Current projects and activities
Below you'll find the plethora of fields of application of spatial data.
Through its internal or external partnerships and its own projects, the SCC supports various initiatives, all targeting a more sustainable and resilient tomorrow.
Did you say dRoNe?
The SCC has access to an unmanned aircraft vehicle – UAV, a.k.a. drone – fleet (and respective licenses) granting capacity to accommodate a broad range of projects: DJI Mavic Air 2 for small and casual use; DJI Phantom 4 Pro for longer and more professional use; and DJI matrice 350, shared with Technobothnia, equipped with payloads specific for photogrammetry (orthophotos), Lidar (point cloud) and thermal. The SCC organizes workshops to learn how to manipulate the aircrafts and how to process the images with MapMadeEasy or WebODM.
Dec. 2024
It's GIS DAY
Every year on November 20 is GIS day. This day celebrates the geospatial progress and the constant crossing with latest technologies with events everywhere in the world. In the past, Novia has hosted GIS event and last year, the SCC participated in the Aarhus University GIS day in Denmark and their fantastic panel. November 20th, 2025, the SCC will host its own GIS day – spoiler alert, it will involve untraditional GIS users!
Nov. 2024
Workshop for agroforestry
The SCC got to host a QGIS workshop with Joshua Finch and the design team of the NylAF project. 7 farmers from Uusimaa gathered for a full day discovering, talking, understanding, wow-ing about GIS and spatial data. The workshop was part of the knowledge transfer toolkit the project is developing to support farmers getting acquainted with geospatial tools and assessing the feasibility of their agroforestry project.
Oct. 2024
Maps are media
The SCC got the opportunity to showcase how magnificent, powerful, deceiving, dangerous, wonderful maps are during the IGU conference of Mediated geographies: Exploring the dynamic nexus of media, environment, and place in Jakobstad on October 2024. We unveiled the power of maps as open representation of perceptions, which defied the objective and stiff essence of mapping.
Oct. 2024
Tracking the path
The SCC was in the field with project leader Anna-Karin Almén to officially track the new nature trail - Slätbergets naturstig to come soon in Ingå. Using our DJI Mavic Air 2 drone and tracking app Avenza Maps, the trail twists and turns were captured and analyzed by our experts to untangle the best experience.
Sept. 2024
GeoICT4e
The SCC got the opportunity to meet some of the actors of this 4 year-project at the final seminar organized in Åbo. As Romi Rancken - Novia UAS was one of the partner, the SCC got mandated to create an innovative way to access the amazing repository created during the project: an interactive wordcloud, currently under development. Hopefully, this successful partnership will continue, further promoting impact-driven and socially innovative geospatial ICT education.
August 2024
Networking is key
The SCC being part of a university of applied sciences makes its status peculiar and its involvement in regular networks (e.g. FUIGINET) complex. Nevertheless, the SCC attends national events such as Geoforum summit and regional events such as geoinformatics day and has now a Facebook account.
May 2024
Renewable energies in the Nordics
The SCC and the Environmental Research Institute of UHI in Scotland had a busy month setting up the foundations of a future collaboration related to renewable energies and their challenges in terms of co-planning, co-management and coherence.
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April 2024
Marine Spatial Planning
The SCC got the opportunity to experience the MSP Challenge novel educational tool based on multi-layered platform for marine spatial planning in the context of Sustainable coastal management. The tool was developed by the Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUAS) and played by State University of Zanzibar (SUZA).
March 2024
Passing on the knowledge
In the winter session, the SCC delivered an open online course about GIS in bioeconomy, focusing on basic concepts; and a live lecture about fields of application of geomatics with bachelors in sustainable coastal management in the context of their environmental impact assessment course - environmental consulting amongst them.
Feb. 2024
Modelling habitat preference
The SCC got involved with Stefan Heinänen in supporting the Individual-based model linked to the German Bight Red-throated divers. R is a vital resource to tidy and prepare the dataset to be used in the modelling and predicting the effect of windfarms and shipping on habitat preference and diving behaviour; but also for visualization.
Jan. 2024