Congratulations to the winners of our GIS Day Mapping Masterminds Competition – Atlas Chenxiao Guo and Trenton Major! Please check out the Mapping Masterminds Gallery and Competition Showcase website to view all the submissions from both the 2024 and 2023 mapping competitions. Thank you again to everyone who participated in this year’s competition!
On Wednesday, November 20, we had a great GIS Day celebration at The Catalyst in Parks Library. Thank you to library digital scholarship staff for hosting us and providing their expertise. We had five speakers sharing on different topics: Visit the ISU GIS Facility GIS Day website for more details about the speakers: https://www.gis.iastate.edu/gis-day-2024 The
The ISU GIS Support and Research Facility and IowaView along with Parks Library will be hosting GIS Day 2024 on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in The Catalyst at Parks Library (Room 199) at Iowa State University. This is a come-and-go event so stay as long as you would like. GIS Day
This is an excellent challenge to test your geography skills and identify natural features from aerial imagery.
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It’s that time of year again! We are celebrating Geography Awareness Week! November 13-17, 2023 The History of Geography Awareness Week: Thirty-six years ago, the National Geographic Society advocated to create Geography Awareness Week. Geography Awareness Week is a way to celebrate and raise awareness of geography, both as a discipline and as a part
Celebrating 30 years of GIS at ISU today on GIS Day! We also celebrated the 50th anniversary of Landsat and were able to hand out playing cards, refreshments, posters, and other educational materials. This was a great opportunity for our staff in the GIS facility to share the work that they are doing, and teach
Today is GIS Day! We are celebrating in the North atrium of the College of Design. Today is an especially exciting celebration as we are also celebrating the 30th anniversary of the ISU GIS Facility on campus and 50 years of the US Landsat, earth observing satellite mission. Please join us in the College of
This week we are celebrating Geography Awareness Week! The History of Geography Awareness Week: Thirty-five years ago, the National Geographic Society advocated to create Geography Awareness Week. Geography Awareness Week is a way to celebrate and raise awareness of geography, both as a discipline and as a part of daily life. The National Geographic Society
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, the Iowa State University GIS Facility will be hosting an open house event for GIS Day from 11:30 to 2:00 in the North atrium of the College of Design. This year we will also be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the ISU GIS Facility and 50 years of Landsat, the US