The Geospatial Imaging and Informatics Facility (GIIF) supports research & outreach activities for those interested in geospatial analysis utilizing remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial analysis, landscape ecology, visualization, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology.

The Facility supports multi-scale geospatial research through training, assistance and collaboration. Our main goals are to: provide visiting scholar space, enhance undergraduate recruitment, support graduate research, generate and provide timely and quality spatial data for analysis, and provide meeting spacefor those interested in our technologies.

Staff

Jeremy Freund, Geospatial/IT Specialist
Email: jfreund@nature.berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 643-4539

Jeremy comes to us from a Master’s program in the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara, where he worked on famine early warning systems using multi-spectral remote sensing techniques. He focused on crop production estimation to try and help famine abatement efforts in Eastern and Southern Africa. Jeremy spent 5 months living in Botswana developing a “crop estimation tool” for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which utilized MODIS satellite data and GIS techniques. He also has a background in Web/Graphic design and Information Technology. Please contact him for all GIIF issues and questions as well as remote sensing/GIS support.

Steering Committee

James Bartolome
Justin Brashares
Beth Boyer
Maggi Kelly, GIIF Faculty Director
Max Moritz

Steering Committee forum (requires password)

Advisory Board

Dean Angelides, Environmental Systems Research Institute
Russ Congalton, Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Steve DeGloria, Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kass Green, President, Alta Vista Company, Berkeley, CA
Don Lauer, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Larry Orman, Greeninfo Network, San Francisco, CA
Wayne Schultz, Lafayette, CA
Larry Pettinger, US Geological Survey

Advisory Board forum (requires password)

Partners

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley, is a center for research and education in the biology of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Read more...

California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences is home to the Steinhart Aquarium, the Morrison Planetarium, and the Kimball Natural History Museum, as well as world class research and education departments, all with the mission is to explore, explain, and protect the natural world. Read more...

Center for Fire Research & Outreach
The Center for Fire Research and Outreach develops and disseminates science-based solutions to wildfire-related challenges. They are located in the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley.

Berkeley Water Center
The Berkeley Water Center has been developed to integrate expertise across disciplines in support of a new research mode for water investigations.

Geographic Information Science Center
The Geographic Information Center (GISC) works to raise the level of GIS expertise on the entire campus and to stimulate cross disciplinary education, research, and cooperation using these technologies. The GIIF and the GISC has collaborated as co-sponsors of GIS Day 2006 and 2007.

ESRI, Inc.
ESRI supplies our licenses and support for ESRI ArcGIS suite of products, including ArcGIS Desktop (ArcInfo) 9.2, ArcIMS 9.2, ArcPad, and ArcSDE.

Definiens, Inc.
The GIIF is a Definiens Center of Excellence, due to our use of Definiens Professional 5.0 (formerly known as "eCognition") object-based image analysis software.

Leica Geosystems, Inc.
Leica Geosystems supplies our licenses and support for Erdas Imagine 9.0 software for remote sensing and image analysis. Erdas Imagine is currently installed on all computers in 111 Mulford Hall.

Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA)
The GIIF has co-hosted two GIS Days (2005 and 2006) with BAAMA. We also have plans to co-host GIS Day 2007.