Zihan Chen

PhD Candidate

Université Laval

Sessions in which Zihan Chen attends

Tuesday 22 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)

10:45 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...

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...

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...

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)

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...

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...

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...