Scientific Images & Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Note
Materials from this workshop are archived in the University of Minnesota’s Digital Conservancy: doi.org/10.24926/2025.276521
The workshop was held July 14-15, 2025 in Building 10 at the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD.
Instructors
- Neggin Keshavarazian (Princeton University)
- Amy Schuler (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies)
- Mariah Kenney (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Kelly Grove (Florida State University)
- Timothy Norris (University of Miami)
Resources
Note
Participants are encouraged to review DCN’s CURATE(D) workflow before the first session.
- Pre-workshop preparation
- GIS
- Download and install QGIS.
- Download the 1_Environment_Setup_Datasets.zip adapted from Kramer et al 2019.
- Please see the 01_Environmental_Setup slide deck for more details (through slide 5).
- If you feel adventurous, try to open any part of the setup dataset in QGIS.
- Download and install QGIS.
- Scientific Images
- Download and install ImageJ to be used to manipulate scientific images. Specifically we will use Fiji which is a distribution of ImageJ that includes additional useful plugins.
- Windows users are recommended to install in the users directory where it will have permissions to update itself.
- Mac users - the software may run through Rosetta if you have a newer M-series processor, this can have some performance cost. Alternatively you can download a java version which can run natively.
- Windows users are recommended to install in the users directory where it will have permissions to update itself.
- Download and install ImageJ to be used to manipulate scientific images. Specifically we will use Fiji which is a distribution of ImageJ that includes additional useful plugins.
- GIS
- Shared Notes for the entire workshop
- Slides
- General Workshop Information
- GIS Slides
- 01_Environmental Setup
- 02_GIS_Introduction
- 03_Ethics_and_GIS_Data
- 04_Transformations
- 05_GIS_Metadata
- Scientific Images
- GIS Cheatsheet
- Exercise Data Sets
Please download and unzip in an easy to find folder on your computer- GIS
- 01_Environment_Setup_Datasets.zip
- 04_Bad_projection.zip
- 04_GIS_Transformations_Datasets.zip
- 04_study_area_cover_type.shp.xml
- 05_GIS_Dataset_No_ReadMe.zip
- Scientific Images
- GIS
Schedule
Day 1: July 14th
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Welcome and DCN background and Icebreaker |
| 9:30 AM | Introduction to GIS and geospatial Data Types |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:45 PM | GIS Data Types (cont) and Ethical Considerations |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | GIS Transformations |
| 1:45 PM | Break |
| 2:00 PM | GIS Metadata |
| 2:45 PM | Break |
| 3:00 PM | GIS Metadata (cont) and Wrap Up |
| 4:00 PM | End of Day 1 |
| 6:00 - 7:30 PM | Dine Arounds! |
Day 2: July 15th
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Welcome Back & Icebreaker |
| 9:15 AM | Introduction to Sci Images and Software |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM | Image Metadata and Transformation |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | Introduce capstone and datasets; brainstorm with teams |
| 2:15 PM | Break |
| 2:30 PM | Capstone share out and Wrap Up |
| 3:00 PM | End |
Suggested Citation
Kenney, Mariah; Schuler, Amy; Keshavarzian, Neggin; Norris, Timothy; Grove, Kelly. (2025). DCN-NIH Specialized Curation for Geospatial and Scientific Images Workshop, 2025 . Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.24926/2025.276521.