Pre-Conference Workshops
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18th New York State
Geographic Information Systems Conference Pre-Conference Workshops |
Please register for your choice(s) on the registration form.
ERDAS Imagine
This workshop will be held at ESF in 156 Baker Lab from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on October 9, 2002.
This hands-on workshop is an introduction to remote sensing and photogrammetric techniques and the ERDAS IMAGINE® product suite. Information extraction processes to be presented include simple land cover analysis, change detection, and other common workflows. We will create ortho-accurate photogrammetric tools from raw, scanned aerial photos. The workshop will conclude with a demonstration of stereo feature collection and visualization of the results in a 3D environment.
Software covered: ERDAS IMAGINE®, IMAGINE OrthoBASE®, IMAGINE VirtualGIS™ and ERDAS Stereo Analyst®.
The workshop focus areas include:
Introduction to GIS
Steve Smith, Cornell University Extension
A workshop designed for the uninitiated. Participants will gain an understanding of geographic information systems - their complexity, utility, and limitations. This introduction will include hands-on experience through classroom exercises. Workshop registration is limited to 16 participants who will share 8 laptop computers.
GIS Basic Training: Implementating GIS in Your Organization
TBA, TBA
3D GIS: Visualization and GIS Query for Complex Urban
Environments
William Starmer, Geographic Technologies Specialists
3D GIS is becoming an accepted concept and term of reference for the use of computer graphics to display GIS data as a three dimensional rendering. However, technology for 3D GIS shows wide variability in terms of GIS data content, geospatial appearance and complexity, and speed of visualization. Beyond visualization, there is increasing interest in the ability to interact with the 3D environment to support queries into the GIS source data used to construct the visualization.
In this workshop we will provide an overview as to the design alternatives for the construction 3D urban visualizations and discuss a range of actual urban visualizations to demonstrate how content variability of source data limits or enables 3D GIS content and appearance. Finally, we will demonstrate the creation of query linkages between traditional 2D GIS data and their 3D visualization.
Mr. Starmer, received a B.A. in Geography in 1994 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is completing his M.A. degree in Geography at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). While attending UCSB he was a graduate researcher in the Remote Sensing Research Unit working on several remote sensing research projects, including the IGBP Global Land Cover Mapping project and an EPA cooperative research grant.
He has over eight years of experience in GIS and Remote Sensing and has spent the last three years constructing geospatial visualizations from GIS and Remote Sensing data using TerraSim's TerraTools product. Mr. Starmer has worked on a variety of urban visualization projects, including Schenley Park, Pittsburgh; Downtown Philadelphia; Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.; and State College, PA.
GIS on the Internet, Larry Spraker
and Mark Haberle, Applied GIS, Inc.
The proliferation of web-based GIS mapping software has given many organizations another
option for serving GIS and data to larger numbers of end users without the usual
administrative hassles of installation, maintenance, and upgrades. This workshop will
provide attendees with valuable insight into the use of this exciting and rapidly growing
area of GIS technology. Topics to be covered include:
· The current state of the web-based GIS technology
· Deployment options
· Typical barriers to implementation
· Pros and cons versus traditional system implementation
· System components
· Costs (one time and ongoing)
· System administration requirements
· Demonstrations and application examples