News
Upgraded GIS Center servers (move to HTTPS)
On 11, May 2018 | In News | By Eric Compas
Hey, it seems like a small thing, but we’ve recently completed a substantial effort to upgrade our server environmental and migrate to HTTPS on all our operations. Everything should be up and running now. Please let us know if you find anything that’s broken 😉
New project and hires
On 03, Oct 2017 | In Cartography, News | By gis_admin
We’ve just been awarded a contract with Jefferson County, Wisconsin, to map structures in new FEMA floodplain maps.
Example of building footprint delineation
sUAS at Fort Atkinson Farmers Market
On Saturday, we participated in the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) event at the Fort Atkinson Farmers Market. Great chance to show kids and families (and even grandmas!) how we’re both teaching and researching drones for mapping at the GIS Center.
Seeing how the drone tries to level itself
Drone presentation at Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium
On 12, Aug 2017 | In Field mapping, News, UAV/drone | By gis_admin
As part of our Research Infrastructure Grant, we presented the results of our biomass mapping from the 2016 and 2017 seasons at the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium 2017 Conference. Thanks to Jeff Smyczek for all his help on this project!
Fox River Summit
On 16, Mar 2017 | In News, Water quality | By gis_admin
Thanks to Thomas Slawski for the opportunity to present our water array project at the 2017 Fox River Summit. We made connections with several area groups and identified potential sites for semi-permanent installations of our device.
Water array presentation (video)
On 03, Mar 2017 | In News, Water quality | By gis_admin
Thanks to the Fairhaven Lecture Series, we were able to share some of the work we’re going with the water quality array.
Here’s the video:
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New video about our “Testing the Waters” project
On 19, Sep 2016 | In News, Water quality | By Eric Compas
Jeffrey Pohorski, one of the video producers in Media & Marketing at UW-Whitewater, did a great job telling the story of our adventure down the Rock River this May:
Link to full YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBet7Do_KdI
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Commercial remote pilots license
On 13, Sep 2016 | In News, UAV/drone | By Eric Compas
Under the new FAA Part 107 rules, Dr. Compas is taking the test to obtain a commercial “remote pilot airman certificate.” This will allow us to conduct University research flights under the Part 107 rules.
Rebuilding website
On 13, Sep 2016 | In News | By Eric Compas
Sorry for the mess! Please be patient as we rebuild our website. It was about time to do some cleanup around here.
