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



Disaster and Land Use


Maps can help reduce complexity


Vanacker (2016) Impact of deforestation on slope stability

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
TIC-DD_2021
By Britta Ricker
TIC-DD_2021
Presentation for my first GIP presentation
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