Virtual Meeting Space - Room 2

Sessions

Wednesday 22 July, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Calvin Klatt - Director and Chief Geodesist for the Canadian Geodetic Survey - Mind the Gap! Canada’s response to the United States’ change of reference frame: Options and Implications
45 minutes, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Room 2

Calvin Klatt PhD (Speaker)

The U.S. reference system modernization effort will replace the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) with a new North American Terrestrial Refe...
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
David Harper - Director General - ECCC - Talk: Space-Based Earth Observation in Canada - A Vision for the Future
45 minutes, 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Room 2

Space-Based Earth Observation in Canada - A Vision for the Future Today, Canada’s landscape, coasts, waters, and cities...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Hydrospatial: Science Coastal Flooding + Detection & Response for Tsunami
45 minutes, 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Room 2

Talk

Dr. Daniel Lebel, Geological Survey of Canada of Natural Resources Canada (Speaker)

Dr. Gwyn Lintern, NRCan (Speaker)

Dr. David McCormack, NRCan (Speaker)

Mark LeBlanc, Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) (Speaker)

Denis Hains, H2i (Speaker)

Ocean, Marine & Coastal Hydro(Geo)spatial Management is critical for the Blue Economy. Much knowledge, data, information and coordination ar...

Thursday 23 July, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
James Ashton - Technology Manager - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada & Paul Giroux from Slimgim - Agriculture Canada’s COVID-19 Response
45 minutes, 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Room 2

Paul Giroux, Slimgim.info (Speaker)

James Ashton, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Speaker)

Agriculture Canada’s COVID-19 response with location data & technology helping drive Objectives and Key Results (OKR’s) on the Enterprise...
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
Diversity in Leadership Panel: Canada's Geospatial Ecosystem
45 minutes, 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Room 2

Panel

David Gachuche, RiverCross Technologies (Panelist)

David Acco, Acosys Consulting Service Inc (Speaker)

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

Bilyana Anicic, Aurora Consulting (Speaker)

The GeoIgnite Conference and our sponsors are proud to present the second Diversity Leadership panel. Our inaugural Summit was a great success f...

Friday 24 July, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Dr. Heather McGrath - NRCan - Talk: Flood mapping activities and research at Natural Resources Canada
45 minutes, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Room 2

Dr. Heather McGrath, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) (Speaker)

In recognition of the increasing costs and risk due to flooding, the Government of Canada is investing in flood mapping as part of the Governmen...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
How to challenge the Lasers-scanning market at the cost of a drone and simple tools combined with Artificial Intelligence and Pix4D processing software
45 minutes, 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Room 2

J. Carlos Maia (Speaker)

Emanuele Traversari, Drone_To_Business Platform (Speaker)

The key elements to take into account a successful implementation of drone survey with a mm accuracy are: Know your camera; Trust your measureme...