selection processing and display of modelling scenarios of climate change and its impacts on land productivity and land degradation at national and sub-national scales. Under the auspices of the United Nations Food and Agricutlture Organization (FAO) Regional Office for Latin America this porject is related to activities oriented to the disemination to the public in general of information on the most probable climate change impacts on land productivity and degradation for future climatic conditions so that mitigation and adaptation options can be planned in partiucular those related to agricultural production decreases and food security. Project Requirements: Deliverables: The delivearables should include: A spatially-explicit web platform capable of:a). Area selection by entire country by sub-national area selection by coordinates polygon drawing on an "Earth" sphere (e.g. Google Earth or Google Maps) or by entering a shapefile with the polygon of the area.b). Seletion of the time horizon for the climate change modelling conditions. A limit number of horizons are to be provided by the web tool (e.g. short= 2020 medium = 2030 and long= 2050)c)Selection of the Global (General) Circulation Model (Climate model) and the IPCC emissions scenario to display projections for (e.g. CCM2 GLDF HAD-2 ECHAM5 etc.). Modelled grided data will be available for the tool as outputs from these models.d) Selection of the variable upon which the impacts of climate change are to be predicted: Net Primary Productivity Biomass Crop Yields of staple crops (3 crops maximum).e) Display on the area selected on the Globe (Google Earth or Google Maps) the spatial variability of: - Future climate variables (Temperature Rainfall Evapotranspiration) Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 601 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Well Aware Maps Project Description: Green Communities Canada (GCC) is a national association of non-profit organizations that deliver innovative practical environmental solutions to Canadian households and communities. Well Aware is a provincial program delivered in Ontario. It is a well stewardship program that engages the homeowner at their well and connects them with their property and local resources. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology- Deliverables: The maps will help homeowners and program managers where the program is delivered.The maps will also show GCC where the gaps are across the province and if there is any over- and under-saturation of areas. Project Location: K9J 7A5 Organization Name: Green Communities Canada Project ID: 604 Status: Completed Project Year: 2009 |
Project Name: The GIS Program of the Town of Nebo Archaeological Project Project Description: The Town of Nebo Archaeological Project (TNAP) was designed to examine, through archaeological excavation, the long term occupation at Khirbat al-Mukhayyat, located in central Jordan, and the role the site played in the ritual landscape of the region. After 2 field seasons, a substantial amount of geographical and topographical data has been collected and preliminary processing has begun. The project proposed here would contribute to TNAPÔÇÖs existing GIS program by expanding the application and manipulation of the collected data. The goals of this project include designing a user-friendly database, creating an accessible platform on which to present interactive and visual data to the public, contributing to the current GIS by adding historical and spatial data for all artefacts collected to date, geo-referencing and digitizing plans and maps of the site that were produced by previous excavation projects, linking the siteÔÇÖs database and GIS, and performing a preliminary viewshed analysis of the site and the area around it. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming Database Design/Processing Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology Deliverables: ÔêÖ creation of a site-wide database using Microsoft Access ÔêÖ creation of an accessible GIS, to be presented on the project website and social media, using Enterprise GIS ÔêÖ geo-referencing and digitizing old plans and maps of the site ÔêÖ design a program for ArcScene that will link it to the projectÔÇÖs database in order to incorporate excavation unit and artefact data ÔêÖ run various viewshed analysis queries of the existing spatial and geographic data Project Location: Jordan Organization Name: Wilfrid Laurier University Project ID: 923 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: GRID Assessment Program Project Description: How does the GRID work?The GRID is an operational test evaluation site that covers a 100 hectare plot (2000 metres by 500 metres) within the Cache Percotte Forest an Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) training forest located south of Hinton. Eighty-five sampling points were established in the test grid with a spatial accuracy of 0.5 metres. The grid is composed of a variety of forest covers terrains slope conditions aspects elevations and Gap Light Index. Each sample point was inventoried for various attributes and the information was collected to allow for analysis of hotspot identification. A hotspot is a small area of smoldering or glowing combustion which may be exhibiting smoke.The grid allows testing for the detection of hotspots (sensitivity of contractor equipment) the precision of hotspot mapping (using GIS) and the efficiency of the contract operations (delivery time and data format of products). When conducting a test 20 points are randomly chosen as targets using a point generator. The heat source at each selected target is either a pile of six charcoal briquettes or a propane stove with cast iron stove top or frying pan. The time and temperature at each target is recorded every second using hobo data loggers to ensure data integrity. An infrared contractor is given the extent of the grid and asked to provide a number of information products immediately or shortly after the flight. A typical evaluation takes approximately 65 minutes. A statistical comparison is completed between the known heat sources and those identified by the infrared contractor. Confidential reports are generated for each infrared company that flies the grid.Deliverables by IR ContractorThe GRID was created in Alberta to evaluate infrared (IR) providers using High Altitude (Fixed Wing) or Low Altitude (Helicopter) platforms to detect hotspots on a simulated wildfire backdrop. IR providers are responsible to provide a number of deliverables;a) A mission report (FP 60) in agreed format;b) All vector spatial data (hotspot and breadcrumb trail) delivered in shapefile format (*.shp *.dbf *.shx *.prj). The defined datum is NAD83 and the defined projection UTM. A CD or thumb drive is an acceptable delivery media after landing.c) An assessment of the found hotspots delivered as a digital map image file (JPEG PDF or BMP file format) and a printed map product.Current SetupA number of programs are used to complete the evaluations.ArcGIS is used to extract the variety of forest covers terrains slope conditions aspects and elevations for each target on the ground. Once extracted these values normally remain static. ArcGIS is also used to manually identify and compare the IR Contractors submitted targets with the actual ground targets. Gap Light Index is gathered for each ground target using the Gap Light Analysis program and can remain static for approximately 5 years at which point needs to redone to reflect the current situation. Students would not require this software.The main program that drives this evaluation process is Microsoft Access. Microsoft Access pulls all the contractors company information and evaluation information together and spits out a report on their findings.Greenline software is used to download data that is captured by the data loggers and assign an average temperature to each ground target to ensure it was hot during the evaluation. Students would not require this software.GRID Marking Schema This is not a program but information that is gathered during the evaluation is entered into the GRID Marking Schema to determine the outcome for each IR Service Provider;Alberta would like to have this whole process run in ArcGIS either as an extension or possibly as a Tool in ArcToolBox. However we are flexible to other suggestions.Program must include a way to identify the DEM and Vegetation datasets and the ability to process for update purposes. A comprehensive report generated on the ground targets that were used for each IR Contractor on the GRID. Report would be similar to the Microsoft Access database however in would not include information on False Targets. The report would produce the GRID Marking Schema results and if an IR Service Provider was successful a form letter indicating successful completion over the GRID and a certificate would be generated. The report would also generate an unsuccessful letter to those IR Service Providers that do not make the 80% rating. The unsuccessful letter would allow for comments to be added by the evaluators on what to improve for that particular IR Service Provider. Alberta would be looking for a report that is more appealing that its present form.A map product would be generated showing the location of the ground targets in relations to the targets submitted by the IR Contractor.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/VisualizationSince this project involves the gathering and reporting of Thermal Infrared information students may want to learn a little about how infrared is used in the suppression of wildfires. Project Requirements: Deliverables: 1. GRID Extent - Shapefile 2. Colour imagery to cover GRID extent at 1.5 metres - TIFF3. Alberta Vegetation inventory - GDB4. GRID Test Site - Shapefile5. TopoRaster - GDB6. Ground Target points - Shapefile7. Microsoft Access Database for previous evaluations MDB8. GRID Marking Schema - Excel spreadsheet9. Sample of Certificate10. Sample of Successful Completion form letter11. Sample of Unsuccessful Letter12. Gap Light Index values for each ground targt - Excel Project Location: T5K 2M4 Organization Name: Alberta Sustainable Resource Development Project ID: 605 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: York Region Forest Trails - enhancing and supporting a great user experience Project Description: This project will enhance the industry of tail assets and navigation support, as well as other trail characteristics to help users make more informed decisions before and during their trail walks/bike. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Database Design/Processing Cartographic Presentation Web Technology Deliverables: Enhance trail database - assets - seasonal characteristics - points of interest - navigation sites 360 degree photos annotated with navigation supports Trails/photospheres published to google maps using Ricoh Theta S Community website to crowd-source trail information Project Location: York Region 1725 Yonge St, Newmarket, ONT, L3Y 4W5 Organization Name: Regional Municipality of York Project ID: 924 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: VB .Net Programming and Geodatabase Development for the Petroleum Resources Centre MNR Project Description: The Petroleum Resources Centre (PRC) of the Ministry of Natural Resources utilizes a custom ArcMap application (PetroGIS) as their primary solution to their GIS and mapping needs. With the discontinuation of VBA in the post-releases of ArcGIS 9.4 converting the VBA code in PetroGIS to VB.NET is necessary. In addition to the migration new tools shall be developed entailing further VB.NET programming. The second part of the project includes creating a Geodatabase encompassing the Petroleum Spacing component of the PRC. Storing the data within a Geodatabase gives many advantages including identifying any topological errors. This project will involve an understanding of PetroGISs functionality PRCs petroleum well database and PRCs association with the petroleum industry. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: VB.NET code to run the existing customized tools in PetroGIS (currently running under VBA platform).Additional VB.NET Code: Improve the Wells Update button to create a shapefile from the .dbf table and add indexesTools to ease the creation of TractsAdd indexes to existing Update buttonsTool to create a point shapefile based on a list of DMS latitude/longitude coordinatesGeodatabase of the Petroleum Spacing data components.Maps displaying areas that require Petroleum Spacing corrections.Suggestions tips and ideas for the future development of PetroGIS and the Spacing Geodatabase. Project Location: N6M 0A9 Organization Name: Petroleum Resources Centre, MNR Project ID: 607 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Muldrew Lakes Cottage Association Map Project Description: The Muldrew Lakes Cottagers Association (MLCA) represents about 275 cottagers of 400 properties on Muldrew Lakes in Muskoka. The MLCA has recently completed a Lake Plan which has stimulated interest in information about the lake. The cottagers seek a map suitable for framing or mounting that they can display in their cottages to help orient them and their guests to the lake. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: Essential deliverables:Artwork suitable for having the map printed. The map could be cartographic or overlays on aerial photography (or both perhaps printed with one on each side of the page)The map should help cottagers to learn more about their lake the natural environment the history of cottaging on the lake the natural features (areas of natural and scientific interest deer wintering areas) adjacent reserves location of crown lands local landmarks low-speed zone for boaters (30m from shore) etc. Nice-to-have Deliverables:A web-based map that would allow users to turn on different layers of information and thus gain a better understanding of the information would allow members to download and print their own maps.Statistics about the lakes surface areas shoreline length.Coordinates of key landmarks to be printed on the map may require a site visit to obtain coordinates. Project Location: P1P 1T9 Organization Name: Muldrew Lakes Cottagers Association Project ID: 608 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Environmental Data Collection App using ArcGIS Online Project Description: To build a proof of concept on how new technology can help our Ministry in collecting environmental data from the general public via mobile app submissions. In this project, one of our ministryÔÇÖs program data, Lake Partner data, will be used. Lake Partner is a volunteer-based, water-quality monitoring program and there are more than 10 years of data available. Goals: 1) To develop an application which demoes how Lake Partner volunteers can submit their sampling through a mobile phone or tablet using ArcGIS Online; 2) To build a data model and demo how ministry staff can view and extract the sampling submissions and; 3) To analyse previous years of the lake partner data using spatial analysis/ visual analytics techniques and present any trends and or patterns discovered using ArcGIS Online (e.g. cascade, storymap templates) Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: This project expects the following deliverables: 1) A user friendly and intuitive application which demoes how Lake Partner volunteers can submit their sampling through a mobile phone or tablet using ArcGIS Online; 2) A data model which demo how ministry staff can view and extract the sampling submissions when there are future updates 3) Spatial/ trend/ geostatistical analysis on the previous years of Lake Partner data and documents findings and patterns 4) Communication products ÔÇô present the analysis findings using ArcGIS Online (e.g. cascade, storymap templates) or any other software products 5) Documentations Project Location: Etobicoke M9P 3V6 Organization Name: Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Project ID: 926 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Kawartha Bioregion Significant Shoreline Models Project Description: The Kawartha Heritage Conservancy (KHC) is a non-governmental charity whose mission is to conserve the natural and cultural heritage and distinctive landscapes of the Kawartha bioregion. Established in 2001 the Conservancy is a not-for-profit land trust that works with landowners and the community to identify and protect key ecological and cultural features of the Kawartha bioregion. Conservation priorities: The following are the priority features in the Kawarthas which will be the focus of the Conservancys securement activities. These priorities reflect distinctive features of the Kawarthas which are critical for maintaining ecological functions and the character or story of the region. Many of these need to be further refined and detailed as information and mapping is consolidated for example from initiatives such as Natural Spaces the Conservation Blueprint and the Big Picture 2002.Large Natural Shorelines (Lakes Rivers)Prairie RemnantsAlvars and Limestone FeaturesOak Ridges MoraineUnique Topographical Features (e.g. drumlins eskers hilltops)Significant WoodlandsMajor Corridors (The Land Between other landscapes and linkages)Important Cultural Sites Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: For this project the Conservancy is primarily interested in defining the regions significant shorelines and comparing them to existing or proposed land use designations. The natural shorelines are areas with natural cover and a lack of roads and human habitation and a ranking model may be developed to define desirable lands for land trust securement and stewardship. Analysis: Large Natural Shorelines (Lakes Rivers): define longest contiguous blocks and parcels of natural hydrological areas on major Kawartha lakes and riversE.g. query: what five properties have the longest natural shorelines on Stoney Lake?Comparison with Planning Designations: compare ecological analyses in items 1 and 2 with digitized current or proposed land use planning designations this analysis is secondary in priority (time permitting)Web GIS:compare and contrast different software and hardware solutions for hosting and presenting these data and analysis for the KHCProgramming: Apply these analyses and suitability models programmatically with user-defined criteria etc. (i.e. variable)Cartographic and web outputApply the criteria to maps using the best available information and technologies Project Location: K9J 7Y8 Organization Name: Kawartha Heritage Conservancy Project ID: 609 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Feature Extraction of Urban Topographic Features from LiDAR and Remotely Sensed Data Project Description: The City of Toronto collects topographic features using digital softcopy photogrammetry principles. This method of data collection is extremely manual, time consuming, costly, and limiting in the ability to hire new employees. Alternative approaches to collect such features is require in order to sustain the City's topographic mapping program. This project will evaluate alternative approaches using LiDAR data, remote sensing techniques, and potentially crowd sourcing options. Project Requirements: Deliverables: 1) Report outlining the approach, method, and results 2) Statistical comparison of the results with the source data 3) Final "extracted" vector data 4) Poster outlining the project Project Location: 18 Dyas Rd., Toronto, ON, M3B1V5 Organization Name: City of Toronto Project ID: 928 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Land Management of the Interior Dunes For Wasaga Beach Provincial Park Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Wasaga Beach, ON, Canada Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 53 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Designing and Testing Automated and Semi-Automated GIS Processes to Aid the Development of a Watershed Information System for Sierra Leone Project Description: The significance of Land Use Planning in a watershed context is increasingly recognized and implemented in jurisdictions around the world. Many of the food security and environmental challenges facing Sierra Leone such agricultural optimization (particularly wetland agriculture) seasonal flooding soil erosion and soil depletion could in-part be addressed through Land Use Planning with access to well structured GIS watershed layers. Sierra Leone currently has very little structured GIS data and no watershed mapping. They do however have very rich legacy hard-copy 1:50000 scale photogrammetrically derived topographic mapping. The hydrology features depicted on this mapping such as rivers steams swamps (points) swamp outlines (polygons) swamp cultivation (points) and rapids represent durable landscape features that could be productively utilized if captured and made widely accessible as structured GIS layers. It is believed these data could be additionally combined with satellite derived elevation data products (ASTER and SRTM) to produce authoritative watershed layers suitable to support effective and scale appropriate Land Use Planning across the country. It is believed an investment in the structured automation of these data would bring Sierra Leones digital GIS watershed fabric comparable to products we are operationally utilizing in Ontario Canada and indeed many North American jurisdictions. In 2009 a Fleming Application Specialist group successfully develop a series of training materials (including laboratory exercises manuals data models GeoDatabases on-screen voice-over instruction tutorials etc) to help standardize and coordinate hydrology feature (line point and polygon) automation from existing 1:50000 scale scanned Sierra Leonean topographic maps (all materials to be provided). This winter term the curriculum developed by this group will be utilized within the Fleming Geomatics Technician program as part of a major project with their GEOM20 Course (GIS Applications). Each student (approximately 30 students) will be tasked will digitally capturing the hydrology features for a manageable sub-watershed. This course will be taught by Hal Ward. It is envisioned that with success in this first run an ironed-out process can also be exported to the universities (under the direction of government departments) in Sierra Leone for implementation in their new GIS facility. It is believed that with the efforts of a couple generations of undergraduate students (both Fleming and Sierra Leonean) it will be possible to fully generate a full 1:50K Watershed Information System for Sierra Leone comparable to what we current have in Canada. To help the coop students understand these hydrology data and digital representation it is proposed that the students assist Hal Ward in the GEOM20 digitizing labs (Winter Term) where these data will be created. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization Deliverables: There are two primary elements to this project. The first is to work with the provided GEOM20 student hydrology digitizing results toDevelop some Quality Control scripts to error trap and flag topological digitizing errors (Bryce Matthews at the MNR has some tools (WRIP Toolbox) which could serve as a good source of ideas). Develop some Quality Control scripts to test and where appropriate repair hydrology network integrity (Bryce Matthews at the MNR has some tools (WRIP Toolbox) which could serve as a good source of ideas). Develop a small laboratory (consistent with the depth and format of provided 2009 digitizing labs) in order to teach hydrology network requirements to an undergraduate class. Identify and document common student digitizing errors. Provide digitizing recommendations directly in existing labs.Optional - To aid communication explore integrating these vector space products in a Google-Earth environment.A second focus of this project is to explore the potential of integrating these automated vector space hydrology data products with remotely sensed derived elevation data products in order to develop fully integrated watershed geospatial data layers.For the student digitized watershed utilizing the Digitized developed hydrology data layers (point line and polygons) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 3 arc-second elevation data the ASTER 1 arc-second elevation dataconstruct two full ArcHydro databases (one for each elevation data source) including terrain derivates and catchments for a digitized watersheds. (Links to data sources provided below).Spatially and statistically compare the DEMs acquired from the NASA-JPL ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) Global Elevation dataset with the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) elevation data. (Links to data sources provided below).Optional Comparison of ArcHydro Stream Burning (Hellweger F. 1997) methods with Enhanced Flow Direction Methods (Kenny and Matthews 2005) to optimize elevation and elevation derivative products for hydrology modeling applications. Project Location: Fourah Bay (College), Sierra Leone Organization Name: University of Guelph, School of Engineering Project ID: 611 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: The Land Registration System Application for the Town of Sutton Project Description: The original scope of this project ws to creat an interactive map of York Region's legal fabric and land registry information. Due to time constraints however the study area had to be reduced in size to only a portion of the Town of Sutton Georgina Township York Region. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Sutton, ON, Canada Organization Name: Not Available Project ID: 60 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: A Land Information System for the Townships of Galway and Cavendish Phase III: Crystal Lake Project Description: The Land Information System was designed as a pilot project for the client (the Township of Galway and Cavendish) the client requested the need to maintain general property information such as roll number owner zoning information and general property information in addition to easy access to this data from a computer based graphical system. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Kinmount, ON, Canada Organization Name: Township of Galway and Cavendish Project ID: 61 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Frost Campus Green Mapping Project Description: Produce a Green Map of the Frost Campus:Produce an interactive web-based map which identifies the numerous "green" features (e.g. alternative energy sources accessibility routes new wing features Atlantic salmon restoration site recycling system composting) of the Frost Campus of Fleming College.Explore low-cost "green" (e.g. open source) alternatives to expensive commercial software applications that may prove relevant to other individuals organizations & agencies interested in similar functionality and capability.Create an oppportunity for publicizing (e.g. conference presentation teaching presentations) both paper & web-based versions of the green map Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: A web-based interactive 'green' map of the Frost Campus.A print-based version of the 'green' map accompanied by an explanatory report.A report on the results of the alternative software assessments and investigations. Project Location: K9V 5E6 Organization Name: Sir Sandford Fleming College, Frost Campus Project ID: 360 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Mapping of the Oro Moraine in the Couchiching Conservation Region Project Description: The main purpose of the project was to use Geographic Information Systmes as an information tool for resource inventory and as an effective planning tool for the Oro Moraine landscape in Couchiching-Severn Conservation region. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Couchiching-Severn Conservation Area, ON, Canada Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 165 Status: Completed Project Year: 1999 |
Project Name: Land Base Definition of Camp Kawartha Property Project Description: Camp Kawartha (and Kawartha Outdoor Education Centre) is a not-for-profit year round residential facility that provides environmental education to about 4000 visiting students per year from across south central Ontario. Sessions from a portfolio of about 45 programs are delivered by staff to students at the main campus buildings and outdoors on a 200 acre property. The property is mostly comprised of an alvar plain that includes unvegetated limestone outcrop seasonal wetlands cedar stands open fields and juniper groves. A complete up-to-date map of the centres property and facilities does not exist. The project would provide a much needed layered geo-referenced product in graphical and digital formats that would facilitate a number of land based programs activities and exercises with visiting students. The resulting products would provide the basis for student GPS investigations landscape/vegetation mapping and definition of ecological relationships between living and non-living landscape elements. The manner in which the products would be used in the programs is potentially limitless.The products would also be used for the management of the property including the rehabilitation of vegetation communities that have been severely altered by invasive plant species. The rehabilitation of this area of alvar is of significance because of the special and rare nature of alvar landscapes. This will involve plantings removals and perhaps prescribed burns. This project will provide accurate definition of the landscape features and vegetation communities aiding in the development of complete and effective plans for all of these actions Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Digital files of geo-referenced data layers created from air photo interpretation and GPS dataDatabase for living and non-living featuresHard copy map illustrating data collected interpreted and analyzed Project Location: K0L 2H0 Organization Name: Camp Kawartha Project ID: 363 Status: Completed Project Year: 2007 |
Project Name: Evaluation of range expansion of Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in Ontario in response to climate change and potential impact on the livestock industry. Project Description: In the first half of the 1900s opossums (Didelphis virginiana) were rarely found anywhere in Ontario. The few records for this species were from the southwestern portion of the province. More recently there has been some evidence that the species is undergoing a range expansion in Ontario probably as a result of milder winters. Opossums remain active all winter but are stressed by low temperatures. It is believed that severity of winter climate sets a limit on the species northern distribution. Opossums will take over the burrows of other animals or build dens in brushpiles hollow logs or tree cavities. They eat a wide range of plant material as well as insects small mammals the young of medium-sized mammals amphibiansIt is not known exactly what effect a range expansion of this species would have on other wildlife species and on ecosystems in Ontario however it is likely that they would act as predators on many species and compete with others for food or den sites. Opossums can be trapped and their pelts sold by licensed trappers in the province however the pelts are of relatively low value so an increase in the population would be unlikely to have a large positive impact on Ontarios economy. Of more concern is a potential negative impact on the livestock industry. Opossums are the definitive host for the parasite Sarcocystis neurona. This protozoan can cause equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) a serious neurological disease in horses. As opossums extend their range across agricultural lands the potential for spread of this disease greatly increases. Gaining an understanding of the range expansion of opossums in the province is the first step in assessing these climate-change-associated risks to Ontarios natural ecosystems and livestock industry and in developing appropriate adaptation strategies. This research will examine existing Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) data sources to evaluate temporal and spatial opossum distribution changes. The temporally and spatially corresponding weather variables will be assessed to determine if there are correlations with opossum range expansions. This project has the following objectives:By extracting information from existing OMNR databases including the furbearer management information system (FURMIS) and the rabies trap-vaccinate-release (TVR) database determine known opossum occurrences in Ontario over the years for which records are available. Students will need to identify requirements for standardization between years establish a procedure for standardizing the data and complete the required programming. The data from the rabies TVR program will need to be standardized across years and in a format suitable for consolidation with records from FURMIS.Based on the above information which contains township or coordinate information about opossum capture locations develop spatial representations of opossum distributions in Ontario in GIS showing changes over the years. It may be necessary to adjust some of the records to reflect boundary changes over time (for example if location information is given using a township the township boundaries may have changed over the years).Calculate average annual rate and direction of range expansion or contraction for opossums.Extract relevant winter weather information from federal climate databases for the years for which opossum data are available (e.g. mean and minimum temperatures for the months of November to March number of consecutive days with temperatures below a pre-determined minimum etc.)Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) staff will be checking available databases to see if information on EPM occurrence in horses in Ontario can be extracted. If EPM data is available in a suitable format develop spatial representations of EPM occurrence in horses over the years for which data are available and analyze it for correlations with opossum distributions.To complete the steps of this project students would be required to massage existing datasets into spatial databases that can be analyzed together in an ESRI environment. Relevant opossum distribution data climate data and EPM occurrence data should be charted and graphed in a format that can be easily added to scientific journals technical reports and publications. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: All deliverables should be in a format that can be readily imported to presentations or scientific journal technical report and publication documents.DataSupplied data will need to be massaged for use in ESRI environment.Existing tabular datasets (FURMIS Rabies TVR) will need to be converted to spatial datasets to be provided as shape files. Cartographic ProductsTime series maps showing opossum range shiftsTime series maps for climate data (e.g. minimum monthly temperature maximum number of days below a defined temperature etc.)Time series maps showing occurrence of EPM in horses.All maps need to exist in PDF JPEG and MXD formatsIt would be excellent if this information could be animated and ready for presentation.It would be execellent if the user interface for ArcMap could be customized to allow users to map custom queries Statistical AnalysisTables graphs charts or other suitable representation of the following in a format suitable for easy addition to scientific journals or technical publications:Total number of opossum records by year by townshipMaximum spatial extent of opossum population for each timeframe compared to significant climate variables (e.g. maximum number of consecutive days below a pre-determined temperature minimum monthly temperature etc.)Climate data by year and locationTotal number of EPM occurrences in horses by year by townshipMaximum spatial extent of EPM occurrence in horses for each timeframe compared to opossum distribution.DocumentationDetailed documentation on all analysis and data preparation work undertakenAll code written to achieve any aspect of this project Project Location: K9J 8M5 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 511 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Industry Toolbox for ArcGIS Desktop Project Description: This project is to create a packaged set of resources for ArcGIS Desktop that is tailored to specific application areas of verticals. To get some idea of a similar project look at the collection of template data models for specific verticals markets on the support site:http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.gatewayThese have been put together by people from industry and academia. They are an attempt to standardized database models - standardize GIS content - for specific areas. ESRI simple hosts and publishes the models and we promote them for our user community.ESRI Canada would like to see a similar idea for the Geoprocessing Framework for ArcGIS desktop. A collection of GP tools scripts and models that provide basic or common tasks for different GIS application areas. For example a collection of Geoprocessing tools for forestry for agriculture for public works. This could be applied to any number of industries.;Downloadable package of Geoprocessing Models scripts and documentation. The Models and tools will need to work with the Geoprocessing framework and be documented with help information (this is part of the Geoprocessing Framework no special help system compiler is needed).The workflows will need to be researched. In other words students should expect to interview a number of clients and industry experts to come up with required models and workflows. ESRI Canada will arrange the contacts.Optionally the GP models could be used in both ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server. An additional deliverable could be simple web applications using the same tools via the task framework in the web ADF for ArcGIS Server 9.2 Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: Project Location: M3C 3R8 Organization Name: ESRI Canada Ltd. Project ID: 513 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: A Flash Map website using MAPublisher Project Description: Avenza Systems requires a website to be created for marketing purposes which will display the Flash capabilities of the MAPublisher product. The project will allow students to collect data using Avenzas MAP GPS software create a cartographic product for print using MAPublisher prepare and export the cartographic product to Flash using MAPublisher Flash and then create a website to display the final product and workflow. Also Students will also be given the opportunity to express interest in an appropriate field of study as well as an appropriate study location. