UC GIS Week

Using the Neighborhood Risk Index for Healthier Children Families and Communities

Using the Neighborhood Risk Index (NRI), an index comprised of 10 indicators or risk factors, we measure how prevalent social and environmental risk factors are for children in a given city by presenting one dimensional maps of neighborhood risk levels classified by zero, low, medium, and high risk. We also display spatial patterns for each risk factor within city boundaries. These maps identify areas of opportunity in neighborhoods to positively influence child development.

Spatial Heterogeneity in Telehealth Utilization among Patients with MS in the VHA

The purpose of this study is to examine spatial disparities in COVID-19 testing and test positivity among Veterans enrolled in Veterans Affairs Healthcare (VA). We calculate and map age-adjusted and race-stratified age-adjusted testing rates for each county in the contagious US separately for White Veterans and Black Veterans after adjusting for community-level social determinants of health. Rates were standardized to the nationwide population of Veterans in active care at VA.

MetaMap

MetaMap is a collaboration between UCLA USAC Facilities Commission, UCLA Committee on Disability, UCLA Disabilities and Computing Programming Office, UCLA IDRE, and the UCLA Facilities Maintenance Department. It will be an interactive map that can guide people to accessible routes, bathrooms, elevators, power entrances, and blue lights, which will be integrated with the UCLA 311 app. Reporting updates, problems, or obstructions to accessibility will be easy to do via the UCLA 311 app.

GIS-Based Geologic Mapping and Analysis of the Kaipo Mélange, New Zealand

I use a combination of 1m resolution LiDAR data, aerial photography and in-person digital field mapping to generate a new GIS-based large-scale geologic map of a fault-related tectonic mélange exposed within the southernmost Kaipo Slip in north Southland, New Zealand. Using new mapping and LiDAR data, I construct a geologic cross-section and conduct topographic analysis to investigate the relationship between tectonic deformation of basement rocks and quaternary landscape response.