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Lowell Ayers

Geomatics Technician
Town of Cochrane

Sessions in which Lowell Ayers attends

Tuesday 7 November, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
10:30 AM
10:30 AM MST - 11:30 AM MST | 1 hour
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Geomatics for the Public Good

Over the past three decades, global and national economies have undergone profound transition while the governments that have tried to steer worldwide growth have been buffeted by profound changes in how citizens interact and feel about the level of services they receive.  That many of them are more empowered than ever by social media, which is often said to have hastened the growth of significant divides, speaks to the need of many governmental leader to stay in touch with prevailing th...

10:30 AM MST - 10:55 AM MST | 25 minutes
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Surveying & Precision Measurement

What are the trends in education, technology, policy, perception and markets that will mold the future of Geomatics – and how has the profession responded? The presenter has worked in and written about numerous aspects of surveying for several decades and views the future of the profession as one of both challenges and opportunity – new, exciting and sometimes surprising opportunities. This session will be interactive, challenge conventional wisdom, poke a little fun, and hopefully provides s...

11:30 AM
11:30 AM MST - 11:55 AM MST | 25 minutes
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Earth Observation Program

Planet scans the entire land mass of the planet nearly everyday with high resolution multispectral imagery, enabling exciting new opportunities and solving old challenges for digital transformations and sustainable business acceleration. Now with our growing fleet of 8-band Superdoves in orbit, the launch of our Planetary Variables - daily soil moisture, temperature, crop and forest biomass, etc - we have evolved even greater capabilities for a new era of Earth Observation technologies. In th...

12:00 PM
12:00 PM MST - 12:25 PM MST | 25 minutes
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Reality Capture & Digital Twins

In February 2022, Balko Technologies, a Quebec-based company, launched the world's first modular drone Lidar, which aims to democratize geospatial data capture by offering a versatile, easy-to-use and quick to deploy solution. This technological showcase aims to demonstrate the performance, modularity and distinctive advantages for users of our brand new Connectiv solution and its e-LAS software, developed by a team of experts with more than 10 years of experience in airborne data capture....

12:30 PM
12:30 PM MST - 12:55 PM MST | 25 minutes
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Surveying & Precision Measurement

Geodetic Reference Systems are the foundation for geospatial data, serving as the official reference for latitude, longitude, height and gravity in Canada.  There are many contributors to providing such standards to Canadians, including Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments, the private sector, academia, and others.  Users will know that every few years there are new versions introduced of the datums or reference frames. A change in reference system, however, invo...

2:15 PM
2:15 PM MST - 3:00 PM MST | 45 minutes
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Expo BIM/GIS Program

Join Canadian GNSS manufacturer Eos Positioning Systems for an in-depth look at using the high-accuracy Arrow Gold+ GNSS Receiver with RTK corrections and Esri’s ArcGIS Field Maps.In this live and interactive presentation, you will learn how to do the following:1. Add GNSS metadata fields to ArcGIS Field Maps 2. Easily connect to the local RTK network to achieve real-time <2cm accuracy in the field 3. Collect high-accuracy data in the field according to best...

4:00 PM
4:00 PM MST - 4:25 PM MST | 25 minutes
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Geomatics for the Public Good

Harnessing the power of regular collection of imagery and Lidar, the City of Calgary provides valuable information for municipal service delivery. The City publicly shares various datasets in different formats, including Orthophotos, Lidar, and 3D buildings, oh-my! Beginning in 1990, the Aerial Imagery Program supported planning, development, and operations.Regularly collecting spatial data allows for more accurate assessments of changes over time. Annual Orthophoto collection aids in ...

Wednesday 8 November, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM MST - 10:25 AM MST | 25 minutes

Join us at the Calgary GoGeomatics Expo for an exclusive workshop hosted by Jonathan Murphy, the founder of GoGeomatics and GeoIgnite. In this session, you'll discover the opportunites to successful marketing with GoGeomatics and explore the vibrant world of the GoGeomatics community. Workshop Highlights:Marketing with GoGeomatics: Dive into the art of geospatial marketing with one of the industry's leading experts. Jonathan Murphy will guide yo...

10:30 AM
10:30 AM MST - 10:55 AM MST | 25 minutes
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Earth Observation Program

Wetlands are important to water quality, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity, and have been identified as a management priority across Canada. Reclaiming wetlands that have been impacted can be a long-term, costly process depending on the type of wetland, location, and potential access constraints. One challenge with wetland reclamation is that the work may cause additional or new wetland impacts during access and execution of the work. Concurrent with wetland reclamation priorities, there ...

11:30 AM
11:30 AM MST - 11:55 AM MST | 25 minutes
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Reality Capture & Digital Twins

How do you decide when to mobilize and when not to, or even where can you safely and legally fly. As the frequency of unpredictable weather and forest fire smoke increase, so too does the risk in mobilizing to a job site. This presentation will demonstrate OGL Engineering’s process and different geospatial resources available to better inform your decision and minimize risks.

12:00 PM
12:00 PM MST - 12:25 PM MST | 25 minutes
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Earth Observation Program

As part of Planet’s ethos of ‘agile aerospace’, we continually invest in the latest hardware and software advancements to improve the PlanetScope image quality. This dataset began life as a relatively simple 3-band image using commercial, ‘off-the-shelf’ hardware components. Through customer feedback, both software and hardware improvements were tested and launched, resulting in a second-generation of PlanetScope, or ‘Dove’ satellites. Replacing this second generation of satellites involved a...