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: The process of the project will be for students to 1)Collect data in the field using the MAP GPS software provided2)Use the collected data along with additional acquired data to create a map of the study area 3)Use the software provided to create a Flash map to be displayed on a website (map will have attributes zooming panning etc included)4)Construct a website to display the Flash map and relevant information.5)Document and describe the complete project workflow and methodologies in proper report format. Project Location: M4S 2Z2 Organization Name: Avenza Systems Project ID: 515 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Aboriginal Involvement and Referral Program Project Description: The Aboriginal Involvement and Referral Program helps to bring Aboriginal Communities of the Alberta Foothills together with Industry representatives in the hopes of protecting Aboriginal Communities Traditional Use Sites from disturbance during industry development on the landscape. One important step in the success of this program is the Referral Process a GIS enabled process that encompasses everything from the processing of raw GPS data collected by Aboriginal Communities to the generation of database reports and maps for distribution to both industry representatives and Aboriginal Community members. The goal of the project is to automate and possibly web-enable portions of the Referral Process. Tasks may include processing of raw GPS data building of user friendly data entry forms in MS Access joining of spatial and non-spatial data automating the spatial analysis component of the process web-enabling data entry and the industry request process automating the generation of maps and reports and reviewing and potentially updating the design of both a spatial and non-spatial database.The simplest way to describe the referral process is to say that the Foothills Model Forest (FtMF) takes GPS data from Aboriginal Communities and compares it to legal locations provided to the FtMF by industry representatives. The FtMF then generates reports and maps based on the results of the comparison and provides these to both Aboriginal Community members and industry representatives so that they may communicate more effectively and avoid potential conflicts.The Aboriginal Involvement and Referral process with which the students will become associated through this co-op project is a nation leading initiative which has documented the highest density of traditional use sites in Canada. The referral process is also the leading mitigation protocol having already protected over 90 traditional use sites from disturbance. ;Updated potentially re-designed Personal GeodatabaseUpdated potentially re-designed non-spatial databaseApplication/code that automates the spatial analysis portion of the Referral ProcessApplication/code that automates the report generation portion of the Referral ProcessApplication/code that automates the report map generation portion of the Referral ProcessApplication/code that allows for data entry and industry requests via the web Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: Project Location: T7V 1V3 Organization Name: Foothills Model Forest Project ID: 521 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: WANTED: Wildlife Sightings Project Description: The Toronto Zoo currently has an online form allowing users to report wildlife sightings (dead or alive) along roads. Currently the information obtained for this website is not being used.(http://www.torontozoo.com/Conservation/RoadEcologyGroup.asp?pg=sighting);Redesign and update database including links to image files along with the creation of a number of queries and reportsUpdate website including link to Google Earth so users can obtain coordinates for sightings links to images to assist in species identification and link to database.Create toolbar and templates in ArcGIS for mapping:user-specified by species and area overall biodiversity date time observer or weather and which data layers to includeroad classification based on numbers of wildlife sightings for user-specified areachoropleths of sightings based on distances from wetlands or time of yearWell written user manual with step-by-step instructions on how to update and print layouts;- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web TechnologyAbility to create easily comprehensible layouts and to create templates so user-defined layers can be easily obtained by computer novices. Background in natural resources would be an asset but no necessary. Project Requirements: Deliverables: 1. Access database2. Data and images for updating database content3. All layers required for analysis and templates - wetlands roads forest SOLRIS/Land use layers;;Data provided will be for project use only. There will be some limits on what sightings can be made public such as at the Open House specifically of endangered species. Project Location: M1B 5K7 Organization Name: Toronto Zoo Project ID: 613 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: On-Line Tool for Whos Your City? Project Description: Richard Floridas latest book which is scheduled for release in March 2008 is titled Whos Your City? The book is about theimportance of place but also discusses how people can go about selecting the place that they will live. I have attached a draft copy ofthe final chapter of the book and its associated graphics. We will have developed by the time the book is released a fairly genericwebsite that will allow people to specify their own unique criteria and weightings of various factors in order to see a list of their owntop places. For an example that we helped to develop see http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/bestcities/We would like to develop a map-based much more interactive version of the tool. What we really want is something that wouldallow people to change their priorities or answers to the questions and then simultaneously see the results being updated on a map. Itwould be ideal if they could also specify different types of visual displays just numbered or colored or different sized push pins forthe top 10 top 25 top 50; a heat map version which would show more the general regions that offered the best fit; a version thatwould hide or shade parts of the country that dont meet their criteria; other cool ideas would be most welcome. The idea is to havean interactive way for people to specify their own unique criteria see what place is best for them and also gain an understanding ofthe what-ifs and the trade-off relationships among the various criteria. For example what happens if Im not as concerned aboutcrime? or schools? or what if cost isnt a factor? What happens if I say I would be happy to live anywhere and not just on the eastcoast? those kinds of things.We would be able to provide all the raw data. It would need to be organized into an accessible on-line database and the webapplication developed. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: 1. The web application installed and running on our servers/with our hosting company; designed to University of Toronto and Rotman School standards but respecting the design language of the Martin Prosperity Institute.2. It would need to cover the US and Canada at a minimum but could be designed to also work for all OECD countries(Europe Australia New Zealand Japan others). Support for the whole world would be possible but data availability wouldbe more limited adding regions could be an option.3. a database to drive the application/store all the data.4. process and procedures maybe web-based to update the database.5. fully documented and commented source code and a technical manual explaining tools used technical standards followedand other technical design decisions that a support programmer would need to know.6. a way to capture the criteria people are entering for later research and analysis. Project Location: M5G 1L7 Organization Name: The Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Project ID: 522 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Federal Nuclear Emergency Plan Online Mapping System Project Description: The Federal Nuclear Emergency Plan is Canadas national radiological and nuclear (RN) emergency preparedness and response plan administered and led by Health Canada. The plan provides the federal operational framework for the multi-departmental response to an RN emergency affecting Canada or Canadians abroad. Over 20 federal departments and agencies have specific responsibilities listed in the plan. The FNEP also supports the provincial response to an RN emergency provides the framework for radiological consequence management in support of Canadas National Counter-terrorism Plan and links to the Canada-United States Joint Radiological Emergency Response Plan and international arrangements and obligations such as the IAEA Conventions on Early Notification and Assistance. The Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response Division (NEPRD) of Health Canadas Radiation Protection Bureau coordinates the plan. In order to fulfill its mandate the NEPRD has a set of modeling and spatial analysis tools. One of those tools is a web mapping application called E-Map. The application is based on MapXtreme engine and is programmed in C#.NET. NEPRD would like to convert this application to an ArcGIS Server application while at the same time including new functionalities. It should be noted that knowledge of C#.NET is not a pre-requisite as the application can be designed from scratch.The application should provide the following functionalities:Basic functionalities:Basic map navigation (zoom in/out panning next/previous map view)Information from active layersDistance and area measurementZooming to specified featuresCreating printable layouts (pdf format) Searching layersAdvanced functionalities Adding/removing layersSetting layer visibility Controlling layer symbologyAdding/removing labelsAttribute querying on active layersSpatial querying on active layerTheme-on-theme selectionBuilt-in queries (e.g. population land use etc.)Adding measurement point dataUploading filesFunctionalities should be grouped in Basic and Advanced. The spatial data must be stored in a Microsoft SQL database and accessed through ArcSDE.;The project deliverables will consist in:- A fully functional ArcGIS Server web mapping application - Documentation (methodology code and installation manuals);- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology- Entreprise geodatabase design with Microsoft SQL Server- Web programming skills particularly for ArcGIS Server- Graphical interface design;1. MapInfo data 2. Shape files;;Students will be given access to the current E-Map on a strictly confidential basis. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K1A 0K9 Organization Name: Health Canada Project ID: 614 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Relocation of Independent Health Facilities for the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care in the Hamilton Wentworth County Project Description: The purpose of the project is to incorporate GIS into the Ministry of Health Facility Branch decision making process to incorporate it into their examination and analysis of markets for the poetentioal opening or closing of hospitals based on population and utilization Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Hamilton, ON, Canada Organization Name: Ministry of Health Project ID: 207 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Analysis of shoreline and waterfowl breeding activity Project Description: The Land Between (TLB) is a transition zone extending east to west from southern Georgian Bay to near Kingston and between southern Ontario and the Canadian Shield. It is a mosaic ecotone of exposed limestone and granite bedrock interspersed with small pocket aquatic resources and has a distinct complement of human cultural features and wildlife communities. The Land Between is situated between ecoregions (Shield and Lowlands) and also between OMNR and Conservation Authority jurisdictions resulting in limited knowledge or data to characterize the values and functions of this area. Furthermore a true boundary for the ecotone has not been verified. The area remains relatively in tact compared to ecosystems in southern Ontario however development and resource extraction are rapidly increasing making the need for meaningful resource based planning essential. In addition to the limited data restricting the execution of meaningful and strategic landscape-scale planning the use of planning tools such as the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System is constrained due to the numerous and uncharted small interconnected wetlands.It is presumed that there are small and interconnected aquatic resources across this area whereas areas to the north contain larger homogeneous lowlands and contained and contiguous waters distinguishable from one another characterize those to the south. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Experience has shown that in the Land Between the digitization of aerial photos and so estimation of wetland pockets will highlight approximately 80% more wetlands than are recognized by current data sets. This new data will allow for appropriate planning at meaningful scales.It is also surmised that The Land Between and its extent may be characterized by a markedly high shoreline length relative to area compared to those ecoregions to the north and south. Once aquatic resources are digitized and a more comprehensive water-polygon data set exists for the area (newly digitized wetlands plus those already contained in NRVIS) calculating shoreline to area percentages within the ecotone and relating this percentage to areas outside the area will help to define and bound the Land Between.Lastly as aquatic resources are pocketed and abundant the Land Between is known to harbor extensive waterfowl habitat. Nesting of waterfowl is dependant on the amount of open water within a wetland and secondly will occur only if privacy (cover) is available so that pocketed or small and deep wetlands as those found in the Land Between are ideal. As water levels fluctuate so then does the nesting activity and success of waterfowl. Changes in breeding activity may then be tracked and correlated to changes in climate and condition.Ducks Unlimited Canada has long-term nest box monitoring programs in various townships and will provide along with air photo mosaics for digitization nesting data related to key wetland sites. An estimation of current and potential breeding activity will be calculated from this data and by quantifying the availability of suitable aquatic resources. In order to facilitate improved and meaningful landscape and program planning a digital layer will be created using air photo mosaics provided and key attributes (provided as well) including wetland number and those associated with nesting activity will be tagged. The students will then conduct a spatial analysis of the shoreline relative to area for each township and contrast these to one township to the south and north of the Land Between ecotone. Analysis will be enabled through the use of waterlines/water polygons from the newly digitized resources and those provided through a data sharing agreement with OMNR for NRVIS data. Lastly waterfowl breeding activity will be analyzed using the nesting attributes/data from the Ducks Unlimited Project Location: K0M 1S0 Organization Name: The Land Between Program Project ID: 535 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Kawartha Bioregion Significant Woodland Models Project Description: The Kawartha Heritage Conservancy (KHC) is a non-governmental charity whose mission is to conserve the natural and cultural heritage and distinctive landscapes of the Kawartha bioregion. Established in 2001 the Conservancy is a not-for-profit land trust that works with landowners and the community to identify and protect key ecological and cultural features of the Kawartha bioregion. Conservation priorities: The following are the priority features in the Kawarthas which will be the focus of the Conservancys securement activities. These priorities reflect distinctive features of the Kawarthas which are critical for maintaining ecological functions and the character or story of the region. Many of these need to be further refined and detailed as information and mapping is consolidated for example from initiatives such as Natural Spaces the Conservation Blueprint and the Big Picture 2002.Large Natural Shorelines (Lakes Rivers)Prairie RemnantsAlvars and Limestone FeaturesOak Ridges MoraineUnique Topographical Features (e.g. drumlins eskers hilltops)Significant WoodlandsMajor Corridors (The Land Between other landscapes and linkages)Important Cultural Sites Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: For this project the Conservancy is primarily interested in defining the regions significant woodlands and comparing them to existing or proposed land use designations. The significant woodlands ranked suitability model will be analysis based on previous work by the Eastern Ontario Model Forest Kawartha Conservation MNR models and the Large Woodland Conservation Cooperative. A ranking model may be developed to define desirable lands for land trust securement and stewardship. Analysis: Significant Woodlands: suitability analysis to determine a ranking and weighting system to quantify the thresholds within the criteria.E.g. query: what five properties have the most significant woodlands in each township?Comparison with Planning Designations: compare ecological analyses in item 1 with digitized current or proposed land use planning designations.Programming: Apply these analyses and suitability models programmatically with user-defined criteria etc. (i.e. variable)Cartographic outputApply the criteria to maps using the best available information and technologies Project Location: K9J 7Y8 Organization Name: Kawartha Heritage Conservancy Project ID: 616 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Smithville Phase IV Bedrock Remediation Program Project Description: This project is designed to develop a customized Graphical User Interface enabling the user to draw powerful maps and perform powerful spatial queries. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Smithville, ON, Canada Organization Name: Not Available Project ID: 209 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Solar PV Community Power Project- Land classification and assessment Project Description: Evergreen Power Solutions is interested in developing a Solar PV Community Power Project which will generate renewable electricity to be sold into the public distribution grid as useable electricity. This power plant will use photovoltaic (PV) solar cells which collect the energy from the Suns rays and convert it into electricity. Once installed solar PV is CO2 emission free. The estimated size of the project produced by Evergreen Power Solutions would be 1-10MW which will occupy anywhere from 10to 100acres of Land. The land required to build this project will need to be in close proximity to a sub-station and transmission lines with the capacity required to properly transfer all generated electricity back to the grid. Evergreen Power Solutions seeks to organize a GIS project that will display potential land suitable for a Solar PV Community Power Project. Land for such a project must contain a zoning classification of 4 or higher and will ideally be owned by the City of Kawartha Lakes. The surface of the selected area will need to be relativity level to support Solar PV Panels and to decrease potential shading thus the calculations of both slope and aspect will need to be considered. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Apply the criteria to maps using the best available information and technologies. Land that fits all criteria of a solar farm: Size 50 acres +/extent Land development/zoning/ownership Slope/aspectSignificant Substations/ transmission lines All sub-stations in and surrounding the selected land. Three phase transmission lines within and near the property.Site Comparisons: Suitability analysis to determine a ranking system for the three selected sites to establish the most fitting location for a large scale Solar PV Community Power Project.Project deliverables can be developed by first using zoning and classification data owned by the city of Kawartha Lakes which Evergreen Power Solutions have full access to. This data will help distinguish three parcels of land within a 40 by 60 kilometer area that can be used to build a solar PV community project. These parcels of land should be 50 acres or greater with a land classification of 4 or higher within a specified area established by Evergreen Power Solutions. After three locations have been chosen slope and aspect will be calculated using DEM photos provided by Fleming College. Data regarding substations and transmission lines surrounding the three sites will be provided by Evergreen Power Solutions. After all aspects of the project have been completed a site comparison between the three locations will be conducted by the students showing the positive and negative attributes of each site. Project Location: K9V 4R8 Organization Name: Evergreen Power Solutions Project ID: 617 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: OLTA Mapping Project Project Description: OLTA requires an interactive map and database for our website. As a provincial organization we need to provide information on our members including their areas of operation missions property holdings and contact information. At the current moment our map is strictly a graphic with no interactive capabilities. At the end of this project students will have created an interactive map and database for our website where individuals can move through the map to gather information on individual land trusts throughout Ontario. In addition a select few of the Land Trusts will provide expanded information so that individual parcels and their associated attributes can be accessed.;Digital boundaries for 36 individual land trustsCombined map of all the digital boundariesWeb application for the map and databaseAccess Database linked to the mapStudents should provide recommendations on what types of software should be used for this project so that OLTA can manage it into the futureExpanded attribute information for a selected number of land trustsOptional opportunity to investigate potential to link the web application to Google Maps Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: Project Location: M5T 2C2 Organization Name: Ontario Land Trust Alliance Project ID: 618 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Haliburton Highlands Soil Mapping _ Capacity for Agriculture Project Description: The Land Between is a region bordering the Algonquin Dome and which marks the transition between the arable lands of the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the forests of the Canadian Shield. This region spanning from Georgian Bay to the Frontenac arch is an ecotone and as such boasts some of the highest diversity in Ontario. Too unique characteristics include limestone and granite barrens; predominately shallow soils (estimated at less than 15cm deep on average); while interconnected rivers small lakes and wetlands contribute to the highest percentage of shoreline to area than anywhere else in Ontario. This lack of buffering capacity and rapid drainage makes the region highly susceptible to contamination and slow to recover from disturbance. In addition the region displays small and dispersed communities whose economic bases are mostly reliant on tourism and seasonal cottaging. Little to no industrial sector is present. The goals of The Land Between include enhancing the economic and natural amenities of the region. An increased focus and demand for viable agriculture in the region is becoming apparent in Official Plans as well as desire expressed by landowners which in turn will support sustainable and meaningful economic development. Farms at Work is a program focused on the research preservation and enhancement of working farmlands in Central Ontario. The program also focuses on best practices and stewardship of both farms and farming heritage/practices. It is well understood that farming contributes greatly to the economic diversity and development within a region and especially during climate change a locally accessible and viable farming sector provides for those essential goods and services also providing a buffer or resistance to current recessive economic traits. The abiotic characteristics of an ecosystem determine the vegetative communities and land uses that are available. The understanding of soils specifically provides a baseline of information leading to an understanding of forest type and cover wetland locations buffering capacity and vulnerability of landscapes as well as potential for agriculture.The Haliburton Highlands is central in The Land Between and is a focus area or pilot area to for Farms at Work. Furthermore of all the counties across the region Haliburton has the least economic diversity and farming activities. Surprisingly Haliburton is the only County across the region that has no surficial deposit mapping/mapping of soils.Therefore this project is the first step in delineating researching enhancing and integrating key baseline data for many aspects of planning stewardship and development in the highlands. Arable lands will be delineated and then may be prioritized to introduce manage and steward farming within the county. However the utility of the data and results are meaningful extending beyond this sector; affording advanced research and management of all natural features including the ability to remotely delineate habitats vegetative communities hazard zones. In turn the ability to prioritize stewardship and monitoring efforts will be available. It will provide the first available source of data that is much needed and may be utilized and refined by partners such as Agriculture Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs. Soils will also affect landscape planning by increasing the ability to assign set back requirements and buffer zones for development.The project will involve digitizing the only comprehensive hard-copy inventories of soils for the area: the Aggregate Resources Inventory Reports (ARIP) referenced to natural resource and municipal data provided. A database and attribute table will be created to link and assign soil type and depth to the georeferenced layers. The data will then be queried to highlight potential and best choices for arable lands by looking at soil depth and type; access hazard areas and access to water. If time permits site reconnaissance/surveys will be done in key area to test and ground-truth results. If time is not available truthing may be done using vegetative community/forest stands (FRI data).An assessment comparing the average depth of soils in Haliburton will be conducted and if time permits an analysis comparing those depths of soils to soils immediately south of The Land Between/St. Lawrence Lowlands (provided by OMAF surficial geology data). Results will then be captured in a final mapped product and made available to the partners and placed within one-page dedicated Farms at Work website and will be made available on The Land Between website. ;Georeferenced shapefile(s) containing surficial deposits/soils for Haliburton County (and if needed separated by township)A database and attribute table containing polygon ID#; soil type and soil depthA query and resulting map of arable lands and potential farmlands within Haliburton CountyVerification involving ground truthing (site visits) or comparing with vegetative community/forest stands (FRI data)Analysis/results providing the average depth of soil in areas containing deposits for Haliburton and if time permits comparing soil depth in Haliburton to those immediately south of the Land Between within the St. Lawrence LowlandsA one-page content on the Farms at Work websiteA final report with process and findings and including database query methods;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K0M 1S0 Organization Name: The Land Between Program Project ID: 619 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Comparative Analysis of Far North Disturbance Mapping Project Description: Satellite based mapping can provide a timely and efficient means of identifying natural disturbance. Of particular interest is to reliably map fire events across Ontario's Far North. Current efforts include disturbance mapping using a 3 date time series approach based on Landsat data. A complementary approach is to use coarser resolution imagery known as MODIS to uncover fire disturbance events. The similarities and differences between these 2 approaches are unknown. The objective is to perform qualitative and quantitative comparison of the 2 mapping approaches for selected portion of the Far North. A secondary objective is to compare the findings to aerial survey data for the same area. An expected outcome is to apply web-based solutions to graphically display the results of the comparisons.;Data preprocessingTwo datasets (grid products) representing the outcomes of applying different fire mapping approaches will be provided. A third aerial survey (vector) dataset will be provided. Supporting imagery will be provided to help in making the comparison between the approaches. Some preprocessing steps may be required such as ensuring common projections resolutions and suitable image enhancements. Students are encouraged to apply other indices beyond the normalized difference vegetation index used in the analysis. Similarly exploring earlier time periods using Landsat or other data is encouraged. Spatial / Statistical AnalysisSummary statistics and observations will be recorded showing areas of over and under - estimation agreement and commission/omission. A brief report and presentation describing the objectives methodologies and findings will be required. Insights gained and comments regarding practicality of examined datasets are encouraged.Presentation/VisualizationObservations and possible explanations for similarities and differences will be graphically presented and included in a web based solution.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Project Requirements: Deliverables: ESRI compatible dta will be provided as a geodatabase (ArcGIS v9.2) including1/ aerial survery data delineating fire events (vector)2/ landsat satellite change analysis results (grid) and corresponding satellite imagery (tiff/pix)3/ MODIS satellite fire mapping results (grid)4/ basic descriptions of datasets and methodologies being investigated Project Location: K9J 8M5 Organization Name: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Project ID: 622 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Altberg Nature Reserve Ecosystem Map Project Description: Ontario Nature would like an accurate ecosystem map of the Altberg Nature This map will include geological hydrological and biological information about the Altberg Wildlife Sanctuary Nature Reserve. Altberg is the largest nature reserve in the Federation Nature Reserve System in Ontario. The Altberg Wildlife Sanctuary Nature Reserve (AWSNR) encompasses 470 hectares (1163 acres) of a central Ontario woodland and wetland. The nature reserve straddles the contact between the granitic rocks of the Canadian Shield and the limestone of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence forest a unique area known as The Land Between Because of its position the reserve hosts a diversity of ecological communities such as marshes wet meadows swamps forests and old fields. The Interior forest which is uncommon in this area provides habitat for Red-shouldered hawk Hermit ThrushCurrently a basic map of the reserve and public hiking trail network is set up by the small parking lot off of City Rd. 45. However this map contains errors and the map of the entire reserve is only included as a small inset map. ; Update existing spatial data using field assessment aerial photo possibly satellite images etc ELC (Ecological Land Classification) map of the Altberg Nature Reserve that will be made available to the Kawartha Field Naturalists and Ontario Nature. Present the map project to the Kawartha Field Naturalists at their meeting on Monday June 7 2010. ;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Presentation/Visualization An additional course requirement will need to be added to this project Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: M5V 1R9 Organization Name: Ontario Nature Project ID: 624 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Federal Nuclear Emergency Plan Mobile GIS Project Description: The Federal Nuclear Emergency Plan is Canadas national radiological and nuclear (RN) emergency preparedness and response plan administered and led by Health Canada. The plan provides the federal operational framework for the multi-departmental response to an RN emergency affecting Canada or Canadians abroad. Over 20 federal departments and agencies have specific responsibilities listed in the plan. The FNEP also supports the provincial response to an RN emergency provides the framework for radiological consequence management in support of Canadas National Counter-terrorism Plan and links to the Canada-United States Joint Radiological Emergency Response Plan and international arrangements and obligations such as the IAEA Conventions on Early Notification and Assistance. The Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response Division (NEPRD) of Health Canadas Radiation Protection Bureau coordinates the plan. During an RN incident NEPRD uses models complemented with field measurements to evaluate the impact of the incident on the ground on humans and the environment. For this reason NEPRD would like to develop an ArcGIS mobile application that would allow transfer of data collected in the field to a central database. This data would then be automatically mapped into a web GIS application and made available to the people in the field. The same application would also be used in the planning of exercises. In this case data would be created in the database prior to the exercise and automatically displayed in the field while exercise participants would be simulating data collection in the field based on pre-recorded coordinates.This project will involve researching on the best way to fulfill this requirement. Whereas the software to be used in this project is ArcGIS mobile NEPRD would like to know which hardware would be best suited to its needs (e.g. notebooks PDAs cells phones etc.). Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technolog Deliverables: The project deliverables will consist in:A fully functional ArcGIS mobile GIS application Documentation (methodology code and installation manuals)Recommendations on the best tools Project Location: K1A 0K9 Organization Name: Health Canada Project ID: 625 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Crowe Bridge Conservation Park Trail Map/Web Site/Brochure Project Description: Crowe River Conservation Authority has decommissioned parkland near Campbellford at a location refered to as the Crowe Bridge Park in 2007. A not for profit community organization called the Friends of Crowe Bridge Park was formed and have reopen the parkland for day use. There are approximately 8 kms of non motorized trails located on the property that are in need of planning inventory mapping signageand natural history interpretation. The need to increase use through promotion of the site will ensure this picturesque site is retained for future generations. Project Requirements: Deliverables: 1) Inventory of flora and fauna located within 5 metres each side of all the trails. 2) Camera Ready trail brochure3) Web site promoting park activities with emphasis on trail opportunities4) High Quality GIS trail map that can be posted on the web site and produced as a handout.5) Map identifying operational upgrades needed to improve and enhance trails in the park. Project Location: K0L 1L0 Organization Name: Friends of Crowe River Bridge Project ID: 630 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Tourist Information System for the Trent Severn Waterway Project Description: The project team was asked to create an interactive tourist information system designed to allow anyone to explore the Trent Severn Waterway; exploration would portray information about the Trent Severn about distances along the waterway and about other features that could be found on the water system. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 6Z6 Organization Name: Trent-Severn Waterway Project ID: 65 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: Advantage Smart Route Application for Geosolutions/Bell Canada Project Description: This project compared two street network files one projected in NAD27 and the other in NAD83 to validate the migration process from one projection to the other and ensure accuracy of the geocoded postal codes used for the client's Advantage Smart Route Application. . Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Oshawa, ON, Canada Organization Name: GeoSolutions Project ID: 67 Status: Completed Project Year: 1997 |
