Agenda
26th Annual New York State GIS Conference
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Sunday Pre-conference Training:
12:00 - 4:00 PM Educator's Workshop, Amy Work, Carol Burch, Tom O'Neil, & Bob Jones at Skidmore College
12:00 - 4:00 PM LiDAR Workshop, Ben Houston & Karen Kwasnowski at Skidmore College
1:00 - 4:00 PM OpenSource GIS Workshop, Bryan McBride at Skidmore College
1:00 - 4:00 PM Positional Accuracy Assessment Seminar, Kass Green in Meeting Room: Broadway 4 at the Saratoga Hilton
2:00-4:00 PM On-site registration and check in
5:00 - 7:30 PM Kick-off Reception at National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
- 5:30 - 6:30 - Tour the museum exhibits
- 5:00 - 7:30 - Refreshments in the sculpture galler with live music and networking
Monday, October 25, 2010
7:30 - 8:30 am Registration check in and breakfast in the Gallery
8:30 - 10:00 am in Saratoga Ballroom
- 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, New York State Office of Cyber Security
- “ The Geospatial Revolution. What, next, now?” Kass Green, president of Kass Green & Associates
10:00 - 10:30 am Visit our exhibitors and Coffee Break in City Center
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Session 1
| Time | Session A in Broadway 1 Moderator: Lee Herrington Topic: Water |
Session B in Broadway 2 Moderator: Cathy Keenan Topic: Data Development |
Session C in Broadway 3 Moderator: Alex Chaucer Topic: Education |
Session D in Broadway 4 Moderator: Paul Szemkow Topic: LiDAR |
| 10:30 am | Pieper: A GIS-based System for Tracking Inspections of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Canandaigua Lake Watershed | Benjamin: Advancing the NYS GIS Strategic Plan One Step at a Time – Next Up… A Statewide Parcel Data Layer | Meierdiercks: Problem-Based Service Learning Projects in an Introductory GIS Course | Lopez-Torrijos: Airborne LiDAR and Mapping: Development of Common Guidelines and Practices for Hydrography |
| 11:00 am | DeSantis: An Innovative Tool for Sediment Analysis During the Phase 1 Hudson River Dredging Program | Gehrer: Mapping New York State’s Broadband Availability | Jones: Professionals Using Spatial Technology and Making Connections With Education | Petterson: Big Loads & Busy Tracks - How does it all fit together? |
| 11:30 am | Timmins: Critical Infrastructure Protection and Interagency Coordination Using Emerging Technologies | Aichele: The National Map 2.0 | Ghaly: Taxing Flesh: A Potential Therapeutic Recipe for Obesity | LaClair: Developing Elevation Datasets from LiDAR: A "How To Guide" |
12:00 - 1:00 pm Luncheon in the Saratoga Ballroom - ***IGNITE sessions***begin at 12:15 pm
1:00 - 1:30 pm Meet our exhibitors in the City Center
1:30 - 3:30 pm Session 2
| Time | Session A in Broadway 1 Moderator: Sue Nixson Topic: Web GIS |
Session B in Broadway 2 Moderator:Jeff Herter Topic: Data Development |
Session C in Broadway 3 Moderator:Bill Johnson Topic: Demographics |
Session D in Broadway 4 Moderator: Bruce Oswald Topic: NYC |
| 1:30 pm | Hall Doing More with Web-based GIS | Ross How FEMA Flood Maps Are Made, and What's in the DFIRM Database | Scardamalia: 2010 Census – Where did all the data go? | MacFaden: High-resolution land-cover mapping for urban tree canopy in New York City as part of a childhood asthma study |
| 2:00 pm | Bidoshi: Integration of Google Maps, other Spatial Data from the Web and Open-Source Spatial Databases in Municipal Mapping Solutions | Herter Make Your Own Damn Map!: Collecting and using stakeholder information through Participatory GIS (pGIS) | Jones: The Geography of NY Economic Expansions and Contractions | Nash: MetroNYC Area Geospatial Organization(s) Update |
| 2:30 pm | Clohessy: Scaling a Mass Notification GIS Application for Public Use | Grady: National Agricultural Imagery Program | Francis Two Decades of Population Change in New York: A Spatial Analysis | Kenniff: Green Infrastructure Opportunities |
3:00 - 3:30 pm PM Break in the Exhibitor Area - Take the Exhibitor Challenge and win this year's prized artwork.
