SSI’s GIS Day events attracted students from around campus and the attention of campus media outlets. Informational sessions on the new BS major in GeoDesign were filled, informing students on the innovative new program that draws on expertise and coursework from Spatial Sciences, Planning, and Architecture. Dr. Darren Ruddell and students from his maps and…
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GIS Day Balloon Mapping this Week
SSI is hosting a “GIS Day” event on campus this week. Come out to Alumni Park on Wednesday, November 20, from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. to see the capabilities of our low-altitude balloon mapping tools. The event shows the potential of the kind of spatial data that was used to form response plans after Hurricane…
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Take a Beautiful Tour of All the Public Art in the Bay Area
[small]John Metcalfe[/small] [clear] You can live in a city all your life and only see about 1 percent of its hidden beauty. That's the message one could easily draw from this crowd-sourced caboodle of public art in the Bay Area, which includes everything from a 1930s beach-chalet mural to a bronze Willie Mays to "Kittenzillas" shooting lasers from their eyes to…
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Mapping a Better World
A new interdisciplinary undergraduate degree in GeoDesign offered through USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute is the first of its kind in the world. [small]By Susan Bell[/small] [clear] Population growth, rapid urbanization, meeting water and energy needs, biological conservation and climate change — these are some of the most difficult and enduring challenges facing the world…
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