Data Collection Fall 2022 Ethics of Drones Code of Conduct document High-Accuracy Data Collection with Field Maps Folder with tutorials and exercise data Recreational, Mapping, and Survey-grade GPS: What’s the Difference? Volunteering with the NepRWA: GIS Data Collection Microhabitat…
Equipment & Software
Members of our Smith community are welcome to borrow GPS equipment for teaching and research. Please consult the following details and contact the Spatial Data Specialist to schedule a time to learn how to use the equipment and pick up.…
A semester in review: Fall 2019
What a semester! We’ve reached new heights this fall with new classes, workshops, and research. This semester we taught Drone Cinematography and Aerial Imagery, and assisted Contesting Space: Art, Ecology, Activism in Latin American & Latinx Studies, Great Cities: Los…
Drone Technology & Climate Resiliency
Have you ever considered what a rock does all day? Where do they live and where do they go? In the past few months we’ve been assisting a team of sedimentary geoscientists studying these very questions– where do rocks move…
Summer at the SAL by Hannah Davis
It’s almost the middle of summer and things are heating up at the Smith Spatial Analysis Lab. This summer has seen the continuation of many exciting projects, and the start of a number more. As the Spatial Analysis Lab intern,…
Spring Forward, Fall Semester Back – Fall 2017 Review
The spring semester is rapidly settling in! We are anticipating nine classes in the SAL across disciplines – Archeology, Art, Art History, Environmental Science & Policy, Geosciences, Latin American & Latino/a Studies, and Sociology. Looking back on the Fall 2017…
J-Term 2018 Review
The SAL offered two courses during interterm: Introduction to GIS and Drone Thinking. Introduction to GIS As foretold by a fortune cookie, “the great aim of education is not knowledge but action…with GIS” — this year’s GIS class emphasized the…
Humans of SAL
The SAL is under-staffed by a full-time by a Director, and a Spatial Data Specialist. One saving grace is our SAL Associates — skilled and talented students who share our interest and enthusiasm for all things spatial (especially maps). The…
We’re hiring a new post-bac!
** Note: the post-bac position is now filled ** – fall 2017 – Loyal readers, it is almost time for me, Scott, to bid you farewell! After two years serving as your Post-Baccalaureate Spatial Analysis Fellow (try saying that ten…
Wrapping Up Fall 2016
This semester has been one of the busiest that the SAL has seen. In total, 11 classes worked with our spatial technology at some point during this semester. We also supported student projects and worked on several of our own…