Rocket City Geospatial & Alabama GIS Conference
November 15-16, 2011 | Huntsville, Alabama
Workshops
LOCATION: Each workshop below will be held at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center's Education Training Facility (ETF) at 5 Tranquility Base from 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. on Nov. 15. The ETF is located just to the north of the Marriott Hotel.
Workshop #1: Using Census Data in Your Geographic Information System (GIS)
Location: Education Training Facility Classroom
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Topics covered:
- Census Geographic Data Products (TIGER)
- Census Summary File Data Products
- Step-by-step process for downloading and joining geographic data with tabular data
- Thematic map creation and analysis of Census data in GIS
Who should attend:
- Urban planners
- GIS specialists
- Geographers
- Demographers
- Cartographers
- University geography students
Workshop Presenter:
Wes Flack
Geographic Coordinator
Atlanta Regional Office
US Census Bureau
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Workshop #2: LiDAR Data Management and Exploitation for State & Local Government
Location: Education Training Facility Auditorium
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Is your state or local government or DOT utilizing or considering using LIDAR data? If so, you know that LIDAR technology has become a valuable tool in a variety of applications where an accurate surface model is required. The availability of LiDAR data is resulting in a profusion of very large datasets requiring solutions for management and exploitation.
During this workshop, we will highlight the benefits of LiDAR data, and explore the local, state and DOT workflows using LiDAR data (and other data types) in response to a natural disaster. Using the recent tornados across Alabama as our scenario, we will demonstrate the managing, exploitation and dissemination of LiDAR in emergency planning, recovery and rebuilding.
Topics Covered:
- What is LiDAR?
- Statewide LiDAR coverage – Benefits and Challenges
- Local Government Response to Natural Disaster
- State Government
- Server-side Exploitation
- Enterprise Distribution and Review
- Transportation Focus: State DOT Response
- Local Government Tax Assessment (2 months after disaster)
Who Should Attend:
- State and local government GIS users
- Remote sensing professionals
- Users just getting started with LiDAR data
Workshop Presenters:
- Brad Skelton, CTO, ERDAS
- Sam Magenta, Technical Product Manager, ERDAS
- Robert Gammon, Enterprise Product Manager, Intergraph
- Ron Roth, Vice President, Airborne LiDAR, Hexagon Geosystems, Geospatial Solutions Division
