CalGIS 2013: Wednesday, April 17
CalGIS 2013 - Pathways to California’s Future!
- Networking Bike Ride: 7:00 - 8:00 AM
- Registration Hours: 7:30 AM - 3:00 PM
- Awards Breakfast & Keynote Address: 8:30 - 10:00 AM
- Exhibit Hours: 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
- Poster Session: 10:00 - 10:30 AM
- Concurrent Breakout Sessions: 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon
- Lunch on own and Dedicated Exhibit Time: 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM
- Concurrent Breakout Sessions: 1:30 - 3:00 PM
- Closing Keynote Address: 3:15 - 4:00 PM
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Awards Breakfast & Keynote Address
Start your day with a CalGIS breakfast followed by the CGIA Awards presentation. Each year, the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) recognizes outstanding achievements in various aspects of GIS within California through its awards program. Find out the distinguished individuals and organizations that are being recognized with CGIA Awards in the following categories:
- Chairman’s Award: Granted to honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in the promotion, innovation, and/or use of GIS technology.
- Exemplary Systems Award: Granted for outstanding application of GIS technology representing innovative, elegant, or creative techniques.
- Advancement of Collaboration Award: Granted for outstanding interorganization collaborative efforts in GIS.
- Outstanding Internet Presentation Award: Granted to the outstanding integration of GIS and web technologies demonstrating excellence in aesthetic presentation, functionality, ease of use, and overall user experience.
- Excellence in Education Award: Granted to the educational institution that displays extraordinary approach, contribution, development or commitment to GIS education in California.
To nominate organizations or individuals for a 2013 CGIA Award, proceed to this form.
Congratulations in advance to all who will be recognized!
Keynote Address -
E-DECIDER: Experiences Developing Earthquake Disaster Decision Support and Response Tools Using Remote Sensing and Geophysical Modeling Data
CalGIS is pleased to welcome Maggi Glasscoe as our keynote speaker on Wednesday.
Earthquake Data Enhanced Cyber-Infrastructure for Disaster Evaluation and Response (E-DECIDER) is a NASA-funded project developing new capabilities for decision-making utilizing remote sensing data and modeling software to provide decision support for earthquake disaster management and response.
E-DECIDER capitalizes on diverse Earth science data, including satellite imaging data from MODIS and Landsat, geodetic data from PBO and airborne radar from UAVSAR, combined with modeling tools such as QuakeSim, in order to rapidly deliver successful decision support products for earthquake disaster response. The project has participated in response for the El Mayor-Cucapah, Haiti, Tohoku-oki, and Oaxaca earthquakes, as well as response exercises for the Central United States and the state of California. Geodetic imaging data, including from inteferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and GPS, as well as other remotely sensed data, have proven vital in earthquake research. As more of these types of data have become increasingly available they have also shown great utility for providing key information for disaster response. Work has been done to translate these data into useful and actionable information for decision makers in the event of an earthquake disaster. In addition to observed data, modeling tools provide essential preliminary estimates while data are still being collected and/or processed, which can be refined as data products become available. Now, with more data and better models, we are able apply these to responders who need easy tools and routinely produced data products.
E-DECIDER incorporates the earthquake forecasting methodology and geophysical modeling tools developed through NASA’s QuakeSim project. Remote sensing and geodetic data, in conjunction with modeling and forecasting tools allows us to provide both long-term planning information for disaster management decision makers as well as short-term information following earthquake events (i.e. identifying areas where the greatest deformation and damage has occurred and emergency services may need to be focused). This in turn is delivered through standards-compliant web services for desktop and hand-held devices.
Maggi Glasscoe is a Geophysicist in the Solid Earth Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. She has experience working with a number of modeling codes, including viscoelastic finite element models (the JPL developed Geophysical Finite Element Simulation Tool, GeoFEST, in particular). Her research interests include disaster response, modeling deformation of the Earth’s crust to study postseismic response to large earthquakes, numerical models of the rheological behavior of the lower crust, and simulations of interacting fault systems. She received her B.A. in Print Journalism and B.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Southern California in 1997 and her Masters of Science in Geology from the University of California, Davis in 2004. She is is a researcher on the QuakeSim project and the Principal Investigator of E-DECIDER (Earthquake Data Enhanced Cyber-Infrastructure for Disaster Evaluation and Response).
