Annual Conference & Exposition - Thursday Schedule
Thursday, October 9, 2008
8:30 – 10:00 AM
Awards Breakfast
Join URISA in honoring the outstanding members of the community along with the winners of the Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) Awards. A breakfast buffet will welcome you while we spotlight the outstanding work of your peers.
Educational Sessions
10:30 AM – 12 Noon
Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration
Spatially-Enabled Cross-Jurisdictional Operations
This session highlights how existing policy, standards, infrastructure and framework are being leveraged to develop more comprehensive, seamless spatial and attribute databases at various levels of government.
- An Operational Model of a Regional Geographic Information Systems
Dharmesh Jain, Regional Geographic Information System Agency, Grand Rapids, MI - Operational Challenges for Generating Spatial Urban Databases in India
Sandeep Raut, Jay B. Kshirsagar, and Dr. Achala Mediratta, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India - NSDI Policy and Japanese Spatially-Enabled Local Government Emergency Services
Akemi Chatfield, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
3D GIS
3-D(istribution) and Use
3D requires appropriate tools and data for successful implementation and distribution. This session looks at generating 3D imagery for viewing, integration with GIS, and the challenges of distributing spatial data (restricted, public safety, and general public consumption).
- Urban 3D GIS Models – Finding the Right Technology to Bring 3D to the Masses
Tom Conry, Fairfax County, Fairfax, VA - Oblique Imagery 3D Models for Security
Art Kalinski, GISP, Pictometry International Corp., Guntersville, AL - Practical Application of GIS Driven 3D Models for Contaminated Site Remediation
Jeffrey Laird, GISP, Grand Terre GIS Inc, Frankfort, KY
Geospatially Enabled Enterprise
Capital Investment Planning
The development and implementation of a Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) involves collaboration and information synthesis from multiple lines of business within an agency from budgeting and finance to construction project management. This session exposes how geospatial technologies, web portals and reporting facilitate are used to develop solutions for CIP information synthesis.
- Spatially Enabled Portal System for CIP Project Management
Harry Poulter, CDM - Camp Dresser & McKee Inc, Falls Church, VA - Bridging Infrastructure and Urban Planning Data Using a "Geo-Portal"
Marc Andre Paquin, Geomap GIS America, Saint Bruno, Canada
Privacy & Public Access
Santa Clara County Lawsuit: Implications to Public Geodata
Last year, the California First Amendment Coalition won a lawsuit against Santa Clara County, with the court ordering the County to provide its parcel basemap data for the cost of duplication, as required by the California Public Records Act. Or did they? Appeals have raised questions. This interactive session updates the issues and seeks your opinions.
- Santa Clara County Lawsuit: Implications to Public Geodata
Bruce Joffe, GISP, GIS Consultants, Oakland, CA
Emergency Management & Homeland Security
Disaster Response and Readiness
Regional response and collaboration across multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary boundaries to mitigate or respond to natural or man-made disasters is not only a concept, but a requirement.
- Cooperative GIS Initiative for Regional Fire Protection and Disaster Planning
David Allen, GISP, City of Euless, Euless, TX - Marine Corps Leverages GIS and ArcGIS Server During the 2007 Southern California Wildfires
Michelle Boivin, GISP, Technology Associates International Corp, Chula Vista, CA - The Minneapolis I-35 Bridge Catastrophe
Paul Weinberger, City of Minneapolis,Minneapolis, MN
Data Acquisitions and Conversion
Spatial Data Quality- Standards at Work
Documenting and understanding spatial data quality is critical component to every dataset. These presentations provide an insightful reflection upon “What have we achieved to date” through technical quality standards.
- 25 Years of Spatial Data Quality Research: Are We There Yet?
Gary Hunter, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia - Sneak Preview: The New US Geospatial Metadata Standard
Lynda Wayne, GISP, FGDC-GeoMaxim, Asheville, NC
Sharon Shin, Federal Geographic Data Committee - Documenting Cultural Resources in the Wake of a Disaster
Deidre McCarthy, GISP, National Park Service, Washington, DC
Data Acquisitions & Conversion
Collecting Today For Tomorrow
Preparing for future data needs involves planning now. Learning effective strategies now can enable your enterprise for the inevitable need.
- Disaster Recovery Planning for GIS
Keith Fournier, GISP, Innovative Systems Design Ltd, Holland, OH - Participant Statistical Areas Program for the 2010 Census
Michael Ratcliffe, US Census Bureau, Washington, DC - Economic Development Using GIS-from the City to State (Boston/Massachusetts)
Juan Pablo Monzon, GIS Planning Inc, San Francisco, CA
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Lifecycle and Sustainability
Using an integrated approach to Asset Management throughout the lifecycle reduces the challenges in managing and maintaining an aging infrastructure with limited funding.
