{"id":148,"date":"2015-10-05T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/?p=4"},"modified":"2015-10-05T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:36:33","slug":"welcome-to-the-gis-unit-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/2015\/10\/05\/welcome-to-the-gis-unit-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the GIS Research Unit Blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" id=\"attachment_19\" style=\"width: 710px\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">\n<div id=\"attachment_19\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2015\/08\/dtm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19\" alt=\"Digital Terrain Model from LiDAR \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2015\/08\/dtm-1024x798.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"798\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Digital Terrain Model from LiDAR<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Welcome to the GIS@GAP Blog!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The GIS Research Unit at GAP specialises in research, teaching and support in the diverse area of Geographic Information Science (GI) and Geomatics. \u00a0At the core of GIS at GAP is a dedicated state of the art GIS Lab hosting related GI and Geostatistical software (Commercial and Open Source), Spatial Data Web Services, Spatial Data Servers (Research and Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland licensed data), Geomatic and Geodetic Survey Instruments (GPS, GNSS, CORS, EDM) and our very own research UAV. \u00a0GI is taught at GAP UG\/PGt \u00a0level and has become an essential element of many staff and postgraduate \u00a0research programmes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Unit is involved in many collaborative research projects across the University and has become to many the first port of call to users accessing GIS for the first time or to those seeking GI related advice and research development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">With strong professional network links to outside public agencies, NGOs and the GI community (LPS\/OSNI. NIEA, GSNI, AGI\u2026) we aim to develop, promote and educate \u00a0researchers and the public on the important role of Spatial Science and Data in research, education and the local economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Through this blog we hope to keep you updated with our research, education and interests at the Unit.\u00a0Check back for updates on projects, research and web mapping outputs from the\u00a0GIS Unit at Queen\u2019s University Belfast!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">CG\/LB\/JMK<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the GIS@GAP Blog! The GIS Research Unit at GAP specialises in research, teaching and support in the diverse area of Geographic Information Science (GI) and Geomatics. \u00a0At the core of GIS at GAP is a dedicated state of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93cN-2o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}