The UFV Geography department is continuing its tradition of
hosting an annual GIS Day lunch-hour event as part of a
worldwide movement to showcase and promote GIS technology and
its use in our society. Have a slice of pizza and a soft drink
while you learn about how geographic information system (GIS)
technology has rapidly spread through any discipline in which
location is important. Agriculture, biology, geology, computing,
environmental science, forestry, planning, and transportation
are just a few examples of disciplines in which GIS technology
has played an increasingly important role in mapping, managing,
visualizing and understanding information. Scott Shupe from the
Geography department will kick off GIS Day with a short overview
on GIS followed by special presentations from UFV alumnus Alison
Thorpe, who will discuss agriculture land use inventories at the
Ministry of Agriculture, and the Community Mapping Network
folks, who will discuss and demonstrate their online habitat
atlas tool for use in unde