Wenzheng Fan

Data Scientist

LiDARist Co. Ltd.

Sessions in which Wenzheng Fan attends

Tuesday 22 March, 2022

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

10:00 AM

Reducing Damage to Underground Utility Networks, the French National DT DICT System

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

Patrice Lemire, GEOSYSTEMS France (Speaker)

The 2012 DT-DICT (Building without destroying) reform in France aims to preven...

10:45 AM

Live-Dig-Radar™: The first-ever GPR integrated in an excavator Digging Bucket

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

Yuval Barnea, Rod Radar (Speaker)

Albeit industry efforts, over 1 million underground utilities are annually hit around the world, with estimated damag...

11:30 AM

Product-as-a-Service: A Paradigm Shift in the world of Gyro-Mapping

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

Otto Ballintijn, Reduct NV (Speaker)

Gyroscopic mapping of underground ducts and pipes has been around for a few decades now, and it continues to gain traction amongst the worlds' u...

12:15 PM

New Standards for Utility Infrastructure Data

30 minutes, 12:15 PM EDT - 12:45 PM EDT

Philip Meis, Utility Mapping Services (Speaker)

Arising 3-D modeling, visualization, and design software (e.g., BIM, VDC) grea...

1:00 PM

Creating the 3D Utility Digital Twin

30 minutes, 1:00 PM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT

Joseph Hlady, Lux Modus. (Speaker)

As the world continues to grow and urbanize, new urban infrastructure is being constructed at an unprecedented rate w...

1:45 PM

Dropping the Curve

30 minutes, 1:45 PM EDT - 2:15 PM EDT

Jonathan Wagner, Scribble Maps (Speaker)

Digitizing and project management for infrastructure can be a complicated walled process. Leveraging Scribble Maps ca...

2:30 PM

The "Z" factor - Mapping the Above & Underground for all!

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

Bill McIntyre, Prostar Geocorp Inc. (Speaker)

This presentation will be focusing on the advancement of "Cloud and Mobile" technologies that are currenlty being use...

3:15 PM

How to Optimize the Asset Booking Process with Digital Construction Management Tools

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

Danny Petrecca (Speaker)

Robert Schultz, Locusview (Speaker)

Utilities and their Contractor Organizations have traditionally been responsible for the safe and effective construction of new underground faci...

4:00 PM

Panel: Developing a subsurface digital twin for Canada

45 minutes, 4:00 PM EDT - 4:45 PM EDT

Steve Slusarenko, Subsurface Utility Map Data Exchange (SUMDEx) (Moderator)

Lawrence Arcand, 4 Sight Utility Engineeers (Panelist)

Wilson Philips (Panelist)

Gord Reynolds, Infrastructure Ontario (Panelist)

Abstract:The total cost of underground infrastructure damage in Canada during excavation work is estimated to be over $1...

Wednesday 23 March, 2022

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

9:45 AM

Opening Remarks

15 minutes, 9:45 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT

Geoff Zeiss, Between the Poles (Speaker)

Jonathan Murphy, GoGeomatics Canada (Speaker)

10:00 AM

Utility Mapping Ecosystem to Support Digital Workflows

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

Victor Khoo, Singapore Land Authority (Speaker)

In Singapore, almost all utilities are buried underground to free up valuable above ground space for more liveable envi...

10:45 AM

National Underground Asset Register - United Kingdom; Applying real data to a data model

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

Amy Manefield, Geospatial Commission (Speaker)

Synopsis: The UK National Underground Asset Register has gone through rigorous pilot and preparation phases and has learned a lot about the data...

11:30 AM

Locating Underground Infrastructure Using a Drone

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

Luigi Kassir, Skipper NDT (Speaker)

Utility and energy buried pipelines represent an extensive underground network covering most of a country's territory...

12:15 PM

Eliminating the As-Built Update Backlogs by Automating Field Data Capture

30 minutes, 12:15 PM EDT - 12:45 PM EDT

Peter Batty, SSP innovations (Speaker)

A longstanding and unsolved problem for utility companies has been how to keep geospatial network asset data up to date as networks are extended...

1:00 PM

UNUM: NYU's Approach to Underground Infrastructure Interoperability in NYC

30 minutes, 1:00 PM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT

Rae Zimmerman, NYU Wagner (Speaker)

Alan Leidner, GISMO (Speaker)

Wendy Dorf, GISMO (Speaker)

NYU and GISMO's Unification for Underground Resilience Measures (UNUM) is a multi-faceted research initiative ai...

1:45 PM

Best Practices for Underground Mapping: Combining Traditional Methods with Advanced Utility Locating and Mapping Technologies

30 minutes, 1:45 PM EDT - 2:15 PM EDT

Michael Twohig, DGT Associates (Speaker)

Mitchell Liddell, DGT Associates.com (Speaker)

As one of the oldest American cities, Boston holds a rich history and culture that runs not ...

2:30 PM

Augmented Reality in Subsurface Utility Mapping

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

Michael Bundock, Augview Ltd (Speaker)

We live in a world where the skill required to interpret maps and engineering drawings is decreasing while the densit...

3:15 PM

Construction planning and execution with infrastructure mapping

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

Moufid Charafeddine, BetterGIS (Speaker)

Leading construction companies are finding a new software as a service component that enables them to view their virt...

4:00 PM

NJ DOT's Proactive Approach to Reduced Underground Utility Damages Using IMU Mapping Tools

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

Santosh Saride, Condux Intl (Speaker)

Due to aging and lack of accurate utility location information, there is significant underground congestion and conflict. This results in increa...

Thursday 24 March, 2022

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

10:00 AM

The benefits of high frequency XYZ data

1 hour, 10:00 AM EDT - 11:00 AM EDT

Available

Otto Ballintijn, Reduct NV (Speaker)

GIS platforms are typically populated with XYZ coordinates with a point spacing of 1 meter or more. in fact, most traditional land surveying tec...

1:30 PM

Scribble Maps 101

2 hours, 1:30 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT

Available

Mike Carter, Scribble Maps (Speaker)

Scribble Maps is an easy-to-use online GIS and web mapping visualization solution. The software has a robust toolset along with vast op...

2:00 PM

Introducing the RevealTwin - The world's leading subsurface utility digital twin software platform

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

Available

Sam Clive, Reveal (Speaker)

Reveal is building the world's most advanced and accurate digital twin technology for subsurface infrastructure. We're driving a safer, more eff...

Friday 25 March, 2022

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

10:30 AM

PointMan Field Data Collection - "Easy 3D mapping"

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:30 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT

Available

An overview of Prostar's "Cloud and Mobile Precision Field Data Collection Solution and the set up of the ProStar "PointMan Plus" applicat...

12:00 PM

How to Automate Digital As-Builting for Underground Utilities

45 minutes, 12:00 PM EDT - 12:45 PM EDT

Available

Danny Petrecca (Speaker)

Robert Schultz, Locusview (Speaker)

For decades, cities have required all utilities, communication providers and municipal services providers to build their facilities below ground...