Satellite Image of Forbidden City

Graduate Certificate Program

Military Geomatics Technician Program

 
 

 

 

 

Steet Analysis

Site Analysis

Trees and Houses

 

GIS Projects

A cornerstone of the Algonquin College graduate certificate program in GIS is the “Project Course”. Starting in the first semester, we will work with you to identify an area of interest where you would like to apply GIS. In the second semester we will guide you through the development of a sound project proposal / plan. In the third semester you will be registered in the “Project Course”.

This course is an independent study course in which you will apply your new GIS skills and techniques to a particular task. In past years we have been very successful in finding external industry or government sponsors who are interested in looking in on your project as it evolves, and/or reviewing the results when it’s done. This has been a very successful strategy for “getting your foot in the door” with potential employers.


 

VBA APPLICATION TO CREATE A SHAPEFILE FROM XML FILE

Project Sponser: David viljoen (Natural Resource Canada)

Programmed By: Dinesh Sharma

Class of 2007

Dinesh

Mr. Dinesh Sharma - GIS XML Wizard

  This Application allows the user to download the XML File across the internet and provides the unique list of the XML ELements and Attributes to the user, than allows the user to create a shapefile of point features with this information, for example by setting the Latitude and Longitude
XML Elements information to the Shape field of the shapefile that holds the geometry and gives the user the fiexibility to add or remove the rest of the XML ELements as the attribute fields of the shapefile.
In addition to this application allows the user to set the output shapfile spatial reference, as well as name and directory.

Ottawa Fire Services Fire Station Location Study

Rick Lichtenauer

Class of 2005

Response Boundaries

 

Much of this project is based around using the Network Analyst Extension to ArcGIS version 9.1. A prototype of an application was developed through the customization of Network Analyst functionality. Network Analyst can be used to analyze how drive speed of trucks and the location of fire stations and fire trucks affect response coverage.

The prototype application demonstrates how, in addition to the out-of-the-box functionality provided by the Network Analyst Extension, it is possible to incorporate other spatial variables that attenuate response time to fires. Examples of factors which can impede response time are proximity to fire hydrants, slope, truck types responding and response configuration required to effectively manage fires and full time versus volunteer fire station response.


 

River Habitat Mapping and Tool Customization for the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA)

Mathieu Leblanc

Class of 2005

 

Main Objective: helping Rideau Valley Conservation Authority's (RVCA) Aquatic and Fish Habitat Biologists anticipate and make sound decisions concerning human activities (construction, rezoning, etc.) on or near the banks of the Rideau River.

Methodology: digitizing and georeferencing Rideau River Ice Management Study maps, designing a habitat and fish information database model, and developing a custom data entry tool.

The existing maps were developed into a personal geodatabase that contained the river edge, the islands, the retaining walls, the vegetation and the substrate information. Following consultation with RVCA, the custom data entry tool was developed using Visual Basic within ArcMap. Tool interfaces include:

  • creation and document a habitat observation site
  • addition of observation records to a site
  • display of newly created sites in ArcMap

 

Customizing Geodatabase Application in ArcMap

Min Zhao

Class of 2005

Geodatabase

 

This project is sponsored by Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service. It involves developing a customized application by integrating geodatabase management functions from ArcMap and ArcCatalog. This application automates the manual process of managing geodatabases. Functionality includes:

  • Adding attributes to a table

  • Deleting attributes from a table

  • Exporting selected attributes to a table

  • Merging selected contents from two tables

  • Verifing the result table

  • Help documentation

The technical architecture is:

  • User interface design: Visual Basic for Applications
  • Data access tools: ArcObjects and Visual Basic for Applications
  • Application host environment: ESRI ArcGIS ArcMap (Map Document)

 

Estimation Of Regional Seismic Potential for Central Quebec Based on Spatial Relationships between Epicenters of Earthquakes and Geological Structures

Stefka Patchova

Class of 2005

Geology

 

Weights of Evidence (WofE) analysis, part of the SDM extension of ArcView 3.3, is used to evaluate the association between epicenter locations and a number of geological parameters.

The Study Area used for this WofE analysis is part of Central Quebec and has an area of 90,000 square km. The region is located in a seismically active zone where earthquakes with magnitude larger than 6 have occurred. Total number of available from the data epicenters within the area is 124. A total of 12 evidence themes are produced from following datasets: Mapped Faults, Gravity Anomalies, Magnetic Anomalies, Lithology and Hydrology maps of Study Area.