Project Name: A Pilot Geographic Information System for the Township of Galway and Cavendish Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Kinmount, ON, Canada Organization Name: Township of Galway and Cavendish Project ID: 71 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Focal Area Conservation Strategies Project Description: The Land Between is a large transitional landscape that lies between the Algonquin Dome/Canadian Shield and the St. Lawrence Lowlands. It is what ecologists call an ecotone. It has a distinct ecological structure and unique cultural history. Due to its mosaic patterning and transitional nature it has been primarily overlooked by ministries and conservation agencies. Therefore much of the ecological and cultural nature of the area are yet to be uncovered understood and communicated.The Land Between consists of 90% lands in natural cover; a greater amount than anywhere to the south. However the region is experiencing rapid development and is under increasing threat to disturbance. Public and Crown Lands are found across the landscape forming large undisturbed tracts within The Land Between. Between these protected areas are lands that are important and form natural linkages across the region and so may play a role in maintaining essential ecological services. Up to 5 focal areas have been outlined which contribute to the formation of key linkages or which provide undisturbed and protected refuge for species at risk and other ecological elements.These focal areas include: 1. Severn River Crown Lands2. North Ramara3. Longford Township/Queen Elizabeth Park 24. Kawartha Highlands Signature Site Provincial Park5. Mellon Lake/Lingam Lake6. Crowe River Upper Watershed Each area requires a conservation strategy or prioritization model to be applied:a. Gathering mapping and modeling data on ecological elements such as SAR (species at risk) FRI (forest resource inventories) physiography wetlands and waterbodies roads etc. from a variety of sources and from our data sharing agreements will lay the foundation and provide the basis for areas of significance within each focal area.b. Further information such as ownership (parcel fabric) disturbance (roads trails aggregate pits etc.) will provide information on which areas are more at risk and so which lands within the focal areas are a priority to target for outreach stewardship or securement. c. Lastly a landowner contact database based on the prioritization scheme and stakeholder listing will provide us with a starting point for action. Project Requirements: Deliverables: 1. a map of each the 5 focal are as outlining areas of highest conservation priority (significance) and secondly those areas of priority due to threat2. a database of landowners and contact information (obtained from MPAC parcel fabric) and highlighting associated and significant land attributes per parcel as available3. a list of stakeholders in the vicinity per focal area4. a summary and rationale per area;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Some knowledge and studies in Ecosystem Management/Biology/GeographyFamiliarity and experience with GIS mapping and modelingPrior experience in species at risk (an asset but not required)Database design and management including knowledge of Ministry and other Standards ;1. LIO data (abiotic features; roads; waterbodies; forest cover etc.) shp. dbf.2. Species at Risk data: shp requiring conversions from Oracle.3. Parcel fabric (MPAC): shp. and dbf. Requiring conversions and joins.;1. Possible data (dbf.) of birds of Ontario (Bird Studies Canada)2. FRI data (district forest resource inventory data where available): shp. and dbf. 3. Ecological Land Classification data (MNR) where available 4. Aggregate data (where available from MNR)5. Stakeholder lists and contacts from local Conservation Agencies;Parcel fabric data has been made available to Kawartha Heritage Conservancy and The Land Between Program under a strict data sharing agreement and may not be disseminated or transferred to third partiesSpecies at Risk data may not be shared with any third parties and is sensitive in nature.;ArcMap 9 or laterExcelMS Access;;;2008-01-10 Project Location: K0M 1S0 Organization Name: The Land Between Program Project ID: 536 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Soil - C Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 175 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Historical Place Names Database and Map Project Description: The Land Between is a large transitional landscape that lies between the Algonquin Dome/Canadian Shield and the St. Lawrence Lowlands. It is what ecologists call an ecotone. It has a distinct ecological structure and unique cultural history. Due to its mosaic patterning and transitional nature it has been primarily overlooked by ministries and conservation agencies. Therefore much of the ecological and cultural nature of the area are yet to be uncovered understood and communicated.The natural features of the region has provided for a unique resource based and cultural history. For instance a historic and important First Nations fishing economy based on the presence and abundance of the American Eel was the basis for much activity in the landscape prior to the installation of dams across the Trent Severn Waterway and so the extirpation of the Eel. Also as the land was not conducive to farming or lumbering there have been attempts and so a rise and fall of European settlement which has given way to ghost towns across the landscape. Furthermore the density of water pockets/shorelines to area within the region are higher than anywhere in Ontario also the landscape has many open and exposed areas of bedrock so that boating/canoeing and overland trails were the means to navigating the land and the area was a key east-west corridor for First Nations peoples.In order to highlight and so conserve significant cultural and natural features of The Land Between we believe that the history of the place plays an important role: researching history brings to light stories which lend to an appreciation understanding and so responsibility for the land. As well much information can simply be gleaned from the names of a Place. For instance the American Eel historically played a large role in the lives of First Nations and first settlers; many lakes rivers and former towns/settlements carry names denoting the presence of the species or related associations. Other First Nations and historical names contain links to other stories peoples settlers or events.The Ministry of Natural Resources maintains archives and hard copy records of historic place names new names and the reason behind the original naming (where available) as well as the reasons for the name change. The MNR has just begun the process to build a database to house this information and the students would be involved in creating a compatible database for The Land Between using similar standards. The students would also populate the database through research within a specific area or around a specific theme. Students will locate and georeference Historical Places and Names and their meanings which will create a picture of both the cultural and natural history of the area and so will further the capacity for outreach and conservation.;Data and mapping for current place names in workable format (therefore linking of MNR geospatial data with dbf data)A database and front end program that would allow someone to query new and historic place names as well as rationales for each name and rationals for name changes. The database must be compatible (have the same key and standards) with that basic program created by the MNR.Population of Historic Place names (data) within the database in a chosen area in The Land Between (i.e. North Peterborough) or from a chosen theme (i.e. fish/First Nations)A map of the current and historic place names within the chosen area of focus (and if First Nations focus then include meanings)A basic instruction guide for the database for future populationSpatial Analysis linking and highlighting or relating presence of natural features/natural resources to place names is possible;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K0M 1S0 Organization Name: The Land Between Program Project ID: 537 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Carbon Sequestration and land Degradation in the Rio Texcoco Watershed Mexico Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Texcoco, Mexico Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 176 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Kirkland Lake Gold Belt Geoscience Data Analysis Project Description: Programming Options: Analysis Options:- Analyse spatial correlation of vein gold occurrences to selected geological units. - Analyse spatial correlation of vein gold-in-till to selected geological units. - Analyse spatial correlation of vein gold occurrences to roads. Project Requirements: Deliverables: script for one or more programming options- analysis results for one or more analysis options -digitizing of selected geological symbols from raster Geology map -querying to isolate specific data -spatial analysis (point to line point to polygon) field -plotting output to scale Project Location: Kirkland Lake, ON, Canada Organization Name: GeoVector Management Inc. Project ID: 538 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Methodology for DEM creation and Analysis of bog hydrology Project Description: The Wainfleet Bog is approximately 18 sq km and is located near the City of Port Colborne. This bog is part of the largest least disturbed peatland in Southern Ontario. As a result of expanding agricultural peat extraction and transportation activities within and around the Wainfleet Bog the bog wetland has decreased in size and function. Measures to remediate/slow the factors degrading this ecosystem are critical to improving the environment. Ground water levels vegetation changes and sensitive animal populations have been monitored at selected locations within the bog over several years. Moisture levels and flooding are important factors influencing the survival of Massassauga Rattlesnake and Spotted turtles within the bog. Massassauga Rattlesnakes Spotted turtles and sphagnum moss differ in their ability to tolerate flooding. Accurate modelling of water levels is necessary to predict areas suitable for planting sphagnum rattlesnake hibernation and turtle habitat.;1. Determine the best way of obtaining elevation < .05m using atleast two different methods (to be determined by the students)2. Analyze elevation data in relation to- soil moisture- water table using water well data- current microtopography - seasonal and yearly variation3. Determine best locations for planting sphagnum considering soil moisture and elevation4. Determine best locations for spotted turtles5. Determine best locations for Eastern Massassauga Rattlesnakes6. Determine relationship between dark areas on RADARSAT 1 images and amount of microtopography7. Possibly create a tool/model to automate the process of predicting water levels due to future beaver dam creation8. A wall map(s) showing the methodology and results;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/VisualizationSome programming or database development may need to be added to this project.Knowledge and interest in the ecology of bogsKnowledge and interest in the ecological requirements of sensitive speciesInterest in learning more about and experience with satellite images and aerial photographsInterest in predictive modelling analysis and problem solvingIf students choose to collect elevation data by surveying experience with surveying and field work Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: OMNRF - Wildlife Research Project ID: 539 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Predictive habitat modelling for the Eastern Massassauga Rattlesnake Project Description: The Isolation of rock outcrops by eliminating cultural noise such as roads buildings etc. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Parry Sound, ON, Canada Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 178 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Weather and Agrometeorological Web Mapping Application Project Description: Many land soil and water management activities are directly dependent on the immediate past and immediate future weather. Currently weather forecasts can be obtained independently from the Environment Canadas Weather Office and other organizations offering weather forecasting. The ultimate goal of this project is to enable a user to analyse the impacts that weather parameters may have on crops soil and water management activities.The cooperative project team is asked to create a prototype of a web-based analytical and interactive mapping application encompassing weather and agrometeorological forecasts and land soil and water information.Weather data will be downloaded from the Weather Office web site whereas agrometeorological indicators will be derived from the downloaded weather data. The data provided by the Weather Office is in GRIB (Gridded Binary). The first functionality of this project is to download the GRIB data and convert it in a GIS-enabled format (e.g. shapefile). This functionality should be automated so that every say 4:00 A.M. the data will be downloaded and converted into the GIS format.For this prototype the following weather layers should be created:- Precipitation o 24-hours precipitation amount (mm)o 24-hours probability of precipitation >= 2 mmo 48-hours precipitation amount (mm)o 48-hours probability of precipitation >= 2 mmo 7-day probability of precipitation >= 5 mmo 14-day probability of precipitation >= 10 mm- Temperatureo 24-hours Average minimum temperatureo 24-hours Average maximum temperatureo 24-hours Average temperatureo 48-hours Average temperatureo 7-day average temperatureo 14-day average temperature- Windo 24-hours forecasto 48-hours forecasto 24-hours wind gustso 48-hours wind gustsFor the 24 and 48 hours the deterministic regional GEM (global environmental multiscale) model data will be used (15 km resolution); for the 7 days and 14 days the ensemble forecasts data will be used (110 km resolution).Layers to be created for agrometeorological indicators are as follows:o Cumulative growing degree days >= 5 °Co Cumulative crop heat unitso Drying indexo Cumulative potential evapotranspirationo Cumulative actual evapotranspirationo Moisture deficit (precipitation potential evapotranspiration)For each parameter a layer will be created for 24 hours 48 hours 7 days 14 days (where applicable).Students are required to research on how the above parameters are determined.The newly created layer will then be added to a web map already containing land soil and water related layers. The second required functionality of this project is data querying. The application should allow attribute and spatial data querying and provide a possibility of saving the results of the queries (as tables or spatial features).If time permits the third functionality required of this project is data geoprocessing where such functions as polygon boundary dissolving layer intersecting layer spatial joining and layer clipping would be provided.;The main deliverable from this project is a fully functional interactive web mapping application integrating weather and agrometeorological forecasts and other land soil and water information. Details of how to transfer the developed website to the client server should be provided.Secondarily this project should also develop and document the methodology used to integrate weather and agrometeorological information in an operational application tailored to a sector of activity namely agricultural land soil and water resources management. So a detailed report to this effect should be submitted at the conclusion of this project.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Web TechnologyThe ideal group for this project should be composed of 3 students who are good in programming. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K1A 0H3 Organization Name: Environment Canada Project ID: 540 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Analysis of spatial patterns and associations among Minke Whales Project Description: Determingthe patterns of association movement and habitat use among foraging Minke Whales. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Tadoussac, PQ, Canada Organization Name: ORES Centre for Coastal Field Studies Project ID: 179 Status: Completed Project Year: 2001 |
Project Name: Avalanche Terrain Modeling Project Description: To build an avalanche inventory for a small pilot area that facilitates modeling for potential snow avalanche release areas and runout. It is based on a small pilot area using our sponsors provided DEM & Orthophotos.By utilizing topographic parameters to identify potential release areas path profiles and runout zones a database will be developed to assist in determining topographic characteristics that contribute to frequent avalanches.A key component would be overlaying the potential release zones path profiles and runout zones over the original pilot area data to visualize the avalanche inventory.;1. Develop a GIS model based on known topographical characteristics (slope aspect terrain type distance to ridges) 2. Identify potential release zones.3. Determine path profiles and run out zones.4. Extract and analyze topographic statistics.5. Construct a relational database to store avalanche data & topographic statistics.6. Design an interactive web mapping component to visualize the avalanche zones & paths within the pilot area.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Web Technology- Presentation/Visualization- background in geography - experience with multimedia - programming experience with python or ArcObjects - ability to independently resolve technical problems;airphoto in geotiff or an ESRI grid DEM in ESRI grid format;;- digital data and products will require a confidentiality and intellectual property agreement to be signed by students Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: V4A 1J8 Organization Name: DMD Consulting Project ID: 544 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: High-Point and Panoramic Analysis of the Kawartha Bioregion Project Description: Students would use a combination of GIS-based terrain and 3D modelling supported by fieldwork ground-truthing to analyze the Kawartha Bioregion in order to determine the "best" high point perspective views of valleylands and scenic roadside lookouts. Specifically students would use DEM modelling and 3D analysis to determine maximum linear and areal views based on line-of-sight and viewshed techniques.The team will use the MNR Provincial digital elevation model (DEM) v2.0 10m horizontal resolution/5 m vertical as the terrain base (available from MNR via OGDE). The team will also use the Conservancys Cultural Heritage Inventory (CHI) Panorama and Scenery data classes as ancillary data (to be provided by client).The team will follow the following general steps:obtain the required DEM v2.0 tiles which cover bioregion (study area shapefile to be provided by client).Using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst mosaic the tiles into a single seamless raster (depending on performance individual tiles may need to be used students should document the performance of both the mosaiced and individual tiles).Use geoprocessing tools and visual techniques to analyze the distribution of the DEM values to determine the highest areas (i.e. points) extract and convert to vector points.Analyze the locations of the CHI Panorama and Scenery data classes features in reference to the DEM.Isolate the highest points of the DEM which meet the following criteria: accessible from public areas specifically roads trails parks conservation areas municipal public lands etc.Perform both line-of-sight and viewshed analysis on the DEM using ArcGIS 3D Analyst to meet criteria of best high-points and panoramics; using spatial and visual analysis determine the best viewpoints (i.e. line-of-sight) and panoramic (i.e. viewsheds) which are accessible from public places and/or road-side surveys. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Mosaiced DEM v2.0 for the Kawartha Bioregion. Set of vector (shapefile) points of the highest DEM points.Report and scoring of the CHI Panorama and Scenery data classes in reference to the DEM high points and viewsheds.Sub-set of vector points from the DEM which meet the public space criteria.Set of line-of-sight polyline and viewshed polygon shapefiles and report on why these areas meet the criteria and any limitations of these features.Final printed map using Kawartha Heritage Conservancy template JPG and PDF copy of this map and ArcMap document (MXD) of the Kawartha Bioregion and a collection of all county and township focal areas detailing the high-points line-of-sights and viewsheds which best meet the criteria.A set of 3D animation files (AVIs) and ArcScene documents (SXD) which can be used for presentations of the results.A DVD package of the above 7 items and a project report documentation of methodology and copy of large format printed maps Provide final draft products to Kawartha Heritage Conservancy two weeks prior to end of project. Project Location: K9J 7Y8 Organization Name: Kawartha Heritage Conservancy Project ID: 545 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Interactive and static map for Spring Rock Camp Project Description: We are the owners of a tent and trailer park called Spring Rock Camp. We own 72 acres on the east shore of Deer Bay Lower Buckhorn Lake. We have approx. 120 sites for camping as well as a natural spring an elevated look out point and walking trails covering about 50% of this area. The property varies in elevation from water level to approx. 80 - 100 ft. about water level. The geology is edge of the Canadian shield very little ground cover with hardwood/softwood mixture of forest. We would like to have you develop a map with elevations that we can use in our office to inform visitors and campers of the whereabouts of all of our facilities campsites roads trails etc. This would be a static map. We would also like to use this map on our website but with the addition of interactive applications. We would like to provide the web visitor with actual pictures of the sites/attractions with 360 degree views by clicking on these locations on the map. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: We would require a drawn to scale static map for our counter approx. 24" wide by 18" high. We would like this to show differing elevations within the park as well as locations of our natural spring roads walkways garbage/recycling facility buildings campsites public areasWe would also like to use this map on our website. We would like to show actual photographs of the sites especially in our transient section and of our lookout spring facilities etc. by clicking on each location. We could possibly tie this to a live camera feed at one or two locations. Project Location: K0L 3G0 Organization Name: Spring Rock Camp Project ID: 633 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Archaeological Potential Tool Project Description: The objective of this project is to develop an archaeological potential mapping tool for the Ministry of Culture (MCL). Archaeological potential is the likelihood of a piece of land to contain archaeological resources. The MCL has developed criteria (distance to water elevated pieces of land etc.) that are used to predict which lands would potentially hold previously unreported archaeological sites. Within the Ministry staff use these criteria to make potential call determinations for environmental assessments and other types of projects. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: The expected deliverable for this project is an archaeological potential map service allowing staff to see archaeological potential which is based on the potential criteria (see Appendix A). To reach this goal the necessary spatial datasets (DEMs geological base data etc.) will need to be acquired normalized and integrated. A component of this project will be to use spatial analysis using surveyed property information and reported site data. It will be necessary to change the database structure to track this information. The students will be expected to give a final presentation on the application to the MCL. Project Location: M7A 2R9 Organization Name: Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport Project ID: 551 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Map of Altona Forest Physical Features Project Description: Altona Forest is an urban forest in Pickering which is surrounded by houses. It has been designated as environmentally sensitive and environmentally significant. There are 4+ km of trails in the forest which pass through a variety of different habitats. Boardwalks have been built over wet areas and observation decks placed at two amphibian ponds. A section of the forest has been set aside as an Environmental Preserve where there are no public trails. In the 12 years since saving this property from development we have not been able to get a good map to use for committee members and for public access. This project involves gathering the data to create a map of Altona Forest which shows boundaries surrounding city roads trails water courses wetlands ponds intermittent water courses trail heads entrances board walks observation decks interpretative posts on the trails; Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: A paper map (poster size would be most useful) of Altona Forest that can be used on the web site in brochures to help environmental studies students and for hikes. This map should show the physical features of Altona forest along with trails boardwalks observation decks wet areas interpretative posts and signs rivers and streams etc. An Adobe PhotoShop compatible file of the map with layers that would include the base map public trails environmental preserve trails water rivers streams etc. GPS coordinates around edge of map other layers as determined by the student project team. This map will be used by committee members to accurately locate and map : animal sightings vandalism sites study areas areas to be avoided during nesting season project areas archeological study sitesA web map of the trail that allows the viewer to see pictures and descriptions of specific locations (for example the numbered posts) on the trail by clicking on the locations on the map. Design and create a MS Access database of all Altona Forest features Project Location: L1V 6P4 Organization Name: Altona Forest Stewardship Committee Project ID: 642 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Spatially-explicit Decision Support System for Modelling Soil Carbon emissions and sinks in rural landscapes Project Description: Through work with the Food and Agricuture Organization of the United Nations and the Geomatics Lab at Trent University a Modelling Decision Support System (Soil-CV) has been partially developed to aid users selecting the best of 3 possible Soil Organic Matter and Soil Carbon dynamics models to be used in projects formulating land use plans for mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG)and climate change in a region or district in the developing world within the context of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. Capabilities for spatially-explicit display and mapping of modelling results are only available for one of such models within the Decision Support System. This project should tackle the development of a customized interface to allow for mapping display and reporting of modelling results for the models without mapping capabilities. The goals for the project are as follows: 1. Update the Decision Support System (DSS) at the point of selection of the CENTURY and RothC models: To update the existing DSS for the two currently implemented models and add support for the two models SCUAF and DNDC that are to be integrated. 2. GUI: To create a GUI for the two models that are being implemented and integrate them with the current Soil-CV application. 3. Interfacing GUI with Models: To facilitate communication between models and the front end GUI. 4. Output Management: To allow users to organize store and view the output from modeling results that are generated by the models. 5. ArcGIS Interface: the goal here is to interface with the ArcGIS application as an extension of output management and to allow the user to take the output and generate maps graphs and tables using ArcGIS. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: A fully customized SOIL-CV software system that includes full functionality for models CENTURY and RothC through the following operations: Direct Model Selection (either CENTURY or RothC) using the existing Decision Support System of SOIL-CV. Model Input Once the model has been selected the user shall be presented with model-specific forms. The user completes the forms and clicks on the run model button to begin the simulation. Model Output When the simulation is complete the model shall create an output file. The user shall be presented with new buttons that shall allow the users to view the output data in Excel or in ArcGISFull Documentation of Software Customization including: System Manual Operation ManualFull Source Code of Systems developed and its documentationQuality assurance document through software test runs with case studies provided by client Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 565 Status: Completed Project Year: 2008 |
Project Name: Explore Ontario Conservation Areas Project Description: Create a web mapping site with various tools for the general public to Explore Ontario Conservation Areas. Students will develop the application locally on SSFC environment and once tested port it over into the camaps.ca production environment. This is an exciting opportunity to work for the Association of Conservation Authorities and gain valuable GIS work experience in the field of Natural Resource Management Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: Massage Conservation Areas excel spreadsheet of point data (field names and values) into Conservation Areas data model provided by Conservation Ontario. Create empty feature class based on Conservation Ontario Data model in local ArcSDE/SQL2005 Load data into a Conservation Areas feature class in local ArcSDE. Student can use default data model but student should report any suggested data model updates which would make the process more efficient in the futureCreate an MXD with 1 layer.Point layer of Conservation Areas symbolized with custom Conservation Areas Point SymbolUse ESRIs Map Publishing Toolbar to remove any map errors and create MSDPublishing MSD to ArcServer for use as a Map ServiceCreate a simple map site with a Bing Base Map (account provided by Conservation Ontario) using ArcGIS Server REST API (FLEX) configured with the following tools:Address Search: Use Bing Geocoder (account provided) or another geocoding productID Tool: Select a Conservation Area and display activities (if possible display activities as graphics similar to http://ontarioconservationareas.ca)Buffer/Radius search: Select Conservation Areas within a user specified Distance Activity Search: Query Tool for users to select desired activitiesCreate a Hyperlink from each feature (i.e. to Conservation Authority Webpage). This may require some data model updating.Print ToolMap Disclaimer (provided by Conservation Ontario)Match Look and Feel to http://OntarioConservationAreas.caPort map service and FLEX viewer into CAMaps.ca production environment Project Location: L3Y 4W3 Organization Name: Conservation Ontario Project ID: 643 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Channel Morphology Analysis Using GIS Project Description: The objectives of this application were: a. to create digital maps of the Wilmot Creek watershed and it's attributes to conduct statistical analysis of upstram morphology based on stream discharge b. to create an informational web site about Wilmot Creek and c. to provide the ability to conduct queries. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Wilmot Creek, ON, Canada Organization Name: Wilmot Creek Township Project ID: 219 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Protected Areas System Expansion through GIS Analysis Project Description: Ontarios protected area system is comprised of more than 620 provincial parks and conservation reserves. Protected areas contribute to the Ontario economy and the protection of Ontarios biodiversity. One of the goals of the parks and protected areas program is to represent the province's natural features and ecosystems. Both living and non-living components are assessed to set representation targets based on combinations of landforms and vegetation. MNR's approach to representing terrestrial ecosystems is based on these naturally occurring landform/vegetation associations which serve as surrogates for biodiversity. Life Science (or biodiversity) representation is assessed within each of Ontario's 71 ecodistricts. MNR's minimum guidelines are to represent at least 1% or 50 hectares of each naturally occurring landform/vegetation association within each ecodistrict.Based on this approach Ontario Parks designed the GapTool application to help obtain and organize information about ecological representation including determining where gaps in representation occur. Ontario Parks Southwest Zone has initiated work on a land securement strategy to identify and prioritize properties for acquisition as either additions to existing provincial parks or as stand alone new provincial parks. Key to this project is utilizing GapTool outputs to assess current representation levels within the Southwest Zone which includes 13 ecodistricts. Through GIS analysis it is envisioned that a number of Zone specific criteria in addition to landform/vegetation associations can be applied to identify potential acquisitions. A weighting system could then be applied based on these criteria to prioritize identified properties. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: Analysis outputs site specific mapping for all potential acquisitions include additions and new stand alone parks (cartographic map products in addition to spatial data outputs);Creation of a spatially-enabled database that provide parcel specific information e.g. property identification number assessment roll number municipal address area criteria/representation category(ies);A front-end viewer (e.g. ArcGIS Explorer ArcIMS) with built in navigation tools Project Location: N6E 1L3 Organization Name: Ontario Parks Project ID: 644 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Ministry of the Environment - Dorset Environmental Science Center Hydrologic Cathment Topographic/Delineation Mapping Co-op Project Project Description: Background Information:Our focus is monitoring long-term changes in water quality quantity and the biological communities of inland lakes and streams. The Dorset Environmental Science Centre (DESC) of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment began its scientific activities in 1975 with the monitoring of area hydrology meteorology nutrient chemistry algae and zooplankton. Bio-monitoring activities have expanded since to include both benthos and crayfish. The centre has grown in size and scope and investigates a wide variety of issues in partnership with a number of universities municipalities and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. The study area is comprised of a collection of lake basins located in south-central Ontario on the edge of the Precambrian shield Long-term monitoring conducted within the DESC monitoring network is intended to improve our fundamental understanding of the temporal and spatial dynamics of environmental processes of this region. It provides the baseline data necessary to evaluate changes in response to natural perturbations and anthropogenic disturbance. It proves invaluable when combined with experimental studies designed to explain how different elements of the environment interact with one another. Continued operation of long-term monitoring efforts within the network further provides valuable data for assessments and models on the cumulative effects of environmental stressors in the environment at the local and regional scales.The current study encompasses eight headwater lakes (over 20 catchments) in the Muskoka/Haliburton region. The lakes range from highly developed shoreline to zero development for comparative analysis of anthropogenic effects on Precambrian Shield lakes. These studies have yielded numerous papers and environmental models used in other studies in this field Project Purpose:To create both digital & hard copy topographic mapping with 1m accuracy for detailed delineation of the catchment area. This data will be used in the calculation of hydrologic inputs of the lake system (precipitation) as well as the hydrologic storage and interflow throughout the catchment. The data will also be used for comparison to existing lidar & GPS data files to assess the accuracy of these files and processes of data collection involved to determine the need for similar studies on other catchments within the current study area;Requirements:This project will require the collection of field data of an approximate 26 ha catchment of crown land for comparison to existing lidar & depth to bedrock data files. Field work will be performed with GPS or Total station and would require walking and capturing data along physical characteristics (all hills/valleys/streams/wetlands etc.) within that catchment area. The accuracy of these methods will be reviewed and if deemed insufficient a unit with differential capabilities supplied.The aim is the production of a digital map displaying the relationship between the topographic structure of the land area the underlying bedrock and the vegetative canopy. The digital map should include an expandable attribute table for integration of past and future data for various comparative studies. The production of a hardcopy map for presentation to the local scientific community and display in the Hydrology Department facility will be a further requirement of the project.The design and development of a database for the storage of Hydro-Meteorological & Biochemistry data will be a major component of the project. There is a possibility the project will require customized programming and Web compatibility for posting the projects data to the Ministry Webpage with the addition of similar information from subsequent co-op projects ;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web TechnologyFleming faculty assessment of the students abilties to complete the project. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: P0A 1E0 Organization Name: Dorset Environmental Science Center Project ID: 645 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Local Carbon-Offset Decision Support System Project Description: Climate change is a local and global issue. Individuals businesses and governments through their day to day activities contribute to greenhouse gas emissions that are responsible for climate change. Kawartha Heritage Conservancy (KHC) a land trust would like to explore the possibility of using its lands as a means for offsetting carbon by leveraging the various ecological services provided through its lands. Of the many ecological services available planting trees is one means of sequestering carbon. It is however necessary to quantify how much carbon can be sequestered by a particular species of tree or shrub over a period of time in order to be able to sell carbon-offset credits. KHC believes a GIS and Modelling Decision Support System would be a useful tool for identifying areas within our property that can be used for afforestation purposes selecting suitable native vegetation types in the Kawarthas to help offset carbon and to calculate how much carbon would be offset by a particular plant species.The decision support system has the following objectives:Using spatial analysis/remote sensing identify areas on KHC properties that would be conducive for reforestation and vegetation purposes.Identify areas on our properties that are clear of vegetation and could serve as potential clean energy project location (e.g. south facing area that might be conducive for solar energy projects).Develop a carbon offset calculator that allows KHC or other users to calculate the carbon sequestering potential for several vegetation types within the region.Assign an estimated monetary value for the ecosystem service provided by the vegetation type.Calculate the relationship between a potential CO2 source (e.g. litres of fuel consumed/year; energy consumed/year; etc) and the sequestration potentialIt may be necessary to identify data sources and convert this data into a format accessible by the GIS. