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Made in 2017

Referenced from photos that I took for school.

2015-2016

Sketches referenced from photos somewhere on the internet

Made in 2015-2016

Sketch referenced from an Oriental Lily I found on the internet. 

Something I made in 2015-2016

Sketch referenced from “How to Draw What You See”

Something I made in 2015-2016

Sketch referenced from “How to Draw What You See”

Made in 2017

It’s a sketch I made of Laura Osnes for school. I personally like this picture and find it worthy to include in my portfolio.

Original Photo Source https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=UUZicU0K&id=A6762283990F4A2348249CF78670F4C32CAB88BE&thid=OIP.UUZicU0KUcIRuajgRlDQYADPEs&mediaurl=http%3a%2f%2fmedia.gettyimages.com%2fphotos%2flaura-osnes-behind-the-scene-at-the-2012-tony-awardmeet-the-nominees-picture-id524878918&exph=1024&expw=709&q=laura+Osnes&simid=608011661526501216&selectedIndex=294

one of my fav pieces from my miad accepted portfolio :3

Capa para a fanfic “Lembranças” escrito por Hoshin-chan; versão 1.

Link da fanfic: https://www.spiritfanfiction.com/historia/lembrancas-8674283

Capa da fanfic “Teenage Dream” de minha autoria.

Link da fanfic em breve.

i am SO CLOSE to finishing my portfolio,, i only have the environments section left, with 3 and a half background designs

couple of things i can share from my (still in progress) portfolio

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Lions and Portfolios

I was trying to get into school for Scientific Illustration (which I did! Yay!), but at the time I needed to build up my portfolio. My art teacher recommended that I draw something super eye catching. After spending quite awhile finding something that would look good in black and white, I found this. It was an incredible photo taken by National Geographic. Sadly the antelope did not make it. But if you look at this picture and imagine...it did. ;)

I never like the beginning of my drawings. I think they always look like crap. I’m a “finished art” person. Unless someone does a simplistic drawing - I love those. That takes a very special other set of skills to pull off.

I ended up flicking some white paint at it to give some water droplets. I also had fun jabbing my pencil at this a bunch for the black dots. The original image was of a lion and an antelope chance meeting at a watering hole. Mud, dirt, water flying...IT WAS A FIREFIGHT!

Haha this face. This is the face of an antelope who tells the god of death “not today.”

Success! I updated my portfolio site

www.jeanettegchan.com :) 

Peta Gunatanah Malaysia 2014 - 2018

Peta Gunatanah Malaysia 2014 -2018 ("Malaysia's Land Cover 2014 - 2018") web application is a platform generated for the Quality Assessment activity organized by Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) on 23rd June 2024.

The workshop aims to collect field/reference data from Malaysian's state agencies in the effort to verify the quality of the land cover classification output generated in support of CO2 release measurement from converted agricultural lands.

Participants are able access the app via conventional browsers from their mobile devices and submit drawings/sketches that they have captured within interactive data layers.

This web app aims to support direct input from source onto the task of improving the accuracy of the generated land cover maps. Vectors generated from this exercise are readily standardized with the required data scheme from quality assessment, making full use of the ArcGIS Online ecosystem full to a produce concrete output and actionable information.

Malaysia Bid Round 2023 (MBR 2023)

Tool: ArcGIS Pro 2.6.3 Technique: Symbolization, labeling and SQL expression

MBR 2023 is a peak event that culminates all the effort of data collection and stock take of hydrocarbon resource in the Malaysia. It is an annual event that put together all the exploration blocks, discoverable hydrocarbon fields and late life assets for upstream sectors to evaluate and invest in.

Leading up to the event, the Malaysia Petroleum Management (MPM) updates, re-evaluate and produces maps; static and digital, to cater to the need for the most update stock-take of information that can be gained from various source of exploration output; seismic, full tensor gradiometry, assets; cables, pipelines, platforms, as well as discoverable resources. This year's them aims to include various prospects and initiative to align the industry itself with lower carbon emission and to explore the option for carbon capture storage (CCS) attempts in the popular basins such as the Malay and Penyu Basin. This is a big follow-up with the closing of MBR 2022 with the PSC signing for 9 blocks a few days earlier.

