Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Sessions

Wednesday 19 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:20 AM
8:20 AM
Marikka Williams - Group Leader Peterborough - GoGeomatics Canada gives GeoIgnite Tract Welcome
10 minutes, 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM

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Marikka Williams, Fleming College (Moderator)

Marikka Williams, MSc, GISP and Professor, Fleming College Geographic Information Systems welcomes delegates to the morning and will be master of c...
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Tim Webster - AGRG - Talk: Seamless Topo-Bathymetric lidar mapping to support multiple coastal applications
30 minutes, 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

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Dr. Tim Webster, Applied Geomatics Research Group NSCC (Participant)

The coastal zone is a challenging place to map, techniques for mapping the land elevation do not work under water and echosounding methods for mapp...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Military Terrestrial LiDAR Applications
30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

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Mark Pikul, Mapping and Charting Est. - DND (Participant)

Hugh Rogerson, Mapping and Charting Est. - DND (Participant)

This Canadian military presentation will show various datasets of survey grade terrestrial LiDAR, discuss collection methods to achieve the best re...
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Megan Beange - National BIM Lead - Digital Built Government of Canada
30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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Megan Beange, Public Services and Procurement Canada (Participant)

Megan works with national players in the Construction Industry, balancing high-level strategic direction and thinking with operational needs and te...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Dallas Rathbone - Talk: The Future of Discrete Global Grid Systems
30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Dallas Rathbone, Global Grid Systems (Participant)

Global Grid Systems is on the leading edge of DGGS technology and is applying it in many exciting applications. A Discrete Global Grid...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Sergey Samsonov - Canada Centre Remote Sensing (NRCan), Talk: RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Are you ready?
30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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Talk

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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites image the Earth in all weather conditions, day or night. Canada’s RADARSAT-2 satellite, launched in 2007,...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Nicolas Martinez - Statistics Canada, Talk: Earth Observation Data & Artificial Intelligence to Estimate Construction Starts
30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Nicolas Martinez, Statistics Canada (Participant)

Elton Cryderman, Statistics Canada (Participant)

Investment in building construction statistics for the residential and non-residential sectors account for approximately 5% of GDP and are us...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Doing "Geospatial" business with the Government of Canada
1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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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
2:00 PM
Will Cadell - CEO - Sparkgeo, Talk: Building a Small Canadian Geospatial Company with Global Influence
15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

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Talk

It takes village to raise a business, but there is no reason it shouldn’t be a global village. Sparkgeo started with the simple idea that it woul...
2:15 PM
2:15 PM
Alessandro Alasia - Chief - Statistics Canada, Talk:The Linkable Open Data Environment
30 minutes, 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

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Alessandro Alasia, Statistics Canada (Participant)

Over the last few years, the Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) at Statistics Canada has conducted an increasing amount of work with open ...
2:45 PM
2:45 PM
Roya Olyazadeh - Postdoc - Univ Calgary, Talk: Conventional GIS vs DGGS for Natural Hazard Risk Management
15 minutes, 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

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Roya Olyazadeh, University of Calgary (Participant)

Due to climate change, natural hazards are happening more in recent days. Analyzing these changes and prediction of future hazards have been always...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Benjamin Ulmer - M.Sc. student - Univ Calgary, Talk: Volumetric Discrete Global Grid Systems
15 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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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...