Projects

For elected officials to best represent constituencies they serve, information must be presented and analyzed for the entire geographic extent of their constituency. Health indicators are often collected and reported at census geographies, or other units...

This project provided print publication maps and a dynamic web-map (in progress) in conjunction with the exhibit, " Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings" on display at the Harvard Art Museums from September...

Moorcroft Lab Recent technological advances in remote sensing are moving terrestrial ecosystem monitoring beyond land cover change mapping, in the form of imaging spectrometry able to detect light intensity from tens to hundreds of contiguous spectral...

CGA created maps that display PM 2.5 and Ozone for the US by County from 2000 - 2012, which involved cross-tabulation of monitoring sites within county boundaries. Investigators: Francesca Dominici and Christine Choirat, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH...

The Out of Eden Walk is a 24,000-mile journalistic endeavor to create a global record of human life at the start of a new millennium as told by villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who rarely make the news. Sponsored and hosted by...

Dataverse and WorldMap have been integrated by adding APIs to both systems (Funded by the Boston Research Initiative) Three types of Dataverse file: Tables with columns containing latitude and longitude Tables with a column of known codes which represent...

Funded by OmniSci Technologies, LLC. as a member of the I/UCRC Spatiotemporal Innovation Center Can be hosted on Harvard Cannon Cluster, Amazon AWS, Mass Open Cloud, MapD Cloud. Use cases: Improving access to hydrological models used in water management...

Toward an Open Platform for Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Based on WorldMap, this project will host historical maps of Japan. Funded by Ritsumeikan University. Investigator: Prof. Keiji Yano , Professor of Geography and GIS Science at...

A new collaboration between Zhejiang University and Harvard was launched on October 13th, 2017. The joint effort will build upon Harvard CGA's WorldMap to develop a Chinese Academic Mapping Platform for research, teaching, and data sharing. Please see the...

With funding from the Sloan Foundation and Harvard Dataverse , Ben Lewis, Devika Kakkar, Merce Crosas, and David Smiley developed a prototype, open source, spatio-temporal visualization platform dubbed "the BOP" (Billion Object Platform). The first goal...