Projects

Below are projects I produced as part of my coursework as a Civil Engineering graduate student in GIS/Geomatics at UC-Denver:

Trails in the Santa Monica Mountains

In this project I located several different pieces of data which came from a variety of sources, were in different formats and came with different coordinate systems. I also created a set of non-spatial data from hard-copy sources. I combined all of these into a geodatabase and then produced maps and a report with this spatial data. The variety of techniques I used were a demonstration of a number of things I learned in Introduction to GIS (CVEN 5381), plus some ArcPy which I had explored a bit in another class.

PowerPoint presentation: (in PowerPoint format)
(PowerPoint presentation on Youtube coming soon)

Accompanying paper: (pdf)

Georeferencing an Aerial Image

My Spatial Database Development (CVEN 5382) course included an Esri training module on how to georeference a DRG map using ArcGIS. Other topics in the class included techniques for working with aerial and satellite images. For my class project, I wanted to gain some additional experience with georeferencing by applying the techniques to an aerial image. I also wanted to gain experience with discovering where to find images online and how to bring them into ArcGIS for manipulation.

PowerPoint presentation: (in PowerPoint format)
(PowerPoint presentation on Youtube coming soon)

Accompanying paper: (pdf)

Tornadoes in the US

A couple of topics my GIS Laboratory class (CVEN 5386) covered were how to use ArcPy Python scripts in ArcGIS models and how to create Add-Ins using C# with Visual Studio. In my project for this course I applied both of these techniques while exploring tornado activity in the US from 1955-2014.

Paper: (pdf)