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: GIS map of our properties with potential sites for afforestation and clean energy initiativesWeb based carbon calculator for ecosystem services (i.e. different types of trees)Interactive web application which allows input spatial queries and display results in map or tabular (report) formatAnalysis outputs site specific mapping for all potential land use changes in context of the project Project Location: K9H 2K6 Organization Name: Kawartha Land Trust formerly Kawartha Heritage Con Project ID: 646 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Rapid Cartographic Development of Emergency Resource Availability Project Description: We are looking for individuals to design a database/interactive mapping tool which would be used in the event of an emergency to locate the closest resources available for the nearest Emergency Shelters. Based on the Risk Profiles (to be provided) individuals would be able to startup ArcGIS off a laptop server and identify the area of the emergency. Once the area of the emergency is detected the resources in that area become unusable and the interface shows the 3 closest locations for certain resources as chosen by the user to the locations of the emergency shelters. This project will be developed on a smaller scale for the one of the Townships and will essentially move towards a county-wide emergency system. Project Requirements: Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: 1) Develop Database Model Access 2007 2) Interface to ArcMap3) Determine if Resource is in Affected Area4) Show Database Information on Screen in a Form5) Usable theme maps. What themes are displayed in hard copy could be decided during the project6) Possible use of web technology Project Location: K6J 3P2 Organization Name: United Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Project ID: 647 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Operationalizing the Production of National Watershed Mapping for Sierra Leone Project Description: The significance of Land Use Planning in a watershed context is increasingly recognized and implemented in jurisdictions around the world. Many of the food security and environmental challenges facing Sierra Leone such as agricultural optimization (particularly wetland agriculture) seasonal flooding soil erosion and soil depletion could in-part be addressed through Land Use Planning with access to well structured GIS watershed layers. Sierra Leone currently has very little structured GIS data and no watershed mapping. They do however have very rich legacy hard-copy 1:50000 scale photogrammetrically derived topographic mapping. The hydrology features depicted on this mapping such as rivers steams swamps (points) swamp outlines (polygons) swamp cultivation (points) and rapids represent durable landscape features that could be productively utilized if captured and made widely accessible as structured GIS layers. It is believed these data could be additionally combined with satellite derived elevation data products (ASTER and SRTM) to produce authoritative watershed layers suitable to support effective and scale appropriate Land Use Planning across the country. An investment in the structured automation of these data would bring Sierra Leones digital GIS watershed fabric comparable to products we are operationally utilizing in Ontario Canada and indeed many North American jurisdictions. In 2009 a Fleming Application Specialist groups (comprised of Brent Moore Jocelyn Moffett and Justin MacTavish) successfully develop a series of training materials (including laboratory exercises manuals data models GeoDatabases on-screen voice-over instruction tutorials etc) to help standardize and coordinate hydrology feature (line point and polygon) automation from existing 1:50000 scale scanned Sierra Leonean topographic maps (all materials to be provided). Building directly on the 2009 effort in 2010 a second Fleming Application Specialist groups (Ian Jeffery Alex Parisien and Scott Charbonneau) worked directly with the GIS undergraduate 2010 Fleming Geomatics Technician Program students to test implement the developed hydrology digitizing procedures. Under the guidance of course instructor Hal Ward each student (approximately 30 students) was tasked will digitally capturing the hydrology features for a manageable sub-watershed (approximately three hours of digitizing). This digitizing effort was part a major project for credit within their GEOM20 Course (GIS Applications). Based on this test-run the 2010 GIS-AS group further refined the digitizing procedures/manuals and built a series of operational QA/QC hydrology network and digitizing error trapping modules suitable for the students to test the quality of their own digitizing. This group also developed a community based project web-site and evaluated the potential of ASTER and SRTM (see references below) as potential elevation source for a watershed information system. The results of this 2010 project (refined manuals tutorials hydrology data models project web-site elevation data comparisons and analysis) are being sent to Sierra Leone for operational national implementation at Fourah Bay College Freetown (http://fbcusl.net/). It is hoped that hydrology digitizing in Sierra Leone could be started as early as January 2011. The project tasks described below will directly build on the successes of the 2009 and 2010 efforts.;The project primary objectives for this year are four fold. Work with student digitizing efforts contributed from both Fourah Bay College and Fleming College.might also be helpful for each member of the coop group to each digitize a watershed using the provided standards manuals and GeoDatabase. I did a watershed myself and found it represents about a 3 hour effort. Digitizing will once again be conducted within GIS Applications GMT course (GEOM20) this winter term. In common with the 2010 project it would be advantageous to have the student group work with the instructor in the lab environment as this digitizing is occurring to get a full sense of the data and digitizing challenges. The digitizing results once completed should evaluated and integrated into the completed data class.Hopefully (but this is not a certainty) we will receive some first digitizing results from Dr. Jinnah Momohs GIS lab at Fourah Bay College Freetown Sierra Leone. As with the Fleming digitizing works these results should be checked and some feedback provided back to Sierra Leone. The accepted results should be entered in the data class.Based on the results of the above it would be desirable to refine the digitizing manuals data model and QA/QC tools. (This is expected to be a minor portion of the project).Digitizing will be occurring on a subwatershed basis in two different countries and potentially with time at several different institutions. As this project becomes operational it becomes increasingly important to be able to track digitizing progress by subwatershed.Develop a database that will track subwatershed digitizing progress. Items that need to tracked will include National Watershed ID when assigned contact information for digitizer Institution of digitizer who assigned to date of first submission back from digitizer outstanding issues with digitizing date returned to digitizer final status when approved when uploaded into final data classWould like to keep this application in a readily available RDBMS (such as Access) for eventual implementation at Fourah Bay College.Develop a web-based watershed check-out system. Via a web interface a volunteer could be able to check-out a sub-watershed for digitizing. This system would be linked to the tracking database described in item 2 above. It is anticipated this system will be developed/tested this year and could possibly go live later in 2011. Over the web someone (anyone) could check-out a subwatershed for digitizing. From information the volunteer entered the project database described under item 2 would be auto-populated and the selected subwatershed would be locked for an identified period of time to this user. The user would receive a bundled package including instructions the developed manuals tutorials GeoDatabase XMLs QA/QC tools and the raw data. The user would also be made aware that this subwatershed has been locked under their name and will be provided with a date to return results (or communicate progress) by.Was a watershed has been the National status map will be updated to indicate this changeIn the project website developed by Alex Parisien in 2010 a location for this application has been accommodated.A fourth focus for this project will to develop detailed ISO 19115/FGDC/Dublin Core Spatial Metadata for the developed hydrology data and have these data published (this is a relatively small task).Install the UNs GeoNetwork Open Source Metadata tool at the college and generate appropriate and detailed ISO 19115 metadata. A small task but an important task. http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home Will assist in publishing resultant data and developed metadata to the UN-FAOs main spatial data warehouse (I still have administrator privileges). This will expose these data immediately to global community. For example see http://www.fao.org:80/geonetwork?uuid=67507cc0-f321-11db-9a22-000d939bc5d8Optional Time Permitting. Explore the possibility/feasibility of over the net digitizing. Investigate feasibility and potential solutions. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: Project Location: Njala (Agricultural University), Sierra Leone Organization Name: University of Guelph, School of Engineering Project ID: 648 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Management of Organic Manure in Chaudiere-Applalaches (Quebec) Project Description: The purpose of this project was to produce a link between the database and the GIS software provided by the Fertior Company in order to calculate the quantities of fertilizers needed to be applied in a variety of different farms in the Chaudiere-Appalaches region of Quebec. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Chaudiere-Applalaches, PQ, Canada Organization Name: Fertior Company Project ID: 224 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Village of Sturgeon Point Interactive Map Project Description: The Village of Sturgeon Point has a rich history. People from Lindsay first came to Sturgeon Point in the 1830s a hotel was built in the 1870s and the first cottages in the 1880s followed by permanent residents. From 1899 to 1999 Sturgeon Point was the smallest incorporated village in Ontario. Our goal is to bring this history to life for residents students of local history and geography and casual browsers. We would like to produce both a printable hard copy and a web-based map of Sturgeon Point. The first step would be to update existing map files with new streets and an updated database of householder names. A paper copy of this map would be produced and distributed to villagers. The map files would then be used to create an interactive map on the SPA website. Our goal is to present a dynamic portrait of the village through the 180 years of its life. This web map would include photos of places and life in the village past and present accompanied by brief captions. Wed love to produce a map with multiple versions. One would be Current Points of Interest. Another would be Historic Street Views with the ability to layer the Historic Views by time period.;Printable map file with complete database of residents. Database should be updateable and linked to the map.Web-based map of the village that provides a framework to present photographs depicting the highlights of village activities. Selectable layers could filter the photographs or content by time period. (One concept might be described as an historic version of Google Street View. Icons on the map would indicate the location and point of view of a linked photo. Clicking on the icon brings up the photo with a short descriptive text.)An interface for site manager to update and enhance content for the web map. This would allow the map managers to add additional photos and content as they are contributed by the community. The map would then grow and evolve over time.An interface that facilitates user contributions.Links to and from the map with other web-based resources. For example a hyper-link in an independent document could open the map with an icon or overlay indicating a specific location that may be described in the text. This would add an extra dimension to historical texts original documents and photo archives that will be located on the web site. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology- Deliverables: Project Location: K0M 1N0 Organization Name: Sturgeon Point Association (SPA) Project ID: 649 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Mapping Fire Management Response Zones in the Temagami District Project Description: Team members for this project were asked to develop and test a GIS applicatin which would calculate the Rate of Spread (ROS) the Surface Fuel Consumption (SFC) the Crown Fuel Consumption (CFC) and the Total Fuel Consumption (TFC) for each stand type in the Temagami district. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Haliburton/Temagami, ON, Canada Organization Name: David Heaman, Fire Science Specialist Project ID: 73 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Roads Inventory Management Geographic Information System Application Project Description: The purpose of this project was to create a Municipal Roads Inventory GIS for the Halton Hills Region. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Halton Hills, ON, Canada Organization Name: Kanotech Information Systems Project ID: 225 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Source Protection Threats Analysis: Certificate of Approval Relationships Project Description: The Clean Water Act 2006 was created to protect existing and future sources of drinking water within the Province of Ontario. The Act is based on collaboration and locally-driven source protection plans that are science-based. One requirement of Source Protection Committees is to submit an Assessment Report document that identifies significant drinking water quality and quantity threats within defined Source Protection Areas & Regions. There is a need for an exercise to be completed to create relationships between the identified significant threats found in Assessment Reports and their proximity/relation to provincially prescribed instruments such as Certificate of Approval documents. Any facility that releases emissions to the atmosphere discharges contaminants to ground or surface water provides potable water supplies or stores transports or disposes of waste must have a Certificate of Approval before it can operate lawfully. Once relationships have been created analysis and reporting needs to be performed using GIS and a summary of the findings along with a cartographic output will be submitted back to the Ministrys Source Protection Programs Branch. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: When the project is completed it is hopeful that the following outputs will be delivered:A geocoded dataset of Certificate of Approval data for a Source Protection Area/Region as decided upon by Source Protection Programs Branch staff (still to be determined. Will depend on data availability)A geodatabase that will develop relationships between the following datasets:Certificate of Approval datasetSource Protection Area/Region BoundariesMunicipal Drinking Water System dataSignificant Threats dataVulnerable Area dataA series of spatial/statistical analysis exercises using GIS software. Analysis will include overlays proximity analysis summaries etc.A high-end cartographic output of findings that can be used for presentations by Ministry staff. Project Location: M4V 1M2 Organization Name: Ministry of Environment,Source Protection Programs Project ID: 650 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Virtually Lilacs Project Description: A virtual tour through the Katie Osbourne Lilac Collection at the Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Ontario Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Burlington, ON, Canada Organization Name: Not Available Project ID: 189 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Laja Information System Project (ESRI Canada) Project Description: The Project will include a new management system that will contain a user friendly interface with one click buttons allowing users with minimal GIS experience to perform data analysis. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: M3C 3R8 Organization Name: ESRI Canada Ltd. Project ID: 190 Status: Completed Project Year: 2002 |
Project Name: Mapping Ontarios Headwater Areas Project Description: The proposed project involves the creation of a series of products designed both to enhance the public understanding of Ontarios headwater areas as well as to establish a pilot GIS-based framework to incorporate some preliminary watershed and headwater data. This latter aspect of the project would be developed in a manner adhering to MNR protocols so that additional scientific data could be imported downstream by a variety of users.It is anticipated that the project would involve 2 to 4 students with participants from both the Cartographic and Application specialist streams. Project vision and guidance as needed for the student team would be provided by the Ontario Headwaters Institute (OHI) with datasets and limited technical direction provided by staff in MNR. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: A team report summarizing an existing review of headwater literature (to be provided) varying definitions of headwaters or headwater drainage areas and existing MNR headwater related mapping projects which would provide both an agreed definition of headwaters for this project and a suggested way forward for item 3 below. A regional scale map of what the OHI terms Ontarios Major Upland Headwater Areas* or MUHAs based on protocols agreed upon in item 1. One intended purpose of this map is that of an iconic image for OHI public outreach.* While a headwater can occur anywhere in a watershed such as a first order stream flowing directly into a major body of water such as Lake Ontario the purpose of this project is to map important upland areas where large numbers of small streams exist converge and provide the foundation of Ontarios watercourses. In addition although MUHAs exist throughout the province this project would focus only on the southern regions including known MUHAs such as the Algonquin Dome the Oak Ridges Moraine the Dundalk Plateau and the Niagara Escarpment. A series of site-specific maps or drawings indicating the variety of headwater types and/or conditions across Ontarios landscape. It is hope that this project would be able to provide at least three of the drawings listed below:A pristine headwater area with intact 1st and 2nd order streams A forested headwater area that is less intact eg: a clear-cut managed forest with minimal stream protection managed forest with 30 m riparian edge etc A sample agricultural area with good practices regarding forest area retained wetland and/or intact riparian edge A best-practice community such as Waterloo that is keeping as many small streams as possible above ground andAn urban area that has put most small streams underground. A GIS-layered interactive map of southern Ontario watersheds and their MUHAs - scaled back to all or most of the Oak Ridges Moraine if necessary in order to ensure a reasonable workload and the provision of a reliable model - with cursor-activated pop-ups or links to additional information about each area. It is anticipated that the top layer of the map would show watershed names and boundaries with major upland headwater areas in a distinctive shade.Information for each type of area for pop-up information could include: Watershed InformationWatershed name boundaries receiving water body and stream order at mouthTotal Area and percentages in water natural cover development and transportation/utility use etcA macro water budget indicating average annual rainfall infiltration to groundwater and stream flowMunicipal boundaries including First Nations territory total population and key uses of water andConservation Authority (possible link to it and/or watershed current conditions report) Headwater InformationMajor upland headwater areasPercentage of area within each watershed in water settlement areas transportation/utility use and natural cover ArcIMS 9.xPercentage of flow to the watershed from MUHA(s)Cumulative facts about MUHAs overlapping watershed dividesThe key requirement for the interactive map would be to produce GeoPDFs (or GIS enabled PDFs) for online distribution. However OHI encourages the participants to explore the possibility of developing an online web mapping system linked to an underlying geospatial and tabular database. The GIS system should embrace an MNR or similar protocol that would allow future layers to be added and managed by OHI on information related to water quantity quality Permits to Take Water spill data areas with agricultural tile drainage moisture regimes wetlands and proposed wetland restoration sites watershed report cards etc.Finally the project team should identify other potential projects that could build be built upon or enhance this project such as data from MNR Southern Regions strategic landscape planning initiative for Natural Heritage Systems sites for possible headwater regeneration areas or aspects related to agricultural drainage mapping. Project Location: M1R 4X8 Organization Name: Ontario Headwaters Institute Project ID: 651 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Watershed Riparian Zone Landcover Quantification Tool Project Description: The purpose of this project was to develop a watershed/riparian zone landcover quantification tool that will offer a more efficient method of accessing watershed and landcover information. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: M7A 1W3 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 227 Status: Completed Project Year: 1998 |
Project Name: Durham Region State of the Environment Poster Map Project Description: The State of the Environment (SOE) Map was originally produced in 1999 as a full-colour double-sided 24 ins x 36 ins public education poster map to raise awareness and facilitate sustainable decisions with respect to the quality and integrity of key environmental indicators. The updated Map will benchmark the 1999 data with new up-to-date 10-year comparison data. There will be print and web based versions. The Map is an excellent visual educational tool. It has a two-fold purpose. On one side it provides a detailed illustration of Durham Regions natural environment and human activity features which include waterways major landforms elevations major roads trails and parks forest and wetlands and more. It is the only map of its kind in Durham Region to encompass a wide variety of environmental features on one easy to read map. The other side provides an analysis of five key environmental indicators categories (Green Space; Air; Water; Energy; and Waste) and how human activities and actions in any one of these areas can affect our health and the health of the environment. This project reaches out to teachers students individuals business and community leaders political and government representatives in Durham Region to encourage behavioural changes that can save money increase efficiency and help improve our community and environment at the same time.Durham Region is spread over one thousand square miles and includes five municipalities and three northern townships. As an emerging power in the Greater Toronto Area Durham Region has one of the fastest growing populations in Canada. Recent forecasts show the regions population increasing from 586000 in 2005 to 150600 in 2031 and its employment increasing from 180000 in 2005 to 398900 in 2031. (Durham Region Official Plan Review Proposed Amendment Planning Committee Report 2006-P-39).This growth positions Durham as a dynamic region with a wide range of advantages and subsequent challenges to strike a balance between economic social and natural environment interests.The SOE Map is intended to introduce Durham Region to the concept of State of the Environment (SOE) reporting. SOE reporting is a mechanism for understanding changes their trends causes and impacts. In addition it integrates social and economic factors to outline some of the things individuals can do to tackle the environmental problems. It is also a tool for evaluating the effectiveness of policies and practices to provide a basis for improved decision-making. We have been fortunate to have interest from representatives of five local municipalities five conservation authorities and the regional government who have made a commitment to volunteer their time and resources to help us collect the data. When the updated Map is complete our Volunteer Advisory Committee has also offered in-kind services to promote the Map through the communications in their respective municipalities. This includes distribution and promotion through their regular newsletters telephone inquiries directed to the website and on their websites. In addition to our advisory committee we also have developed partnerships with the Durham District School Board and the Durham Catholic District School Board through the EcoSchools program to enhance the awareness and outreach of this project Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: The Map will be updated with 10-year comparison data of the five environmental indicator areas: Green Space, Air, Water, Energy, and Waste. There will be print and web based versions. For example each indicator covers a number of topics. For example: The environmental indicators for Water includes subjects such as water consumption water supply water supply systems water pollution control plants sewage suspended solids toxic substances beaches and salt/sand usage. An analysis of water consumption would provide data on residential water consumption per person measured over a six-year period showing annual changes in consumption. The What We Can Do section provides a variety of tools and strategies aimed at municipalities business and individuals to reduce water consumption and improve water quality. Each indicator classification is similarly analyzed. The student will have plenty of opportunity to help us define the project specifications providing that the goals deliver. Project Location: L0H 1A0 Organization Name: Durham Sustain Ability Project ID: 652 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Cultural Asset and Mapping Repository Project Description: Curve Lake First Nation is located centrally in the Traditional Anishnabek Nation Territories. Cultural assets are both tangible in the form of pictures sites locations and artifacts but also include intangible elements of oral stories practices language and relationships. Intangible assets may be gathered using recording media technology and which stories names or words may be linked spatially to a known area of origin or reference point. More and more the public and planning agencies are requesting and drawing on cultural information from First Nations in order to conserve lands or in order for comprehensive planning reviews to take place therefore warranting a means to navigate and geographically display all those elements in a manner that does not compromise the sensitivity of some information. Also to conserve and enliven cultural assets/our culture for future generations a methodology to capture preserve locate and display cultural information is beneficial. Furthermore it is increasingly recognized that our Traditions of Oral stories contain evidential and historical proof and information that links our ancestors and our culture to Nature and the land. The information contained in our stories is then valuable to both cultural and ecological conservation. The ability to display the relationship of stories to places or tangible features further substantiates the value of our cultural traditions. It is important to understand that much of this information is of a sensitive nature requiring restrictive access and/or measures to limit buffer or scale sensitive information that is shared or displayed. Also all intellectual property rights rest with the First Nation Knowledge Holders. Curve Lake First Nation has a cultural centre and library where culturally relevant assets are housed and many are already catalogued or archived. The current archives are not spatially referenced and are not formatted in an agile database. A project to capture intangible assets through media recordings is being launched. These assets will need to be catalogued and geographically referenced as well.Therefore this project is to achieve the following goals:To create a central database to catalogue all those tangible and intangible cultural assets; and which assigns sensitivity scales to each attribute; and which is contains spatial references to a site or area for each asset so that cultural maps for public consumption for assessment management and for learning may be generated. To create a user guide for the repository so that First Nation staff can continue to upload and update information. To understand the relationships between tangible and intangible assets/sites and stories and therefore to quantify through the ability to display those relationships that have been communicated through % overlap and through statistical analysis. A method to restrict or limit access and display of sensitive data such as passwords and the ability to display sensitive information using buffered/scaled values so as not to reveal exact locations to the public (such as large-scale points or outlines or buffered points/locations) Project Requirements: Deliverables: A GIS (geospatial) database containing attributes for cultural assets including: asset number; type of asset (tangible/intangible- i.e. story (audio recording or DVD) artifact site etc); date collected; original period/timeframe; main relational relevance (site people nature; historical occurrence etc); sensitivity (high med low); geographical reference point/area; etc. A database template- The database is user-friendly and has the ability to upload new data through an interface and which includes the ability to assign or alter spatial reference points/areas for each attribute and the ability to assign and therefore immediately alter the display of higher sensitivity classes.Statistical Analysis of relationship of intangible to tangible assetsHow-to-guide for data upload3 maps:All cultural assets (tangible and intangible distinguished and related through overlap)- % overlap assessed and statistical results displayedAll cultural assets with sensitivity classes noted- and (automatic or assigned) buffers for high sensitivity classesA webpage ready map that only references and highlights geographical sites with recorded stories/footage and which footage may be downloadedPresentation to Band Council on results Project Location: Curve Lake, ON, Canada Organization Name: Curve Lake First Nation Project ID: 653 Status: Completed Project Year: 2010 |
Project Name: Heritage GIS Project - South Lake Simcoe - Rare Prairie Caspian Terns Project Description: The South Lake Simcoe area especially the Town of Georgina has some of the last extensive wild lands remaining in the GTA. Generally it is relatively undocumented for detailed habitat types and significant wildlife resources. Two key projects researched by the Zephyr Society of Lake Simcoe and its sister organization the South Lake Simcoe Naturalists (Ontario Nature federated member organization) is the documenting and monitoring of remnant grassland meadow (prairie) habitat in the Black River/Zephyr Creek wild lands complex (habitat physiography plant and avian data). Secondly the historical breeding bird documentation of the provincially significant Caspian tern Sterna caspia in Lake Simcoe at Georgina Island. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Existing inventory data for both projects will be reviewed and incorporated into mapping project work. Data has been assembled for a decade at each siteBase maps of each site will be prepared for GIS presentation for database design processing and analysis from existing past aerial photography detailed field survey and reconnaissance sketch maps. Spatial and statistical analysis will follow with GIS presentation of various key study variables and criteria for theme maps as key project products. Project Location: L0E 1N0 Organization Name: Zephyr Society of Lake Simcoe Project ID: 654 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Necrogeography and Lakeview Cemetery GIS Applications for an Historic Ontario Municipality Project Description: Established in 1836 as a small post office the Hamlet of Madoc grew gradually as a lumber and farming community. Following substantial development in the 1860s due to discovery of gold-bearing quartz the Village of Madoc was incorporated in 1877 and is recognized as the heart of the Municipality of Centre Hastings.The Lakeview Cemetery located on the eastern edge of the Village of Madoc has played a central role in the history of the community in the past and continues to serve the municipality as a focal point of personal and public remembrance and reflection.The Municipality of Centre Hastings has traditionally maintained vital cemetery information using standard practices seen in many Canadian municipalities such as the maintenance of older hand-written registry books paper maps diagrams and miscellaneous historical documents. All of the aforementioned documentation have experienced high levels of natural deterioration with an inevitable loss of information once the documents become illegible.The municipality invested in a database designed specifically for cemetery records seven years ago that compliments the historic documentation and paper maps but is widely recognized as incomplete unreliable and prone to error when performing simple queries.Concern over cultural resource conservation of Lakeview Cemetery has prompted the Municipality of Centre Hastings to search for a convenient GIS-based solution that will aide in the location of existing internments increase quality of records management enhance facilities and ground management and planning and conserve historic information. It is anticipated the project will have multiple deliverables (addressed below) and will be readily and easily accessible through a variety of platforms and media to municipal staff historical societies and the general public.The County of Hastings GIS Section traditionally oversees the development and maintenance of a County-based GIS program which incorporates fourteen (14) member municipalities of which one is the Municipality of Centre Hastings. County GIS staff will fully support the project and act as a liaison between Fleming College Coop Students and the municipality providing data and technical assistance as much as possible for duration of the project. County GIS staff have full access to ArcEditor ArcGIS (10) ArcServer ArcPad as well as multiple peripherals (GPS unit large scale plotter digital camera).The Municipality of Centre Hastings currently has two (2) licenses for ArcGIS (9.x) and one staff member trained in an introductory ESRI GIS course. Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: The Municipality of Centre Hastings requests the following deliverables listed in order of importance.A desktop GIS-based application (database/map) for the creation maintenance and storage of cemetery information. The map files must be in ESRI format (shapefile) with the following projection: NAD83 UTM Zone 18N. The database should be designed in Microsoft Access and linked to cemetery plots with unique identifiers. The desktop application must be accompanied with a simple user-friendly query for locating cemetery plot by multiple names and plot designation. This application will be available on both desktops and will be edited by municipal staff.A desktop GIS Viewer platform to be available to municipal employees so as to enable viewing of cemetery information (no editing required/allowed). A small light-weight application such as ArcExplorer would be preferable. Design should be simple yet of high design quality so as to facilitate the use of the system. All viewers are employees with no GIS experience.Digital cartographic products for wall display in municipal offices. Maps should be comprehensive clear informative and be of excellent design quality.Digital cartographic products to be distributed on the municipal website and other locations as deemed necessary in the future. Multiple formats would be desirable (PDF JPG BMP). Project Location: K8N 1Z5 Organization Name: County of Hastings Project ID: 655 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Disease mapping and database development for Public Health Project Description: The Peterborough County City Health Unit is in the preliminary stages of setting up a GIS with the purchase of ESRI products. We are interested in beginning to develop a database and completing digital mapping of a number of health related indicators including diseases determinants of health health services and beginning to develop databases for future use including vector borne disease data. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Presentation/Visualization Deliverables: Small area mapping of diseases including cancers respiratory illnessesMapping of food networks and resources (recreate a map initiated by the City of Peterborough)Mapping of tobacco vendorsDevelopment of a historical database of West Nile Virus data and creation of a map identifying historical hotspots.Risk assessment of various diseases using the Centre for Disease Control Rapid Inquiry Facility (to be acquired by the Peterborough County-City Health Unit)Please note that these are potential projects and we could negotiate with the student which project is most feasible. Project Location: K9J 8M1 Organization Name: Peterborough County-City Health Unit Project ID: 657 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: Twin Mountains Snowmobile Club Trail Mapping & Accuracy Assessment Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Bobcaygeon, ON, Canada Organization Name: Twin Mountains Snowmobile Club Project ID: 108 Status: Completed Project Year: 1993 |
