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Track your impact

PEIR is an online service that interacts with your mobile phone to provide you with an environmental “scorecard” that tracks some of your effects on the environment and some of what you are exposed to as you go about your day. http://peir.cens.ucla.edu/index.php/about/ This is a really cool and interesting use of mobile technologies coupled with GPS Share on Facebook

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Project highlighted by ESRI

Our urban tree project which was recently published in the Science Teacher was posted on the ESRI education blog community page.   The link is very long so we did a tiny url below for the direct link to the post. http://tinyurl.com/ykaz262 Share on Facebook

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Where to GIS data

There are many places on the web to get and download GIS data.  This post we list a few of the places where one can access and download data for use in GIS projects: Massachusetts GIS data site:   http://www.mass.gov/mgis/laylist.htm This site has lots of satellite imagery as well as other data ready for use in ArcMap.  Some examples of the data are roads, schools, metro lines and maps. Reference USA: ...

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CITYgreen 2009 Guides Available

CITYgreen 2009 Guides Available

Our project team has put together a set of print tutorial guides along with corresponding pod and video casts for CITYgreen 2009.  The link below is the direct link to the materials.  We will be updating and including additional tutorial guides for CITYgreen 2009.  We plan to include additional lesson plans as well as additional activities on how to conduct scenario modeling in CITYgreen...

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