3:30 - 5:00 pm NYS GIS Association Meeting in Alabama / Travers rooms combined
5:00 - 6:30 pm Poster Session and Reception at the Saratoga City Center
6:30 pm Banquet dinner in the Saratoga Ballroom with special presentation by Jack Knowlton, Owner of Funny Cide race horse followed by the Partnership award ceremony.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
7:30 - 9:00 am Registration sign in and Breakfast in the Gallery
| Time | Meeting Room: Whitney |
Meeting Room: Travers |
Meeting Room: Alabama |
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| 8:00 - 8:45 am | Local Government Advisory Group | Private Sector Advisory Group | State Agency Advisory Group |
9:00 - 10:30 am Session 3
| Time | Session A in Broadway 1 Moderator: Mickey Dietrich Topic: Web GIS |
Session B in Broadway 2 Moderator: John Barge Topic: Emergency Response |
Session C in Broadway 3 Moderator: Eddie Bevilaqua Topic: Web GIS |
Session D in Broadway 4 Moderator: Verne LaClair Topic: GIS and CAD |
| 9:00 am | Rockwood: Interactive web mapping: designing for the technology challenged end user | Annitto: GIS and Public Safety – More Than a Pin Map | Fisher: Design and Implementation of a GIS-Based Site Selection Tool for the Long Island Sound Stewardship Initiative | Garrigan: 3D Visualization of CAD Models in ArcGIS: 2 Case Studies on a Budget |
| 9:30 am | Healy: Putting Food Scraps to Work: Development of Vermont's Compost/Biogas Data Viewer and Information System | Sharpe: GIS Applications for Public Safety in Genesee County | Volpe: Creating a Web-Based GIS Data Sharing Network for the Southern Tier Central Region | Pietra: Best of Both Worlds, AutoCAD Civil 3D and ArcGIS |
10:00 - 10:45 am Visit our exhibitors with refreshments in City Center
10:45 - 12:15 pm Session 4
| Time | Session A in Broadway 1 Moderator: Clark Burdick Topic: OpenSource |
Session B in Broadway 2 Moderator: Sue Nixson Topic: Maximizing ArcGIS |
Session C in Broadway 3 Moderator: Lindi Quackenbush Topic: Local Government |
Session D in Broadway 4 Moderator: Bill Johnson Topic: Map Critique |
| 10:45 am | Strode: The GIS Behind iMapInvasives: the “Open-Source Sandwich” | Pieper: Automating ArcGIS ModelBuilder for Analyzing Nonpoint Pollution Impacts in the Carmans River Watershed |
Slutzah: Implementing Shared Municipal Services to Improve Local Government Efficiency |
Have your maps critiqued. Learn all of the techniques to increase the effectiveness and value of your map. |
| 11:15 am | Signell: Sharing geodata in real time: an open source solution |
Breier: Maximizing the Off-the-Shelf Potential of ArcGIS for ROW Vegetation and Real Estate Management |
Wear: Building Multi-Government Geospatial Programs: The Future of Public Sector GIS in New York State |
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| 11:45 am | Pierro: Web GIS – A clear case for open source | Buss: Understanding ESRI Geodatabase Replication: A Technical Software Demonstration |
Schorling: Multi-Jurisdictional infrastructure Inventory (New York State JIMI Project) |
12:15 - 1:30 pm Lunch in Saratoga Ballroom with exhibitor quiz winner announced and other raffled prizes.
1:30 - 3:00 pm Session 5
| Time | Session A in Broadway 1 Moderator: Eric Herman Topic: Rich Internet Applications |
Session B in Broadway 2 Moderator:Jeff Volpe Topic: Vendor |
Session C in Broadway 3 Moderator: Alex Chaucer Topic: Field Data Collection |
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| 1:30 pm | Spraker: Demystifying Rich Internet Application (RIA) Development with ArcGIS Server | Timmons: Critical Infrastructure Protection and Interagency Coordination Using Emerging Technologies |
Knauss: Bringing GIS based Asset Management to NYSDOT |
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| 2:00 pm | Cook: FLEX Outside the Box: Balancing Functionality & Fluff |
Kinn/McGreevy: What's New in ArcGIS 10: Where Imagery is Core to GIS |
Kovacs: Emergency Assessment Field Tool – NYS DOT’s Road Status and Damage Assessment Tool |
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| 2:30 pm | Rozanova: Moving Ahead with Flex Internet Applications: Saratoga County Web Map |
Michalowski: Innovations in GIS for Travel Surveys |
3:00 pm Conference concludes