Credit: Sh Shahira Wafa Syed Khairulmunir Wafa

Over ~70 maps for unique blocks have been produced during the finalization stage, ~210 maps during data evaluation and additional 20 for the event. And this excludes the standardized maps to formalize information requested by prospective bidders as well as clients who are facing prospects of extending their contract.

The standardization of the map requires the optimization of workflow and standard templates to cater to rapid changes and exporting to rapid output.

For more information on the event, please access the following resources:

PETRONAS: Malaysia Bid Round

PETRONAS myPROdata

The Malaysian Reserve: Petronas offers 10 exploration blocks in MBR 2023

📚 Nature in the Heart of Borneo (2020)

Tool: ArcGIS Pro 2.6.1

Technique: Annotation, Labeling and Symbology

A series of maps were created for the book published by WWF-Malaysia and FORMADAT (Forum Masyarakat Adat Dataran Tinggi Borneo) back in 2020 called Nature in the Heart of Borneo.

This book was meant as a guide to some of the natural attractions at Northern parts of Sarawak. If it was clear, Northern Sarawak is where the we have our very own highlanders which consist of primarily the Lundayeh/Lun Bawang, Sa'ban and Kelabit people. Some of the beautiful settlements up in the north that should not be missed are Ba'kelalan and Long Semadoh. They have beautiful homestays and even more beautiful landscapes with trekking activities lined up for tourists. And this is the culmination of ardent passion by my two absolutely wonderful colleagues, Alicia Ng and Cynthia Chin.

Most part of the maps were made using readily available basemap provided by Esri in their Living Atlas. But in entirety, many of the features and details are drawn manually within ArcGIS Pro. Like many other mapmakers out there, the labeling feature is horrendously temperamental and I either end up using annotations instead.

In summary, technically, there are 2 lessons learned here:

1️⃣ Establish concept or pick an idea before you start drawing

A concept of the map and palette should be established at the earliest stage possible. And don't just throw the task of making maps and split them evenly between cartographers. They won't have similar ideas or similar interpretations of the concept. It'll only give you double the pain of creating the maps again from scratch.

2️⃣ Omit borders

If you're making maps for books, don't border trying to make borders and fully utilize the whole layout. In the end, you'll need to export out your maps and they will resize it anyway and it'll compromise the maps you created. As if it wasn't graining enough in the first place, it'll look absolutely microscopic by the time they're done.

📑 International Climate Initiative (IKI) Land Use Plan: Green Initiative in the Heart of Borneo (HoB) Report

Tool: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.3 Technique: Overlay analysis, visualization via remote sensing technique

These maps are developed to aid or supplement the Natural Capital Valuation (NatCap) initiative. As cited by WWF:

An essential element of the Natural Capital Project is developing tools that help decision makers protect biodiversity and ecosystem services.

One of the site included in this initiative by WWF-Malaysia is the Heart of Borneo (HoB). Specifically for this exercise, the visualization of policy and land use eventually become the data input utilized in the tool InVest that generates the models and maps for the economic values of ecosystem services within the landscape of interest.

The generation of the data mainly includes superficial remote sensing to assess the status of the land use in the respective concessions using Sentinel-2 satellite image with specific band combination to identify tree cover, particularly mangrove forest.

Community Empowerment Strategy Dashboard 2021 | WWF-Malaysia

Tool: Operations Dashboard ArcGIS, Survey123 for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online Technique: XLSForm programming, web application development

The northern highland communities of Lun Bawang have been collaborating with WWF-Malaysia under the Sarawak Conservation Programme (SCP) to empower sustainable economies and managing their natural biodiversity through the Community Empowerment Strategy (formerly known as Community Engagement and Education Strategy).

