New Web Presence
The Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre is proud to release its new web presence and branding. The SGRC has been without its own web home since its inception in 2003. Now with the dedicated efforts of...
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SGRC Forestry Projects
As Selkirk College began in abandoned buildings at Celgar, a pulp and paper mill in Castlegar, BC, it seems natural that many of the SGRC's applied research and innovation projects have been focused on...
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Mapping Potential Agricultural Areas with Remote Sensing
Supervised classification results of orchards and farmland. The goal of this project was to find potential agricultural areas in Creston Valley that were not currently being used for farming. The...
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Mapping Population Changes and Health Services in the West Kootenay Boundary...
b'Total Populations by local health areas in the West Kootenay- Boundary Regional Hospital DistrictWe were recently contacted by a few Regional Directors at the Regional District of the Central...
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GIS Day 2015
Join us to celebrate GIS Day, November 19th, and explore this years focus: The Rise of The Drone, Emerging Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Applications.UAVs have rapidly gained popularity for collecting...
View ArticleInfrastructure Management for Small Communities Workshop
The SGRC is hosting an Asset and Infrastructure Managment Workshop and you're invited!The asset management challenges faced by small municipalities in Canada are very similar to those in bigger cities....
View ArticleSGRC Drone Project Takes Off
The SGRC Drone program lifted off with its first project this week. Integrated Environmental Planning students were restoring habitat around a pond close to the Hugh Keenleyside Dam in Castlegar, BC....
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Drones and Kids
b'Students from various schools in the West Kootenays visited the Selkirk College Castlegar campus in the spring of 2016. Selkirk hosted “Experience Selkirk Day” on May 19th which brought in around...
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Open Data for Open Government in Rural BC
b'In April of this year Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced the results of the second competition for grants from the Community and College Social Innovation Fund...
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IODC 2016
b'The 4th International Open Data Conference, also known as IODC 16, was held in Madrid, Spain on the 6th and 7th of October 2016. Besides the two days of the official conference, 28 pre-events were...
View ArticleTrail Asset Management: What do we have and where is it?
From a management standpoint, it makes good planning sense to know what you have. Increasingly more pressing, however, is the question of where? Where are the things we have?This is a guest post from...
View ArticleThe Fine Art of Open Data: A GIS Survival Guide for the Arithmophobic
I began the BGIS program at Selkirk College in September 2016. This was a mid-life choice, being more than ready to develop in a new direction after years working as a library assistant and taking...
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Drone Surveying: The Devil in the Details
b'After completing the ADGIS program at Selkirk College in April 2017, I was fortunate enough to score one of the 5 Co-op positions at the SGRC. Joey Plessis and I were selected to work as a team on...
View ArticleFrom IEP to ADGIS and Beyond
Back in 2012, I took the Integrated Environmental Planning program and had my first introduction to Geographic Information Systems and its applications in the environment. Unfortunately, I chose a...
View ArticleOpen Data Webinar
What is open data? Why is it important to economic development? How can local government work collaboratively to make their data open? What are the challenges and opportunities for open data in the...
View ArticleGIS Day & OSM Week Event!
We're celebrating GIS Day and OSM Geography Awareness Week 2017 at Selkirk College!Our event will be held at the Castlegar Campus on Wednesday November 15th from 10 AM to 2 PM. The topic this year is...
View ArticleA Successful GIS Day 2017
Another successful GIS Day at the college has passed. This year our theme was “Data for Good” and we had some excellent student posters come out of it. This year’s posters focused more on the data then...
View ArticleNew Web Presence
The Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre is proud to release its new web presence and branding. The SGRC has been without its own web home since its inception in 2003. Now with the dedicated efforts of...
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SGRC Forestry Projects
As Selkirk College began in abandoned buildings at Celgar, a pulp and paper mill in Castlegar, BC, it seems natural that many of the SGRC's applied research and innovation projects have been focused on...
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Mapping Potential Agricultural Areas with Remote Sensing
Supervised classification results of orchards and farmland. The goal of this project was to find potential agricultural areas in Creston Valley that were not currently being used for farming. The...
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