Exploring GIS Fundamentals

Recently finished this fundamental course on Geographic Information System(GIS) on Coursera, conducted by UC Davis.

As I know UC Davis is very strong on geotechnical engineering as we all know when in UCLA. And it’s nice they have this course shared on coursera. During winter quarter 2016, UCLA geotech master program also introduced a course on GIS for the first time. Though I really wanted to take it, it clashed with two of my main courses so I missed it. In class, most students are from hydrology, only one or two from structure and geotech.

As later my interests turned to data analysis and programming, I find GIS very powerful comes to data visualization and manipulation. I believe there are a lot more if I finish this specialization.

White Point Landslide Analysis

This is a landslide project done during my master course “Earth Retaining Structure and Slope Stability”. It is based on a real case happened in 2011 near White Point Beach, Los Angeles, USA.

Original report are done by Shannon&Willson.Inc, which we referred to as standard to verify our model in Slide.

Analysis are performed using Slide 7.0 by Rocscience, and also some excel calculations.

White Point Landslide Analysis Final Report