2014 Texas GIS Forum
October 20th-23rd | J.J. Pickle Center | Austin, Texas
Once a year, take a break from your screen to go social at the Texas GIS Forum, the premier, statewide conference
dedicated to spatial technology advancements in the government and private sectors.
Keynote Speakers
Agenda
Wednesday, October 22nd
7:00 - 8:30 am |
Registration |
8:30 - 9:00 am |
Opening remarks |
9:00 - 10:00 am |
Keynote Presentation Jeremi Suri - Nation-Building, History, and Maps Mack Brown
Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin |
10:00 - 10:30 am |
Break & Exhibits |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Session A (Big TEX) |
Session B (Li'l TEX) |
Session C (Balcones Room) |
Remote Sensing |
This is what we did - Technical data/app development |
Community GIS - Big and Small |
- Drone Mapping for GIS - Wildfires to Winemaking
Devon Humphrey -
Flightline Geographics
- Making Sense of Sensors
Randall Mayden -Surdex Corporation
- Drone integration into Digital Terrain Modeling
Robert Youens - Camera
Wings Aerial Photography
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- Go Big or Go Home. How Much GIS Infrastructure Do We Really Need?
David
Nicosia - Remme Corporation
- Combining ESRI Technology and Open Source Systems in the Cloud: One Year Later and
Follow-up
Dale Emrich - DrillingInfo, Inc, Quanah Berkley – DrillingInfo,
Inc, Jennifer Weiss – DrillingInfo, Inc
- Simple Python, Textpad, and Results Window Tips to Increase ArcGIS
Efficiency
Nick Jones - Dewberry
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- Austin's Flood Response: Swimming through a Flood of Data
Kevin Smith
- City of Austin
- Redrawing Austin Police Department Sector Boundaries
Sara Davis -
Austin Police Department
- GIS and Open Data for Small Communities: A Case Study on Stafford,
Texas
Jonathan Farmer - City of Stafford
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12:00 - 1:00 pm |
Lunch/Exhibits |
1:00 - 2:00 pm |
TECH DEMO - ESRI Transforming Government GIS Presented by: Gary
Scoffield, Regional Manager Karen Lizcano, Solution Engineer
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2:00 - 3:30 pm |
Session A (Big TEX) |
Session B (Li'l TEX) |
Session C (Balcones Room) |
Remote Sensing |
This is what we did - Technical data/app development |
Community GIS - Big and Small |
- Privacy & Remote-Sensing: A Changing Landscape
Chuck Boyer - Aerial Services, Inc
- Automating Impervious Surface Mapping for Stormwater Billing
Ajay
Jadhav - CDM Smith
- Land Cover Datasets and their Applications in Local Government
Bridget Marcotte - Sanborn Map Company
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- Ecological Mapping Systems of Texas: Application and Dissemination of "Big
Data
Amie Treuer-kuehn - TPWD
- A Managers Guide to Using Technology to Support Asset Management and System
Operations
Sydney Kase - CDM Smith
- True Spatio-Temporal Analysis in ArcGIS with STEAF - A Spatio-Temporal Extension
& Analysis Framework
Dan Goldburg - Texas A&M University
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- Creating A Parcel Fabric for Cedar Park
Richard McEntee & Conor Barber
- City of Cedar Park
- Next Generation Applications and Architecture – Moving Towards Microservices and
Single Page Applications
Brent Porter - UT Center for Space Research
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico; Bi-national GIS collaboration
Sally Holl -
United States Geological Survey
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3:30 - 4:00 pm |
Break & Exhibits |
4:00 - 5:30 pm |
Session A (Big TEX) |
Session B (Li'l TEX) |
Session C (Balcones Room) |
Remote Sensing |
This is what we did - Technical data/app development |
Community GIS - Big and Small |
- Better Urban Change Detection
Frank Obusek - Hexagon Geospatial
- Toys, Technology, and Thinking Outside of the Box
Eric Andelin, MBA, CP
– Airphrame
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- An Open Source GIS Analytics Solution: Issues in Integrating Multiple
Technologies
Lucia Barbato - Texas Tech University
- Contouring as a Data QA/QC Tool
Amy Crowell - Mesquite GCD
- Orthorectification and Distortion Analysis of Historic 1800s San Jacinto
Battleground Maps using ERDAS Imagine and an Open Source Tool
Nancy Heger
- TPWD, Wildlife
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- GIS on the Cheap with Google
Sean Moran - Civic Analytics
- Creative Layers within GIS Routing for 9-1-1
Anthony Haddad - Intrado Inc.
