Geovisualization

and DD in TIC

Britta Ricker, PhD

Assistant Professor

@bricker0

 

Western Maryland

Exchange Student: The Netherlands

Positionality/CV (2004-now)

  • MapQuest Cartographer Intern 2004
  • Made maps for FEMA 2005-2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • (Almost went to Utrecht but instead...)Masters of Science McGill University - Participatory Mapping in Barbados
  • PhD Simon Fraser University - mHealth and VGI

Teaching

Co-Founded and Developed the

Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies 

 

 

 

UU - Environmental Impact Assessment 

Pathways to Sustainability 

Environmental Science Courses

Research

Cartography 

 

Open Data

 

Augmenting missing data

Conceptual Framework

ideas that motivate my work

 

 

Maps = Power

Waldseemüller map 1507

Knowledge Politics

Political Power

"...knowledge politics to be shaped by deeply institutionalized tendencies in planning and policy making to grant greater weight to knowledge expressed as quantitative data or represented in cartographic forms." 

 

Data Driven Decision Making

(Elwood & Leszczynski, 2012: 545)

GIS and spatial media

(Ricker, 2017)

Maps --> Media

Applied

Quantitative

Theory

Qualitative

Spatial Media

Elwood & Leszczynski (2012) New spatial media, new knowledge politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (38): 544-559.

"Mediums or channels that extend our ability to interact with and create geographic information online" p 544

"From expert to everyday"

 

(Elwood & Leszczynski, 2012)

"moment of translation

transforming experiential, testimonial and qualitative forms of knowledge into quantitative aggregated or abstracted forms" (Elwood & Leszczynski , 2012: 548)

DATA PREPAREDNESS
AS
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

Tegucigalpa

Capital of Honduras

Population 850,848

landslides and flooding

 

 

Disaster and Land Use

Maps can help reduce complexity

Sentinel 2:

S2A (launched 23 June 2015)  and S2B (launched 7 March 2017)

Land use monitoring

Spectral signature

Bands and spectral signatures

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NDVI=NIR-IR/NIR+IR

Data Day Dreams

DIFFERENT Data NeEDS AT EACH PHASE

Evoke Emotion

Generate an Othophoto

 

2012

2015

Structure from Motion (SfM) software

Share your data

How can we

harness the hype

of accessible technology

to make maps!

Communities of Practice

Communities of interest

MapTime

OSM for disaster PREPAREDNESS

Esri online Suite

Esri App Studio

Check out my website to learn more about

my work

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