Agenda

MONDAY, October 6, 2008

ITTC 234
8:30 am - 9:00 am Welcome
9:00 am - 10:30 am Ramanathan Sugumaran – GeoTREE Center
Gary Thompson – National Geodetic Survey
Jim Giglierano – Iowa DNR

Iowa LiDAR Workshop: What is Iowa LiDAR? How to download? How to use in a particular application? What GeoTREE Free LiDAR extension “GeoLITE” can do? Much more...
10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45 am - 12:30 pm GeoTREE LiDAR Web Portal - GeoTREE Staff
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Buffet
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm GeoLITE Tool - GeoTREE Staff
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm 3-D Visualization - GeoTREE Staff
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm Closing

TUESDAY, October 7, 2008

Gallagher Bluedorn
8:00 am - 9:00 am Welcome and Registration
9:00 am - 9:10 am GIS Day Program Overview: Ramanathan Sugumaran – GeoTREE Center Director
Scott Ermer – Hawkeye Community College
9:10 am - 9:15 am Welcome
9:15 am - 10:00 am Keynote Address: Gary Thompson – National Geodetic Survey - North Carolina
"North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program Lessons Learned"
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Invited Speaker:
James Campbell, Virginia Tech. "Virginia's Remote Sensing Scene"
Invited Speaker:
Steven Milligan / Mike Jackson
"Iowa Real-time Kinematic GPS"
11:00 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15 am - 12:00 pm Invited Speakers:
John Buechler and Shane Hubbard - "Hazard Mitigation (HAZUS_MH) using GIS"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Visit Vendors and Lunch Break
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Session 1: Moderator:
Jim Giglierano
Session 2: Moderator:
Eric Abrams
Session 3: Moderator:
Joshua McNary
Jim Giglierano – Iowa DNR

"The Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure: Results of the Return on Investment Study"
Eric Abrams – Department of Transportation

"Iowa DOT Multi Level Linear Referencing System"
Doug Tonnemacher - Pictometry, Inc.

"Use of Oblique Imagery in the GIS environment/Oblique Disaster Imagery"
Matt Clover - John DeGroote / GeoTREE Center

"Use of Geospatial technologies for analysis and visualization of the May 25 Parkersburg Tornado"
Alan Czarnetzki – UNI

"The Science Center for Teaching, Outreach, and Research on Meteorology (the STORM Project) at the University of Northern Iowa"
Joshua McNary – Aerial Services, Inc.

"Open-Source Geospatial Software: Helpful Free Tools"
"2008 Parkersburg Tornado: Butler County Experience" Bob Lemen – USGS

"USGS Support During the 2008 Iowa Floods"
Doug Anderson - Seiler Instrument

"Decimeter-Accuracy GIS for Mapping Applications"
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Coffee Break
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Session 4: Moderator:
John DeGroote
Session 5: Moderator:
Dave Cox and Yanli Zhang
Session 6: Moderator:
Dan Corbin
John DeGroote / Tom DeCook
GeoTREE Center

"Analysis of 2008 flood extent and damage in Black Hawk County using GIS and HAZUS"
Dave Cox & Kevin James – City of Davenport

"City of Davenport Utilizes 3D Modeling for Flood Protection Planning"
Jim Libersky – The Barrier Group

"Natural Disasters also bring greater Digital Disasters"
Jason Siebrecht - Linn County

"Emergency Operation Center GIS Customers"
Yanli Zhang – GeoTREE Center

"Development of a GIS Based Modified Universal Soil Loss Equation (MUSLE) Model to Evaluate Soil Erosion"
Dan Corbin – DC, Inc.

"Winnebago Co. Case Study – GIS Data Quality"
Rick Havel - Johnson County

"Johnson County 2008 Flood Response"
Scott Mattes – Howard R. Green Company

"Applied Mobile GIS Solutions: Assessing impacts from Historic Flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and other Applications"
Mike Mohrhauser – Schneider Corporation

"Assessing Impacts from Historic Flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Other Applications"
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Closing: Great Hall