USGS GIS 2006 Schedule

Monday, April 24

Building 810 Auditorium

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Welcome: Jennifer Sieverling; (USGS) Workshop Coordinator

Plenary Session: Extraterrestrial GIS at the USGS; Trent Hare (USGS)

Plenary Session: Web GIS Lingua Franca: Open Source Geospatial Visualization; Patrick Hogan (NASA World Wind)

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM

Break

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM

Plenary: USGS Hazards Program; Bill Werkheiser (USGS)

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM

                                                                                                                                                    Break

ROOM

Copper

 

Keystone

 

Breckenridge

 

Snowmass

 

Loveland

John B. Weeks

 

Mesa Verde

ORH Conference

Yucca Mountain Conference

Silver Creek

Building 810 Auditorium

 

Hands-on sessions

Lecture sessions

 

10:30 AM– 12:25 PM

ERDAS IMAGINE Fundamentals

w/ ArcGIS Image Analyst

(Leica)

3-D Volumetric Analysis:

EarthVision

(Dynamic Graphics)

ArcHydro Tools for Watershed Delineation & Characteriza-tion

 (USGS)

Integrated Geological Data Management, Analysis, & Visualization Using RockWorks /2006

(RockWare, Inc)

Web GIS and Data Visualization Blair and Fahsholtz

Programming, Scripting, and Tools

Viger

 

Hazards 1

(Earth, Wind and Fire)

Costello

Elevation 1 (LIDAR)

Terziotti

open

open

 

 

Lunch – lunch schedule below

12:25 PM - 1:30 PM

(LUNCH)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metadata

(BOF)

 

 

 

 

1:30 PM - 3:25 PM

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3:25PM - 3:45 PM

Break – move to Sheraton Denver West

4:00PM – 8:30 PM

Star Guest Speaker: STS-99, Radar mapping the earth in 3-D; Astronaut Dom Gorie, Captain, USN

GIS Town Hall Meeting: What’s going on in the GIO
Karen Siderelis (GIO), Kevin Gallagher (ITSO), Bob Pierce (GIIA), Steve Guptill (CEGIS), Mark DeMulder (SIEO), John Mahoney (GIC), Mark Negri (EA /EGIS)

Evening

Birds of a Feather meetings at Sheraton Denver West Hotel

Room

Conference Room 1

Conference Room 2

9PM–11PM

Music BOF (Tom Trombley)

EGIS BOF (all GS Help GIS invited)

 

Tuesday, April 25

Building 810 Auditorium

8:00 AM – 9:20 AM

Plenary Session: Introductions; Tom Casadevall (USGS)

Plenary session: Geospatial Line of Business and Geospatial Modernization Blueprint; Karen Siderelis (USGS)

Plenary Session: What You Need to Know; Pat Leahy (USGS)

9:20 AM - 9:35 AM

Break

9:35 AM – 10:25 AM

Plenary session:  Protecting America’s Health Using GIS; Brian Kaplan (CDC)

10:25 AM - 10:40 AM

Break

10:40 AM - 12:00 AM

Plenary session:  GIS Trends; Clint Brown (ESRI)

12:00 AM  – 1:00  PM (LUNCH)

Lunch

ROOM

Copper

Keystone

Breckenridge

 

Snowmass

Loveland

John B Weeks

Mesa Verde

ORH Conference

Yucca Mountain Conference

Silver Creek

Building 810 Auditorium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hands-on sessions

Lecture sessions

 

1:00 PM - 2:55 PM

Advanced Image Processing

(Leica)

XTools Pro

(DataEast)

Introduction

to ArcGIS

(IGIST)

Metadata

in the

Real World

(FGDC/USGS)

In the News: GIS and Public Health

Baevsky

ArcGIS

Road Ahead

(ESRI)

Cartography, Data Sharing, Publications, and Archiving

Mulligan

National Datasets 1

Costello

open

Doctor’s Office

Set up for vendor gallery

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM -5:10 PM

IMAGINE

Spatial Modeling and volumetric measure using VirtualGIS

(Leica)

Making Maps with ArcGIS

(ESRI)

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ArcGIS

Spatial Analyst (ESRI)

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ArcGIS

Road Ahead

(ESRI)

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open

Doctor’s Office

Set up for vendor gallery

5:15 PM – 7:30 PM

Poster Session and Vendor Gallery at Building 810

Evening

Birds of a Feather meetings at Sheraton Denver West Hotel

Room

Conference Room 1

Conference Room 2

8PM–11PM

Geospatial Liaison BOF

? BOF

 

Wednesday, April 26

Building 810 Auditorium

8:00 AM - 9:35 AM

Plenary: State/local partnerships and 50 states initiative; Gene Trobia (Arizona State GIS Coordinator)

Plenary: USGS Geospatial Liaisons - Who, What, Where and Why? Chris Kannan, Bruce Bauch, Vicki Lukas, and Lance Clampitt (USGS)