10:00 -10:30 AM
Networking Break and Poster Session in the Exhibit Hall
Join your fellow attendees in the Exhibit Hall to discuss poster session entries and
visit with conference sponsors. The exhibits will be open until 1:30 PM today.
- Entrants, please be present during the poster session to discuss your map with attendees.
- Winning maps will be announced at the closing keynote.
- People's Choice Award - stop by to cast a vote for your favorite map.
Preliminary List of Poster Presentations:
- GIS University Teaching: From Graduate to Undergraduate Programs in Ensenada
Georges Seingeier, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Esenada, Mexico
- Layers of Time: GIS & Southern California's Cultural Heritage
Albert Garcia, South Central Coastal Information Center, Fullerton, CA - The Living Desert - Botanical Garden Management
Mark Jumps, LHNav, LLC , San Diego, CA - Post Construction Management Requirements for the City of Monterey
Lauren Sommers, CSU Monterey Bay, Marina, CA - Latino/A Spatial Food Security : A Santa Ana, CA Case Study
Angel Flores and Sheila Steinberg, Chapman University, Orange, CA - Southern California Water Resources: Applications of synthetic aperture radar for water quality management in the Southern California Bight
Ryan Boarman, Spring Valley, CA - "End of the Vine? Potential Impacts of Climate Change on California Viticulture"
Christina Wile, Humboldt University, Arcata, CA - New River Improvement Project: Challenges of Data Management
April Villagomez-Roe, Environmental Resources Management, Irvine, CA - SitStat GIS Emergency Incident Tracking
Craig Gooch, PSOMAS, Riverside, CA
Scott Doan, Alameda County Fire Department, San Leandro, CA - California’s Geoportal for Coastal and Ocean Data
Laura Engeman, California Ocean Protection Council, Oakland, CA - Making West Coast Ocean and Coastal Data Accessible – The West Coast Governors Alliance on Ocean Health Regional Data Framework
Tim Doherty, NOAA Coastal Service Center, San Francisco, CA - The California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN): A Statewide Water Quality Monitoring and Visualization System for California
Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA
10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon - Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Public Data Access
Discussion of the implication of this case on the GIS community in California and nationwide.
- Public Access to County Basemap Data: After the Supreme Decision
Bruce Joffe, GISP, GIS Consultant, Piedmont, CA
Coastal and Marine GIS
Understanding the biological condition of California Ecosystems, monitoring for bacteria in Southern California ocean beaches, and sampling of coastal waters and benthic communities are discussed in this session. Steps, processes, and tools used are highlighted, including open source software and interactive mapping applications.
- An Open Source System to Compute and Geospatially Visualize Benthic Indices
Steven Steinberg, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA
- Developing a Remote, Multi-Camera Image Acquisition System for Beach Monitoring
Steven Steinberg and Abel Santana, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA
- Developing a Water Quality Index for Southern California Reef Habitats
Rebecca Schaffner and Larry Cooper, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA
Local Government GIS Success Stories
Learn about achievements and challenges in integrating GIS into organizational operations and workflows, and the tools and systems developed to share critical information enterprise-wide.
- Long Beach GIS: 30 Years of Progress
Tina Parmelee, City of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
- Breaking Down Barriers for GIS Use - New and Innovative Tools for Enterprise-Wide
David Holdstock, GISP, Geographic Technologies Group, Goldsboro, NC
GIS On the Web and In the Cloud
Attend this session to explore web-based mapping do’s and don’ts, distribution and sharing of spatial data in a Cloud computing infrastructure, and map-based communication using Amazon Cloud (EC@) and the latest GIS technology.
