GIS in Action Conference Attendance Instructions

 

The annual GIS in Action conference (GIA) is the largest local geospatial technology conference in the Pacific Northwest.  It will be held in Vancouver, Washington, on April 21 (Tuesday) and 22 (Wednesday). In addition to the academic and professional presentations and workshops, the conference provides a good opportunity for students to present their school projects in formal presentations or as posters. It is also a wonderful place to know local GIS professionals and expand one’s social network. Furthermore, many vendors demonstrate their most recent products and give away cool freebies in the exhibit hall. This is an event you don’t want to miss!

 

To encourage students to attend this conference, there will be no class on April 21 (Tuesday). You can register to attend the conference. Registration fee for students is $35 for early registration and onsite registration. Or, you can just visit the exhibit hall for free.

 

Here is the instruction for the class assignment. You are required to visit the exhibit hall on April 21. Please make notes to answer the following questions and submit the report to the instructor in class the following class meeting (April 23).

 

List three posters that you like most. Write down the following information.

1) The title and name(s) of author(s).

2) The reasons you like the poster.

3) The geospatial techniques that were used to do the analysis presented on the poster.

4) The hometown of the author(s).

 

How to get to the Vancouver Conference Center (Hilton Hotel) in Vancouver?

1) Go to the C-TRAN webpage at http://www.c-tran.com/.

2) Type in your address in Starting address and “301 W 6th Street, Vancouver, Washington” as the End address. Click Get Directions.

 

Based on the feedback from students in GIS II and Satellite Image Classification & Change Detection courses, the winners are…

 

Votes

Poster Title

24

Metro’s Automated 3D Building Modeling from Lidar (Clint Chiavarini & Kevin Martin)

13

Using Spatial Tools to Determine Areas of High Water Consumption in Hillsboro, Oregon (Bethany Pratt, Lily House-Peters, Matt Wood, & Heejun Chang)

12

Using GIS to Show Oregon Agricultural Potential (Luke Savage & Rita Pick)

10

Regional Mobility Corridor Atlas (Metro team)

9

Looking Beyond the Paycheck: Relative Household Purchasing Power by County (David McIntire)

9

Date of Death: Interpreting Patterns of Interment from a Pioneer Cemetery in Rural Polk County, Oregon, Using Cluster Analysis (Erica McCormick)

8

Analysis of Pleistocene Loess Thickness in the Coastal Dune Shelf around Newport, Oregon (Keith Olson)

7

The National Map Supporting Science in the Pacific Northwest (Sheri Schenieder & Caroline Rouwalk)

6

State of the Watersheds Monitoring Report 2008 (Justin Houk)

6

State of Oregon: Reducing the Impact of Transportation on the Human Foot Print (Ryan Johnson)

6

NDVI Change Detection & Classification of Vegetation using High Resolution Images (Brian Block)

5

The Eastern Cascades (Nadia Jones)

3

Spatial Analysis of Bryophytes Growing in the Extreme Stress of Geothermal Vents (Camille Graves & Sarah Epply)

3

Medford Local Lambert Conformal Conic Projection (Leo Chan)

2

Analyzing Expansion in Developing City Centers Using GIS (Manishika Jain)

2

Housing History – Greater Yellowstone Region 1980 – 2000 (Jesse Nett)

2

State of Oregon: Scenic Motorcycle Routes (Chad Crockett)

2

Gathering Local Knowledge, Building Transparency Ocean Toolkit (Tim Welch)

2

Metro’s Bond Acquisition Problems: Preserving Our Region’s Natural Resources (Tommy Albo & Marcelle Caturia)

2

Fire District 3 Clark County (Matt Deittemeyer)

1

GIS and Wind Energy Siting

1

Tread Maps: 3-D Topographic Mountain Biking Map and Guide (www.treadmaps.com)

1

Marion County Roads Priority (Marion County)

1

Oregon National Guard Biak Training Center (Jayson Steele)

1

Natural area Management of Ecology Sites in Portland (Josh Darling)

 

The “official” GIA poster awards winners are:

·        Best Student:  Leo Chan, Medford Local Lambert Conic Projection

·        Best in Show:  Matthew Hampton, Atlas for the discovery of integrated transportation mobility

·        People's choice: Clint Chiavarini, Automated 3D Building Modeling from LiDAR