- GIS, Engineering Design and the Interoperability Challenge
Michael Schlosser, Autodesk Canada Inc., Regina, SK Canada - Building the Foundation for Sustainability
Karen Stewart, GISP, ESRI Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada - GIS-Based Infrastructure Management for Municipalities
Justin Gough, Novotx LLC, Clearfield, UT
Interactive Track
Enterprise Panel
- Panelists and specific topics to be named soon
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Lunch on Own – Exhibit Hall Open
Educational Sessions
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Management & Professional Development
Keys to Project and Program Success from Vision to Assessment
Leading a successful GIS Program or Project requires skills in a variety of key target areas. This session will discuss the roadmap for transition from GIS techie to GIS Lead, the use of GIS Visioning Workshops for community buy-in and strategies for effective GIS Review for more mature programs.
- Secrets to Project Management Success
Keith Fournier, GISP, Innovative Systems Design Ltd, Holland, OH - Getting Executive Consensus – GIS Visioning Workshops
Stephen Kinzy, GISP, ESRI, St Charles, MO - GIS Program Review: Moving Forward, Solving Problems, and Integrating Operations
Rebecca Somers, Somers-St.Claire, GIS Management Consultants, Fairfax, VA
Data Acquisition and Conversion
Converting and Using 3D Data
Data acquisition, conversion, validation, and use are at the heart of all GIS projects. This session provides examples of all phases of this process in 3D projects.
- Cost Effective 3D Modeling
Heather Dermyer, Stantec Consulting Inc, San Marcos, CA - Analysing Inundation Areas Using 3D Analyst and Google Earth™
Jonathan Posner, GISP, CDM - Camp Dresser & McKee Inc, Irvine, CA - Re-Usable, High-Detail 3-D Feature Content for Use in Google Earth™
Barry Bitters, GISP, University of West Florida, Navarre, FL
Geospatially Enabled Enterprise
Master Address Data Management
For government agencies, the use of shared, accurate and standardized address information is critical for seamless citizen service delivery. This session provides attendees with issues and challenges that jurisdictions face when implementing enterprise address solutions.
- The Power of Enterprise Addressing Systems
Hank Garie, GeoAnalytics Inc, Madison, WI - Implementing Enterprise Addressing Solutions: Issues and Challenges
Mike Wierzbinski, Greg Anderson, and Bill Campbell, Hart InterCivic, Austin, TX - Deploying a GIS-Enabled, Centralized Addressing Authority in Mecklenburg County, NC
Rhonda Buckner, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, NC
Greg Anderson, Mike Wierzbinski, and Bill Campbell, Hart InterCivic, Lafayette, CO
GIS in Public Health
Approaches and Challenges to Collecting Geospatial Public Health Data in the Field
This session will discuss methodologies for collecting more relevant qualitative and quantitative health-related spatial data, using freely available open source web-based tools, both domestically and internationally.
- Facilitating GIS Usage with Open-Source Web-Based API's and Services
Daniel Goldberg and Andrew Curtis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - Reducing Disparities in Health Outcomes: A Local Spatial-Ecological Approach
Jacqueline Mills, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - Developing GIS-Based Health Surveillance in Fortaleza's Urban Slums
William Arden, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Patricia Brito Lustosa, University of Sao Paulo , Brazil
PPGIS
Using PPGIS for Automating Policy Analysis
Automating policy analysis improves effectiveness of public input. This session visits ways in which this has been implemented.
- A Construction of Test Bed for Spatially Integrated Online Social Survey System
Ko Ko Lwin, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan - Landscape Design Generation in Participatory Spatial Planning Processes
Kymo Slager, Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen, The Netherlands - Envisioning Sustainable Urban Neighborhood
Earl Bossard, San Jose State University, Davis, CA
Data Acquisition and Conversion
The Synergy of Sharing
This session will describe two different systems that leverage geospatial data from disparate sources into an enterprise solution for which they are the data stewards.
- A Watershed Modeling System – Bringing the Models Together
Previn Wong, San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio, TX
William Burmeister, PBS&J, San Antonio, TX - Conflate or Die - Insourcing for a Stronger Enterprise
Garrett Dunwoody, San Mateo County ISD, Redwood City, CA
Infrastructure
Transportation Decision Support Systems
GIS is being used as decision support systems for various transportation needs, such as performing economic feasibility, cost benefit analysis and logistics, required to manage, maintain and develop capital improvement planning for transportation infrastructure.
