Weekly Reports

First Semester

Here you can download our weekly reports for the first semester.

Week 1 Summary

Dates: 9/4/16 - 9/11/16

In the first week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Meeting up as a team to divide up roles and schedule potential regular meeting times.
  • Contacting our project advisor and client to set up a meeting date.
  • Finding a platform to develop our product on.


Download Link: Week 1


Week 3 Summary

Dates: 9/20/16 - 9/25/16

During the third week:

  • Discussed issue that Google Earth is Depreciated
  • Discussed alternatives to model data
    • CesiumJS
    • ESRI

Download Link: Week 3


Week 5 Summary

Dates: 10/3/16 - 10/9/16

In the fifth week:

  • Small Demo posted
  • Example of 3D space for meeting with client & advisor
  • ArcGIS will properly provide necessary functional requirements

Download Link: Week 5


Week 7 Summary

Dates: 10/18/16 - 10/24/16

In the seventh week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Parsing data points to allow for plotting on the model in the 3D space.
  • Working on being able to plot more data points.

Download Link: Week 7


Week 9 Summary

Dates: 10/31/16 - 11/6/16

In the ninth week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Granted a new server for our team; installed ArcGIS Server onto this server.
  • Worked on Design Document.

Download Link: Week 9


Week 11 Summary

Dates: 11/15/16 - 11/27/16

Closing on the eleventh week:

  • Finish Project Plan Version 2.
  • Finalized our demo
    • Successfully showed client a prototype placing climate change data on a 3D map space.
  • Moving on to automation of the process.

Download Link: Week 11

Week 2 Summary

Dates: 9/12/16 - 9/19/16

During the second week:

  • We attended our first meeting with our advisor and client.
    • Bi-Weekly Meeting Set
      • Location: Dr. Wong's Office
      • Day: Every other Wednesday
      • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
  • Wrote details of project and implementation ideas.
  • Look for an alternative for Google Earth.

Download Link: Week 2


Week 4 Summary

Dates: 9/27/16 - 10/2/16

In the fourth week:

  • Client wants ArcGIS for spatial mapping.
  • Figuring out how get servers up and running for ArcGIS.
  • "Demo" version running.

Download Link: Week 4


Week 6 Summary

Dates: 10/10/16 - 10/17/16

In the sixth week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Live Demo to client.
  • Project plan designed to help the client, advisor, and readers/users.

Download Link: Week 6


Week 8 Summary

Dates: 10/24/16 - 10/31/16

In the eighth week:

  • Struggled with pushing work onto 3D plane, sought guidance
    from ArcGIS analysts here at ISU.
  • Learned about ArcGIS Server instead of ArcGIS Online.
  • Able to mobe from 2D points to 3D with ArcGIS Server.

Download Link: Week 8


Week 10 Summary

Dates: 11/7/16 - 11/14/16

In the tenth week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Set up ArcGIS Server.
  • Research ArcPy.
  • Showed advisor and client example of map server and explain what
    the non-functional performance requirements are.

Download Link: Week 10

Second Semester

Here you can download our weekly reports for the second semester.

Week 1 Summary

Dates: 1/09/17 - 1/16/17

In the first week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Regrouped to plan out the course of action for the second semester.
  • Contacting our project advisor and client to set up a meeting dates for this semester.
  • Setup weekly team meeting time.


Download Link: Week 1


Week 3 Summary

Dates: 1/24/17 - 1/30/17

During the third week:

  • Discovery of a new tool released by ESRI to work with client-side rendering.
  • Moved onto automation.
    • Utilizing ArcPy to import parsed data into a geodatabase.

Download Link: Week 3


Week 5 Summary

Dates: 2/07/17 - 2/13/17

In the fifth week:

  • Setup the GUI shell.
  • Prototype fully optimized with an added legend.
  • Significant automation progress.

Download Link: Week 5


Week 7 Summary

Dates: 2/21/17 - 2/27/17

In the seventh week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Completed full automation, begin debugging.
  • Continue to work on dynamically loading the drop down list.

Download Link: Week 7


Week 9 Summary

Dates: 3/7/17 - 3/21/17

In the ninth week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Refine for end-users and for future developers.
  • More bugs discovered and corrected.

Download Link: Week 9


Week 11 Summary

Dates: 3/28/17 - 4/3/17

Closing on the eleventh week:

  • Better flow for end-users and more functionality.
  • Minify JavaScript.
  • More GUI edits.

Download Link: Week 11



Week 13 Summary

Dates: 4/11/17 - 4/17/17

Closing on the thirteenth week:

  • Finished up some documentation.
  • Implented requested changes by advisor and client.
  • Finalizing poster.

Download Link: Week 13

Week 2 Summary

Dates: 1/17/17 - 1/23/17

During the second week:

  • We met with our advisor and client to discuss progress plans.
    • Bi-Weekly Meeting Set
      • Location: Dr. Wong's Office
      • Day: Every other Friday
      • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
  • Setup and preparations for automation.
  • Worked with arcmap and geodatabase to work with services.

Download Link: Week 2


Week 4 Summary

Dates: 1/31/17 - 2/06/17

In the fourth week:

  • Request for faster servers acquired.
  • Testing utilizing new client-side Scene Services.
  • Started work on GUI for Dr. Lu to avoid accidentally breaking the server-side scripts.

Download Link: Week 4


Week 6 Summary

Dates: 2/14/17 - 2/20/17

In the sixth week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Completed a core automation functionality and began integration with the daemon.
  • Work on being able to dynamically load a REST URL based on user drop down selection.

Download Link: Week 6


Week 8 Summary

Dates: 2/28/17 - 3/6/17

In the eighth week:

  • Verified that the automation works.
  • Dynmamically created JavaScript.
  • Server and clients integrated together.

Download Link: Week 8


Week 10 Summary

Dates: 3/21/17 - 3/27/17

In the tenth week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Resizability of client GUI.
  • Error Log messages in client's GUI.
  • Improvements and bugfixes in GUI.

Download Link: Week 10



Week 12 Summary

Dates: 4/4/17 - 4/10/17

In the twelfth week, we directed our focus towards:

  • Finish resizing issues with client GUI.
  • Work on Final Poster, Presentation, and Documentation.
  • Clean up end-user webpage.

Download Link: Week 12

Project Documents

Project Plan

Project Plan V1

Project Plan V2

Final Project Plan

Design Document

Design Document V1

Final Design Document

Project Poster

Final Poster

Final Report

Final Report

Final Presentation

Final Presentation