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Geographic Information Systems at Yale: GIS Consultations

Geographic Information Systems at Yale University encompasses a range of spatial applications and services. GIS is used by many disciplines at Yale University.

GIS Consultations

Our GIS team includes a group of enthusiastic consultants who can work with you to integrate GIS into your various projects and learning activities. Some of the aspects that you can discuss during your consultation are:

  • GIS Support Services for all disciplines, assisting from individual research to long-term team project planning
  • Strategies to plan your spatiotemporal work ahead
  • An overview of the tools and techniques used to map raster and vector datasets, using both open source and Esri software
  • Complex spatiotemporal data analyses and modeling

RESERVE A GIS CONSULTATION BY EXPERTISE:

MEET THE GEOSPATIAL CONSULTANTS

Aslan Li | Geospatial Consultant

I can help you with:

  • Integrating remote sensing and GIS data into your project
  • Satellite data processing using Google Earth Engine and ENVI
  • UAV and ROV photogrammetry database management with Agisoft
  • Geospatial analysis using Python
  • Geocoding, integrating API and web crawler
  • Cartography and geospatial data visualization for 2D and 3D products

Aslan is a Master’s student at the Yale School of Environment. Her current research focuses on integrating various satellite products to track the interaction between climate change, urban development, and urban forests.

Aslan has rich experience in acquiring, processing, and analyzing satellite products using Google Earth Engine and ENVI. She also has expertise in managing UAV and ROV photogrammetry databases with Agisoft. In addition, she has approximately four years of experience working with GIS software and geospatial data analysis using Python and R. She is experienced in processing audible bioacoustics data using Raven Pro, Adobe Audition, and BirdNet.

Reserve a GIS Consultation with Aslan Li

Miriam Olivares, MSc, GISP | Head of Geospatial Support Services

I can help you with:

  • GIS integration to projects/research
  • Design GIS workshop for a course syllabus
  • GIS project planning
  • Spatial data sources
  • GIS foundations
  • Esri software
  • Mapping tabular and spatial data
  • Geocoding sensitive data
  • GIS infrastructure
  • GIS careers, and more...

Miriam Olivares is the Head of Geospatial Support Services at Yale University Library and Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions. With over 20 years of geospatial experience, she coordinates geospatial support services in higher education. At Yale, and previously at Texas A&M University, she connects experts and teaches and consults GIS, thus enabling others’ geospatial power to promote teaching and cutting-edge research. She was featured in the book Women and GIS: Mapping their Stories, has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, has participated in binational and international GIS panels, and collaborated in projects based in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Central America, and Somalia. Her collaborations include interdisciplinary research concerning GIScience, crime analysis, natural hazards, marine conservation, and public health among other subjects. Miriam serves as a member of the board of review for the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Academic Network of the United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM): Americas; member of the State of Connecticut GIO’s GIS Strategic Plan Workgroup and a member of the GIS Clearinghouse Workgroup. Additionally, she is the co-founder and international chair of GIS LATAM and a fellow of the Yale Timothy Dwight College. Previously, Miriam served as a director of the board for the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and the New Haven-based Junta for Progressive Action. She also co-chaired Yale Women in Tech. 

Reserve a GIS Consultation with Miriam Olivares

Jacob Peters | Geospatial Consultant

I can help you with:

  • Google Earth Engine, ENVI, R, Agisoft, and ArcGIS Pro
  • UAV mission planning, data processing, and analysis
  • Data sourcing, visualization, and management
  • Documentation, metadata, and writing
  • Incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing into your projects and research

Jacob is a PhD student at the Yale School of the Environment. His  research involves using remote sensing and field techniques to study interactions between forests and vines occupying the forest canopy.
Jacob has over six years of experience with ArcGIS software and using R for GIS. He has extensive experience in using ENVI, Agisoft, and Google Earth Engine for acquiring, processing, and analyzing satellite, aerial, and UAV imagery, processing and analyzing LiDAR and photogrammetry data, and working with various products derived from imagery.

Reserve a GIS Consultation with Jacob Peters

Collaboration: Yale School of Public Health Consultant

Jill Kelly, Ph.D.

I can help YSPH affiliates with:

  • ArcGIS Pro and other Esri products
  • QGIS, GeoDa
  • Geospatial Analysis Using Python
  • Spatial Statistical Analysis
  • Google Earth Engine
  • Satellite Remote Sensing
  • 3D Visualization and Cartography
  • Data Privacy Considerations, and more...

Dr. Kelly is a lecturer in GIS at the School of Public Health and a recent graduate of the School of the Environment. Jill has taught full-semester GIS courses at Harvard for four years and at Yale for two. She has designed and led workshops on QGIS, ModelBuilder, python, GIS for land use planning, and Google Earth Engine. She has experience with a wide diversity of datasets and GIS analysis, from boreal forest biomass to COVID-19 statistics, from nuclear waste storage to the public toilets of Australia. Her particular interests are the statistical effects of areal aggregation and GIS ethics. Jill also specializes in creative solutions to tricky technical problems. 

Reserve a Public Health GIS Consultation with Jill Kelly, Ph.D. (Fall & Spring semester)