Suzanne Etheridge
Sessions in which Suzanne Etheridge attends
Monday 13 May, 2024
The role of GIS in almost all organizations is evolving from a technical system to an integrative, enterprise-wide capability that provides a unique perspective to solve many business challenges. This half-day workshop is intended to help existing GIS professionals, and those new to GIS in a management position, transition from a technical "What and How" focus on GIS technology to a strategic, value-oriented "Who and Why" mindset around what a GIS can contribute to the organization. The works...
Tuesday 14 May, 2024
Mini Continental BreakfastGeoIgnite is delighted to offer a selection of chilled fruit juices, freshly baked croissants, muffins, and breakfast pastries, served with butter and preserves. Guests can also enjoy fruit cocktails and yogurt. Available beverages include coffee, tea, and decaffeinated coffee.
Connecting the knowledge economy to the emerging relationship economy in a geospatial context. This talk will emphasize the growing importance of social skills and human connectivity in harnessing the power of data and technology. His talk, titled "Human Interoperability: Enhancing Geospatial Effectiveness in the Relationship Economy," explores the notion of valuing existing resources and optimizing the use of data and technology, particularly in the geospatial sector. As the Executive Office...
GeoIgnite is thrilled to present its keynote session, "Canada's Geospatial Leadership Panel," a gathering of some of Canada's most influential figures in the field of geospatial technology in Canada. Panelist: Melanie Desjardins, Director of the NWT Centre for Geomatics, showcases the application of geospatial technology in public sector management and natural resource governance. Her leadership in geomatics plays a significant role in shaping policies and strategies that utilize ...
Monitoring large numbers of activities and assets from space has long been an aspirational “holy grail” for satellite remote sensing. However, lack of observational cadence, collection capacity, sufficient resolution, multisource capabilities and contextual understanding of monitored sites has meant that true monitoring has been limited to a handful of key facilities and mission use cases. Will we as an industry be able to overcome current challenges and turn site monitoring into a mainstream...
The global OGC community continues to accelerate innovation, based on practical real world demonstrations of the art of possible for connecting and sharing data and information related to climate resiliency for disasters, climate monitoring for terrestrial and marine environments and more. This talk will provide a brief overview of the latest work, with a focus on "what is next?".
In the upcoming Canada's National Geospatial Conference, we are delighted to host a special plenary session, "Mapping the Future: Honoring Geoff Zeiss and His Transformative Work in Geospatial Technology," on May 14th in Ottawa. This session is dedicated to celebrating the remarkable contributions of Geoff Zeiss to the fields of mapping, utilities, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).Geoff Zeiss, renowned for his insightful blog...
GeoIgnite is excited to present an all star panel discussion on earth observation in Canada. This panel brings together a trifecta of esteemed experts from various Canadian government agencies, with Steven Ramage, CEO of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), serving as the moderator.Moderator: Steven Ramage, in his role as CEO of CEOS, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in satellite earth observation. His expertise in coordinating international satellite earth ...
Join us at GeoIgnite 2024 for a dynamic career panel featuring a distinguished lineup of leaders from government and industry, who will explore the evolving landscape of geospatial careers in Canada. This panel, moderated by Susan Kasumba, Director of Business Development at Airborne Imaging Inc., will provide invaluable insights into the current and future trends shaping the geospatial sector.Panelists include Melanie Desjardins, Di...
Wednesday 15 May, 2024
Mini Continental BreakfastGeoIgnite is delighted to offer a selection of chilled fruit juices, freshly baked croissants, muffins, and breakfast pastries, served with butter and preserves. Guests can also enjoy fruit cocktails and yogurt. Available beverages include coffee, tea, and decaffeinated coffee.
As evidenced by the 2023 fire season, we are experiencing unprecedented fire management challenges in Canada. Innovative fire monitoring solutions can help support wildfire managers as they limit the negative impacts of wildland fires while also prioritize the positive benefits in Canada’s forested ecosystems. Opportunities for advancing fire monitoring mirror a broader paradigm shift in the field of Earth observations towards open data, large-scale analyses, and collaborative development. In...
Remote sensing and spatial analytics have substantial utility to support riverine and floodplain assessment and monitoring at extents not feasible with traditional field surveys. This presentation will provide an overview of relevant technologies such as topobathymetric lidar, sonar, and multiple imagery types, as well as processes for integrating and analyzing these data. Broad-scale, objective, and reproducible analytics allow for geographic and temporal comparison across entire...
Climate change is becoming an increasing threat to Species at Risk in Atlantic Canada. Both direct and indirect impacts of climate change are affecting critical habitat, especially in coastal ecosystems. Monitoring species occurrences and their habitat over time and space is essential to effective conservation initiatives and mitigation efforts. The Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (AC CDC) expertise and data represent the single most comprehensive and current source of information ab...
The Applied Geomatics Research Group, a spinoff of COGS at NSCC in 2000 has been conducting applied research using lidar since it’s inception. Originally by contracting lidar providers to conduct surveys in the Maritimes for flood hazard mapping, then in the 2005 operating their our topographic lidar, the Optech ALTM 3100, then moving into the coastal environment with the Leica Chiroptera 4X topo-bathymetric lidar, and most recently moving to the relatively low cost drones for topo-lidar mapp...
Within its highly dynamic environment, Geospatial Leaders need to integrate knowledge, knowhow, and leadership skills to promote and fully enable this domain while communicating their value proposition to decision makers. This talk will introduce a Framework for leadership development to assist Geospatial Leaders to optimize their success as leaders a...
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), or drones, are becoming more common in the construction industry as a key tool to complete complex building and infrastructure projects. As technology improves, the barriers to adoption are reduced, creating a huge opportunity for the industry to improve the construction process and support the ongoing digital transformation. Drones boost productivity by enabling construction teams to rapidly and easily survey job sites, track progress, and spot poten...
Day 2 Day Lunch Buffet MenuOn the final day of GeoIgnite, enjoy an exquisite lunch buffet featuring artisanal garlic focaccia and a classic Caesar salad, with croutons and bacon bits served on the side. Relish a medley of olives and marinated mushrooms. Savor lightly breaded chicken breast glazed in a tomato and basil sauce, topped with ...
In the rapidly evolving geospatial industry, modern advancements in technology have paved the way for companies to offer geospatial data as a service, revolutionizing the way businesses approach and use geographic information. The advent of micro services to ultimately drive managed services has significantly reduced the necessity for dedicated in-house geospatial teams, providing a cost-effective and efficien...
The City of Ottawa (City) annually invests about $3M in studies of the local subsurface geotechnical, hydrogeological, and environmental conditions in support of municipal planning, development proposals, infrastructure designs, construction, and environmental protection studies. Much of this valuable information remains with individual consulting firms and in City project files, so this data is relatively inaccessible and not ready for use to internal and external stakeholders.
Canada is big, really big! Mapping the whole country took us over 100 years to complete. Through the years, the techniques used to map Canada's features evolved.For NRCan, the latest innovation is in the operational implementation of Artificial Intelligence tools and approaches, nested in high performance cloud computing capacity, and build via micros-ervices for agile and scalable deployment. This capacity, enables the organization to increase exponentially its capacity to create and ...
