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August 2018
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
INDUSTRY
NEWS
EVENT
In addition to meet-ups and networking events during
GIS-Pro
& CalGIS 2018
in Palm Springs, California in October , URI-
SA’s Vanguard Cabinet of Young Professionals has teamed up
with leaders in the education community to organize a valuable
program track titled “Inspiring the Future of GIS”. Further, the
VC is sponsoring a K-12 poster competition and University stu-
dent and Young Professional lightning talk competitions.
For complete details, including submission deadlines and
requirements, visit
.
CALENDAR
• August 19-23,
SPIE– Imaging Spectrometry XXII:
Applications, Sensors, and Processing
, San Diego,
California. For more information, visit
/
conferencedetails/imaging-spectrometry?SSO=1.
• September 19-20,
GIS in the Rockies
, Denver, Colorado.
For more information, visit GISintheRockies.org.
• October 1-3,
Commercial UAV Expo
, Las Vegas, Nevada.
For more information, visit
,
• October 9-12,
GIS-Pro & CalGIS 2018: THE Conference
for GIS Professionals
, Palm Springs, California. For more
information, visit
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pro-annual-conference/.
• February 25-28, 2019, 2019
GIS /CAMA Technologies
Conference
, Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit
/.
• April 3-7, 2019,
AAG 2019 Annual Meeting
, Washington,
DC. For more information, visit
.
org/.
• May 3-5, 2019,
5
th
International Conference on
Geographical Information Systems Theory,
Applications and Management
, Heraklion, Crete,
Greece. For more information, visit
.
Mugnier said that in other states, GPS is funded with tax
dollars, leaving little money left for research. Because LSU
C4G is self-funded through its subscription service, the center
is able to do additional research to further support the state.
“The problem in Louisiana is that it is in a crustal motion
area because of subsidence,” Mugnier said. “The [federal
government] doesn’t have enough money to do the very
detailed work in Louisiana and that’s where we come in.
Louisiana needs more precise information for flood elevations
and how fast we’re subsiding in different areas, along with the
rate change,” Mugnier said.
C4G has already conducted surveys through funding from
the legislature to determine the elevation of all of the state’s
evacuation highways.
“As they continue to subside, when a hurricane is coming,
planners need to know the elevations of the highways and
how many hours they need ahead of time to evacuate people,”
Mugnier said. “All of this revolves around what we’re doing
with respect to elevation, gravity research and support of GPS
surveying.”
For more information, visit
has been named one of the Top 20 Most Promising
Google Solution Providers for 2018 by
magazine.
The selection was based on reader nomination, a review of
products and services, industry and market surveys, events and
conferences, achievements and press.
Woolpert, Google’s largest geospatial partner, has decades of
mapping and geospatial experience serving clients around the
world. The firm has been a
partner since 2013 and
has consistently doubled its Google Maps business year over year.
“We know Maps because we make maps,” said Jon Downey,
Woolpert vice president and market director for Google Maps
and Cloud.
In the magazine, Downey discussed the firm’s roots serving
the public sector in the geographic information systems (GIS)
arena and how that has grown into enabling private sector
clients to best leverage Google Maps and Cloud technologies
within their applications.
Downey added that Woolpert, which earned the Google
Cloud 2016 Fastest Growing Company
for Maps, sees
limitless opportunities for this partnership.
For more information, visit
.
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