Project Name: East Gwillimbury Heritage Conservation Web Portal Project Description: The Town of East Gwillimbury is looking to showcase its Heritage Sites interactively through the Town Web site. Hard copy data has been prepared but connectivity to ESRI and Web site capabilities is currently not available. The Site should allow various search functionality by area time frame or structure type. On site selections photos Meta data and a location map is to be displayed.Design and develop an MS Access database to input store and manage data as well as publish reports.;Develop an additional set of web pages under a new Heritage area of our current site based on the Towns Corporate standards using our Active Network Web content management. This should include welcome notes and initial selection criteria. Upon completing this area a list of sites will be displayed. On selection of a site location a PDF will display that shows historic and current photos historic data and a site map showing its location. Develop a data base that will contain data and allow future entries and maintenance. Provide KML file of locations for Google Earth.The students will be expected to give a final presentation to staff and shareholders.;- Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Presentation/Visualization- Web TechnologyStudents should be familiar with all relevant Web GIS programming presentation and visualization techniques including web based search experience for maps. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: L0G 1V0 Organization Name: Town of East Gwillimbury Project ID: 658 Status: Completed Project Year: 2011 |
Project Name: CliC-ON-Agric: A prototype for mapping the effects of climate change in Ontario Project Description: The project aims at designing a spatially-explicit web platform to enable users the selection processing and display of modelling scenarios of the future crop yields across the Province under a changed climate in order to allow users to visualize the impacts of climate change on land productivity in the Province. This porject is related to activities oriented to the disemination to the public in general of information on the most probable climate change impacts on agricultural land productivity for future climatic conditions in Ontario so that adaptation options can be planned in partiucular those related to agricultural production decreases and food security Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database Design/Processing- Spatial/Statistical Analysis- Programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- Web Technology Deliverables: The delivearables should include: A spatially-explicit web platform capable of:a). Area selection within Ontario by county area selection by coordinates polygon drawing on an "Earth" sphere (e.g. Google Earth or Google Maps) or by entering a shapefile with the polygon of the area.b). Seletion of the time horizon for the climate change modelling conditions. A limit number of horizons are to be provided by the web tool (e.g. 2030 and 2050)c)Selection of the Global (General) Circulation Model (Climate model) and the IPCC emissions scenario to display projections for (e.g. CCM2 GLDF HAD-2 ECHAM5 etc.). Modelled grided data will be available for the tool as outputs from these models.d) Selection of the variable upon which the impacts of climate change are to be predicted: Crop Yields of staple crops (2 crops maximum).e) Display on the area selected in the Province on Google Earth the spatial variability of: - Future climate variables (Temperature Rainfall Evapotranspiration) - The selected crop variable: crop yields Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 663 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Testing an Evaluation of Advanced Digitalizing and Editing Techniques for SPANS GIS Project Description: Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: K9J 6Z6 Organization Name: Trent-Severn Waterway Project ID: 111 Status: Completed Project Year: 1993 |
Project Name: ADAPT: Automated Decision Support for Adaptation Tool for Climate Change-derived floods Project Description: The project consist of developing a prototype on-line tool for mapping the spatial extent of flooding scenarios that migth occur with climate change at two future time periods (2030 and 2050)to aid climate chance adaptation planning in a given chosen watershed and jurisdiction. Future Climate parameters from GCM-model outcomes will be downloaded from the IPCC-DDC (Data Distribution Centre) and databased. These parameters (i.e. Rainfall events) will be fed into a Max Runoff Simulation Model in order to generate spatially-explicit scenarios of floods at those future periods and help users prepare adaptation plans Project Requirements: data Acquisition/Preprocessing- Database design/Processing- spatial/Statistical analysis- programming/Customization- Presentation/Visualization- web Technology Deliverables: The delivearables should include: Spatially-explicit web platform capable of:a). Area selection by sections of the a watershed area selection by coordinates polygon drawing on Google Earth or Google Maps or by entering a shapefile with the polygon of the area of interest.b). Seletion of the time horizon for the climate change modelling conditions: i.e. 2030 and 2050c)Selection of the Global (General) Circulation Model (Climate model) and the IPCC emissions scenario to display projections for. Modelled grided data will be available for the tool as outputs from these models.d) Display on the area selected on the Globe (Google Earth or Google Maps) the spatial variability of: - Future climate variables (Temperature Rainfall Evapotranspiration) - The flooded areas within the selected extent Project Location: K9J 7B8 Organization Name: Trent University Project ID: 664 Status: Completed Project Year: 2012 |
Project Name: Hydrological Modeling and Prediction for the Ganatsekiagon Sub-Watershed Project Description: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the predictive capabilities of an existing spatial hydrological model and indentify any areas for improvement. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Ganatsekiagon, ON, Canada Organization Name: Not Available Project ID: 85 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: A Pilot Land Information System for Galway and Cavendish Townships (PHASE II - Crystal Lake) Project Description: This project is the second stage of a project developed previously for the Township of Galway and Cavendish a rural township located in Peterborough County. The project involves the digitization of assessment maps for the Township to check the accuracy of the OBM the next step was to link these assesment maps to a municipal database and finally develop a query protocol to test the functionality of the GIS. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Kinmount, ON, Canada Organization Name: Township of Galway and Cavendish Project ID: 87 Status: Completed Project Year: 1996 |
Project Name: Hydrological Modeling of the GANATSEKIAGIN Subwatershed Project Description: This project will demonstrate the ecological impact that a corridor or urban development would have on the hydrologic and stream flow characteristics within the Ganatsekiagin subwatershed. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Pickering, ON, Canada Organization Name: Seatons Lands Boundary Project ID: 88 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Land Use Change Detection in the St. Lawrence Islands National Park Using Historical Aerial Photos: Hay Island Project Description: The objective of this study is to identify and develop an analysis framework that will utilize technology to convert photographs into digital images and to analyze the process involved in photointerpretation conversion of photos to digital images imageg classification and time series analysis. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: St. Lawrence Islands National Park, Canada Organization Name: St. Lawrence Islands National Park (SLINP) Project ID: 90 Status: Completed Project Year: 1995 |
Project Name: Public Art Map for Dysart et al Project Description: Design a web-based, interactive map for use by the public to locate public art in the Municipality of Dysart et al . The final product will include static and dynamic information, and provide the end user with a two-dimensional map, as well as links to pictures and information about public art installations throughout the municipality. The public art include sculptures, heritage objects, historical plaques, aesthetic enhancements of municipal infrastructure and more. The purpose is to provide the online user with information that will encourage them to visit public art installations throughout the municipality and provide them information about the origins, provenance, and background stories of the public art. Project Requirements: Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: See the Online web map for public art for Minneapolis ÔÇô http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=21c3f92adc574854af45f52f552f6d91 and web map for public art in Burnaby http://webmap.burnaby.ca/storymaps/publicart/index.htmlfor an idea of what weÔÇÖre thinking about. We would like this to be accessible to people using mobile devices. Project Location: Haliburton, Ontario Organization Name: Municipality of Dysart et al - Cultural Resources Committee Project ID: 906 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Assessing FRI for Inaccessible Areas Project Description: Create a tool/process that will determine geographically distinct areas that may be isolated by non-forest features (lakes, treed muskeg, large rivers & swamps) and associated protection reserves, based on a possible slope values. This will identify areas that are surrounded by potentially impassible features (or cut-off by when considering management unit boundaries) that would require a significant access structure (e.g. bridge) needing to be construction at a large cost to forest company. The tool/process will need to generate distances of potentially isolated areas to closest existing road network. This will provide a potential costing measure for forest companies for the creation of new road networks. The tool will potentially identify features in a separate layer that will be used during the strategic forest management planning for deferment during modelling for long term management direction (LTMD). Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc. Deliverables: A tool (using a Python script/ VB.net and/or other open source code) with a user interface that will allow MNRF staff or external stakeholders to determine potential areas of isolation due to natural features that may have increased cost to access. Documentation providing methodology of process and help files for tool will be required. Project Location: 47.9920445,-84.7929022 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources Project ID: 903 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: A Remote Sensing and GIS Assessment of Landuse and Landcover Dynamics in the Sokoto Close-Settled Area of Nigeria Project Description: The goal of this study wast o demonstrate the application of remote sensing and GIS techniques in the inventory ans assessment of landuse and landcover changes in the Sokoto close-settled area of Northwest Nigeria. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: 13.0322426,5.1578202 Organization Name: Not Available Project ID: 23 Status: Completed Project Year: 1990 |
Project Name: East Anvil Island Glass Sponge Mapping Project Project Description: The goal of this project was to develop a workflow to combine georeferenced video of the endangered glass sponge reefs with spot heights.This is in support of understanding their location to allow conservation. The workflow developed will give others a process to continue the work without comprehensive GIS technical knowledge. Project Requirements: Deliverables: Project Location: Anvil Island, Sunshine Coast F, British Columbia Organization Name: Glen Dennison Project ID: 927 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Habitat Selection and Spatial Analyses of Captive-Reared and Wild Juvenile Blanding's Turtles Project Description: This ultimate goal of this project to determine the effectiveness of "headstarting" as a conservation strategy for the Blanding's turtle, a species at risk in Ontario. We currently have a few years worth of data collected in the field, which we hope to use to compare the movement patterns and habitat uses of juvenile wild Blanding's turtles and juvenile captive-reared Blanding's turtles. Based on the findings of this study, which will continue as a long term mark-recapture and radio telemetry study, we will be able to advise management practices and positively influence the conservation of this species. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication Deliverables: Upon completion of the project, we would like access to visual pieces, such as maps and some statistical results, that can be used in platforms such as presentations, grant applications, and summary reports to current funders. We are also looking for an established "end point" from which a future student can resume the analyses in the future, once more data has been collected from the field. Project Location: 4-1434 Chemong Rd Selwyn,ON K9J 6X2 Organization Name: Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre Project ID: 884 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: 12/19/2017 11:11:24 Project Description: Mapping of Education & Outreach Locations Project Requirements: The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre (OTCC) has two years of data regarding our Education Program (locations, age groups, number of participants, etc.), we have not had any mapping or analyses of these data completed to date. It would be interesting to look at the reach of the Education Program with relation to injured turtle admissions to the OTCC Trauma Centre in following years to see if areas where turtle-specific education has taken place have higher admissions in the following summer. We currently have two years (2016 and 2017) worth of data specific to the Education Program, as well as turtle admission data. Deliverables: The skills required include: mapping/GIS, database navigation, report-writing, an understanding of outreach as a conservation tool. Project Location: Admissions data for injured turtles includes locations where the injured turtles were found. For the more endangered species of Ontario turtles, these locations should remain private due to the risk of poaching. Organization Name: Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/14/2017 13:38:38 Project Description: I love my watershed Project Requirements: The OHI seeks student support to develop an app to allow photographs and a small amount text to describe watershed locations to be posted to a map of Ontario. The app will both allow people to share photos of sites they find important, and to find and visit sites shared by others. The concept for the app, as described below but to be developed with the student team, is to provide a short list of digital questions to be filled in, after which the photo could be uploaded. In addition to name, e-mail address, a user name, and a password, the app would: • Ask users to ensure their phone provides the GIS location or to provide another location-finder to be discussed, such as an intersection or watershed; • Suggest a title for the photo; and • Require the person to select one of several on-screen icons to indicate the category of the photo being uploaded. The photo, its icon, and other information would then be posted to a website using Google Fusion, which if possible could show the boundaries of Ontario’s watersheds. End-users would click on icons, by location, to open the photo and the short description. Back-end database management aspects of this project include: • The management and privacy of personal information from the person taking the photo. ie – their name, user name, email address, and what photos they have posted; • Receiving and posting app information to the website, including the poster’s user name, putting the selected icon in its accurate location, and ensuring the photo and its description open when a user clicks on the icon; and, • Being able to see photos by who posted them, icon type, watershed, and any other desirable aspects developed by the team. Deliverables: • Ability to work both independently and in a team • Good organization, communication, and reporting skills • Strong use of data, spatial analysis, and programming skills • Inquisitive approach to research and the ability to refine methodologies • Past experience with MNR-LIO data-bases and protocols would be an asset • Confidence and directness in communication with the OHI on project progress toward desired or agreed alternate outcomes. If you’ve got an idea, share it. If you need help, ask for it. We don’t bite. Project Location: • Project experience may also enhance employment opportunities in both the private and public sectors. • While the OHI unable to scout possible funding for further work stemming from and following the completion of this project, we would consider supporting any student-generated concepts for grant requests. • While students engaged in this project may have graduated by the fall of 2018, the project may be a good candidate for submission to the student poster competition at the annual, November, Latournel Conservation Symposium. Organization Name: Ontario Headwaters Institute Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/13/2017 17:15:05 Project Description: Fleming Arboretum at Frost Project Requirements: In the Spring of 2018, Fleming College will be launching an Arboretum at Frost Campus. The mission of the Arboretum at Frost Campus is to create a campus wide living laboratory, showcasing a variety of native and non-native trees and shrubs in a variety of landscape settings (natural and aesthetic) for the purposes of education, research and community engagement. One of the main goals of the Arboretum project is that it becomes a publicly accessible green space. In order to improve the functionality of the site and to improve the visitor experience, the GIS collaborative project team will create resources including a website, site/trail maps, and an app. In addition to visitor resources, the collaborative project team will create a database/tree inventory which will be used by college staff to help create management plans for the arboretum Deliverables: Experience with tree ID, measurement and assessment would be an asset Project Location: Organization Name: Fleming College Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/12/17 15:10 Project Description: The Resettlement Project - Woody Island Project Requirements: In the 1960's hundreds of communities in Newfoundland were resettled under the banner of modernization. People were moved from isolated coves and islands to communities with easier access to roads and other infrastructure. Many people who experienced resettlement have passed away and the specific memories of the places in which they once lived are fading. The last generation to live in these places if fast approaching old age. It is the goal of this project to capture their memories before it's too late. This project will be a demo, focusing on a single community: Woody Island, Placentia Bay. My father's family moved from Woody Island in 1967. This demo can then be presented to academics and funders to determine if there is interest in expanding the scope of the project. The goal of this project is to leverage aerial photos to develop an online, interactive map of Woody Island as it was just before resettlement. Computer Users (historians, former inhabitants, relatives and family) may edit and add to the map to in an effort to fully capture the history of Woody Island. Some initial possibilities for interactivity include: 1. Identifying structures, who lived in them and when. 2. Identifying key local landmarks and the local names used for them. 3. Uploading and linking family photos to structures and landmarks. 4. Capture stories about people, structures and landmarks. Before users can undertake such activities, a baseline interactive map and dataset is required. Deliverables: Students must be independent workers yet capable of collaboration. Have the ability to interpret aerial photography and create a dataset from it. Place datasets into a custom web app, offering end users the ability to manipulate and add data as required. Must be willing to ask questions when stuck. Project Location: The baseline dataset will be generic, for example "Building A", etc. Once the demo goes live, users may edit the data. A demo of the initial baseline set should be fine. Organization Name: Eklektik Apps Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/12/17 14:28 Project Description: Peterborough’s Time Mapping 2.0: Exploring Historic Aerial Imagery through the Years Project Requirements: Historical aerial images are an ideal resource for assessing changes in time and performing land change analysis. The City of Peterborough has a collection of historical images that lack spatial reference, and as a result are not useful in a GIS context. There is 7 different years’ worth of image tiles. All of the tiles have been scanned to PDF and some have been converted to TIFF. The goal of this project is to transform as many of the aerial images from their raw state to a data product which can be used within the GIS environment. Once the images are referenced and rectified, the final outcome will be to publish the images as a service and create a web based mapping application. This will be a central location to show and analyze the newly georeferenced aerial images alongside existing imagery services that the City of Peterborough has. This project was initially completed in 2017 through an automated process using HAP Software through PCI Geomatica. However, the final mosaicked datasets displayed a significant amount of error and the need to have the images georeferenced and QA/QC again from scratch manually or using a different process is required. Errors included duplicate image tiles, roads not being continuous, and water bodies were skewed. Students will need to come up with the best solution that produces a georeferenced dataset with a high level of accuracy within the timelines of the Collaborative Project. More can be found in project proposal doc, not all informaiton could fit into this chart. Deliverables: Students should have strong research to come up with the best method to ortho rectify the images and output an accurate result. Database skills will also be an asset to ensure solid naming conventions and folder maintenance so the project can be passed on to Geomatics/Mapping seamlessly. Strong project management skills will allow for the referenced mosaic datasets be verifying and checking against current aerial images so roads and rivers match. This will then allow for the City of Peterborough to confidently release it for City staff and citizens to use. Peterborough’s Time Mapping 2.0 would be an ideal project for a group of students who are interested in image analyses and remote sensing. Students should also be comfortable with creating a pleasing web mapping application and be confident that their project outcomes will be accurate for publishing. Project Location: Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/12/17 14:28 Project Description: Lower Winnipeg River Sturgeon Monitoring Project Project Requirements: Over the past decade with the help of community partners, Kenora District MNRF has been monitoring the movements of Lake Sturgeon in the Lower Winnipeg River. Using telemetric tags, the movements of twelve sub-adult fish have been tracked throughout the river system. The objective of this project is to take the information collected and store it in a safe and stable way for access to this information in future years. Our goal is to use this information to analyze fish behavior within the river system in hopes of strengthen our knowledge of how lake sturgeon are using the river, including determining significant habitat such as spawning and feeding. We are looking for a clear way to inform our community partners of the project outcomes. We are also hoping to identify behavioral trends in the Winnipeg River sturgeon and use this information to help make management decisions in the future. Deliverables: A student with a biological background would be an ideal candidate for the project. Students who are experienced with data management would be an ideal candidate as well. The project has been ongoing for a number of years the data set is large. This project would be interesting for someone interested in managing species at risk as the Lake Sturgeon is listed as such with their Northwestern Ontario population. Project Location: A data description will be provided in order to ensure a description of how the data being provided was collected. Organization Name: Kenora District MNRF Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/12/17 15:03 Project Description: Automated mapping of mega-scale glacial lineations in Eastern Ontario Project Requirements: The purpose of this project is to automatically delineate and map mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGLs). This will in collaboration with De Beers Exploration Canada (http://www.debeersgroup.com/en/explore-de-beers/exploration.html). MSGLs are large-scale, elongated landforms formed from fast-flowing ice. Previous studies have focused on the morphology of MSGLs, their relation to paleo ice streams, and their prevalence throughout Canada. Recent research has focused on developing theories for the creation of MSGLs, as such, there is now an increased need for automated mapping of these landforms. Deliverables: Daniel Carbone Spencer Smith Kirsty Noltie Knowledge of physical geography as it pertains to glacial geology is required. Proficiency in programming, spatial analysis and web design is also an asset. Project Location: There are potentially some privacy concerns. These will be further discussed as the project progresses. Organization Name: De Beers Exploration Canada Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 7/12/17 9:32 Project Description: Story Map of Bowmanville's Goodyear Dam Project Requirements: Goals: To educate the public about Bowmanville’s Goodyear Dam, its history, the challenges it poses to the surrounding ecosystem and environment, in particular, the Salmon spawn, and to report on the success of the fish ladder and past attempts to aid fish spawning upstream. Problem: lack of educational resources and a need for the compilation of historic information and facts with regards to the construction of the dam, its purpose, effects and current solutions that have been implemented and/or proposed to lessen its impact on the surrounding ecosystem. *With a special focus on the Salmon spawns. Deliverables: Students would need: an ArcGIS Online account to create the Story Map, Access to an online Drive or Cloud to store the photos, a high quality camera/phone to take pictures/videos (particularly for the Salmon Spawn in the Spring), ability to create and publish data to the server as map services or feature services for use in the Story Map, ability to digitize features from aerial photos. Looking for students who are creative thinkers with excellent writing and visual design skills and who enjoy interacting with the public in an unbiased, professional manner. Project Location: If interviewing or taking pictures of the public/volunteers, the proper procedures will need to be followed and the legal documentation obtained and signed. Organization Name: Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 4/12/17 10:36 Project Description: Cover Crops Anonymous Project Requirements: - Farmers across the province have planted different types and combinations of cover crops - These farmers have different soil types, slopes, drainage classes, etc - Some of the farmers have “demonstration plots” where they try new things before expanding a practice across large acreages We want to create a “Community of Practice” where: - Farmers could search for other farmers who have planted certain cover crops or blends of cover crops to share their experiences - Farmers may want to find other farmers who are on similar soil types and heat units to compare these experiences From a research standpoint, we want to be able to compare apples to apples, so we need to “categorize” these plots by validity: - Lowest level – small plot, not replicated, less rigour to analysis and evaluation of results - Medium level – mid size plots, replicated, maybe even with a control plot; Some level of analysis and evaluation of results - God Star – larger plots, replicated, with control plots, lots of data collection Deliverables: Some agricultural background would be helpful, although not necessary. Soils, geography or geology would be helpful also. This project is meant to bring farmers together and create a Community of Practice - so interest or experience in team building, communication, education and outreach would also be helpful. Project Location: Organization Name: Innovative Farmers Assocation of Ontario Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/29/2017 15:39:31 Project Description: Areas of Representation (AoR) – A spatial ecology based tool for evaluating conservation networks using ArcGIS Project Requirements: In 2006 the WWF-Canada launched the Assessment of Representation Analyst toolset as an ArcGIS 9.x extension. The development of this tool was meant to establish a framework for large-scale gap analysis to be conducted to evaluated the ecological representativeness of protected area networks. The goal was to produce an automated decision-support tool for resource managers and conservation planners. Representativeness is assessed by the tool using a variety of metrics, such as size required to maintain viable populations of native species and sustain ecological processes, environmental gradients, important habitat types, and habitat quality. However, since the original tool was constructed for ArcGIS 9.x, it was implemented through VBA. Our hope is to bring the AoR toolset into the ArcPro landscape by updating and reconstructing the original VBA extension as an ArcGIS Pro Python Toolbox. Once this is complete Students would have the opportunity use the AoR tool to conduct an up-to-date assessment of Canadian conservation area networks (or sample thereof), producing cartographic products to communicate their results. The results of this analysis could be published by the WWF-Canada and distributed nationally. Additionally, potential exists to produce an ESRI Web-App to promote the re-release of the tool. Deliverables: Python Programming, Cartographic Design using ArcMap/Pro or MapIllustrator, Spatial Analysis with ArcMap/Pro, ESRI web app builder. Project Location: The project, tool, and products will be able to be showcased by Fleming College; however, the license and rights to the tool will be held by WWF-Canada. Fleming College will not have the rights to distribute the tool itself. A license agreement may need to be signed upon beginning this project. The student team from Fleming whom complete project will have their names as authors (where appropriate) in supporting published documentation. Organization Name: WWF-Canada Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/27/2017 14:09:25 Project Description: Ottawa Valley Connecting Trails and Tourism Project Requirements: Renfrew County and the Ottawa Valley are top destinations for ATV'ing in Ontario with well over 600 km of ATV and multi-use trails which include municipal railbeds, crown land, county forestry, county and municipal roads and private landowners. The sport is growing, more and more are looking for online and digital sources for finding and following trails. As the largest County in Ontario in terms of area, and one of the fastest growing ATV clubs in Ontario, we are at a critical point where we are restructuring our entire trail signing and naming system to ensure safety, identify trail technicality ratings, enable ease of access for emergency personnel, include GPS coordinated RV spots and signage, and heritage designation of trails that will connect riders to communities and ATV tourism. We have a series of videos of our trail system, and once our trail system is restructured and signed, we want to be able to have a dynamic website that will allow riders to see determine which trails best suit their riding ability and interest, which services are along that trail for them to plan routes, provide video of what the trail consists of for terrain, include length in time and km to complete a trail, and provide some history and points of interest from the heritage of the land and community. Once the trails are verified digitally, this means an interactive component to our website that can be populated with video, interactive maps, downloadable material and that we can update, maintain and promote. Our demographic on the trails and the technology on the trail has changed. We have more families, seniors, youth and new Canadians and urban riders using the trails with limited experience, more powerful equipment and more reliant on digital devices to remain safe on the trails. Our trails are also multi-use which means walkers, hikers, cyclists, cross-country skiers and dirt bikes would all likely use the platform and benefit from this project. As a not for profit volunteer-run organization we need assistance to map, restructure, and digitize our trail system. RCATV is a member of the Eastern Ontario Trails Alliance. Deliverables: An understanding of how to use and take GPS data and digitize it in a format that would be accessible on smartphones and on websites. Experience with or ability to update data to a new or use existing app for mobile devices. Access to or experience with video equipment Ability to do cartography and mapping Assistance with graphic design for new physical and downloadable maps Ability to work in the field to acquire and validate trail data if possible Ability to research and working with our trails committee subject matter experts on trail marking, Project Location: Our information is public and we highly encourage promotion and use of trails. The exception of the contact information of any private land owners. Organization Name: Renfrew County ATV Club Project ID: Status: Thank you for the opportunity. This is a multi-faceted project and we have specialists and subject matter experts to help in areas that would not be covered by the GIS students. It is also a collaboration with 5 other organizations, economic benefit and tourism teams, and municipalities. Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/24/2017 19:38:05 Project Description: Environmental Health Map Project Requirements: There are close to 1000 food premises in Peterborough City and County. They include, among others, restaurants, supermarkets, butcher shops, and chip trucks as well as cafeterias and kitchens located in churches, daycares and long-term care facilities. The goal of the Peterborough Public Health food safety program is to reduce the incidence of foodborne illness (food poisoning) in Peterborough City and County by routinely inspecting these establishments to ensure their compliance with the Food Premises Regulation, R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 562. We are required to maintain an up to date food safety disclosure system on our website (see link). Peterborough Public Health is responsible for the inspection of all public recreational water facilities (pools, spas, wading pools and splash pads) in the City of Peterborough and Peterborough County. Public recreational water facilities are inspected regularly by public health inspectors to prevent and reduce the risk of water borne-illnesses and life-threatening injuries. Peterborough Public Health also maintains a routine surveillance program for public beaches during summer months to ensure that the water quality is safe for swimming. The water samples are tested for Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. A public beach is “posted” when the level of E. coli in the water exceeds a certain limit and is unsafe for recreational use, including human bathing (swimming). When a beach is posted, signage will be placed around the beach area to inform the public. A beach is “closed” when a significant risk to human health and safety has been identified, such as signs of hazardous or infectious material in the water or when there is a blue-green algae bloom. Swimming in the water is NOT permitted when a beach is closed and public access to the beach will be restricted or eliminated. The purpose of this project is to create a map that outlines where inspected food premises are in Peterborough City and County and links to a data base where the most current inspection report sits (HealthSpace). The map should be versatile enough so that we could expand/adapt the map to include the status of beaches and inspected recreational water facilities in the future Deliverables: The students will have to sign a confidentiality agreement with the Peterborough Public Health. Project Location: NA Organization Name: Peterborough Public Health Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/24/2017 12:21:05 Project Description: Interactive Neighbourhood Profile Map Project Requirements: The goal of the project is to create a visually stimulating Geocortex site, to display Statistics Canada data in a variety of interactive and thematic mapping formats. The viewer would illustrate different demographic variables (e.g. population, household size, age, marital status, ethnic origin, etc.) for various census years (i.e. 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016) by each of the City's neighbourhoods. The City of Pickering purchased custom profiles of demographic data from Statistics Canada for each of the City’s neighbourhoods. The City is in the process of acquiring 2016 data from Statistics Canada, as well. This data is currently in Statistics Canada's own tabular format (Browser 20/20) which can be imported into Excel. Once the demographic data is imported into Excel, the data will need to be processed and sorted by field and neighbourhood and joined geographic data. This would then be uploaded into a GeoCortex viewer that would be designed to be easy to use by City staff and the public. Deliverables: See Systems section. In addition, familiarity with Census data would be an asset. Project Location: If selected, the College would need to enter into a standard sub- license agreement for the use of the Statistics Canada data Organization Name: City of Pickering Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 7/11/17 11:48 Project Description: Necrogeography2.0: Continuing to Map Peterborough’s Little Lake Cemetery Project Requirements: Little Lake Cemetery is a non-profit and non-denominational cemetery located in the heart of Peterborough, Ontario. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in the area and contains graves spanning a rich history from 1850 to the present. In 2007 a contract worker for the City of Peterborough created a GIS database of cemetery plots containing information such as grave/monument location, family name, condition, oldest death date, material type, and a photo. This data had not been updated or maintained until 2016-2017 when 3C Solutions (Previous Fleming Collaborative Project 907-PW) conducted QA/QC work on the data to refine the locational accuracy of the existing points and to correct data inconsistencies. Project deliverables included a corrected geodatabase, a historical spatial analysis, a web application providing cemetery inventory searching, an offline application designed to collect monument point data and a large format map for display in City Hall. Necrogeography2.0 will continue to build upon the excellent work of 3C Solutions by conducting field work to fill in gaps in the data as well as modifying the existing database to create a more robust and detailed dataset. They will also produce professional graphic outputs such as a marketing brochure and large scale map product. Deliverables: Strong database skills order to normalize and expand the existing Little Lake Cemetery database. An excellent graphic design background would be ideal to create an attractive and easy to use web application. It would be an interesting project for students with an interest in early Ontario history and a sense of the importance of cultural resource conservation. The student(s) should feel comfortable to tackle this project with a creative and innovative approach, while at the same time maintaining an appropriate degree of respect and integrity regarding the nature of the cemetery information. Project Location: Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: Status: Nope! Project Year: |
