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Using OpenIR as the subject of her application, Juhee won one of three Alva Emerging Fellowships. The award is given by Behance and GE, and "support three innovators under 30 years of age who have demonstrated remarkable ...

OpenIR Team Member Wins Alva Emerging Fellowship

News

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Here are the validation results for the 2013 Jakarta flood: Unlike the last Validation results the areas that received the most rain were Vegetative High Lying and Vegetative Low Lying. It remains to be seen what ...

Jakarta 2013 Validation Results #2

Technology

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Here are the current results of the Jakarta Validation : We see that as predicted the Urban Low Lying and Vegetation Low Lying areas were affected the most. Note: Due to issues the Jakarta Validation will be ...

Jakarta 2013 Validation Results #1

Technology

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This blog post will cover how to find turn a shape (.shp) file into a raster (.tif) file. Note the information on how to turn a raster file into a shape file is also covered here and here 1. First you need to invert ...

Jakarta Validation #2

Technology

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OpenIR recently did an analysis on the Summative Data Viewer event tracking starting from January of 2013.   Jakarta   Of the drawing tools, the rectangle drawing tool was used the most. However, the ...

Data Viewer Event Tracking Analysis

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A Landsat tile before and after atmospheric correction, as displayed on a page from the University of Maryland, one of OpenIR's data sources.   We've started to develop some code and pseudocode for atmospheric ...

Starting in on Atmospheric Correction

Technology

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The Knight Foundation has a new competition with the focus of "How might we improve the way citizens and governments interact?"  We believe that there are several extremely relevant applications of OpenIR technology to ...

OpenIR Submits Entries to Knight News Challenge

News

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This blog post will focus on how to calculate area ratios and export table attributes. To Calculate Area Ratios: 1. Click on the map you want and go to Vector->Geometry tools -> Export/Add geometry ...

Jakarta Data Validation: Calculating Areas and Exporting Table Attributes

Technology

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On March 10, SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest hosted the Dewey Winburne Community Service Awards, named for one of the founders of the SXSW Interactive Festival. When he passed away in 1999, at the age of 42, Dewey ...

OpenIR Member Wins SXSW Dewey Winburne Community Service Award

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Here are some representative or particularly striking comments that I believe should be taken from the Summative surveys. I have also begun doing a much more in-depth analysis that relates respondents answers to each other ...

Summative Survey Pre-Analysis

Applications, News

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Here are the steps for Splitting a file by flood depth (or any other attribute). First we assume that you have a vector map opened in QGIS saved as a shapefile.   While QGIS has a splitting operation, it splits ...

Jakarta Data Validation: Splitting by Flood Depth

Technology

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Information and links of the summative surveys were sent by Juhee to these list-serves/groups: OpenIR's informational list CEE students CEE faculty DUSP students DUSP faculty Burton-Conner dorm Baker ...

Summative Surveys

News