Since 2016, the communities have been actively mapping out their land uses and culturally important locations to delineate their areas of settlement and source of livelihood. Given the close vicinity of their communities to the licensed timber concessions, producing a definitive map is important to preserve and conserve their surrounding natural capitals.

Several outreach has been done and the community mapping effort has been shifted to implement citizen science via the Survey123 for ArcGIS mobile application which is apart of the ArcGIS ecosystem. This enables the local community to collect information despite the lack of network reception and the data can still be synchronized upon availability automatically or manually shared with the field officers.

📌 Availability: Retracted in 2021

Malaysia Forest Cover 2020 | WWF-Malaysia

Tool: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.3, Operations Dashboard ArcGIS & ArcGIS Online Technique: Data transformation and geometric calculation

WWF-Malaysia Forest Cover Baseline is a dashboard of forest cover extent status in selected land uses across Malaysia's region, methodology of analysis and resources involved in the exercise.

The WWF-Malaysia Forest Cover Baseline and Forest Cover Key Performance Index (KPI) is a task undertaken by the Conservation Geographical Information System (CGIS) Unit to amass the discrete information of forest cover extent across Malaysia's 3 main region of legislation: Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah. This exercise produces a concise dashboard report in an online platform that describes the processed information on the forest cover status as well as their prospective areas identified for conservation work.

Report can be interactively accessed at the following:

The dashboard can be accessed at Malaysia Forest Cover 2020.

📌 Availability: Retracted in 2021

Eyes on the Forest Sarawak | WWF-Malaysia

The ‘Eyes on the Forest’ Sarawak web application is developed with the joint effort of WWF-Malaysia and WWF-Japan. Emulating the successful ‘Eyes on the Forest’ Sumatra database, this web app intends to provide an undiluted information on the rich diversity of Sarawak’s unique wildlife, forests and land uses as well as increasing the transparency on the threats; deforestation, infrastructure developments and urbanization, as well as its drivers; concessions, agricultural activities and unsupervised resource harvesting.

Identifying where the threats, the drivers and the conservation targets are located will help in making a concrete point at the policy level and push for more boots on the ground to ensure that the protected areas stay protected. The baseline information provided are essential in the prompt intervention for biodiversity protection.

Data collected and consolidated from dispersed public sources and engineered for simple and direct visualization. Values are generated based on verified legislated information provided by stakeholders and state agencies to the Sarawak Conservation Programme (SCP) for WWF-Malaysia.

Developed and maintained by:

Azalea Kamellia

GIS Officer (SCP) | WWF- Malaysia

June 2018 - Present

33rd National Geoscience Conference 2021 (NGC 2021)

Tool: ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Pro Deep Learning extension, Python, Jupyter Notebook Technique: Deep learning; semantic segmentation, cartography, remote sensing

The presentation of abstract outlining the implementation of deep learning in land cover classification across the Borneo island. It uses the Sentinel-2 image data and the band combination that differentiates the bareland, tree cover as well as waterbodies and croplands whilst training the U-Net model using the referenced data collected.

Please find the abstract published here:

Warta Geologi, Vol. 47, No. 1, April 2021

The presentation slide can be accessed at the following link 👇🏻:

Society of Conservation GIS Scholarship Award 2020

Story Map for Noobs: Cascade | WWF Network

Story Map is a web application template product that has been popularized in ArcGIS Online for a user-friendly and comprehensive narrative of maps. The ‘Cascade’ template has become the seamless interface of choice due to it’s ribbon transitions and availability of content streaming from external sources. 

Please refer to the following link for resources used in this webinar:

Story Map for Noobs: Cascade web application

📌 Availability: Retracted in 2021

Hey friends! Opening my c0mms back up since my workplace is cutting hours and it’s been a real struggle these past few months 😭

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Portfolio Update!

I finally had the courage and time to finally create a proper portfolio hahahah who knows I will be changing careers for the better with this. Got a chance to finally think through of what I want with my long term plan. Things may be a little bit blurry now but I am still positive to find my way. Thanks @canva you never fail me.