Project Name: 6/11/17 14:08 Project Description: Accessibility Cloud Information Survey Project Requirements: Develop a simple to use, accessible survey that can gather all relevant data about accessibility measures in businesses (as defined by the Accessibility Cloud). Integrate the survey into the Accessibility Cloud network. Share the survey tool with the GoGeomatics network to encourage mapping/ surveying activity. Deliverables: Able to develop the above. Flexible. Passionate about improving the accessibility of businesses. Project Location: Continuous feedback from collaborators is required for the development of this tool. Organization Name: BIG IDeA at Innovation Cluster Project ID: Status: Let's find ways to do more together. Project Year: |
Project Name: 2/11/17 13:31 Project Description: Forest Planning Inventory Project Requirements: We are beginning to work on a comprehensive Forest Management Plan. This project requires support from a forest inventory database. We have numerous sources of inventory data available, but they are in different formats, containing various pieces of information. We would like to compile these different data sets into a single master dataset which we can use for purposes such as timber harvest planning, identification of high conservation value lands, and growth and yield calculations. The automation of the updating of this and related datasets, or the digitization of data collection, would also be good deliverables. This project could be mostly completed remotely, but site visits to Haliburton Forest would be good for coordination and the general education of the student(s) in forest management issues. Deliverables: I have discussed this project with Storm Robinson. Basic exposure to forest management principles. Good communication and organization skills. Geoprocessing skills (combing multiple overlapping spatial datasets). Design (identifying items of inputs for use in the dataset). Visual design (desigining symbologies for easy representation of complex data, preparing the maps for use in plans and reports) Programming (automation of inputs into an arcmap database from excel or other tabular data). Project Location: We are relative novices at Haliburton Forest when it comes to data aquistion and management, and gis database management and manipulation. I am certain that the students or faculty at Fleming will identify areas for improvement in this project description, workflow, or deliverables. Organization Name: Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 10/31/2017 13:58:24 Project Description: Strategies and Approaches for Implementing Long-Term Management, Monitoring and Stewardship Programs for the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust Project Requirements: Habitat loss and degradation are the greatest threats to biodiversity in Canada today. To mitigate this process in the Haliburton Highlands, the HHLT is acquiring lands of ecological and cultural significance for conservation purposes. It works to select only those properties which clearly have long-term benefit to the public and can be maintained by the land trust in perpetuity. Through Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Ecological Gifts Program, four properties totaling almost 700 acres have currently been donated to the HHLT. Ecological gifts are made in perpetuity. The HHLT is responsible for the long term management and conservation of ecological gifts and their ecologically sensitive features. To this end the HHLT is required to, and is responsible for, preparing management plans, setting up stewardship programs and initiating and maintaining monitoring programs for each of its properties. The HHLT is currently working towards the development and implementation of strategies and approaches that would ensure it can meet its management, monitoring and stewardship responsibilities. There are two components to the project: 1. Development of a GIS Spatial Database to Assist in Strategic Planning and Property Stewardship Planning and Management. The purpose of this project is to develop the mapping and data management tool that will enable the HHLT to build its geospatial database using publically available data from organizations such as various government agencies including Land Information Ontario (LIO), Natural Heritage Database, OMNRF, Ontario Centre for Remote Sensing, local municipalities as well as integrating GIS data (both map and data) currently stored on various consultants databases. This will enable the HHLT to more effectively manage its various properties over a long period of time. The GIS database will provide the HHLT with a long term strategic planning tool that will enable it to undertake, proactively, the identification of potentially ecologically significant properties across the Haliburton Highlands. Finally, the GIS system will facilitate the ability of the HHLT to communicate, share data and interact with other land management organizations with similar long term land stewardship objectives. 2. The development of spatial data applications and analysis tools using combinations of the various mapping layers and integration of autecological species requirements to assist in the identification of potentially ecologically significant areas and corridor analysis which will help the HHLT to better focus its community education and property acquisition activities across the Haliburton Highlands. These applications will also facilitate the ability of the HHLT to communicate and co-ordinate with adjacent Land Trusts and other conservation organizations responsible for the protection of critical habitat and species of concern. Deliverables: Students will have a basic knowledge in the use and application of ARC GIS software; understanding of how to build the spatial data layers available through various government and other organizations in Ontario; knowledge of how to develop spatial database applications to facilitate the integration and use of the spatial database layers and species or landscape ecological knowledge; Project Location: HHLT has proprietary geospatial information on Species at Risk (SAR) which will need to be protected from public scrutiny as part of the project. Organization Name: Haliburton Higlands Land Trust Project ID: Status: Lawrie: I sent an email to you earlier outlining the project as well as to Kevin Rabjohn. I hope this project is of interest to you and I look forward to working with you and the students on this very important project for the HHLT. Project Year: |
Project Name: 10/23/2017 14:07:33 Project Description: York Region Water Consumption Project Requirements: York Region collects municipal water billing data from all 9 municipalities. In order to automate the process and reduce data discrepancies the Water Consumption Database (WCD) was developed. In order to visualize the data and perform spatial analysis, we put the data in a Geocortex viewer. Our goal is to improve the current architecture of our database, and enhance the Geocortex functionality. Deliverables: Understand databases - understand how databases relate, good database structure ArcGIS - mapping Geocortex - web mapping, workflow, reports PL/SQL - code Creativity - cartographic skills Project Location: Student are working with sensitive data that is not meant to be shared with the public, but we are happy to arrange for a copy of the data for the students and to be shown at the open house. Organization Name: The Regional Municipality of York Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 10/20/2017 11:05:39 Project Description: Multi-modal transport analysis to demonstrate alternatives to your current commute Project Requirements: Alternatives to simply driving to work exist, but are often overlooked. This analysis would present a full-range of multi-modal transport options for workers to get to a specific place of work. The software to be used is ArcGIS Network Analyst along with (free) tools to interpret GTFS transit data. The data required is a chosen place of work, the start locations for people making the commute, GTFS data for the chosen transit network, and a transport network that may include but is not limited to: streets, walking paths, transit corridors, cycling paths, trails, pedestrian, etc. Ride sharing and car-pooling options could also be considered. We encourage you to get creative with transport modes! The commute options could be presented to each worker daily with the best alternative(s) in terms of time, distance, carbon emissions, or any other useful indicator of performance. The end user interaction with this information could be performed using an Esri ArcGIS Online Web Map or an iPhone/Android Smartphone App. This interface could even include live feeds of current locations for other workers with available car-pool space, for example. Again, get creative! Ultimately, we will result with a workforce for one company that is using smarter options for their daily commute, thus improving traffic, safety, air quality, and overall well being for everyone. Deliverables: Intermediate knowledge of ArcGIS Desktop with Network Analyst extension Basic understanding of public transit GTFS files Project Location: Organization Name: Esri Canada Ltd. Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 10/10/17 17:26 Project Description: Millbrook Valley Trail Interactive Mapping Project Requirements: The Millbrook Valley Trails Committee is interested in updating the existing maps, and developing interactive maps, downloadable maps and other products to enhance the experience of trail users. Deliverables: Students would need skills related to development of applications for mobile phone users, graphic design, field skills and cartography. Project Location: no restrictions but will need to check with municipality Organization Name: Millbrook Valley Trails (c/o Otonabee Conservation) Project ID: Status: The Otonabee Conservation GIS specialist is currently on holidays and will likely have some additional informaiton to add, but I wanted to make sure I got this submitted as soon as possible. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. Project Year: |
Project Name: 7/10/17 10:54 Project Description: Plan A Visit- KTCT Project Requirements: Development of an trail tourism planning and service year-round map for the- City of Kawartha Lakes to be installed on the KTCT web site (www.ktct.ca). If time permits develop a KTCT app importing this information. Using this as model develop in the future similar trail planning and service maps for Peterborough County and Northumberland County. This project will produce an listing link to web sites that would identify bike, walking/hiking, horseback riding, cross country skiing and snowmobile services, food/beverage, lodging and camping and directions and parking within a 2KM distance on both sides of the existing trail. It could also include bike shop rentals and shuttles and transportation. For an example, check out https://gaptrail.org The information will be featured on the KTCT web site, twitter and facebook. KTCT receives request regularly for this type of information. KTCT response with basic information. If the person was able to "plan" his or her trip on line it would provide them control over what they want to do, increase tourism in the CKL and increase business contact by the trail user. Presently there is no trail information focused on the services, food and accommodation provided related to travel on the Kawartha Trans Canada Trail in the City of Kawartha Lakes. There is potential to expand this project to include other sections the Trans Canada Trail (Peterborough/Uxbridge) or to use this developed model to provide similar web site contact information anywhere in Canada. This project will: allow for potential trail users to plan on-line their visit to the Kawartha Trans Canada Trail. If time permits to develop an App of this information that will allow to be downloaded for free. In summary, the project requires research, design and include this informatoin on an existing web-GIS based KTCT trail map. The map must have the ability to integrate or link with TCT national, TCT Ontario, local tourism websites. The map/ information will identify and display accommodation, food, services and related support services within 2 km on both sides along the entire KTCT route. Deliverables: Computer skills and knowledge – web based technology Organizational Skills – information collection and presentation GIS application – using existing TCT trail data and apply to location Communication skills – deal with variety of people who will provide and review project information Strong interest in the project and its benefits to the economic impact for tourism and businesses in CKL Team that can work independently and meet deadlines Project Location: There will be some travel and supply funds available for this project. There is a $400 budget for the project BUT this will need to be confirmed prior to commencement of the project by the Trans Canada Trail Partners. Client for this project lives in Lindsay and can attend regular meetings and will assist in data collection and guidance for the project. Organization Name: Kawartha Trans Canada Trail Association Project ID: Status: none Project Year: |
Project Name: 9/27/2017 11:59:27 Project Description: Data Collection and Management Solutions for Small Businesses Project Requirements: Finding a cost effective and efficient means for a small business to accurately (sub meter) collect tree inventory data that is easily manipulated and transferred into mainstream data management software (i.e., Excel) and plotted into design software such as Auto CAD. The key words here are "effective", "efficient", and "cost effective". There are many industry and non-industry related products available on the market. However, when you can't afford (or justify) thousands of dollars for equipment and annually licensing fees, you are left trying to cobble together a process with equipment that isn't 100% compatible (let alone accurate) that requires multiple steps leaving you data vulnerable to corruption. Aghh, can you sense the frustration?!? Deliverables: General GIS knowledge is sufficient. More importantly is the ability to research and recommend a list of affordable, compatible and sustainable products (hardware and software) that will streamline/simplify the process of accurately and efficiently collecting, manipulating and presenting field data. This may require skill sets in database design and/or software customization as well as CAD programming. Project Location: Organization Name: Treescape Certified Arborists Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/19/2017 11:11:24 Project Description: Mapping of Education & Outreach Locations Project Requirements: The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre (OTCC) has two years of data regarding our Education Program (locations, age groups, number of participants, etc.), we have not had any mapping or analyses of these data completed to date. It would be interesting to look at the reach of the Education Program with relation to injured turtle admissions to the OTCC Trauma Centre in following years to see if areas where turtle-specific education has taken place have higher admissions in the following summer. We currently have two years (2016 and 2017) worth of data specific to the Education Program, as well as turtle admission data. Deliverables: The skills required include: mapping/GIS, database navigation, report-writing, an understanding of outreach as a conservation tool. Project Location: Admissions data for injured turtles includes locations where the injured turtles were found. For the more endangered species of Ontario turtles, these locations should remain private due to the risk of poaching. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/14/2017 13:38:38 Project Description: I love my watershed Project Requirements: The OHI seeks student support to develop an app to allow photographs and a small amount text to describe watershed locations to be posted to a map of Ontario. The app will both allow people to share photos of sites they find important, and to find and visit sites shared by others. The concept for the app, as described below but to be developed with the student team, is to provide a short list of digital questions to be filled in, after which the photo could be uploaded. In addition to name, e-mail address, a user name, and a password, the app would: • Ask users to ensure their phone provides the GIS location or to provide another location-finder to be discussed, such as an intersection or watershed; • Suggest a title for the photo; and • Require the person to select one of several on-screen icons to indicate the category of the photo being uploaded. The photo, its icon, and other information would then be posted to a website using Google Fusion, which if possible could show the boundaries of Ontario’s watersheds. End-users would click on icons, by location, to open the photo and the short description. Back-end database management aspects of this project include: • The management and privacy of personal information from the person taking the photo. ie – their name, user name, email address, and what photos they have posted; • Receiving and posting app information to the website, including the poster’s user name, putting the selected icon in its accurate location, and ensuring the photo and its description open when a user clicks on the icon; and, • Being able to see photos by who posted them, icon type, watershed, and any other desirable aspects developed by the team. Deliverables: • Ability to work both independently and in a team • Good organization, communication, and reporting skills • Strong use of data, spatial analysis, and programming skills • Inquisitive approach to research and the ability to refine methodologies • Past experience with MNR-LIO data-bases and protocols would be an asset • Confidence and directness in communication with the OHI on project progress toward desired or agreed alternate outcomes. If you’ve got an idea, share it. If you need help, ask for it. We don’t bite. Project Location: • Project experience may also enhance employment opportunities in both the private and public sectors. • While the OHI unable to scout possible funding for further work stemming from and following the completion of this project, we would consider supporting any student-generated concepts for grant requests. • While students engaged in this project may have graduated by the fall of 2018, the project may be a good candidate for submission to the student poster competition at the annual, November, Latournel Conservation Symposium. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/13/2017 17:15:05 Project Description: Fleming Arboretum at Frost Project Requirements: In the Spring of 2018, Fleming College will be launching an Arboretum at Frost Campus. The mission of the Arboretum at Frost Campus is to create a campus wide living laboratory, showcasing a variety of native and non-native trees and shrubs in a variety of landscape settings (natural and aesthetic) for the purposes of education, research and community engagement. One of the main goals of the Arboretum project is that it becomes a publicly accessible green space. In order to improve the functionality of the site and to improve the visitor experience, the GIS collaborative project team will create resources including a website, site/trail maps, and an app. In addition to visitor resources, the collaborative project team will create a database/tree inventory which will be used by college staff to help create management plans for the arboretum Deliverables: Experience with tree ID, measurement and assessment would be an asset Project Location: Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/12/17 15:10 Project Description: The Resettlement Project - Woody Island Project Requirements: In the 1960's hundreds of communities in Newfoundland were resettled under the banner of modernization. People were moved from isolated coves and islands to communities with easier access to roads and other infrastructure. Many people who experienced resettlement have passed away and the specific memories of the places in which they once lived are fading. The last generation to live in these places if fast approaching old age. It is the goal of this project to capture their memories before it's too late. This project will be a demo, focusing on a single community: Woody Island, Placentia Bay. My father's family moved from Woody Island in 1967. This demo can then be presented to academics and funders to determine if there is interest in expanding the scope of the project. The goal of this project is to leverage aerial photos to develop an online, interactive map of Woody Island as it was just before resettlement. Computer Users (historians, former inhabitants, relatives and family) may edit and add to the map to in an effort to fully capture the history of Woody Island. Some initial possibilities for interactivity include: 1. Identifying structures, who lived in them and when. 2. Identifying key local landmarks and the local names used for them. 3. Uploading and linking family photos to structures and landmarks. 4. Capture stories about people, structures and landmarks. Before users can undertake such activities, a baseline interactive map and dataset is required. Deliverables: Students must be independent workers yet capable of collaboration. Have the ability to interpret aerial photography and create a dataset from it. Place datasets into a custom web app, offering end users the ability to manipulate and add data as required. Must be willing to ask questions when stuck. Project Location: The baseline dataset will be generic, for example "Building A", etc. Once the demo goes live, users may edit the data. A demo of the initial baseline set should be fine. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/12/17 14:28 Project Description: Peterborough’s Time Mapping 2.0: Exploring Historic Aerial Imagery through the Years Project Requirements: Historical aerial images are an ideal resource for assessing changes in time and performing land change analysis. The City of Peterborough has a collection of historical images that lack spatial reference, and as a result are not useful in a GIS context. There is 7 different years’ worth of image tiles. All of the tiles have been scanned to PDF and some have been converted to TIFF. The goal of this project is to transform as many of the aerial images from their raw state to a data product which can be used within the GIS environment. Once the images are referenced and rectified, the final outcome will be to publish the images as a service and create a web based mapping application. This will be a central location to show and analyze the newly georeferenced aerial images alongside existing imagery services that the City of Peterborough has. This project was initially completed in 2017 through an automated process using HAP Software through PCI Geomatica. However, the final mosaicked datasets displayed a significant amount of error and the need to have the images georeferenced and QA/QC again from scratch manually or using a different process is required. Errors included duplicate image tiles, roads not being continuous, and water bodies were skewed. Students will need to come up with the best solution that produces a georeferenced dataset with a high level of accuracy within the timelines of the Collaborative Project. More can be found in project proposal doc, not all informaiton could fit into this chart. Deliverables: Students should have strong research to come up with the best method to ortho rectify the images and output an accurate result. Database skills will also be an asset to ensure solid naming conventions and folder maintenance so the project can be passed on to Geomatics/Mapping seamlessly. Strong project management skills will allow for the referenced mosaic datasets be verifying and checking against current aerial images so roads and rivers match. This will then allow for the City of Peterborough to confidently release it for City staff and citizens to use. Peterborough’s Time Mapping 2.0 would be an ideal project for a group of students who are interested in image analyses and remote sensing. Students should also be comfortable with creating a pleasing web mapping application and be confident that their project outcomes will be accurate for publishing. Project Location: Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 12/12/17 14:28 Project Description: Lower Winnipeg River Sturgeon Monitoring Project Project Requirements: Over the past decade with the help of community partners, Kenora District MNRF has been monitoring the movements of Lake Sturgeon in the Lower Winnipeg River. Using telemetric tags, the movements of twelve sub-adult fish have been tracked throughout the river system. The objective of this project is to take the information collected and store it in a safe and stable way for access to this information in future years. Our goal is to use this information to analyze fish behavior within the river system in hopes of strengthen our knowledge of how lake sturgeon are using the river, including determining significant habitat such as spawning and feeding. We are looking for a clear way to inform our community partners of the project outcomes. We are also hoping to identify behavioral trends in the Winnipeg River sturgeon and use this information to help make management decisions in the future. Deliverables: A student with a biological background would be an ideal candidate for the project. Students who are experienced with data management would be an ideal candidate as well. The project has been ongoing for a number of years the data set is large. This project would be interesting for someone interested in managing species at risk as the Lake Sturgeon is listed as such with their Northwestern Ontario population. Project Location: A data description will be provided in order to ensure a description of how the data being provided was collected. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/12/17 15:03 Project Description: Automated mapping of mega-scale glacial lineations in Eastern Ontario Project Requirements: The purpose of this project is to automatically delineate and map mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGLs). This will in collaboration with De Beers Exploration Canada (http://www.debeersgroup.com/en/explore-de-beers/exploration.html). MSGLs are large-scale, elongated landforms formed from fast-flowing ice. Previous studies have focused on the morphology of MSGLs, their relation to paleo ice streams, and their prevalence throughout Canada. Recent research has focused on developing theories for the creation of MSGLs, as such, there is now an increased need for automated mapping of these landforms. Deliverables: Daniel Carbone Spencer Smith Kirsty Noltie Knowledge of physical geography as it pertains to glacial geology is required. Proficiency in programming, spatial analysis and web design is also an asset. Project Location: There are potentially some privacy concerns. These will be further discussed as the project progresses. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 7/12/17 9:32 Project Description: Story Map of Bowmanville's Goodyear Dam Project Requirements: Goals: To educate the public about Bowmanville’s Goodyear Dam, its history, the challenges it poses to the surrounding ecosystem and environment, in particular, the Salmon spawn, and to report on the success of the fish ladder and past attempts to aid fish spawning upstream. Problem: lack of educational resources and a need for the compilation of historic information and facts with regards to the construction of the dam, its purpose, effects and current solutions that have been implemented and/or proposed to lessen its impact on the surrounding ecosystem. *With a special focus on the Salmon spawns. Deliverables: Students would need: an ArcGIS Online account to create the Story Map, Access to an online Drive or Cloud to store the photos, a high quality camera/phone to take pictures/videos (particularly for the Salmon Spawn in the Spring), ability to create and publish data to the server as map services or feature services for use in the Story Map, ability to digitize features from aerial photos. Looking for students who are creative thinkers with excellent writing and visual design skills and who enjoy interacting with the public in an unbiased, professional manner. Project Location: If interviewing or taking pictures of the public/volunteers, the proper procedures will need to be followed and the legal documentation obtained and signed. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 4/12/17 10:36 Project Description: Cover Crops Anonymous Project Requirements: - Farmers across the province have planted different types and combinations of cover crops - These farmers have different soil types, slopes, drainage classes, etc - Some of the farmers have “demonstration plots” where they try new things before expanding a practice across large acreages We want to create a “Community of Practice” where: - Farmers could search for other farmers who have planted certain cover crops or blends of cover crops to share their experiences - Farmers may want to find other farmers who are on similar soil types and heat units to compare these experiences From a research standpoint, we want to be able to compare apples to apples, so we need to “categorize” these plots by validity: - Lowest level – small plot, not replicated, less rigour to analysis and evaluation of results - Medium level – mid size plots, replicated, maybe even with a control plot; Some level of analysis and evaluation of results - God Star – larger plots, replicated, with control plots, lots of data collection Deliverables: Some agricultural background would be helpful, although not necessary. Soils, geography or geology would be helpful also. This project is meant to bring farmers together and create a Community of Practice - so interest or experience in team building, communication, education and outreach would also be helpful. Project Location: Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/29/2017 15:39:31 Project Description: Areas of Representation (AoR) – A spatial ecology based tool for evaluating conservation networks using ArcGIS Project Requirements: In 2006 the WWF-Canada launched the Assessment of Representation Analyst toolset as an ArcGIS 9.x extension. The development of this tool was meant to establish a framework for large-scale gap analysis to be conducted to evaluated the ecological representativeness of protected area networks. The goal was to produce an automated decision-support tool for resource managers and conservation planners. Representativeness is assessed by the tool using a variety of metrics, such as size required to maintain viable populations of native species and sustain ecological processes, environmental gradients, important habitat types, and habitat quality. However, since the original tool was constructed for ArcGIS 9.x, it was implemented through VBA. Our hope is to bring the AoR toolset into the ArcPro landscape by updating and reconstructing the original VBA extension as an ArcGIS Pro Python Toolbox. Once this is complete Students would have the opportunity use the AoR tool to conduct an up-to-date assessment of Canadian conservation area networks (or sample thereof), producing cartographic products to communicate their results. The results of this analysis could be published by the WWF-Canada and distributed nationally. Additionally, potential exists to produce an ESRI Web-App to promote the re-release of the tool. Deliverables: Python Programming, Cartographic Design using ArcMap/Pro or MapIllustrator, Spatial Analysis with ArcMap/Pro, ESRI web app builder. Project Location: The project, tool, and products will be able to be showcased by Fleming College; however, the license and rights to the tool will be held by WWF-Canada. Fleming College will not have the rights to distribute the tool itself. A license agreement may need to be signed upon beginning this project. The student team from Fleming whom complete project will have their names as authors (where appropriate) in supporting published documentation. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/27/2017 14:09:25 Project Description: Ottawa Valley Connecting Trails and Tourism Project Requirements: Renfrew County and the Ottawa Valley are top destinations for ATV'ing in Ontario with well over 600 km of ATV and multi-use trails which include municipal railbeds, crown land, county forestry, county and municipal roads and private landowners. The sport is growing, more and more are looking for online and digital sources for finding and following trails. As the largest County in Ontario in terms of area, and one of the fastest growing ATV clubs in Ontario, we are at a critical point where we are restructuring our entire trail signing and naming system to ensure safety, identify trail technicality ratings, enable ease of access for emergency personnel, include GPS coordinated RV spots and signage, and heritage designation of trails that will connect riders to communities and ATV tourism. We have a series of videos of our trail system, and once our trail system is restructured and signed, we want to be able to have a dynamic website that will allow riders to see determine which trails best suit their riding ability and interest, which services are along that trail for them to plan routes, provide video of what the trail consists of for terrain, include length in time and km to complete a trail, and provide some history and points of interest from the heritage of the land and community. Once the trails are verified digitally, this means an interactive component to our website that can be populated with video, interactive maps, downloadable material and that we can update, maintain and promote. Our demographic on the trails and the technology on the trail has changed. We have more families, seniors, youth and new Canadians and urban riders using the trails with limited experience, more powerful equipment and more reliant on digital devices to remain safe on the trails. Our trails are also multi-use which means walkers, hikers, cyclists, cross-country skiers and dirt bikes would all likely use the platform and benefit from this project. As a not for profit volunteer-run organization we need assistance to map, restructure, and digitize our trail system. RCATV is a member of the Eastern Ontario Trails Alliance. Deliverables: An understanding of how to use and take GPS data and digitize it in a format that would be accessible on smartphones and on websites. Experience with or ability to update data to a new or use existing app for mobile devices. Access to or experience with video equipment Ability to do cartography and mapping Assistance with graphic design for new physical and downloadable maps Ability to work in the field to acquire and validate trail data if possible Ability to research and working with our trails committee subject matter experts on trail marking, Project Location: Our information is public and we highly encourage promotion and use of trails. The exception of the contact information of any private land owners. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/24/2017 19:38:05 Project Description: Environmental Health Map Project Requirements: There are close to 1000 food premises in Peterborough City and County. They include, among others, restaurants, supermarkets, butcher shops, and chip trucks as well as cafeterias and kitchens located in churches, daycares and long-term care facilities. The goal of the Peterborough Public Health food safety program is to reduce the incidence of foodborne illness (food poisoning) in Peterborough City and County by routinely inspecting these establishments to ensure their compliance with the Food Premises Regulation, R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 562. We are required to maintain an up to date food safety disclosure system on our website (see link). Peterborough Public Health is responsible for the inspection of all public recreational water facilities (pools, spas, wading pools and splash pads) in the City of Peterborough and Peterborough County. Public recreational water facilities are inspected regularly by public health inspectors to prevent and reduce the risk of water borne-illnesses and life-threatening injuries. Peterborough Public Health also maintains a routine surveillance program for public beaches during summer months to ensure that the water quality is safe for swimming. The water samples are tested for Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. A public beach is “posted” when the level of E. coli in the water exceeds a certain limit and is unsafe for recreational use, including human bathing (swimming). When a beach is posted, signage will be placed around the beach area to inform the public. A beach is “closed” when a significant risk to human health and safety has been identified, such as signs of hazardous or infectious material in the water or when there is a blue-green algae bloom. Swimming in the water is NOT permitted when a beach is closed and public access to the beach will be restricted or eliminated. The purpose of this project is to create a map that outlines where inspected food premises are in Peterborough City and County and links to a data base where the most current inspection report sits (HealthSpace). The map should be versatile enough so that we could expand/adapt the map to include the status of beaches and inspected recreational water facilities in the future Deliverables: The students will have to sign a confidentiality agreement with the Peterborough Public Health. Project Location: NA Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 11/24/2017 12:21:05 Project Description: Interactive Neighbourhood Profile Map Project Requirements: The goal of the project is to create a visually stimulating Geocortex site, to display Statistics Canada data in a variety of interactive and thematic mapping formats. The viewer would illustrate different demographic variables (e.g. population, household size, age, marital status, ethnic origin, etc.) for various census years (i.e. 