GIS Services: Current Projects
ASU in the Community
This project utilizes a Google Maps mashup to highlight ASU involvement in the Community. Static maps are created on a monthly basis for this project to show current outreach projects against the backdrop of various census data and administrative boundaries. An ArcIMS interactive web mapping application also allows more in-depth use of GIS to discover community characteristics. The site uses ArcObjects to harvest data from an Access database in order to geocode and display it for the interactive mapping component.
Ak-Chin Indian Community GIS
For the ninth consecutive year, GIS Services is assisting the Ak-Chin with data development to update and maintain a GIS that includes high-resolution aerial imagery, high-precision ground control, and infrastructure information for electric and water utilities. GIS Services has provided training to the Ak-Chin for ArcGIS, ArcIMS and with GPS technologies.
AZSite and AZFauna
This project features an interactive mapping site to show archeological sites in the state. Developers must determine if there are archeological sites present before they begin excavation. The data for this project resides within an SQL database that utilizes ArcSDE to display statewide data for elevation and 7.5’ digital ortho quarter quads, 1:24K topo maps in the context of archeological sites. The SQL/SDE database at ASU mirrors one administered at University of Arizona and automatically updates each night to show any new sites in the mapping application.
Arizona Imagery Server
This project will produce an interactive mapping site showing statewide aerial imagery for 2003-2005. This site uses ESRI SDE to compress imagery for faster loading and viewing. The internet service will be made available as WMS as well as an ArcIMS service. Ultimately all of the Framework Data specified by National Spatial Data Infrastructure for Arizona will be made available on this site and available for upload into the National Map provided by the United States Geological Service. Instructions to use Arizona Imagery Server:
The Arizona Imagery Server is now available for viewing. You can view the imagery in one of two ways. For those users without access to ArcGIS, please visit http://129.219.93.216/website/arizona. For those users with ArcGIS, simple instructions for accessing the map service from ArcMap follow:
- In ArcMap, click the Add Data button and in the Add Data dialog, select "GIS Servers"
- Select "Add ArcIMS Server"
- In the Add ArcIMS Server dialog, the URL you will use is http://129.219.93.216
- Click OK to accept. This will close out the Add ArcIMS Server dialog.
- You should now see 129.219.93.216 listed in the Add Data dialog. Double click it to expand it.
Arizona Indicators
The Arizona Indicators Project is a collaborative research effort designed to measure the competitiveness of the state of Arizona, in particular the metropolitan Phoenix area, against itself over time. The project’s results are a series of tables, charts, and maps presented on this site, enabling Arizona to measure and evaluate its own development trajectory, as well as its regional and state competitiveness. For this project, GIS Services will provide an interactive mapping component.
Arizona State Land Use Project - General Plan Compilation
Currently, no statewide dataset for land use exists. The Arizona Governor’s Growing Smarter Act of 1998 and subsequent updates to the Act require that all jurisdictions and counties within the state provide a “General Plan” that includes addressing the land use element for the future. This facilitates and encourages local and regional entities to consider how to best develop land for the future in order to best provide for social and environmental needs and concerns. This data development project proposes to develop a statewide compilation of General Plans for the purposes of assisting local entitles with transportation and other modeling efforts, facilitating regional communication and information sharing, and providing a final digital product to jurisdictions that can be used to enable technical efforts utilizing GIS technology.
Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority Project
The Maricopa Council on Youth Sports and Physical Activity is a dynamic coalition of community partners formed to respond to the crisis of childhood obesity, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition in Maricopa County. An interactive mapping site that uses ArcIMS as well as Google Earth has been created for this project to show where youth sports facilities are located. The project will also use a web form to update and add facilities through an Access database.
Border 2012
This project will assist the City of Nogales, Sonora with implementing measures to stem erosion and improve water quality. The project will use GIS to perform erosion modeling spatial analysis using the RUSLE method. Results will be shared with Nogales, Sonora officials who will then go through the planning process to determine alternatives for physical structures as well as planning policies to address watershed planning in the area. Professor Francisco Lara-Valencia of the College of Design leads this project.
Modeling and Monitoring of Particulate Matter in Support of Children’s Health Assessment Studies
This project will take existing air quality monitoring sites used by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality spatially analyze them in the context of reported asthma incidents. Ultimately, the project seeks to dynamically predict asthma incidents and ideally reduce frequency of asthma occurrences. Professor Joe Fernando of the Fulton School of Engineering is the lead for this project.
Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental context of the origins of modern humans in South Africa
The end result of this project will be an enhanced understanding of the relationship between global climate change and its regional expression in South Africa. This will broaden the understanding of the origins of modern humans by furthering the ability to examine the ecological context for this evolution. For this project GIS Services has created a SharePoint site with photo viewing and dynamic annotation capabilities to facilitate global collaboration for South African excavation to determine man’s earliest origins. GIS Services is also lending support for GIS 3D data visualization of South African caves.
Contact GIS Services
For more information, please contact at 480.965.9709