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UTC GIS Director Charlie Mix won a Cartography Special Interest Group Excellence Award for \u201cA 21st Century Park System for Chattanooga, Tennessee\u201d at the 2023 Esri User Conference.<\/p><\/div>\n

Charlie Mix recalled getting tasked with \u201ca tall order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mix, the GIS (geographic information system) director for the Interdisciplinary Geospatial Technology Lab (IGTLab) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, was meeting with Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Administrator Scott Martin about a map for the city agency\u2019s new plan\u2014which aims to have all residents capable of walking to a park or some open space within 10 minutes. It also seeks to connect residents and park visitors with the natural ecosystem that Chattanooga sits within.<\/p>\n

Then came Mix\u2019s walking orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis exact request was, \u2018Can you make a map for our parks plan that people will be inspired by 100 years from now the same way that we are at the Nolen map?\u2019\u201d Mix said. \u201cSo I was like, \u2018That\u2019s a tall order.\u2019 And then I was like, \u2018Let me just use that for inspiration.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

That inspiration\u2014landscape architect John Nolen\u2019s 1911 \u201cGeneral Features of a Park System for Chattanooga, Tennessee\u201d\u2014was turned into an award-winning map.<\/p>\n

Mix won a Cartography Special Interest Group Excellence Award for \u201cA 21st Century Park System for Chattanooga, Tennessee\u201d<\/a> at the 2023 Esri User Conference, held in San Diego in mid-July.<\/p>\n

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Esri, an international supplier of geographic information system software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications, annually holds a user conference. This year\u2019s event had more than 18,000 attendees.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Nolen drafted a parks plan in 1911 that established many of the parks that we see today in Chattanooga,\u201d Mix explained, \u201cso this is seen as the next iteration of Chattanooga\u2019s park system\u2014a very visionary, aspirational parks plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nolen studied under noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the co-designer of New York\u2019s Central Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I took Nolen\u2019s hand-drawn map and used his color palette and applied that using modern 21st-century cartography techniques,\u201d Mix continued. \u201cThat\u2019s where the inspiration for that map came from, paying a nod to our history while looking forward to the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the data in there was collected, analyzed and processed through spatial data science.\u201d<\/p>\n

The undertaking\u2014making a digital map look hand-drawn\u2014was a labor of love.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat kind of style of cartography has always been an interest of mine, so I have some techniques I\u2019ve developed over the years,\u201d he said. \u201cThe time-consuming part was making sure that the data was 100% accurate because it was a brand-new data set.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin quoted architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham, who played a prominent role in creating master plans for developing several cities\u2014including downtown Chicago\u2014in describing the work he wanted Mix to accomplish.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe asked Charlie to bring together our 21st century GIS driven park planning work and wrap it with the place-based soulfulness of the original Nolen plan that together can create perhaps a new vision of Chattanooga as a \u2018city in a park,\u2019\u2019 Martin said. \u201cWe draw from the best of our past, attaching the best of our present to shape this incredible landscape we call home.<\/p>\n

\u201cA plan\u2019s look and feel matters. The famous architect Daniel Burnham best described why when he said, \u2018Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men\u2019s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.\u2019 Charlie\u2019s work here gives Chattanooga leaders a living thing, indeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Images from the story map, \u201cA City of Trees: Assessing Urban Tree Canopy with GIS and Remote Sensing for Chattanooga, Tennessee,\u201d which earned second-place honors.The parks plan map wasn\u2019t the only UTC award winner coming out of the Esri competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cA City of Trees: Assessing Urban Tree Canopy with GIS and Remote Sensing for Chattanooga, Tennessee\u201d<\/a> earned second-place accolades in the Communicating Science Spatially category. The map was authored by Mix, GIS Assistant Director Nyssa Hunt, recent UTC graduate Will Stuart (the recipient of a master\u2019s in environmental science), and Biology, Geology and Environmental Science Associate Professor Azad Hossain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis map highlights an applied research project that I was the (principal investigator) on for the city,\u201d Mix said. \u201cThe City of Chattanooga and the nonprofit green|spaces came to us, asking for help mapping the city\u2019s urban tree canopy because they needed a baseline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mix said Planet Labs, a small satellite company, flew its satellites over Chattanooga and provided custom tasking images. The IGTLab then used machine learning in object-based image analysis, taking those multi-spectral satellite images and classifying them into land cover types\u2014such as forest and water.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe overlaid this information on urban tree canopy with demographics\u2014things like income, race, educational attainment, crime and urban heat islands\u2014to look at possible correlations and relationships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As excited as Mix was about the accolades, he said his group received \u201can even bigger honor than getting an award; our little GIS lab here at UTC was front and center at the world\u2019s largest GIS conference, which was really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The IGTLab was invited by Esri and the nonprofit One Tree Planted to have a special display of the lab\u2019s work as part of the conference\u2019s San Diego Convention Center Esri Map Gallery.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe had this giant booth where the Map Gallery reception was going on to show off all this work,\u201d he said, \u201cand we got to take three students out there so they could experience the conference and meet and rub shoulders with people from all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trio of environmental science students\u2014Erin Gaylord, graduating this summer with a master\u2019s degree, grad student Mona Latil-Quinn and rising senior Mimi White\u2014 accompanied Mix and Hunt to the conference.<\/p>\n

In addition, Hunt had the opportunity to present at the conference about ongoing work the IGTLab is doing for UT Knoxville\u2019s Tennessee River Line effort, a collaboration with TVA.<\/p>\n

Mix said these are exciting times to discuss the work being done in the UTC lab and its positive impact on the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like my title should be GIS evangelist because GIS is in its golden age right now,\u201d Mix said, laughing. \u201cMaps have always been important for humans throughout history; our earliest art was basically maps of where the herds were and painted on cave walls.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now, maps are integrated into every part of our life through technology, iPhones, and computers. We map the earth every single day. So GIS has truly been democratized where every citizen has the power to take advantage of it\u2014whether they realize it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn More<\/h4>\n

Visit UTC<\/a><\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary Geospatial Technology Lab (IGTLab)<\/a><\/p>\n

GIS Software and Resources<\/a><\/p>\n

Environmental Science<\/a><\/p>\n

How to Apply<\/a><\/p>\n

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From left: GIS Assistant Director Nyssa Hunt, Erin Gaylord, GIS Director Charlie Mix, Mimi White and Mona Latil-Quinn (photo courtesy of Charlie Mix)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UTC GIS Director Charlie Mix won a Cartography Special Interest Group Excellence Award for \u201cA 21st Century Park System for Chattanooga, Tennessee\u201d at the 2023 Esri User Conference\u2014one of two awards won by the UTC IGTLab.<\/p>\n

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