Edward Melcher
Senior Geospatial Analyst
Enview
Senior Geospatial Analyst at Enview
Geospatial data can provide the right insights to help solve many problems. I have focused on lidar and photogrammetry technology for the last 14 years and making sure the data is of highest quality to make the insights more meaningful.
Sessions in which Edward Melcher attends
8:40 AM
8:40 AM
- Keith Masback - Chair - National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), Talk: Geospatial 20/20: Envisioning Our Path to the Future Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 8:40 AM - 9:00 AM | 20 minutes
- There's never been a more exciting time to be a part of the geospatial profession. From mapping the infrastructure beneath our cities to indoor way...
- Keynote
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Nadine Alameh - CEO - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Talk: A changing world: Impacts on location standards and innovation Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes
- Let’s admit it! We live in exciting times with technology, social interactions and business models changing before our eyes: Flying taxis, self-d...
- Keynote
9:40 AM
9:40 AM
- Prashant Shukle - Director General - Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (NRCan) Talk: The Future of National Mapping Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM | 20 minutes
- Prashant Shukle is the Director General for the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, at Natural Resourc...
- Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Keynote Panel Discussion on Digital Transformation: Global & Canadian Impacts Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- What are the ramifications of the current digital transformation globally and what will it mean for Canada and the globe? Our award winning panel o...
- Panel
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | 45 minutes
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Amina Deiab - Senior Director Economic Policy, Economic Development and Trade - Government of Alberta, Talk: Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial Sector Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM | 20 minutes
- Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial SectorLocation technologies are changing the way we live, wor...
- Talk
11:35 AM
11:35 AM
- Christiane Saad - Lawyer - Univ Of Ottawa, Talk: The Future of Geospatial "Big Data" legal issues and challenges Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:35 AM - 11:55 AM | 20 minutes
- The future is digital. Big data is an integral part of the digital transformation of a private or public organization. Location and geospatial tech...
- Talk
11:55 AM
11:55 AM
- Arnold Hougham - Vice President PCI Geomatics -Talk: Data Cubes & opportunities to leverage hyper temporal image archives to support climate change studies Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM | 20 minutes
- Several key trends in the geospatial industry over the last few years have created the conditions needed to truly leverage remote sensing as a tech...
- Talk
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- SDG's & GeoSpatial In Action: Saving the world's Oceans, one Hope Spot at a time Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 12:15 PM - 12:35 PM | 20 minutes
- Hope Spots are special places that are critical to the health of the ocean — Earth’s blue heart. Some Hope Spots are already formally protec...
- Talk
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Bilyana Anicic - Enterprise Architect - Talk: Digital Transformations: Mapping our Future Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Today, geospatial technologies are embedded in many of the workflows that support the Fourth Industrial Revolution and therefore invaluable to user...
- Keynote
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Walter Knitl - CEO - Praxiem, Talk: Geospatial: Internet of Things – the Cornerstone of Digital Disruption Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | 20 minutes
- The Internet of Things (IoT) is here. Whether applied to industrial automation, wearables, connected transportation and logistics, drones or smart ...
- Talk
2:50 PM
2:50 PM
- Geoff Zeiss - Talk: Growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM & geospatial approach to construction Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM | 20 minutes
- The UK Government as part of its building information modeling (BIM) initiative has said repeatedly that it expects the big payoff of a digital mod...
- Talk
3:10 PM
3:10 PM
- Faramarz Samavati - Professor - Univ Calgary, Talk: Discrete Global Grid System, a disruptive method for implementing Digital Earth Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM | 20 minutes
- The Earth is immense, and abundant with interesting information. Recent advancements in geospatial sensors (e.g. satellites, smart phones, meteorol...
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Will Cadell - CEO - Sparkgeo: Talk: Cloudy With a Chance of Data Science. What happened to my GIS? A forecast for modern geospatial Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | 20 minutes
- Cloudy with a chance of data science.Sparkgeo had been building cloud first geospatial applications, from day 1. But that was not the pla...
- Talk
4:20 PM
4:20 PM
- Anthony Calamito - Director, Government Programs - Mapbox, Talk: How to Access and Analyze Your Sensitive Geospatial Data On and Off Network Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM | 20 minutes
- The Mapbox live location platform was designed to serve all levels of government and the critical services they support. Develop custom mapping and...
- Talk
4:40 PM
4:40 PM
- Calvin Klatt - Director & Chief Geodesist for the Canadian Geodetic Survey, Talk: Advances in Geodesy: Precise Global Positioning on a Dynamic Planet Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM | 20 minutes
- We are entering a new era of positioning, navigation and timing. Global, instantaneous, and easily accessible positioning at better than 10cm is co...
- Talk
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
- Panel discussion: Consumerization of Geospatial Knowledge Platform and Products Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 1 hour
- Mainstreaming of the geospatial market has created a big demand for geospatial content and solutions across governments, businesses and consumers...
- Panel
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Brandon Palin- Public Sector Specialist- Ecopia, Talk: Making Better Decisions using Ecopia's Feature Extractions Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Ecopia.ai will present how its semi-automated approach of combining deep neural networks with scalable crowd map annotators can be combined to crea...
- Talk
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Diversity in Leadership Summit Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- The GeoIgnite Conference and our sponsors are proud to present the inaugural Diversity in Leadership Summit (DILS). It is o...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Lesley MacKenzie - Senior Business Analyst - Consortech, Talk: Should you move your data processes to the Cloud? Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 30 minutes
- As we worked with multiple government organizations this past year, we faced this same question along the way: Should we move our data processes to...
- Talk
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Doing "Geospatial" business with the Government of Canada Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- The Government of Canada purchases on average $22 billion in goods and services each year to help deliver programs and services to Canadians. Many ...
- Talk
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data Aggregation Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data AggregationTo illustrate and make the case that cooperation between utility stakeholders is long overdue, and ...
- Talk
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Behind The Map - The Making of A Mystery Map Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes
- The internet is an excellent channel for GIS professionals to reach their audiences. However, much of what is being diffused leaves people wanting....
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Benjamin Ulmer - M.Sc. student - Univ Calgary, Talk: Volumetric Discrete Global Grid Systems Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 15 minutes
- While much of the data available about the Earth pertains to the surface, there also exists a large amount of data available about the atmosphere a...
- Talk
- Update on NRCan’s Flood Mapping Initiatives in support of Flood Mitigation Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Natural Resources Canada provides mapping and engineering advice and expertise to Public Safety Canada in support of the National Disaster Mit...
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- GeoIgnite 2019 Closing Remarks Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | 15 minutes
- Talk