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

Tuesday 18 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:40 AM

Keith Masback - Chair - National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), Talk: Geospatial 20/20: Envisioning Our Path to the Future

20 minutes, 8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Keynote

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...

9:00 AM

Nadine Alameh - CEO - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Talk: A changing world: Impacts on location standards and innovation

20 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Keynote

Nadine Alameh, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (Participant)

Let’s admit it! We live in exciting times with technology, social interactions and business models changing before our eyes: Flying taxis, self-d...

9:40 AM

Prashant Shukle - Director General - Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (NRCan) Talk: The Future of National Mapping

20 minutes, 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Prashant Shukle, Global Geospatial Group (Participant)

Prashant Shukle is the Director General for the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, at Natural Resourc...

10:00 AM

Keynote Panel Discussion on Digital Transformation: Global & Canadian Impacts

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Panel

Jonathan Murphy, GoGeomatics Canada (Moderator)

Nadine Alameh, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (Participant)

Prashant Shukle, Global Geospatial Group (Participant)

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...

10:30 AM

Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

45 minutes, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

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

20 minutes, 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial SectorLocation technologies are changing the way we live, wor...

11:35 AM

Christiane Saad - Lawyer - Univ Of Ottawa, Talk: The Future of Geospatial "Big Data" legal issues and challenges

20 minutes, 11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Christiane Saad, University of Ottawa (Participant)

The future is digital. Big data is an integral part of the digital transformation of a private or public organization. Location and geospatial tech...

11:55 AM

Arnold Hougham - Vice President PCI Geomatics -Talk: Data Cubes & opportunities to leverage hyper temporal image archives to support climate change studies

20 minutes, 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Arnold Hougham (Participant)

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...

12:15 PM

SDG's & GeoSpatial In Action: Saving the world's Oceans, one Hope Spot at a time

20 minutes, 12:15 PM - 12:35 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Graham Stickler, SkyWatch (Participant)

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...

2:00 PM

Bilyana Anicic - Enterprise Architect - Talk: Digital Transformations: Mapping our Future

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Keynote

Bilyana Anicic, Aurora Consulting (Participant)

Today, geospatial technologies are embedded in many of the workflows that support the Fourth Industrial Revolution and therefore invaluable to user...

2:30 PM

Walter Knitl - CEO - Praxiem, Talk: Geospatial: Internet of Things – the Cornerstone of Digital Disruption

20 minutes, 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Walter Knitl, Praxiem (Participant)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is here. Whether applied to industrial automation, wearables, connected transportation and logistics, drones or smart ...

2:50 PM

Geoff Zeiss - Talk: Growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM & geospatial approach to construction

20 minutes, 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Geoff Zeiss, Between the Poles (Participant)

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...

3:10 PM

Faramarz Samavati - Professor - Univ Calgary, Talk: Discrete Global Grid System, a disruptive method for implementing Digital Earth

20 minutes, 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Faramarz Samavati, University of Calgary (Participant)

The Earth is immense, and abundant with interesting information. Recent advancements in geospatial sensors (e.g. satellites, smart phones, meteorol...

3:30 PM

Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

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

20 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Will Cadell, Sparkgeo (Participant)

Cloudy with a chance of data science.Sparkgeo had been building cloud first geospatial applications, from day 1. But that was not the pla...

4:20 PM

Anthony Calamito - Director, Government Programs - Mapbox, Talk: How to Access and Analyze Your Sensitive Geospatial Data On and Off Network

20 minutes, 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Anthony Calamito, Mapbox (Participant)

The Mapbox live location platform was designed to serve all levels of government and the critical services they support. Develop custom mapping and...

4:40 PM

Calvin Klatt - Director & Chief Geodesist for the Canadian Geodetic Survey, Talk: Advances in Geodesy: Precise Global Positioning on a Dynamic Planet

20 minutes, 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Calvin Klatt PhD (Participant)

We are entering a new era of positioning, navigation and timing. Global, instantaneous, and easily accessible positioning at better than 10cm is co...

Wednesday 19 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:30 AM

Panel discussion: Consumerization of Geospatial Knowledge Platform and Products

1 hour, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Panel

David Gachuche, RiverCross Technologies (Moderator)

Dallas Rathbone, Global Grid Systems (Participant)

Anthony Calamito, Mapbox (Participant)

Sergey Samsonov, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (NRCan) (Participant)

Christiane Saad, University of Ottawa (Participant)

Mainstreaming of the geospatial market has created a big demand for geospatial content and solutions across governments, businesses and consumers...

9:30 AM

Brandon Palin- Public Sector Specialist- Ecopia, Talk: Making Better Decisions using Ecopia's Feature Extractions

30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Ecopia.ai will present how its semi-automated approach of combining deep neural networks with scalable crowd map annotators can be combined to crea...

11:00 AM

Diversity in Leadership Summit

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Panel

Bilyana Anicic, Aurora Consulting (Moderator)

Amina Deiab OLD, QED Inc. (Participant)

David Acco, Acosys Consulting Service Inc (Participant)

Nadine Alameh, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (Participant)

The GeoIgnite Conference and our sponsors are proud to present the inaugural Diversity in Leadership Summit (DILS). It is o...

11:30 AM

Lesley MacKenzie - Senior Business Analyst - Consortech, Talk: Should you move your data processes to the Cloud?

30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Lesley MacKenzie, Consortech (Participant)

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...

12:00 PM

Doing "Geospatial" business with the Government of Canada

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Stephane Champagne, Public Services and Procurement Canada (Participant)

The Government of Canada purchases on average $22 billion in goods and services each year to help deliver programs and services to Canadians. Many ...

2:00 PM

Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data Aggregation

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Douglas Estok, OEC (Participant)

Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data AggregationTo illustrate and make the case that cooperation between utility stakeholders is long overdue, and ...

2:30 PM

Behind The Map - The Making of A Mystery Map

30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Karl Spencer, CartoVista (Participant)

The internet is an excellent channel for GIS professionals to reach their audiences. However, much of what is being diffused leaves people wanting....

3:00 PM

Benjamin Ulmer - M.Sc. student - Univ Calgary, Talk: Volumetric Discrete Global Grid Systems

15 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Benjamin Ulmer, University of Calgary (Participant)

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...

Update on NRCan’s Flood Mapping Initiatives in support of Flood Mitigation

30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Michelle Poirier, NRCan (Participant)

Natural Resources Canada provides mapping and engineering advice and expertise to Public Safety Canada in support of the National Disaster Mit...

3:30 PM

GeoIgnite 2019 Closing Remarks

15 minutes, 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

Talk