Hi, I’m Nicole Cherry, and I’m a first-year environmental science major. I’ve completed 291 and found it to be a bit of a struggle, but I’m excited to begin this section since I won’t have to spend so much time in the GIS lab as I did for the last section. I also completed the quiz for this week’s assignment.
As for the GIS online website, it was interesting to see information from previous sections on different concerns, and, at first glance, it seems easy to navigate. The section regarding floods in Delaware was new information to me, considering I’m a new-ish student here.
As for the Get started: What is ArcGIS online section I thought it was cool that the first few sections of information was about collaboration and sharing your work with others, essentially public forums or several other options, mostly because I its important to share research information of course and I think moving past 291 which was mostly just followingntutoriala amd lwarning about the program its cool to see that aspect in the 292 section.
Tutorials: It was also really interesting to learn more in-depth in the tutorials about how organizations work and how they’re able to connect and share information with so many different entities. It also seems to be a lot easier to navigate than 291, and at least for me, easier than the ArcGIS Pro system we used previously. Mostly what I liked from the tutorial was just regarding the public accounts and such, and allowing to share so much data across so many fields, it really showed me how versatile and interconnected GIS is.
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Initially, I was going to search antifa but I ended up not being able to find any sources that had maps. This is kind of interesting to me because there’s so much emphasis arounf antifa in the political climate right now, even though ( at least from my understanding, it isn’t an actual organization), but on the other hand, the kkk still isn’t considered a terrorist group by our government( which it definitely should be).
I’m also a global scholars student and plan on going to Costa Rica primarily for the biodiversity in the region. I found an article that was also speaking about accurately mapping/representing forest coverage in Costa Rica while also managing the complications of fragmentation.
Evaluating Forest Cover and Fragmentation in Costa Rica with a Corrected Global Tree Cover Map