- Effective Communication through Web Maps
Pratibha Basrao, HDR Inc, El Dorado Hills, CA
- Leveraging ESRI’s Feature Services on Amazon EC2 and iPads
Ryan Carroll, Evari GIS Consulting, San Diego, CA
- Spatial Data Sharing in the Cloud
Cristiano Giovando, Terrapan Labs, San Diego, CA
12:00 Noon -1:30 PM
Lunch on own (dessert in the exhibit hall!) and dedicated exhibit time. This is your last opportunity to meet with exhibitors at CalGIS 2013.
1:30 - 3:00 PM- Concurrent Breakout Sessions
LIDAR: Application and Practice
The presenters in this session will discuss improving accuracy and efficiency in monitoring, analyzing, datasets, mapping, and reporting using ModelBuilder, LiDAR data, satellite imagery, and point cloud interpretation.
- Rapid Levee Toe Identification/Delineation from LiDAR Data
Chieko Plotts, HDR Engineering, Folsom, CA
- Monitoring Southern California Habitat Reserves Satellite Imagery and LIDAR
Mark McGinnis, Dudek, Encinitas, CA
Pete Coulter, Dudek, Encinitas, CA
- Photo and Point Cloud Interpretation as a Building Block to Geospatial Datasets
Devin Kelley and Melissa Christie, Photo Science, Emeryville, CA
Water and Wastewater: Asset Management With GIS
Limited budgets and the rising cost of resources are a constant concern for water utilities. See how integrating or leveraging GIS technology, spatial tools, and strategies have worked for several agencies.
- Asset Management within Water Utilities
Diana Cregar, Black & Veatch Corporation, Rancho Cordova, CA
- Using ArcGIS Server as a Stormwater and Water Conservation Tracking Tool
Jim McPherson and April Kaiser, RBF Consulting, Irvine, CA
- Cloud Solution - Mobile GIS on a Budget for a Sanitary Agency
Diane Ray, RBF Consulting, Thousand Oaks, CA
Public Participation and Crowd Sourcing
Discussion and examples of using GIS to detect trends and patterns in outreach services through comparative analysis, citizen outreach using interactive GIS centric tools, and public online mapping resources.
- Crowd Sourcing and Citizen Engagement
David Holdstock, GISP, Geographic Technologies Group, Goldsboro, NC
- Talk to Me: Using Online Maps for Citizen Engagement
Benjamin Webb and Annie Schwab, Digital Map Products, Irvine, CA
- Applying Geospatial Technologies to Homeless Outreach in Long Beach, California
Abel Santana, California State University, Long Beach, Cypress, CA
GIS Going Mobile
Embracing the Smartphone and tablet devices for field data collection and computing, and leveraging cloud storage will be explored in this session.
- Mobile Meets the Cloud: An Exploration of the Open Data Kit
Joseph Doherty, Microdesk, Weymouth, CA
- Smart Field Computing, taking advantage of readily available technology
Larry Cooper, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA
- I just got an iPad, can I do GIS on it?
RuthAnne Harbison, GISP, City of Merced, Merced, CA
3:15 - 4:00 PM Closing Keynote Address: Cartographer's Toolkit
CalGIS is thrilled to welcome Gretchen Peterson to deliver the closing keynote address.
Gretchen Peterson, GISP, Principal Consultant, PetersonGIS, Fort Collins, CO
Gretchen Peterson, GISP, is a world-renowned geospatial professional who runs the mapping firm PetersonGIS and authors books on cartographic design. She works on a wide range of GIS projects including (just to name a few) solar energy site suitability analysis, stream restoration prioritization, wildlife corridor design, and archaeological sensitivity models. Her extensive experience with geographic analysis and mapping forms the baseline for the knowledge she shares in her publications on maps and cartography. Peterson shares her thoughts about cartography and the geospatial field regularly on her blog, in keynotes, and via her @PetersonGIS twitter account. She is a member of the GISCI Review Committee and is the author of Cartographer's Toolkit: Colors, Typography, Patterns and GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design.