- Mapping for a long term Drought
John Zhu - TWDB
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6:00 pm |
Forum Social featuring the spinning talents of DJ Spaghetti, spinning remodeled and remixed oldies for the young
and young at heart! |
Thursday, October 23rd
7:00 - 8:30 am |
Registration |
8:30 - 9:00 am |
Recap & Opening remarks |
9:00 - 10:00 am |
Keynote Presentation - Scott Wolter - Forensic geologist and host of History’s Channel's H2 network’s hit show,
America Unearthed |
10:00 - 10:30 am |
Break & Exhibits |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Session A (Big TEX) |
Session B (Li'l TEX) |
Session C (Balcones Room) |
Solutions - Have you seen this? |
Mapping the world we live in - Environment |
FYI - Extra Extra, hear all about it! |
- ArcGIS Online for land planning and development
Robert LaBarbera -
Brown & Gay Engineers
- GIS has moved to the web: A look at how advanced GIS tools run on
CartoDB
Jaime De Mora - CartoDB
- Low cost GIS for GIS professionals
David McKittrick - Blue Marble
Geographics
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- Mapping marine migrations to prioritize resource management and spatial planning
efforts in the Gulf of Mexico
Carly Voight - The Nature
Conservancy Michael Thompson - The Nature Conservancy
- Using GIS to generate a landscape scale Habitat Suitability Index for Eastern Wild
Turkeys
Jason Estrella -Texas Parks and Wildlife-Region 3
- TPWD's Ecological Systems Classification and Mapping Project
Jack
Hill - Sam Houston State University
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- Water Data for the Nation
Daniel Pearson - USGS
- From archives to people's reach: Making Historic Aerials Available Around the
Clock
Miriam Olivares - Texas A&M University - Department of Geography &
College of Architecture Sierra Laddusaw – Texas A&M University - Map & GIS Library
- Color Management Standards for color printing
Efrain Carrero -
Professional Plotter Technology
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12:00 - 1:00 pm |
Lunch/Exhibits |
1:00 - 2:00 pm |
TECH DEMO - AppGeo & Google Going Beyond Traditional GIS Presented
by: Rich Grady, Kate Hickey, Jim Scott - AppGeo Michael Evanoff - Google
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2:00 - 3:30 pm |
Session A (Big TEX) |
Session B (Li'l TEX) |
Session C (Balcones Room) |
Solutions - Have you seen this? |
Mapping the world we live in - Health |
3D Visualization |
- Using QGIS in the Field
Tatiana Perry - Blackbeard Data Services
- An Open Source GIS Architecture for Connected and Linked Data
Jerry
Hayes - IBM Austin Research Labs
- HTTP-based Web Services for GIS, including GeoTxt
Frank Hardisty - Penn
State University
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- Lyme Disease in Texas? Enhancing Prevention Through the Identification of Areas of
Risk
Susan Swinson-Williams - Lyme- Pennsylvania State University
- Spatial Analysis of Tuberculosis in Texas
Amber Trueblood -
TAMHSC/DSHS
- Mosquito control though watershed analysis
Jeremiah Johnson - Surveying
And Mapping, LLC
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- Interactive Web Application of 3D ArcGIS Structural Mapping of Edwards Aquifer,
Balcones Fault Zone, Texas, USA
Sarah Eason, GISP - Edwards Aquifer
Authority
- Geospatial Noise Modeling for Commercial Spaceports
Sumant Mallavaram -
HDR
- 3DGIS and GeoDesign: Changing the Planning Conversation
Nathan Brigmon
- Civic Analytics
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3:30PM - 4:00PM |
Break & Exhibits |
4:00 - 5:30 pm |
Session A (Big TEX) |
Session B (Li'l TEX) |
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GIO Roundtable
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Web-Applications - Oh the Web We Weave |
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The Future of GIS in Texas Water Development Board
Moderator: Rob Aanstoos (DIR), Michael Chamberlain (TxDOT), Sterling Harris (GLO), Kim Ludeke
(TPWD), Andrew Mellon (TxDPS), Greg Smithhart (TCEQ), Richard Wade (TNRIS)
Take part in the shaping of our future. We will use this opportunity to speak to a panel of high
profile agency representatives to discuss current technologies, program development needs, and
open the floor to any topic you would like to discuss.
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- Innovative web-based GIS Solutions for Program Management
Tobias Wolf
- HDR Engineering Inc
- Modern Web Mapping of Government Services on a Cloud Platform Delivers Value for
Residents, Businesses and Government Staff
Kate Hickey - Applied
Geographics, Inc
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5:30 - 5:40 pm |
Closing Remarks |
Location & Parking Information
The Forum is held at The Commons Center at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in North Austin.
The Commons Building (#137) is located at:
J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758
(between U.S. 183 and Braker Lane)