Furthering justice with spatial analytics & visualization!
Welcome to the Spatial Analytics and Visualization Institute (SAVI) page, an official SJSU Campus Institute in the California State University system. We are the only CSU Institute in Northern California to implement advanced GISci techniques for justice, equity, and democracy research and education! SAVI uses the power of geography and Geographic Information Science to produce impactful research and professional services with focus on furthering justice, equity, and democracy to serve our university departments, neighborhood organizations, public agencies and private sector entities in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.
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Spatial Analytics & Visualization Lab Workshops
The Spatial Analytics and Visualization Institute (SAVI) launched the Fall 2022 spatial analytics and visualization workshop series. These five lab workshops in November offer professionals and students the opportunity to learn innovative and hands-on skill sets in 3-hour lab sessions with expert instructors from private industry and higher education. The skill sets covered in these lab workshops will help professionals to progress in the tech oriented job market and students to advance their data driven projects and knowledge. SAVI new workshops with focus on GIS4Democracy will be launched in August 2024. With the generous support of Public Interest Technology University Network, these workshops are FREE FOR SJSU STUDENTS!
Past Events
Coastal ecosystems and eelgrass habitats provide important services to the marine environment, including primary production, carbon storage, nutrient cycling, habitat for fisheries species, and erosion control. UASs with high spatial resolution, temporal flexibility, and cost-effectiveness for repeat photogrammetry, afford a significant advancement in other remote sensing approaches for coastal mapping, habitat monitoring, and environmental management. They provide essentially on-demand remote sensing at low cost and with reduced human risk. Drone imagery will be collected at least annually in coordination with in situ samplings which will also be used to validate the imagery by ground-truthing across a range of points within each meadow. Because eelgrass extent in some regions is subtidal and challenging to visualize from the air, we utilize DJI Phantom 4 Pro (RGB) and DJI Inspire (multispectral) drones and related drone mapping technology through Esri Drone2Map. Each year, ideally we allocate 4-6 days at each site for each drone mission to maximize ideal conditions for collecting drone imagery, striving for lowest spring tides, and calm, bright conditions with roughly vertical sunlight.