- The Benefits of Dynamic Segmentation to Local Government for Road Analysis
Bruce Aquila, Intergraph Corp, Huntsville, AL
Wendy Ritchie, City of Edmonton, Edmonton, AB, Canada - Developing a Decision Support System for the Korean Expressway Corporation
Wansoo Im, Vertices LLC, New Brunswick, NJ - Case Study: Ohio Franklin County Engineer's Snow Plow Routing Project
Craig Schorling, GISP, and Sumi Gauchan, TRANSMAP Corp, Columbus, OH
Interactive Track
Enterprise Panel
Breakout/roundtables to discuss problems in implementing enterprise solutions
Part two of 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon session
- Panelists and specific topics to be named soon
Educational Sessions
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration
A Business Case for Data Sharing
This panel will talk about best practices in data sharing, including the use of local parcel data to support western wild fires. Responding to emergencies is one of the most important business drivers for data sharing. State agencies play an important role in pre-deploying data that can be made available for sharing. These issues will be presented and discussed.
- Data Sharing For a Purpose: A Business Case for Data Sharing
Anne Payne, GISP, Wake County GIS, Raleigh, NC
Nancy von Meyer, GISP, Fairview Industries, Pendleton, SC
David Tulloch, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Management & Professional Development
Statewide GIS Initiatives: Strategic Planning to Technical Project Management
Statewide GIS applications present unique challenges, from competing interests to competing software and widely varying levels of expertise. These two presentations highlight enterprise-level GIS implementations that tackle these issues and underscore methods for providing effective services to statewide constituents.
- Managing Change: Vermont's Enterprise GIS Initiative
Stephen Sharp, GISP, Vermont Center for Geographic Information, Waterbury, VT
URISA Initiatives
How to Make the Most of URISA Membership
Find out from URISA members how they have made the most of their membership in URISA. Learn about volunteer opportunities and typical volunteer roles to leadership. Making the most of your membership and showing your Return On Investment.
- Presenters: URISA Membership Committee and moderated by Dave Hawker
Geospatially Enabled Enterprise
Data Integration Case Studies
Government agencies at all levels are recognizing the need for geospatial system integration solutions that include the use of a master data management solution and system interfaces. This session provides case studies on geospatial enterprise solutions at the municipal and state levels.
- City of Kitchener, Ontaria, Canada, SAP & Cityworks
Karen Stewart, GISP, ESRI Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada - Oracle Spatial Data Store Integraph & ESRI Clients
Kim McDonough, GISP, Tenneseee Department of Transportation, Nashville, TN
Public Health & Safety
Case Studies in GIS and Public Health
These presentations, using geospatial technologies and processes to support local Public Health agencies, illustrate the significance of spatial analysis in operational response.
- Using Spatial Tools to Examine Space–Time Dynamics of Mite Bite Outbreaks
William Syversen, DuPage County, Wheaton, IL - Spatiotemporal Indexing with the M-Tree
John Finigan, University of New, Orleans, Metairie, LA
Elias Ioup, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS - Geographic Information Systems & Local Health Department Business Processes
Scott Christman, ESRI, Redlands, CA
Natural Resources & Environment
Natural Resource Management
In our changing landscape documentation of our natural resources allows us to better understand the value of our surrounding ecosystem. This session focuses on methods and tools used in raw materials management.
- Geospatial Distribution and Relative Abundance of Non-Timber Forest Products
Buh Wung Gaston, Limbe Botanic Garden, Limbe, Cameroon - Land Use Capability Mapping of Tropical Drained Peatlands
Joseph Olakunle Johnson, Ordnance Survey, Southampton, United Kingdom
URISA Initiatives
Address Standard Working Group Update
This session will give a detailed overview of implementing address quality tests and discuss address standard implementation issues. Additionally, there will be an introduction to the Global Address Standard Initiative.
- Address Standard Working Group Update/International Addressing Standards
Carl Anderson, GISP, Fulton County, Atlanta, GA
Hilary Perkins, GISP, Webster Groves, MO
Ed Wells, GISP, Washington Metro Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC
Martha Wells, GISP, Spatial Focus, Inc., Birmingham, AL
Sara Yurman, GISP, Spatial Focus, Inc., Decatur, GA
Infrastructure
New Concepts in Infrastructure Modeling
GIS modeling concepts are used to calculate supply, capacity, and demand as well as incorporate external factors that affect asset condition and quality enabling decision makers to project impacts on existing infrastructure and develop new requirements.
- GIS and CAD Data Integration for Calculating Runoff from Impervious Surfaces
Isabel Canete-Medina, cmQue inc, Evanston, IL - Using GIS to Map Recreational Trails for Small Municipalities (Pike Road, AL)
Mark Curry, Auburn University Urban Modeling Lab, Auburn, AL
Interactive track
Geospatially-Enabling Organizations
- Panelists and specific topics to be named soon
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Conference Social Event