Presentation Tracks

High Accuracy GIS
Advancements in High Accuracy (survey) data are driven by the ever-increasing need for improved accuracy in GIS data. High Accuracy data can be defined in a multitude of ways, depending on the application the GIS data is employed in. This track session will focus on GIS systems that require High Accuracy geospatial data (including but not limited to GIS, GPS, LiDAR, and other survey methods) to manage current and future survey, engineering and construction projects.

Engineering, Design, and Construction with GIS
This track session will focus on how GIS enables accurate, spatially-referenced data to be efficiently gathered, displayed, and analyzed. Project managers demand access to the best available and relevant spatial information to make decisions; GIS offers the tools to assist in these efforts. Discussions will also include how GIS serves and connects field operators, design techs, and business owners through data management.

Data Management and Analysis
This track session will provide an overview of applications and tools developed to support the management of critical resources. These tools seek to improve the process of creating and maintaining accurate and authoritative data used by surveying and engineering GIS systems. GIS systems will range from local, regional, and the national level.

Cadastral
Critical to successful national economies, cadastral systems are develop and tailored to support land and resource management activities including property rights, personal ownership, and tax assessment. This track session will explore how GIS tools manage the distribution of public and private lands and integrate geospatial knowledge into related municipal systems.

Geodesy
Sustaining the National Spatial Reference System has long been the responsibility of the NOAA's National Geodetic Survey agency. Through time and great technological advancements we are surrounded with high precise hardware, software, procedures and an abundance of high accurate data. This track will focus on how the geodesy community will harness high accurate data and properly apply geodetic processes to be incorporated into GIS systems.

Business
GIS isn't just for big companies, it's applicable to small businesses too. This track will offer in-depth case studies and analysis of how GIS technology as a tool to monitor the pulse of your business, track projects, and make better decisions and predictions of future opportunities is essential to survey and engineering business owners.