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016) by each of the City's neighbourhoods. The City of Pickering purchased custom profiles of demographic data from Statistics Canada for each of the City’s neighbourhoods. The City is in the process of acquiring 2016 data from Statistics Canada, as well. This data is currently in Statistics Canada's own tabular format (Browser 20/20) which can be imported into Excel. Once the demographic data is imported into Excel, the data will need to be processed and sorted by field and neighbourhood and joined geographic data. This would then be uploaded into a GeoCortex viewer that would be designed to be easy to use by City staff and the public. Deliverables: See Systems section. In addition, familiarity with Census data would be an asset. Project Location: If selected, the College would need to enter into a standard sub- license agreement for the use of the Statistics Canada data Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 7/11/17 11:48 Project Description: Necrogeography2.0: Continuing to Map Peterborough’s Little Lake Cemetery Project Requirements: Little Lake Cemetery is a non-profit and non-denominational cemetery located in the heart of Peterborough, Ontario. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in the area and contains graves spanning a rich history from 1850 to the present. In 2007 a contract worker for the City of Peterborough created a GIS database of cemetery plots containing information such as grave/monument location, family name, condition, oldest death date, material type, and a photo. This data had not been updated or maintained until 2016-2017 when 3C Solutions (Previous Fleming Collaborative Project 907-PW) conducted QA/QC work on the data to refine the locational accuracy of the existing points and to correct data inconsistencies. Project deliverables included a corrected geodatabase, a historical spatial analysis, a web application providing cemetery inventory searching, an offline application designed to collect monument point data and a large format map for display in City Hall. Necrogeography2.0 will continue to build upon the excellent work of 3C Solutions by conducting field work to fill in gaps in the data as well as modifying the existing database to create a more robust and detailed dataset. They will also produce professional graphic outputs such as a marketing brochure and large scale map product. Deliverables: Strong database skills order to normalize and expand the existing Little Lake Cemetery database. An excellent graphic design background would be ideal to create an attractive and easy to use web application. It would be an interesting project for students with an interest in early Ontario history and a sense of the importance of cultural resource conservation. The student(s) should feel comfortable to tackle this project with a creative and innovative approach, while at the same time maintaining an appropriate degree of respect and integrity regarding the nature of the cemetery information. Project Location: Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 6/11/17 14:08 Project Description: Accessibility Cloud Information Survey Project Requirements: Develop a simple to use, accessible survey that can gather all relevant data about accessibility measures in businesses (as defined by the Accessibility Cloud). Integrate the survey into the Accessibility Cloud network. Share the survey tool with the GoGeomatics network to encourage mapping/ surveying activity. Deliverables: Able to develop the above. Flexible. Passionate about improving the accessibility of businesses. Project Location: Continuous feedback from collaborators is required for the development of this tool. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 2/11/17 13:31 Project Description: Forest Planning Inventory Project Requirements: We are beginning to work on a comprehensive Forest Management Plan. This project requires support from a forest inventory database. We have numerous sources of inventory data available, but they are in different formats, containing various pieces of information. We would like to compile these different data sets into a single master dataset which we can use for purposes such as timber harvest planning, identification of high conservation value lands, and growth and yield calculations. The automation of the updating of this and related datasets, or the digitization of data collection, would also be good deliverables. This project could be mostly completed remotely, but site visits to Haliburton Forest would be good for coordination and the general education of the student(s) in forest management issues. Deliverables: I have discussed this project with Storm Robinson. Basic exposure to forest management principles. Good communication and organization skills. Geoprocessing skills (combing multiple overlapping spatial datasets). Design (identifying items of inputs for use in the dataset). Visual design (desigining symbologies for easy representation of complex data, preparing the maps for use in plans and reports) Programming (automation of inputs into an arcmap database from excel or other tabular data). Project Location: We are relative novices at Haliburton Forest when it comes to data aquistion and management, and gis database management and manipulation. I am certain that the students or faculty at Fleming will identify areas for improvement in this project description, workflow, or deliverables. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 10/31/2017 13:58:24 Project Description: Strategies and Approaches for Implementing Long-Term Management, Monitoring and Stewardship Programs for the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust Project Requirements: Habitat loss and degradation are the greatest threats to biodiversity in Canada today. To mitigate this process in the Haliburton Highlands, the HHLT is acquiring lands of ecological and cultural significance for conservation purposes. It works to select only those properties which clearly have long-term benefit to the public and can be maintained by the land trust in perpetuity. Through Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Ecological Gifts Program, four properties totaling almost 700 acres have currently been donated to the HHLT. Ecological gifts are made in perpetuity. The HHLT is responsible for the long term management and conservation of ecological gifts and their ecologically sensitive features. To this end the HHLT is required to, and is responsible for, preparing management plans, setting up stewardship programs and initiating and maintaining monitoring programs for each of its properties. The HHLT is currently working towards the development and implementation of strategies and approaches that would ensure it can meet its management, monitoring and stewardship responsibilities. There are two components to the project: 1. Development of a GIS Spatial Database to Assist in Strategic Planning and Property Stewardship Planning and Management. The purpose of this project is to develop the mapping and data management tool that will enable the HHLT to build its geospatial database using publically available data from organizations such as various government agencies including Land Information Ontario (LIO), Natural Heritage Database, OMNRF, Ontario Centre for Remote Sensing, local municipalities as well as integrating GIS data (both map and data) currently stored on various consultants databases. This will enable the HHLT to more effectively manage its various properties over a long period of time. The GIS database will provide the HHLT with a long term strategic planning tool that will enable it to undertake, proactively, the identification of potentially ecologically significant properties across the Haliburton Highlands. Finally, the GIS system will facilitate the ability of the HHLT to communicate, share data and interact with other land management organizations with similar long term land stewardship objectives. 2. The development of spatial data applications and analysis tools using combinations of the various mapping layers and integration of autecological species requirements to assist in the identification of potentially ecologically significant areas and corridor analysis which will help the HHLT to better focus its community education and property acquisition activities across the Haliburton Highlands. These applications will also facilitate the ability of the HHLT to communicate and co-ordinate with adjacent Land Trusts and other conservation organizations responsible for the protection of critical habitat and species of concern. Deliverables: Students will have a basic knowledge in the use and application of ARC GIS software; understanding of how to build the spatial data layers available through various government and other organizations in Ontario; knowledge of how to develop spatial database applications to facilitate the integration and use of the spatial database layers and species or landscape ecological knowledge; Project Location: HHLT has proprietary geospatial information on Species at Risk (SAR) which will need to be protected from public scrutiny as part of the project. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 10/23/2017 14:07:33 Project Description: York Region Water Consumption Project Requirements: York Region collects municipal water billing data from all 9 municipalities. In order to automate the process and reduce data discrepancies the Water Consumption Database (WCD) was developed. In order to visualize the data and perform spatial analysis, we put the data in a Geocortex viewer. Our goal is to improve the current architecture of our database, and enhance the Geocortex functionality. Deliverables: Understand databases - understand how databases relate, good database structure ArcGIS - mapping Geocortex - web mapping, workflow, reports PL/SQL - code Creativity - cartographic skills Project Location: Student are working with sensitive data that is not meant to be shared with the public, but we are happy to arrange for a copy of the data for the students and to be shown at the open house. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 10/20/2017 11:05:39 Project Description: Multi-modal transport analysis to demonstrate alternatives to your current commute Project Requirements: Alternatives to simply driving to work exist, but are often overlooked. This analysis would present a full-range of multi-modal transport options for workers to get to a specific place of work. The software to be used is ArcGIS Network Analyst along with (free) tools to interpret GTFS transit data. The data required is a chosen place of work, the start locations for people making the commute, GTFS data for the chosen transit network, and a transport network that may include but is not limited to: streets, walking paths, transit corridors, cycling paths, trails, pedestrian, etc. Ride sharing and car-pooling options could also be considered. We encourage you to get creative with transport modes! The commute options could be presented to each worker daily with the best alternative(s) in terms of time, distance, carbon emissions, or any other useful indicator of performance. The end user interaction with this information could be performed using an Esri ArcGIS Online Web Map or an iPhone/Android Smartphone App. This interface could even include live feeds of current locations for other workers with available car-pool space, for example. Again, get creative! Ultimately, we will result with a workforce for one company that is using smarter options for their daily commute, thus improving traffic, safety, air quality, and overall well being for everyone. Deliverables: Intermediate knowledge of ArcGIS Desktop with Network Analyst extension Basic understanding of public transit GTFS files Project Location: Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 10/10/17 17:26 Project Description: Millbrook Valley Trail Interactive Mapping Project Requirements: The Millbrook Valley Trails Committee is interested in updating the existing maps, and developing interactive maps, downloadable maps and other products to enhance the experience of trail users. Deliverables: Students would need skills related to development of applications for mobile phone users, graphic design, field skills and cartography. Project Location: no restrictions but will need to check with municipality Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 7/10/17 10:54 Project Description: Plan A Visit- KTCT Project Requirements: Development of an trail tourism planning and service year-round map for the- City of Kawartha Lakes to be installed on the KTCT web site (www.ktct.ca). If time permits develop a KTCT app importing this information. Using this as model develop in the future similar trail planning and service maps for Peterborough County and Northumberland County. This project will produce an listing link to web sites that would identify bike, walking/hiking, horseback riding, cross country skiing and snowmobile services, food/beverage, lodging and camping and directions and parking within a 2KM distance on both sides of the existing trail. It could also include bike shop rentals and shuttles and transportation. For an example, check out https://gaptrail.org The information will be featured on the KTCT web site, twitter and facebook. KTCT receives request regularly for this type of information. KTCT response with basic information. If the person was able to "plan" his or her trip on line it would provide them control over what they want to do, increase tourism in the CKL and increase business contact by the trail user. Presently there is no trail information focused on the services, food and accommodation provided related to travel on the Kawartha Trans Canada Trail in the City of Kawartha Lakes. There is potential to expand this project to include other sections the Trans Canada Trail (Peterborough/Uxbridge) or to use this developed model to provide similar web site contact information anywhere in Canada. This project will: allow for potential trail users to plan on-line their visit to the Kawartha Trans Canada Trail. If time permits to develop an App of this information that will allow to be downloaded for free. In summary, the project requires research, design and include this informatoin on an existing web-GIS based KTCT trail map. The map must have the ability to integrate or link with TCT national, TCT Ontario, local tourism websites. The map/ information will identify and display accommodation, food, services and related support services within 2 km on both sides along the entire KTCT route. Deliverables: Computer skills and knowledge – web based technology Organizational Skills – information collection and presentation GIS application – using existing TCT trail data and apply to location Communication skills – deal with variety of people who will provide and review project information Strong interest in the project and its benefits to the economic impact for tourism and businesses in CKL Team that can work independently and meet deadlines Project Location: There will be some travel and supply funds available for this project. There is a $400 budget for the project BUT this will need to be confirmed prior to commencement of the project by the Trans Canada Trail Partners. Client for this project lives in Lindsay and can attend regular meetings and will assist in data collection and guidance for the project. Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: 9/27/2017 11:59:27 Project Description: Data Collection and Management Solutions for Small Businesses Project Requirements: Finding a cost effective and efficient means for a small business to accurately (sub meter) collect tree inventory data that is easily manipulated and transferred into mainstream data management software (i.e., Excel) and plotted into design software such as Auto CAD. The key words here are "effective", "efficient", and "cost effective". There are many industry and non-industry related products available on the market. However, when you can't afford (or justify) thousands of dollars for equipment and annually licensing fees, you are left trying to cobble together a process with equipment that isn't 100% compatible (let alone accurate) that requires multiple steps leaving you data vulnerable to corruption. Aghh, can you sense the frustration?!? Deliverables: General GIS knowledge is sufficient. More importantly is the ability to research and recommend a list of affordable, compatible and sustainable products (hardware and software) that will streamline/simplify the process of accurately and efficiently collecting, manipulating and presenting field data. This may require skill sets in database design and/or software customization as well as CAD programming. Project Location: Organization Name: Project ID: Status: Project Year: |
Project Name: Regional Tourism 8- Trans Canada Trail interactive map and APP Project Description: Development of an trail tourism service map for 3 regions- City of Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough County and Northumberland County (RTO 8) including an TCT app for the Trans Canada Trail. This project will produce an interactive web based map for the three regions of the TCT, identify the service, food and accommodation amenities located within a 2KM area on both sides of the existing trail,. The information will be featured on the web sites at all three Tourism offices and including a downloadable APP for the trail with this information. There is no information focused on the services, food and accommodation provided related to travel on the Trans Canada Trail in this region. There is a need to unify the three section of TCT trail maps, trail information and contacts into one continuous map or map series to connect people and places, creating a tri-region Trans Canada trail tourism product including an app. This project will: Research, design and build a web-GIS based tourism map showing the existing TCT route for all three counties (City of Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough County and Northumberland County). The map must have the ability to integrate or link with TCT national, TCT Ontario, local tourism websites. The map will identify and display accommodation, food, services and related support services within 2 km on both sides along the entire TCT route Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming Cartographic Presentation Web Technology Deliverables: ´â╝ Research and develop a web-GIS based, interactive map using the Tourism Region 8 TCT route. This map should include such things as trail location, food, services (e.g. bike repairs) and accommodations. ´â╝ The web-GIS based map and related webpage must be capable of being integrated with TCT national, TCT Ontario, OTAC and local area trail and tourism websites. ´â╝ Identify and display trail related stores, accommodations and food services within a 2km buffer of the TCT along entire section covered by Tourism Region 8. ´â╝ Web-GIS based map and related webpage must be able to be integrated into existing tourism websites for City of Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough County and Northumberland County (Tourism Region 8). ´â╝ Web-GIS based map and all related files to be transferred to three Tourism office locations (City of Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough County and Northumberland County) for integration into existing websites for immediate public use. ´â╝ GIS and map data will be the property of Trans Canada Trail Ontario. ´â╝ Prepare manuals to be provided to Tourism Offices which documents technology involved in web-GIS based map and related webpage for integration into existing and future websites. ´â╝ Webpage containing web-GIS based map will provide opportunities to sell advertising space. ´â╝ Provide print-ready map for entire Trans Canada Trail in Tourism Region 8. ´â╝ Data collection will be assisted by local Tourism offices but will be a joint effort ´â╝ Prepare APP for downloading information on to ipads, iphones etc. Project Location: Lindsay/Kawarthas c/o Fleming College, 200 Albert Street S Lindsay, Ontario K9V 5E6 Organization Name: Kawartha Trans Canada Trail Project ID: 925 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Assessing and Strengthening Community Social Infrastructure Project Description: Completing a community scan and compiling information on community resources related to health and social services, in addition analysis of strengthens and gaps within an interactive map (which partially exists). The second piece would be assisting with establishing a secure interactive website with Early Development Instrument (EDI) and local child outcomes to do gap analysis, identifying duplication, this will help better understand and measure the impact that Ontario Early Years Child and Family Centres core services are having to improve lives of children and families. The County would also be interested in taking recent data obtained from our 20K Homes campaign around homeless and at risk of homelessness and layering this information as well into an interactive map against the health and social services available in townships/municipalities in Northumberland. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: 1 Map EDI data, 2. Map homelessness data 3. Secure GIS interactive application 4. Update existing health and social services on existing public facing map 5. Complete a report that identifies gaps and duplications within townships or municipalities or other Project Location: Northumberland County Organization Name: Corporation of the County of Northumberland Project ID: 922 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Peel/Halton Available Cemetery Area Project Description: An analysis of the Cemetery Lands within Peel/Halton Regions: How much land is available; is this land restricted or unrestricted; based on populations, death rates, etc.. what is the current land inventory and capacity (need); Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication Deliverables: We expect maps showcasing the amount of available cemetery lands, maps and data showing the need for cemeteries within the regions municipalities, Any other information platform or idea that the students may come up with on their own based upon their findings. Project Location: Peel/Halton Regions Organization Name: LARKIN+ Land use planners Project ID: 921 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Environmental Health Map Project Description: There are close to 1000 food premises in Peterborough City and County. They include, among others, restaurants, supermarkets, butcher shops, and chip trucks as well as cafeterias and kitchens located in churches, daycares and long-term care facilities. The goal of the Peterborough Public Health food safety program is to reduce the incidence of foodborne illness (food poisoning) in Peterborough City and County by routinely inspecting these establishments to ensure their compliance with the Food Premises Regulation, R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 562. We are required to maintain an up to date food safety disclosure system on our website (see link). Peterborough Public Health is responsible for the inspection of all public recreational water facilities (pools, spas, wading pools and splash pads) in the City of Peterborough and Peterborough County. Public recreational water facilities are inspected regularly by public health inspectors to prevent and reduce the risk of water borne-illnesses and life-threatening injuries. Peterborough Public Health also maintains a routine surveillance program for public beaches during summer months to ensure that the water quality is safe for swimming. The water samples are tested for Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. A public beach is ÔÇ£postedÔÇØ when the level of E. coli in the water exceeds a certain limit and is unsafe for recreational use, including human bathing (swimming). When a beach is posted, signage will be placed around the beach area to inform the public. A beach is ÔÇ£closedÔÇØ when a significant risk to human health and safety has been identified, such as signs of hazardous or infectious material in the water or when there is a blue-green algae bloom. Swimming in the water is NOT permitted when a beach is closed and public access to the beach will be restricted or eliminated. The purpose of this project is to create a map that outlines where inspected food premises are in Peterborough City and County and links to a data base where the most current inspection report sits (HealthSpace). The map should be versatile enough so that we could expand/adapt the map to include the status of beaches and inspected recreational water facilities in the future. Project Requirements: X Database Design/Processing X Cartographic Presentation Deliverables: There are close to 1000 food premises in Peterborough City and County. They include, among others, restaurants, supermarkets, butcher shops, and chip trucks as well as cafeterias and kitchens located in churches, daycares and long-term care facilities. The goal of the Peterborough Public Health food safety program is to reduce the incidence of foodborne illness (food poisoning) in Peterborough City and County by routinely inspecting these establishments to ensure their compliance with the Food Premises Regulation, R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 562. We are required to maintain an up to date food safety disclosure system on our website (see link). Peterborough Public Health is responsible for the inspection of all public recreational water facilities (pools, spas, wading pools and splash pads) in the City of Peterborough and Peterborough County. Public recreational water facilities are inspected regularly by public health inspectors to prevent and reduce the risk of water borne-illnesses and life-threatening injuries. Peterborough Public Health also maintains a routine surveillance program for public beaches during summer months to ensure that the water quality is safe for swimming. The water samples are tested for Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. A public beach is ÔÇ£postedÔÇØ when the level of E. coli in the water exceeds a certain limit and is unsafe for recreational use, including human bathing (swimming). When a beach is posted, signage will be placed around the beach area to inform the public. A beach is ÔÇ£closedÔÇØ when a significant risk to human health and safety has been identified, such as signs of hazardous or infectious material in the water or when there is a blue-green algae bloom. Swimming in the water is NOT permitted when a beach is closed and public access to the beach will be restricted or eliminated. The purpose of this project is to create a map that outlines where inspected food premises are in Peterborough City and County and links to a data base where the most current inspection report sits (HealthSpace). The map should be versatile enough so that we could expand/adapt the map to include the status of beaches and inspected recreational water facilities in the future. Project Location: 185 King Street,Peterborough, Ontario Organization Name: Peterborough Public Health Project ID: 918 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Township of Selwyn Heritage Property Registry (Phase 1) Project Description: The Township of Selwyn established a Municipal Heritage Committee in 2010 to advise and assist the Township Council on matters relating to the conservation of properties of local heritage value or interest and the establishment and designation of heritage conservation districts. This includes individual structures of historical and/or architectural significance, and the conservation of archaeological resources and cultural landscape features. Of the many duties undertaken by the Heritage Committee, in 2016 we have begun work on developing and maintaining an inventory of significant heritage buildings, cultural landscapes and cemeteries within the Township. There are many heritage features which data needs to be collected so that the Heritage Committee can make other decisions on their ranking of heritage and cultural importance. The Committee has established criteria to guide its future designations ÔÇô with regard first for properties at risk, then geographic balance throughout the township, a variety of themes and architectural periods to be represented, and then consideration of sitesÔÇÖ potential for tourism, education and interpretation. A key step is to have data about specific properties, using relevant historical literature to guide which properties should be initially included in the register. For more information about the Township of SelwynÔÇÖs Municipal Heritage Committee please visit their webpage: http://www.selwyntownship.ca/en/townshiphall/MunicipalHeritageCommittee.asp Project Requirements: X Data Acquisition/Preprocessing X Database Design/Processing X Cartographic Presentation X Spatial/Statistical Analysis X Web Technology Deliverables: This project would focus on the development of mobile application to collect property data, creation of a database, populate the inventory data and presentment of information on the TownshipÔÇÖs GIS system (maintained by the County of Peterborough). ÔÇó Development of a heritage property inventory and database compatible with the Township and the County of Peterborough database system; ÔÇó Development and utilization of a mobile application to collect property data attributes ÔÇó Assignment of spatial information (including GPS locations) to the inventory; ÔÇó Preparation of digital and hardcopy maps that showcase the different properties; ÔÇó Enable storage, sharing, and visualization of the data through the County of Peterborough GIS system; ÔÇó Development of a Guide to assist municipal staff and/or volunteers with management and update of data. It is anticipated that the this could be a phased project over a two year period, completing work in specific urban settlement areas (e.g. Lakefield, Youngstown and Bridgenorth). Project Location: 44.4278222,-78.285881 Organization Name: Township of Selwyn (Heritage Committee) Project ID: 917 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Queries to Report on Headwater Health Project Description: We seek inquisitive and dedicated GIS students at SSFC to develop and apply queries to generate automatic reports on select indicators of headwater health in some of south-central OntarioÔÇÖs watersheds. The students will work initially with a few small catchments in one of five watersheds for which past co-operative projects with Fleming have produced headwater maps to generate and test the queries, and then hopefully apply them to one or more of the full watersheds. The five watersheds are the Credit, Grand, Kawartha, Simcoe, and Rouge, as can be seen at http://ontarioheadwaters.ca/mapping/. Please see Appendix 1 for a more complete description of the OHI and the importance of headwaters. We hope that this project will deliver both queries to depict raw conditions, such as how much riparian cover exists along the sides of streams, and develop a grading system, in conjunction with the OHI, for the conditions calculated by the queries for combined first and second-order catchments - the key reporting unit for this project. For example, a query might provide raw data to indicate that a series of streams in a combined first and second-order catchment might have a minimum of 30 metres of riparian plantings along 90% of both sides of all the watercourses in that catchment, which might result in a score of A for the catchment. In contrast, the same query might indicate that a set of streams in a second catchment of first and second order streams has only 15% of its watercourses with 30 metres of riparian plantings along both of its banks, resulting in a score of F. The OHI is confident that students at SSFC can develop the queries needed for most if not all of the indicators listed below, and looks forward to spending time with the students to address a grading system for the combined first and second-order catchments and if and how they too can be automated. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming Database Design/Processing Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology (maybe) Spatial data acquisition/preprocessing ÔÇó Use existing OHI headwater maps, with datasets produced by past co-op students using data from LIO Database design/processing ÔÇó Design and test queries to capture raw data from above datasets. Spatial/statistical analysis ÔÇó Run queries on select catchments or sub-watershed and ground-truth the accuracy of outputs from visual examination of information on existing Google Fusion maps on the OHI website. ÔÇó Analyze material to be provided by the OHI to develop scoring systems. Programming ÔÇó High utilization for queries and possible need to write programs to address grading system, but this may be beyond skill sets, computer time, or time of project. Cartographic presentation ÔÇó None anticipated, but if the programming team sees a classmate who might want to develop icons that can be clicked upon in order to bring up geodedic data that could emulate an ÔÇ£open governmentÔÇØ approach to reports, they would be welcome. Web GIS ÔÇó Any unexpected new products that can add value to the existing layers on OHMapping, or a demonstration standalone product on one or more watersheds, is welcome. Should the student team provide any candidate finished product, the OHI GIS Specialist and Webmistress would perform uploading to our website. Deliverables: Review material to be provided by OHI to familiarize Project Team with the concepts of headwaters, combined 1st and 2nd order catchments, and the OHI construct of Contiguous Upland Headwater Catchments as per Appendix 1. 2. Review list of indicators of interest to the OHI and assess the degree of difficulty in developing queries. The list on headwater indicators of interest to the OHI for which queries might be helpful includes: ÔÇó Number of combined 1st and 2nd order catchments in the watershed; ÔÇó Number of such catchments that are what the OHI calls Contiguous Upland Headwater Catchments; ÔÇó Percentage of natural heritage cover in each combined 1st and 2nd order catchment; ÔÇó Length and percentage of 1st and 2nd order catchments in which streams have been straightened ( EG- are straight for longer than 10 metres) or placed underground; and, ÔÇó Percentage of streams in a 1st and 2nd order catchment with 30m riparian cover on both sides. ´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢ ´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢´┐¢ Geographic Information Systems - Specialist Collaborative Project Request Form Co-op Project Request Form page 2 of 4 3. Hike a local headwater area with the OHI while discussing progress on queries followed by an initial discussion, probably in an area coffee shop, on a proposed grading system. For example, a simple grading system for catchments with varying percentages in natural cover, based on a federal guideline, might be A = 70% and up; B = 50 ÔÇô 70%; C = 40 - 50%; D = 30 - 40%; and F = less than 30%. 4. In conjunction with Fleming faculty, select one of the five watersheds for which OHI headwater mapping exists. EG - The Rouge is a small watershed, so the queries may run more quickly, but it is also more developed and may not provide a good test of the queries. Once the team has selected a watershed, develop and test the queries on a set of catchments or a sub-watershed before running them on a full watershed. 5. Probably a decision point: Discuss with faculty and the OHI if time remaining in the semester is better spent on: a. Developing and applying the grading system to query date, and/or doing it semi-manually; and/or b. Running the queries on all or some of the other OHI watersheds. 6. Complete work and write summary report; prepare material for the open house. Project Location: 2227 Nightingale Way Oakville, ON, L6M 3S1 Organization Name: Ontario Headwaters Institute Project ID: 911 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Values Maps Single Script Processing Project Description: To create a script(s) that will generate a series of values maps by a forest management unit at an ANSI E page size. The script will need to be able to set a standard scale for all mapping products of 100,000 to display sensitive values and determine the layout based on unit to utilize space. In management units that exceed standard scale, the script will need to create a series of tiles. Potentially a user interface to select forest management units to run scripts and needs to be user-friendly. Require associated documentation and help files. There are 8 map templates that will need to be incorporated into script that represent natural groupings of information, such as land values, resource based tourism to name a few. All map templates and non-sensitive data will be provided to students to complete project. In areas where data is sensitive, a list of data classes and source locations will be provided. Project Requirements: Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication Deliverables: A python script to automatically generate the 8 map templates for a selected forest management unit as needed for forest management planning and public review. Project Location: 435 South James St, Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6S7 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Project ID: 905 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Process to Remove Slivers within 10% Project Description: With the Land Information Ontario updating the current Ontario Hydrological Network (Water), other existing features are now misaligned (admin boundaries, Forest Resource Inventory polygons (polygons of similar forest types), and ownership boundaries) leaving slivers between features. This has a large impact on forest management modelling of forest polygons in relationship to harvesting, Silviculture and area of concerns. The purpose of this project is to develop a methodology that will generate a tool or script that will aggregate the slivers to the appropriate polygon. The aggregation process would need to determine the proper polygon and which polygon layers are editable to complete process. The tool will need to determine appropriate size of a sliver(s) that are redundant and not to be incorporated into adjacent polygons due to its large effort and little impact on the data. