Florida Chapter
Contact Information
Chapter Leader: Claudia Paskauskas, GISP
Chapter Website: www.flurisa.org
Membership & Events
For information on joining Florida URISA and upcoming events, be sure to visit the chapter website!
Webinars
Join FLURISA for the e-FLURISA webinar series!!
FLURISA webinars are free of charge for members. If you are not a member JOIN here: www.flurisa.org
September - Google
Title: An overview of new features in Google's Geo Platform
Description: Josh Livni, a Senior Developer Program Engineer at Google will give an overview of new features in Google's Geo Platform. Josh is a Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google, focused on enabling developers to tell compelling stories using the Google Maps API's. As you read this, he's probably writing code, thinking about snowboarding, or both.
Date: Monday, September 9, 2013
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Registration: www.flurisa.org – click in the eflurisa tab.
October – CDM Smith
Title: How to Avoid Spinning Your Wheels During Mobile Application Development
Description: This webinar will be presented by Darren Mackiewicz - GISP, Lead Application Developer for CDM Smith. He will present on how to avoid common mistakes during the development of GIS applications for mobile platforms
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Registration: www.flurisa.org – click in the eflurisa tab..
November – Pictometry
Title: Pictometry web integration and Deployment
Description: Joshua Pope Mr. Pope began his career in technical support roles, soon migrating to an IT support technician position with a Pictometry customer in Macon Co., NC. He was then promoted to a GIS technician and quickly became the County’s GIS Administrator. Mr. Pope reworked the County’s public-facing website and updated the enterprise-level GIS system so that it was more efficient to better meet the needs of the County’s 300 employees. He then undertook to create a GIS educational program, which he brought to area grammar schools to explain what GIS is, what it means to the public, and its importance in most workplaces.
Mr. Pope restructured and updated the County’s entire GIS system and provided technical support to the County and its specialized agencies. He faced his biggest challenge in 2004 when Hurricane Ivan devastated the area and caused a 3-mile long landslide. Thanks to the FEMA disaster preparedness training he had previously taken at FEMA’s Emergency Management Training Center, Mr. Pope immediately became a resource to the Macon County Emergency Management Team and the National Guard by providing existing maps of the disaster areas. He then GPS’d the entire area from a helicopter and created new GIS maps of the devastated areas for the emergency responders’ use.
Mr. Pope came to Pictometry in 2010 as the Regional Technical Manager in the Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. areas. Now supporting Florida, he is Pictometry’s customers’ first line of support for software implementations, trouble shooting, supplemental training and technical support. His IT experience allows him to trouble shoot both the IT and GIS sides of any installation, making him doubly valuable to our customers.
Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Registration: www.flurisa.org – click in the eflurisa tab..
December – Critigen
Title: City of Decatur, One Map Web Application – Integrated version of Web services and data portal for the City of Decatur.
Presenter – Layi Taylor – Senior GIS Analyst at Critigen
Date: Monday, December 16, 2013
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Registration: www.flurisa.org – click in the eflurisa tab.
January – TranSystems
Title: Drayage Modeling Using GIS: A Vancouver, BC Case Study
Description: Douglas Lynch, GISP, Senior GIS Planner/Project Manager with TranSystems will present a study case of drayage modeling using GIS.
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
Registration: www.flurisa.org – click in the eflurisa tab.
February – Merrick & Company
Title: Mapping with Unmanned Airborne Systems
Description: The emergence of small, unmanned airborne systems (sUAS) is having a profound impact on the mapping industry in the US and abroad.
The new sUAS data collection platforms offer an efficient and affordable alternative to traditional airborne mapping services. This webinar will review the sUAS technology and provide insight into its operations, data processing workflow and current / future commercial and research applications. In addition, sample sUAS data will be demonstrated. This webinar will be presented by Bill Emison, who currently serves as a Senior Account Manager and MARS® Product Manager for the GeoSpatial Solutions division of Merrick & Company
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 AM EST
Registration: www.flurisa.org – click in the eflurisa tab.
