Friday was the 2nd Smithsonian GIS conference at the National Museum of Natural History. The only theme was spatial analysis, and since spatial analysis applies to prit near everything and smithosonian dabbles in joost about every topic, there were talks from prit near everybody. Along with lots of good conservation stuff from our and other labs, there was for example use of GIS to map burial mounds in the Mongolian steppes, constructing 3D geological models of the Alexandrian harbour, mapping the old Rondo neighbourhood of St. Paul and a very lovely talk called “thinking outside the grid” which started with the assertion that conventional GIS wasn’t at all useful to the task of mapping the folklore of a obscure ethnic group from the mouth of the Amazon.

There was also me, yay! “Mapping Dry Dipterocarp Forest Using Dual-Season Imagery”, I think. For a limited time only (until Chiron starts asking me what I fill up the server space he donates to me with), here it is if you’re into that sort of thing, or at least the slides, which probably aren’t very useful since I intentionally avoid putting a lot of text into powerpoint talks… anyway…

To simulate the full experience, go through it really fast. Apparently I was speed talking something fierce. I didn’t feel nervous until I opened my mouth. Betrayed by the meat again, dammit.