Agenda 25th Annual New York State GIS Conference
Silver Anniversary - Check out our Complete Menu - Something for everyone!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
11:00am - 4:00 pm
- Educator's Workshop: Using GIS in the Classroom, in Mirror Lake Room, Instructor: Amy Work, IAGT and others
GK-12 Teachers interested in attending the Educator's Workshop should contact Terry Sakowski at tsakowsk@esf.edu. HURRY.....space is limited to 20.
1:00 - 4:00 pm
- Geoprocessing Techniques, in Library, Instructor: Lee Herrington, SUNY-ESF
- Google Maps Mash-ups, in High Peaks Room, Instructor: Keith Jenkins, Cornell University
5:30 - 9:00 pm
- Sunday reception at Whiteface Lodge Clubhouse with Earth Pattern artwork by Jay Hart
- Free Shuttle service will depart Crowne Plaza at 5:20 pm and 5:45 pm (two trips).
- Free Shuttle return from Whiteface Lodge to the Crowne Plaza at 9:00 pm and 9:15 pm (two trips).
Monday, October 26, 2009
7:30 - 8:30 am Registration sign in and Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 am
- Welcome and opening remarks by conference co-chair Eddie Bevilacqua, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- The Annual State of the State by Bill Johnson, Assistant Deputy Director, NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination
- GIS: Lessons from the Past and Thoughts on our Future by keynote speaker, Duane F. Marble, Professor Emeritus of Geography and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
10:00 - 10:30 am Visit our exhibitors and Coffee Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Session 1
| Time | Session A | Session B | Session C | Session D |
| 10:30 am | An Evolving Orthoimagery Program – How Partnerships and Technological Advances Shape the Program | Tompkins County Enterprise Address Management System (EAMS)- Are We Done Yet? | Spatial Literacy and Making Real World Connections for Students | "FOSS" GIS Review: An Overview of Currently Available Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) GIS Options |
| 11:00 am | How Partnerships are Improving the NYS Streets & Address Points Data Sets | Integrating Document Management with ArcGIS Server for Local Governments | Building a 4-H Geospatial Program in New York | Efforts to Build Low Cost GIS Solutions for the Web – A Case Study |
| 11:30 am | Get to the Point: Enabling Geocoding and Related Geospatial Services Across the Enterprise in Westchester County | Effective GIS for Smaller Counties and Municipalities in Challenging Economic Times | School Power Naturally Web GIS | 2009 Map Service Viewing Clients: Affordable and Expanding Geospatial Data Viewers for Government & Industry |
12:00 - 1:00 pm Luncheon in the Grandview
1:00 - 1:30 pm Meet our exhibitors in the Olympic Room
1:30 - 3:30 pm Session 2
| 1:30 pm | Geographic Information System for Tactical Air Search and Rescue | Development of a New York State Conservation Lands Geodatabase | Enterprise GIS at the New York State Office of Children & Family Services | Point Pattern Analysis of Parcel Based Land Information Data |
| 2:00 pm | LiDAR Data Acquisition Best Practices and QA/QC Procedures to Insure a Quality LiDAR Product to The End User | A decadal spatial analysis of nationwide forest change | Improving the Accuracy of Municipal Boundaries in GIS; Some Pennsylvania Experiences | Geographic Aggregation of Health Data |
| 2:30 pm | 3D Now Showing at a Small Screen Near You – Stereo Mapping in the ArcGIS Environment | Anticipating and Accounting for Ecological Change | Workshop - Using Databases in GIS and ArcGIS Desktop | Spatial Decision-Making System for Positioning Regionally Distributed Power Sources |
| 3:00 pm | Geotracking invasive species with iMapInvasives | GIS in Census Work: Last review of the 2010 Census Master Address File |
3:30 - 4:00 pm PM Break in the Exhibitor Area - Play the Vendor Game to win the 16 by 24 Heilman Print.
4:00 - 5:00 pm NYS GIS Association Meeting
5:00 - 6:30 pm Poster Session and Reception
6:30 pm Banquet dinner with special presentation by Outdoor Photographer, Carl Heilman II followed by the Partnership award ceremony. Carl will do a book signing before and after the banquet.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
7:45 - 8:15 am Local Government Advisory Group Meeting in Mirror Lake Room (2nd Floor)
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration sign in and Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 am Session 3
| Time | Session A | Session B | Session C | Session D | Session E |
| 9:00 am | Map Critique | Experiences using Flood Modeling for Emergency Planning and Mitigation for Local Governments | The Federal Critical Infrastructure Protection Program for New York State |
3D GIS - Now or Later? | Impervious Surface Mapping Approaches |
| 9:30 am | The Earthquake Model: A Tool for Emergency Managers | Fleet / Asset Tracking (AVL) with ArcGIS Server – York County, SC | Future of 3D GIS visualization: Integrating the GPU and the Web | Predicting susceptibility to invasive species establishment at landscape scale | |
| 10:00 am | Departmental Mash Up: Using ArcMap and a little Access Glue To Deliver Real Time Regional Solutions | New York City Economic Development Corporation Waterfront Facilities Mapping Program and the Waterfront Facilities Maintenance Management System | Planning in 3D: Digital Planning Review | Habitat Classification for Ecological Risk Assessment Using Aerial Photography and GIS Data in a Two-stage Expert System |
10:30 - 11:00 am Visit our exhibitors and Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 pm Session 4
| 11:00 am | Mapping the Economic Recovery | Recommended Best Practices for Creation of NYS Hydrography Framework Updates and Opportunities for Collaboration | Kids' Well-being Indicators Clearinghouse (KWIC) Thematic Mapping Demonstration | Integrating Web Map Services with ESRI & Bing Maps |
| 11:30 am | New York’s Broadband Mapping Initiative | Highlighting Watershed Improvement Activities in the Finger Lakes – Lake Ontario Basin | Mobile 3D Laser Scanning: What’s in it for me? Implications for GIS and data consumers |
Manifold IMS: a tour of three internet mapping applications |
| 12:00 pm | A new OASIS for the New York metro area | Using GIS Modeling to Develop Municipal Greenprints | Web GIS Usability: Web GIS is not Desktop GIS on the web! | Building effective GIS applications using Google Maps |
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch with presentation by Austin Fisher and Jonathan Cobb, Adventures in China - Capturing More of the “Experience” Through the Use of Geospatial and Other Technologies, followed by the vendor game prize and other prizes.
2:00 - 3:30 pm Session 5
| 2:00 pm | Making Geographic-based Information Available to the Public: A New York City Approach | The Development and Implementation of a Geodatabase to Support Safety Inspections of New York State Canal Embankments | ROI Assessment of Hamburg’s ArcGIS Server Assessment Site | 2009 ESRI Conference Highlights |
| 2:30 pm | GIS on the Web in the Vineyard Industry | Optimized and adaptive snow plow routing using best-first search artificial intelligence algorithm | Panel: A Statewide GIS Cadastral Parcel Layer | |
| 3:00 pm | A Web Based Geospatial Solution for Infrastructure / Project Management | Tool Suite for Transportation |
3:30 pm Conference concludes
