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INDUSTRYNEWS
Mr. Perdue brings immeasurable real-world experience to
this position as a geomatics professional and lidar user himself.
Having begun his career surveying in the oilfields of Western
Canada, he then became a lidar sensor operator and gained
valuable hands-on lidar surveying experience. For the last 7
years, he served as Field Operations Manager for Airborne
Imaging, a leading Canadian lidar service provider, where he
led specialized aerial lidar survey projects and was responsible
for all aspects of field work. This practical experience has
made Mr. Perdue very familiar with the challenges facing
lidar operators.
“We are excited to welcome Michael Perdue to the Teledyne
Optech family,” said Michel Stanier, EVP and General
Manager of Teledyne Optech. “This is another big step in
Optech’s continued commitment to provide the best customer
service in the industry. How better to organize our Customer
Service department than to bring in a leading user to run it?”
“I am extremely excited to see Teledyne Optech going down
this path to solidify their service team,” said Mr. Perdue. “It’s
difficult to know what a user experiences and what they need
until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. I’ve walked a hundred
miles in those shoes and am intimately familiar with the level
of service that an end user needs and expects. The fact that
Optech is reaching out and bringing an experienced user on
board is a clear message that Optech values its customers and
is serious when it comes to customer service. I look forward
to providing the same high level of service that I have always
demanded myself.”
Find out more atwww.teledyneoptech.com
EVENTS
For 2018 the ASPRS Eastern Great Lakes Chapter is
teaming with the GITA Mid-Atlantic Chapter to co-present
EnerGIS 2018. Look for a number of presentations specially
recruited by ASPRS that will be of interest to EnerGIS
attendees and which will have an energy focused application!
What is EnerGIS?—EnerGIS a GITA sponsored conference
which features inspiring and challenging talks about GIS
within the Energy Industry!
Ameeting place for GIS & Geospatial professionals to gather
with our colleagues from around the corner, and around the
world, discussing topics of current interest and new challenges
within the industry.
EnerGIS welcomes presentations and papers from all areas
of the energy industry; renewables, wind, solar, oil, gas, coal,
etc.
We also welcome papers from the upstream sector,
exploration, production, mid-stream, transmission, and the
distribution sectors.
If your topic is geospatially and energy related it’ll find a
welcome audience at EnerGIS!
For more information, visitwww.energis.us.
CALENDAR
• March 19-22, GIS /CAMA Technologies Conference,
Houston, Texas. For more information, visit http://www.
urisa.org/gis-cama-technologies-conference/.
• March 26 -29, RSCy2018— 6th International
Conference on Remote Sensing and Geo-
information of Environment, Paphos, Cyprus. For
more information, visitwww.cyprusremotesensing.com/
rscy2018/.
• April 9-13, URISA GIS Leadership Academy,
Columbus, Ohio. For more information, visithttp://www.
urisa.org/education-events/urisa-gis-leadership-academy/.
• April 22-24, Inaugural Joint UESI-Cal Poly Pomona
2018 Surveying & Geomatics Conference, Pomona,
California. For more information, visitwww.surveying-
conference.org/.
• April 26-27, EnerGIS, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. For
more information, visithttps://energis.us/.
• May 9-11, 15th Conference on Computer and Robot
Vision (CRV 2018), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For more
information, visithttp://www.computerrobotvision.org /.
• July 18-22, COSPAR 2018, Pasadena, California. For
more information, visithttp://www.cospar-assembly.org
or http://cospar2018.org/.
• July 23-27, URISA GIS Leadership Academy, Salt
Lake City, Utah. For more information, visithttp://www.
urisa.org/education-events/urisa-gis-leadership-academy/.
• August 19-23, SPIE– Imaging Spectrometry XXII:
Applications, Sensors, and Processing, San Diego,
California. For more information, visithttp://spie.org/OPO/
conferencedetails/imaging-spectrometry?SSO=1.
• September 19-20, GIS in the Rockies, Denver, Colorado.
For more information, visit GISintheRockies.org.
• October 9-12, GIS-Pro & CalGIS 2018: THE Conference
for GIS Professionals, Palm Springs, California. For more
information, visithttp://www.urisa.org/education-events/gis-
pro-annual-conference/.