Illinois GIS Day 2021 was a hybrid event held on Wednesday, November 17
as an annual showcase of advances in geographic information science and systems, as well as GIS and geospatial data science applications across domains including agriculture, business, health, and transportation. Faculty, students, staff, and industry leaders shared how they use geospatial data and GIS methods to address a wide array of social, environmental, and economic challenges.
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Photo Gallery
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Photos by Heather Cupps-Miller and Fikriyah Winata
Agenda | Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Online via Zoom
10:00 - 11:00 am: Workshop on Getting Started with CyberGISX
Shaowen Wang Professor and Department Head, Geography and GIS
University of Illinois
William Bernhard Executive Vice Provost
University of Illinois
1:20 pm: Keynote Address
Arindam Banerjee Founder Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
Machine Learning for Climate and Environmental Sciences: Advances and Challenges
Vast amounts of spatially indexed data are being routinely collected for a variety of climate and environmental science problems. With the tremendous advances in machine learning (ML) especially over the past decade, the hope is that such ML methods will in turn help make advances on these key scientific problems. In this talk, I will share some progress we have made over the past decade in applying ML methods to problems in climate and environmental sciences. I will also discuss some key challenges in applying modern ML methods to such scientific problems. Finally, I will briefly discuss the ongoing TorchGeo project, which is combining the power of modern ML with geospatial data.
2:30 pm: Career Panel
Matthew D. Hiett Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Michael Kamin GIS Analyst, City of Batavia (IL)
Outreach Director, Illinois GIS Association
Mark Yacucci Head - Geoscience Information, Illinois State Geological Survey
President Elect, Illinois GIS Association
3:30 pm: Awards Ceremony
Bob Rauber Director, School of Earth, Society, and the Environment
University of Illinois
Student Poster Competition Gallery
Illinois GIS Day 2021 included a virtual student poster competition with separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students. The principal authors of all submissions were University of Illinois students, although the work could be created in partnership with faculty advisors or collaborators. This event was held online in Gather.
Awards in each of the two categories included first prizes of $300, second prizes of $200, and third prizes of $100 (six prizes total). Awards were presented as gift certificates to the Illini Bookstore.
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