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc. Deliverables: A tool (using a Python script/ VB.net and/or other open source code) with a user interface that will allow MNRF staff or external stakeholders to minimize the numbers of slivers to a specified tolerance of 10%. Documentation providing methodology of process and help files for tool will be required. Project Location: 51.217014,-87.9560737 Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Project ID: 904 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Interactive Reporting Application with Online Mapping Integration Project Description: The Petroleum Operation Section, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is the central repository for all oil, gas and salt well information in Ontario. This includes information pertaining to drilling, production, plugging and status of the wells. The goal of this project is to design and develop a Microsoft Access application to present reports, summaries and statistics on various programs of the Petroleum Operations Section including the Compliance and Inspection program, the Abandoned Works Program and the Private Gas Well Incentive Program. There is continually a need to acquire statistical information from the Ontario Petroleum Data System (OPDS) database. A real-time interactive reporting tool would be highly beneficial. In addition, as a supplement to the reports, any resulting queries on the well information displayed on Google MyMaps would be invaluable to technical and management staff. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: A Microsoft Access custom application with functionality to connect to an Oracle database and Excel files to present a summary of the information. Embedded within the application is the ability to easily export resulting queries to a Google MyMap internet account. Project Location: Organization Name: Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Project ID: 902 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Interactive Food Access Map for Haliburton County Project Description: To develop an interactive food access map which will help citizens find food, plus can be used as a tool to identify gaps in food access location. The interactive map needs to be in format that can be viewed on various websites such as Haliburton County FoodNet and Harvest Haliburton. Other organizations may wish to have it posted on their websites, such as FarmerÔÇÖs Market, Food Banks etc. We will advocate for it to be posted on the County website. Example of an interactive food access map; Sudbury http://www.greatersudbury.ca/living/environmental-initiatives/earthcare-sudbury/food-2014/food-access-map/ Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: To research existing food access interactive maps and share findings with client Review Food Access Mapping report http://www.harvesthaliburton.com/food-mapping-report.html Review Food Access Database developed for the Food Access report and determine how useful the existing database will be for this project. Discussion with client & faculty to consider the following; -the most appropriate type of interactive map for the client needs, budget, website capabilities, -sustainability, how easily can the map be updated and who will have the capability to carry this out - the studentÔÇÖs timeline, hardware and software availability ÔÇô mutually agreed upon ideal map design considering issues stated above Determine what data is required for the map i.e. how interactive is the map going to be and what information needs to be included on the map ÔÇô delegation of responsibilities Update GIS Coordinates for food access points as needed Determine best map source for plotting data Develop Data base Plot Maps Pilot test Project Location: Haliburton County Organization Name: Haliburton County FoodNet/HKPR DHealth Unit Project ID: 901 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Headwaters mapping for four watersheds in Frontenac County and Lennox and Addington County Project Description: The Land Conservancy is developing a natural heritage strategy using a number of data layers to identify priority areas for ecosystem protection. There is no available information about headwaters. We need this information in GIS shape files to complete our analysis. We would also like to present the results of the analysis on our web site and in a brochure, if time is available to develop these elements. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: * GIS shape files identifying the headwater lakes and 1st and 2nd order water courses for the parts of the Moire River, Napanee River, Cataraqui River, and Rideau River watersheds that are in Lennox and Addington County and Frontenac County, south of Highway 7 * summary data, to be shown on the PDF, depicting total watershed area, stream length, and the area in wetlands, as well as the raw data and percentage of these three features in headwater catchments. * a layered pdf map for each watershed * if time is available maps for our web site that can be animated to show headwaters and 1st and 2nd order stream catchments Project Location: Kingston, ON Organization Name: Land Conservancy for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Project ID: 899 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Mapping of urban forest activites Project Description: This proposed Collaborative Project would contribute to a research initiative lead by the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto and Tree Canada, looking to capture and map urban forest activities in Ontario and Nada. The objective of this research is to analyze the distribution of urban forest activities, and correlate them with ecological and social data to identify relationships between these two associated factors. An additional objective is to analyze, map and describe differences in the geographic variation of urban forestry, and conduct a Gap Analysis of urban forestry activities to understand where programs are absent or information gaps exist. The GIS / Fleming students would be involved in the preliminary data processing, data preparation to support analysis, to map production and analysis with ArcGIS, to web mapping. The production of maps would be used to assess the state of urban forestry and stewardship activities across Ontario municipalities and communicate this to a broader audience. Later this data will be combined with data from other provinces to have a complete representation of urban forestry activities throughout CanadaÔÇÖs municipalities. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: The final outputs will include the amalgamated and cleaned dataset in Access suitable for analysis and mapping (.mdb), various ArcGIS maps (.mxd and PDFs), analysis outputs (overlay and gap analysis), and an interactive web-map of select data outputs for Ontario Municipalities. A few graphs or PDF communication materials about mapped data could also be prepared, although the final outputs are negotiable based on student time-lines and skillsets. The .mdb standardized data will be used beyond this project for further analysis, data entry (for rest of Canada), and mapping. Project Location: St. George Campus University of Toronto; 33 Willcoks st, Toronto, ON M5S 3B3 Organization Name: Faculty of Forestry , University of Toronto Project ID: 898 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: FOCA Member Google Maps Project Project Description: FOCA is the Federation of Ontario CottagersÔÇÖ Associations, a not-for-profit organization representing volunteer associations and individual property owners all across Ontario. FOCA has approximately 510 Member Associations. Currently FOCA has a Members Map that we would like to build on. Please review the current member map here: https://foca.on.ca/map-of-foca-associations/ This map includes the latitude and longitude of where each association is located and the association is marked with a symbol on the map. FOCA intends to build on this map by adding additional layers that will be useful to the organization and its members. We hope that this project can take the form of three completed maps using Google Maps. Each map will include the locations of each of our cottage associations with different layers on top of it. Map #1 This map should include the following layers: - The location of each FOCA Member Association - Watershed boundaries in Ontario Map #2 This map should include the following layers: - The location of each FOCA Member Association - Provincial Electoral Riding Boundaries - Federal Electoral Boundaries - Municipal Boundaries Map #3 This map should include the following layers: - The location of each FOCA Member Association - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Fishery Management Zones - Conservation Authority Jurisdictional Boundaries - Ontario Land Trust Alliance member boundaries - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Water Management Plan Boundaries - Forest Management Plan Areas FOCA is able to provide the coordinates of FOCA Member Associations required for these maps and will seek out public sources of the other required data. The current version of Google Maps that FOCA uses cannot handle any kmz file size more than 2MB therefore the student(s) may be required to split the files in to segments in order to keep them below 2MB. Other file types supported by this software are: CSV, TSV, KML, KMZ, GPX, or XLSX file, or a sheet from Google Drive. We will also remain flexible if the student feels it would be more appropriate to represent this data on more than three maps. FOCAÔÇÖs intention is to use these maps to better serve its members and more effectively direct questions about OntarioÔÇÖs resource management. Having the ability to cross reference where our members are located vs. the different attributes listed above will be extremely useful. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: FOCA expects at least three different maps as described below: Map #1 This map should include the following layers: - The location of each FOCA Member Association - Watershed boundaries in Ontario Map #2 This map should include the following layers: - The location of each FOCA Member Association - Provincial Electoral Riding Boundaries - Federal Electoral Boundaries - Municipal Boundaries Map #3 This map should include the following layers: - The location of each FOCA Member Association - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Fishery Management Zones - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry District Boundaries - Conservation Authority Jurisdictional Boundaries - Ontario Land Trust Alliance member boundaries - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Water Management Plan Boundaries - Forest Management Plan Areas Project Location: #201 ÔÇô 159 King Street Peterborough, Ontario K9J 2R8 Organization Name: Federation of Ontario Cottagers' Associations (FOCA) Project ID: 897 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Ghost towns and heritage haunts of The Land Between Project Description: History teaches us about ourselves; giving us insight into important lessons to be learned, and eluding to our cultural evolution. Due to the limited soils, agricultural production that was typical to European settlers was stifled, and therefore shortly after their immigration to this region, many retreated in frustration leaving more ghost towns here than anywhere in Ontario; furthermore, as industry and development was limited because of the rocky landscape, here the earth fought back and First Nations' cultural perspectives and practices which are based on our relationships with the land were kept relatively intact compared to the rest of southern Ontario. This project aims to combine our existing and new records of ghost towns, built cultural heritage features (graveyards, rail fences etc), and historical and First Nation geo-name places (old named areas) in one database with attributes of descriptors, and where records are spatially geo-referenced, so that too, maps of areas and a mobile app for exploring these sites is generated. Finally statistical/spatial analysis to assess the average distance between sacred cultural places/ghost towns and the current location of villages and/or major roadways/crossroads which will allude to the overall change in our patterns of behaviour and relationships to the natural resources in the region. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: These are the three core deliverables of: 1. a database, 2. mapping of ghost towns and cultural sites; and 3. mobile app. for exploring ghost towns and cultural sites in the region using geo-positioning if possible. 4. A fourth deliverable of a statistical/spatial analysis where the average distance of old sacred places and ghost towns will be measured against the current location of villages and major roadways to allude to the overall change in our patterns of behaviour and relationships to the natural resources in the region. This analysis should be accompanied by a basic summary of results in project backgrounder/briefing or within the map itself. Project Location: Haliburton County, Ontario Organization Name: The Land Between Project ID: 895 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Examining Constraints to Sport Participation among Ethnically-Diverse Adolescent Females in Durham Region, ON. Project Description: We are interested in examining interactions between constraints to sport participation among adolescent females, and want to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) data to examine differences between neighborhoods on key environmental constraints such as open spaces, sport facilities, and average distances to such environmental constraints and per capita competition for such resources. We would like to compare participants' subjective experience of environmental constraints to what is objectively available in the Durham Region to inform knowledge translation. Project Requirements: Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication Deliverables: (1) A comprehensive list of available facilities for sport participation (i.e. community centers, public and private sport facilities) along with programs available at each within our study area (Durham Region, ON). (2) Spatial analysis/map of our participants' postal code layered on this map for our interpretation. (3) Description and map of the built environment (including paths, sidewalks, green space, parks etc.) Project Location: Durham Region, ON Organization Name: University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) Project ID: 894 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Creating an Interactive Map of Climate Change Actions in Greater Peterborough Area Project Description: Need to create an interactive mapping tool that would track and present the Climate Change Action Plan actions and associated data, showing progress visually. The ability to set up a database and associated online, interactive map that tracks greenhouse gas emission reductions for all 12 municipal and First Nation partners, indicating how each action is working towards the associated target. Data, visuals, and mapping are needed to showcase how progressive each of the 12 partners are towards achieving their greenhouse gas emissions target. We will use this interactive, online tool to stimulate the community towards more engagement and reporting to the Climate Change Action Plan Implementation Coordinator on progress as it occurs within the Greater Peterborough Area. Project Requirements: Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: ÔÇó An interactive map that becomes a visual storyboard of our progress; that will allow anyone to be able to access it and for example click on a Township within the GPA and bring up the individual target to the municipality and the actions that have been completed and/or the progress they have made towards their target ÔÇó A database that logs all actions by Source, Sector, municipality/First Nation, that generates progress reports Project Location: County of Peterborough, Ontario Organization Name: Greater Peterborough Area Climate Change Action Plan Project ID: 893 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Visitor Destination Support Mapping ÔÇô County of Brant Tourism Project Description: To provide different solutions for public mapping of visitor destination within the County of Brant. Publicly available these mapping solutions would be provided via Published Paper Maps, downloadable PDF maps and also available online via the County of BrantÔÇÖs existing external mapping interface. The County of Brant currently has extensive mapping for interested locations including a large library of photos for many of the locations that would be displayed. These include Heritage Sites, Cemeteries, and Places of Worship. The County would like to expand the mapping and photo library to include echo tourism attractions, accommodations and local events. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: 1. A 2 sided map of major visitor destination points in Brant, a. Side one ÔÇô map of the entire county with visitor destinations b. Side two ÔÇô detail map(s) of the populated areas in Brant with visitor destinations 2. A PDF version of the 2 sided map, noted above, available as a download, 3. Integration of the visitor destinations into the County of BrantÔÇÖs external GIS (maps.brant.ca), a. Modification of the tourism layering structure to represent the visitor destinations as presented on the published paper/PDF map. Project Location: 43.152670, -80.171590 Organization Name: The Corporation of the County of Brant Project ID: 892 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Necrogeography Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery Project Description: Trinity Church was built in 1861 and is one of the oldest fully functioning parishes in the Laurentians to this day. The church cemetery also dates to that period and is located in the small town of Morin Heights about 1 hoursÔÇÖ drive north of Montreal (description of the cemetery and its coordinates are described in chart 1). The land that the church and the cemetery were built on was donated by the Watchorn family which were pioneers in the local area. Trinity Church was built of local stone and wood, by early settlers. Subsequent generations have added to itsÔÇÖ size, comfort and beauty. Additionally the cemetery has been used for over 90 years by all denominations as well as a corner dedicated to war veterans. The cemetery contains head stones engraved with names and dates of the earliest families and is considered to be a heritage sight. Volunteer parishioners of Trinity Anglican Church manage, maintain and document the burial plots of the cemetery. However, the record keeping although accurate has become antiquated. Due to the continuing growth of the cemetery, in part to an aging population, the cemetery has grown to a point in which a more accurate and technologically advanced means of documenting data is required. At present cemetery plots are entered by hand onto gridded drafting paper making it difficult to read and quickly and accurately research information. A corresponding excel spreadsheet is maintained, however that is it. The Church itself has a small congregation of very dedicated parishioners. Most of which perform some sort of volunteer function at the church and therefore funds are limited. Moreover, we lack GIS experience and expertise and would benefit greatly from a student led project that would have a significant positive impact on a small closely knit community. The project would include the design of a simple web page with details of Trinity Church and a photo of the church and cemetery. A link on this web page would bring an authorized user to a web based database with a GIS system for entering data and doing research related to the cemetery. It is envisaged that all the historical data will be entered into the system, plus the ability to continuously update said database. It would be preferable if said database was linked to a GIS system that could plot the location and names on a digitized map and that said map could be printed when required. It would be preferable that the plots be documented with the applicable coordinates (lats and longs) however, if for whatever reason this is not possible a grid square system can be applied. 1.Cemetery # 876 Caption: Trinity Anglican Cemetery (Morin-Heights) Long name: Cimeti├¿re Trinity Anglican, Morin-Heights, Co.Terrebonne, Qu├®bec Town: Morin-Heights County: Terrebonne MRC: Les Pays-d'en-Haut Region: Laurentides Parish: Trinity Address_1: Au nord-ouest sur le Chemin du Village Address_2: Au sud-ouest sur la Rue Hillside Situation: Adjacent ├á l'├®glise Type/Confession: Protestant/Anglican Latitude: 45.903464┬░ (N45┬░54'12.456") Longitude: -74.249889┬░ (W074┬░14'59.604") Precision: Accurate positioning: ┬▒2.0 Metres (┬▒6.8 Feet) UTM - Easting: 558,183.71 Metres UTM - Northing: 5,083,595.31 Metres UTM - Zone #: 18 T Altitude: 240 Metres (787 Feet) Area: 4,048 Metres┬▓ (43,572 Feet┬▓) / TYPE: Small (from 2,000 to 9,999 M┬▓) Perimeter: 337 Metres (1,106 Feet) Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: Trinity Anglican Church in Morin Heights, Quebec respectfully request the following deliverables: a. The creation of a simply web page that contains a photo of Trinity Anglican Church and the cemetery. The web page would include a short description and history of said church and the cemetery. There should be the ability to expand the web page in future; b. The web page should contain a link to a GIS based application to a database and map for the creation, maintenance and storage of cemetery information; c. The information that is presently maintained by hand should be entered into said GIS system; d. The GIS system will be only accessible by authorized users and the ability to add and or remove users should be possible; and e. Digital cartographic products for wall display in offices and or official use. Maps should be comprehensive, clear, and informative of excellent design quality. Project Location: N45┬░54'12.456", W074┬░14'59.604" Organization Name: Trinity Anglican Church Project ID: 889 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Creation of a TD Friends of the Environment Foundation (FEF) Chapter Boundaries Map Project Description: TD Friends of the Environment Foundation provides funding to over 1,000 projects each year across the country. The distribution of funds is based on a chapter model where customer-donors donate at their local branch, and each branch is mapped to one of 38 giving chapters. While approximately 1/3 of chapters are aligned along geo-political boundaries, the rest are aligned with TD branch locations with projects applying to the chapter into which their closest branch falls. In cases where there is a branch in town, this is relatively straightforward (although we still lack the resources/expertise to produce a map), but for the many projects that fall outside of a community with a branch, the process requires staff to figure out where the project is located, search the closest branch using the TD Branch Locator, and then figure out to which banking district, and therefore which chapter, the project belongs. In order to simplify this process and make it easier for both staff and potential applicants, we need a map that clearly defines chapter boundaries using the GIS-location of branches in the chapters and the delineation of the chapter lines based on the location of branches in adjoining chapters. We would also need to be able to share this map on our website in a user-friendly format, and ideally, integrate it with existing features allowing visitors to choose their chapter (currently text-based) and see examples of funded projects therein. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: A user-friendly map that can be used by potential applicants to identify their local chapter. Search-ability would be an asset, but is not required. Project Location: Canada Organization Name: TD Friends of the Environment Foundation Project ID: 888 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Lovesick Lake and Burleigh Beach Resort Combined Park Map Project Description: Young Design http://jlyoungdesign.com/home/ has prepared maps for both parks. These Maps are prepared for the Township but not attractive for the public. Your challenge is to make the map customer friendly. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Spatial and Statistical Analysis - GIS Analysis, Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication Deliverables: The combined maps of both parks should be able to be printed in a large format for the main office and in a smaller version as a hand out. The map should also be in a format that is exceptable for the Nexicom webmaster to post on the website. Project Location: Organization Name: Lovesick Lake Park Project ID: 886 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Watershed Geo-reporting Project Description: Develop an easy-to-use online geo-reporting tool so that the general public can report and share wildlife sightings, incidents or watershed conditions. The application should be generic enough so that it could be re-purposed or re-skinned to capture a variety of data sets. One such example might be an online turtle reporting tool. In the past, we have asked people to phone in and report turtle sightings around the watershed. The application might allow people to point and click on a map to indicate where they saw the turtle and fill out a few form fields to help identify the turtle. The data would populate a database where wildlife technicians could interpret the results and assess the local turtle population health. The application could be re-purposed for other citizen-based watershed geo-reporting incidents such as flooded roads, dry water wells, bird sightings, etc. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing - Acquiring field data/research/significant manipulation, Database Design and/or Processing - Conceptual & logical data models may be required or developed, Programming - Customization of software or automation etc., Cartographic Presentation or Visualization - Requires significant cartographic output/visual communication, Web Technology - Requires significant configuration/or programming and online analysis. Deliverables: ÔÇó Online mapping app or cellphone type app with easy to use public interface. ÔÇó Back-end database to collect data. ÔÇó Back-end administration tools to configure the app. ÔÇó Back-end reporting tools to perform data analysis. ÔÇó Documentation for front-end users and back-end users. Project Location: 6589 Boundary Rd, Cornwall, ON K6H 6M1 Organization Name: Raisin Region Conservation Authority Project ID: 885 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Nogies Creek Waterway and North Pigeon Lake Mapping Tool Project Description: Kawartha Conservation along with partners (Municipality of Trent Lakes, Fleming College, OMNRF, Kawartha Land Trust, Trent University, The Land Between, OFAH, First Nations and Local Residents) have come together to develop a Waterway park in the Nogies Creek and North Pigeon Lake area. Due to the vast number of interests amongst this group it brings considerable valuable information and the need for its analysis and consolidation. Also included within this area is a property owned by Fleming College that has high potential for recreation use and future research. The goal of this project is to bring all the information together and map the recreational, natural heritage and cultural heritage features of the Nogies Creek Waterway and North Pigeon Lake area and design a functional web based mapping site for both the working group members and the public. Spatial information collected for this area will be shown on the site as well as any general statistical information calculated. More detailed analysis for the area will entail the following; Update the current land cover classification using supervised classification and current imagery. Combine a number of Natural Heritage Systems for the area into one system and determine the core priority areas. Other resource analysis as determined by the Nogies Creek Waterway steering committee. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Programming, Visualization, Web Technology Deliverables: Two meetings with the Nogies Creek Waterway steering committee ÔÇô first meeting early in 2016 and second meeting near project end. Other ad hoc meetings as required. Delineate a suitable study area boundary for the Nogies Creek Waterway. Update the current land cover classification for the area using supervised classification and current imagery. The main land cover types that need to be delineated include (Forest, Wetland, Agriculture, Rural Development, Aggregate, Rock Barren, and Plantation). Compare various natural heritage system maps and create one system for study area. Determine core priority lands for study area. Collect any ground information that is not currently in digital format for study area. Develop a web based mapping site that would allow members and public to view all mapping features (canoe routes, cultural features, monitoring sites and statistical information on features. Project Location: Pigeon Lake, ON, Canada Organization Name: Kawartha Conservation Project ID: 877 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: : Market Garden planning map and mapping of the educational programming area (The Glen) at Abbey Gardens Project Description: Abbey Gardens Background: Abbey Gardens is a 300acre property located in the Haliburton Highlands. The site is in the process of being decommissioned as an aggregate operation and is developing incrementally towards becoming a demonstration and education site on issues of food security, biodiversity and ecology. In addition to helping nature reclaim the land, the Abbey Gardens team is dedicated to demonstrating innovative and replicable solutions and practices that will inspire generations of good stewards for our earth and people. Abbey Gardens is a charitable organization focused on a community-based effort to remediate a decommissioned gravel pit into a sustainable center for innovation. Our vision is to inspire a healthy community through supporting education, demonstration, and incubation for local food efforts. Please see attached Programming Information Package for additional details. Abbey Gardens Market Garden: . Two acres of the already recommissioned gravel pit area supports Abbey Gardens market garden, which was first planted in 2010 Abbey GardensÔÇÖ staff operates a 2 acre garden on a partially restored gravel pit which was first planted in 2010. It is our goal to produce healthy, chemical-free vegetables in a way that integrates with, rather than impacts, the natural environment. The market garden provides fresh produce that is sold directly through the Food Hub, a modern straw bale sustainable building. The community kitchen within the Hub is where unsold fresh vegetables are processed into soups, pickles, preserves, jams, baked goods, salads, dips and dressings. Future plans exist and are continuously developing as more and more of the decommissioned gravel pit is reclaimed. A shaded sitting area and hoop houses are dispersed among different types of gardens including hugelbeds, lasagna gardens, pollinator gardens, a labyrinth garden and a young orchard. These features along with our emerging ÔÇ£Education GardenÔÇØ provide a diverse outside landscape for programming opportunities at Abbey Gardens The lead gardener is Jim Angus and would be one of the main contacts, along with Irene Heaven and Cara Steele. Abbey Gardens Natural Programming Area, The Glen: ÔÇ£The GlenÔÇØ is a 5 acre pocket of natural forested area with a milkweed meadow and a stream running through which is in close proximity to the market garden. This natural program area enhances experiential education emphasizing our natural environment and its cycles essential for sustainable and healthy living A developing interpretive trail system further accommodates the growing educational programming at our unique facility. Abbey Gardens strives to make important connections between our natural world and cycles that to us and our food. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming Database Design/Processing Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology (potentially) Deliverables: Abbey Gardens Market Garden: 1. Acquisition of mapping data (requiring site visit) 2. Features to be included in the data acquisition: o Garden data (polygon layer) o Hoop Houses, hugelbed, chicken coop, garden buildings o Other features Hub, trails, other buildings, which will help with orientation 3. Design of static functional map in a jpg and pdf format. ÔÇó With unique identifier for each polygon 4. Design of user friendly data base geared towards annual garden planning and record keeping. o Consultation to define and direct structure of data base o Possible attributes: ´éº Planting rotation/schedule ÔÇó Garden area ÔÇó Length of garden rows ÔÇó Types of plants/crop ÔÇó Number of plants or seeded ÔÇó Length planted crop ÔÇó Date ÔÇó Success of growth ÔÇó Harvest date ´éº Soil ÔÇó pH ÔÇó organic matter ÔÇó Nitrogen ÔÇó Phosphorous ÔÇó Potassium ´éº Pest incidence ´éº Fertilizer use ÔÇó Type of fertilizer ´éº Additional Notes/Comments 5. Design of promotional map 6. Design of user friendly forms for data entry and review 7. Design of dynamic reports (history of garden plots) 8. Transfer of spatial data to client Abbey Gardens Natural Programming Area, The Glen: 1. Mapping of demonstration and activity areas 2. Mapping of trails 3. Mapping of land features required to produce a map 4. Production of a static map in jpg and pdf format 5. Transfer of spatial data to client Project Location: 1012 Garden Gate Dr., Haliburton ON K0M 1S0 Organization Name: Abbey Gardens Project ID: 861 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |
Project Name: Geographic Network Resource Management Discovery Portal Project Description: Geographic Network Resource Management (GNRM) is the preferred spatial environment at SaskTel for managing our Outside Plant Facilities in a single sophisticated GIS. GNRM also provides access to other data sets such as cadastral data and aerial photography. All data sets managed by GNRM are available for use within the corporation however, we currently do not have a portal for our users to discover this data, nor do we have a standard for maintaining our metadata. We have selected Geoportal Server as our solution. This project involves customizing a Geoportal web application to serve as an enterprise-wide data discovery portal with the basic functionality to search/browse for metadata and to provide download and link capabilities. Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Component: Assess sample datasets and update metadata Database Component: Create an Oracle database with sample data to mimic GNRM Install Geoportal Server and link to the Oracle database Organize the metadata catalog tree to align with existing data models Spatial/Programming Component: Allow the user to perform a spatial query on selected datasets to their area of interest for download Optional: Allow users to download select data in map viewer by map extent, similar to sample site Web/Programming Component: Customize the look and feel of the Geoportal Allow users to download data, preview data and view full metadata details from the Browse/Search pages, similar to the sample site Allow users to search and add data to a map viewer similar to the sample site Add a newsfeed to the home page to provide updates, showcase new or featured webapps/datasets Sample Site: opdgig.dos.ny.gov/#/home Project Requirements: Data Acquisition and/or Preprocessing, Database Design and/or Processing, Spatial and Statistical Analysis, Programming, Web Technology Deliverables: A customized Geoportal web application with the required functionality Fully documented code for maintenance and future additions Online help for the Geoportal Outline of methodology and installation manuals if using Geoportal Genie (see Remarks) Project Location: S4P 4C5 Organization Name: Sasktel Project ID: 860 Status: Completed Project Year: 2016 |
Project Name: Necrogeography: Mapping Peterborough's Little Lake Cemetery Project Description: Little Lake Cemetery is a non-profit and non-denominational cemetery located in the heart of Peterborough, Ontario. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in the area and contains graves spanning a rich history from 1850 to the present. In 2007 a contract worker for the City of Peterborough created a GIS database of cemetery plots containing information such as grave/monument location, family name, condition, oldest death date, material, and a photo. This data has not been maintained or seen by a wide audience. The main goal of this project is to create an easy to use web mapping application for the public to search and view the Little Lake Cemetery data and for City Staff to maintain it. Time permitting, the students can perform some analysis relating the graves to spatial and temporal factors. Project Requirements: Data Acquisition/Preprocessing Programming Cartographic Presentation Spatial/Statistical Analysis Web Technology Deliverables: 1) Create an offline application to collect, store and edit attributes of the headstones ÔÇó Example Attributes: Family Name, Death Date, Monument type, Monument Condition, Primary and Secondary Materials, Associated Features. 2) Interactive Web Map of Little Lake Cemetery ÔÇó Ability to click on plots and have pop-ups with attribute information and linked images displayed. ÔÇó Change basemap layers. ÔÇó Search, Query and Filter by Family Name, by Death Date, by OGS (Ontario Genealogical Society) Reference Number), Little Lake Cemetery ID. 3) Spatial/Historical Analysis of Little Lake Cemetery Data (time permitting) ÔÇó Analysis of type of stone and condition in relation to environmental factors such as trees, elevation, proximity to water, etc. ÔÇó Time analysis: whether spikes in mortality rates as evidenced in death dates are related to events in history (Spanish Flu, Tuberculosis/typhoid issues) ÔÇó Find and identify graves that may have been moved from the CityÔÇÖs first burial grounds. 4) An ESRI geodatabase containing all feature datasets and feature classes associated with the mapping of the Little Lake Cemetery. 5) Digital cartographic products for wall display in municipal offices. Maps should be comprehensive, clear, informative and be of excellent design quality. Maps can be printed at City of Peterborough Geomatics/Mapping office. Project Location: Little Lake Cemetery Peterborough, ON, Organization Name: City of Peterborough Project ID: 907 Status: Completed Project Year: 2017 |