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

Wednesday, October 22nd, 9AM to 10AM

Jeremi Suri

Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the University's Department of History and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and the author of five books on contemporary politics and foreign policy.

Thursday, October 23rd, 9AM to 10AM

Scott F. Wolter

Forensic geologist Scott Wolter is the host of History’s H2 network’s hit show, America Unearthed, that follows his quest to uncover the truth behind historic artifacts and sites found throughout North America.

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	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	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

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

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	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	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

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	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	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

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	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	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

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

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	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	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

3:30PM - 4:00PM

Break & Exhibits

4:00 - 5:30 pm

Session A (Big TEX)

Session B (Li'l TEX)

GIO Roundtable

Web-Applications - Oh the Web We Weave

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.

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

5:30 - 5:40 pm

Closing Remarks