9:35 AM - 9:50 AM

Break

9:50 AM - 10:45 AM

Plenary: NBII's Geospatial Interoperability Framework:  Making Standards Work!  Donna Roy (USGS)

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Plenary: NHDPlus; Alan Rea (USGS)

 

Lunch – lunch schedule below

 

ROOM

Copper

Keystone

Breckenridge

 

Snowmass

Loveland

John B Weeks

Mesa Verde

ORH Conference

Yucca Mountain Conference

Silver Creek

Building 810 Auditorium

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (LUNCH)

 

Internet GIS Application Demos (GCS Research LLC)

GeoSpatial One-Stop BOF

 

 

 

XTools BOF

(DataEast)

 

 

 

 

 

Hands-on sessions

Lecture sessions

 

1:00 PM - 2:55 PM

Image Processing w/

ENVI

(RSI)

Implementing ArcGIS Server

(GCS Research LLC)

Geospatial One-Stop

(USGS)

ArcPad 7

(ESRI)

Modeling with ArcGIS 9

(ESRI)

GIS Partnerships / Education

Kerski

Productivity Tools for GIS

(DataEast)

Elevation 2

Chirico

open

Doctor’s Office

 

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM - 5:10 PM

Hyper-spectral

Analysis w/

ENVI

(RSI)

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Finding

USGS Data On-Line

(USGS)

Geoprocessing in ArcGIS

(ESRI)

New, Weird, Wonderful, and the Kitchen Sink

Viger

 

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Hazards 2

(Earth, Wind and Fire)

Costello

MARS: LIDAR Processing Software

(Merrick)

open

Doctor’s Office

 

Evening

Birds of a Feather meetings at Sheraton Denver West Hotel

Room

Conference Room 1

Conference Room 2

7 PM–9 PM

Publishing GIS Data BOF

Geoprocessing BOF

 

Thursday, April 27

Building 810 Auditorium

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Plenary: Land Remote Sensing Program

Ron Beck (USGS)

Poster Awards: Barb Ray and Jennifer Sieverling (USGS)

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM

Break

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM

Plenary: Melinda Laituri (Colorado State University and NSF)

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM - 11:30AM

Plenary: The Future of Remote Sensing; Brian R. Raber (Merrick), Brock McCarty (Digital Globe), Gene Dial (GeoEye), Steven Miller (SPOT Image Corporation)

 

Lunch – lunch schedule below

ROOM

Copper

Keystone

Breckenridge

 

Snowmass

Loveland

 

John B Weeks

Mesa Verde

ORH Conference

Yucca Mountain Conference

Silver Creek

Building 810 Auditorium

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (LUNCH)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How Me 'an Teddy Mapped San Juan Hill,

Ken Lanfear

 

Hands-on sessions

Lecture sessions

Hands-on sessions

1:00 PM - 2:55 PM

Feature Extraction from Imagery

(eCognition) (Definiens)

ArcSDE for SQL Server

(ESRI)

Introducing NHDPlus: A National Geospatial Surfacewater Framework (USGS/EPA)

Geoprocessing in ArcGIS

(ESRI)

Land and Water Characteri-

zation

(San Juan / Char)

GIS Inter-operability and Standards

(ESRI)

GIS Supporting Decisions

Mulligan

GIS System Design

(ESRI)

open

Doctor’s Office

GPS 101

(USGS)

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM - 5:10 PM

Surface Interpolation

(ESRI/USGS)

 

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PLTS Data creation tools

(ESRI)

Fly Through Your Data

(ESRI)

 (continued)

ArcGIS Data Interoperabil-ity
Extension (Safe Software)

Data Archiving Roundtable

Mulligan

 (continued)

open

Doctor’s Office

GPS for

GIS

(USGS)

Evening

Birds of a Feather meetings at Sheraton Denver West Hotel

Room

Conference Room 1

Conference Room 2

7 PM-9 PM

StreamStats BOF

LIDAR BOF

Friday, April 28

ROOM

Copper

Keystone

Breckenridge

 

Snowmass

Loveland

John B Weeks

Mesa Verde

ORH Conference

Yucca Mountain Conference

Silver Creek

Building 810 Auditorium

 

Hands-on sessions

Lecture  Sessions

Hands-on session

8:00 AM - 9:55 AM

ArcGIS
Geostatistical Analyst

(ESRI)

ArcSDE for Oracle

(ESRI)

NHDPlus

(USGS/EPA)

Making Maps with ArcGIS

(ESRI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

GPS For GIS

(USGS)

9:55 AM – 10:10 AM

Break

10:10 AM - 11:55AM

ArcGIS
3-D Analyst

(ESRI)

(continued)

Surface Interpolation

(ESRI/USGS)

ArcPad 7

(ESRI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch – lunch schedule below

11:55 AM - 1:05 PM (LUNCH)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:05 PM - 3:00 PM

Feature Extraction from Imagery

(eCognition)

ArcGIS

Spatial Analyst (ESRI)

PLTS Data creation tools

(ESRI)

Fly Through Your Data

(ESRI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 PM

Adjourn