Geographic Information Systems Division (GISD) Meeting

ASPRS Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland

Geographic Information Systems Division (GISD) Meeting
Monday, March 25, 2013
10:00 am to 12:00 noon, Room: Dover A, 3rd Floor

David Alvarez, Chair
davidalvarez76 (at) gmail (dot) com

Matthew D. Dunbar, Assistant Chair
mddunbar (at) uw (dot) edu

Agenda:
· Introductions

· Baltimore 2013 Special Session
o LBS Privacy Issues. – Has been cancel.
o Geo-statistics
o Data management (Big Data)

· Online Seminars
o Description – First online Seminar
o Future Seminars:

3D Modeling
Date: Friday, May 3rd
Time: 12 - 1pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Dr Sisi Zlatanova Delft University of Technology - Netherlands

Social Research using Geospatial Technologies
Date: Friday, June 28th
Time: 12 - 1pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Community Researcher Partners (CRP) Columbus, OH US

Open Source Software in Commercial GIS Software Applications
Date: Friday, July 26th
Time: 12 - 1pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Michael Rosen LizardTech Seattle, WA US

· Conference Support (Volunteers)
o CaGIS
o ESRI

· Join Effort with Other Divisions
o Lidar
o Remote Sensing

· Build Relation with Other Organization
o AAG
o URISA § Start discussions/planning with URISA to develop a webinar on (Lidar 101 and Photogrammetry 101)

· Update on the Glossary.

· Future Activities
o San Antonio ASPRS/CaGIS (Fall 2013)
§ Work with CaGIS on the disaster management sessions. Possible Topics
§ Disaster Management (Crisis Mapping) o Interoperability. o Visualization. o Simbology issues. o Data sharing. o Geocoding.
o Set up schedules to net meetings for the GIS Division. (Keep the energy)
§ Quarterly
§ Blogs

· Looking for New Online Seminars Topics

Hope to you see there.

Thank you,

David Alvarez, GISD Director
davidalvarez76 (at) gmail (dot) com