#1    Title:     A Top Ten Issues Briefing: GIS Opportunities and Coordination Issues
Presentor:    Jeannie Watanabe, AGRC
Description:  There will be speakers on various topics of interest to the Utah GIS community. Topics will include: emerging national standards, future of the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP),  municipal boundary update initiative, The Federal Lands Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act, IS Professional certification, Census programs, The National Geospatial Programs Office, Date Preservation and Archive Initiative, Renewable Energy data, ….

#2    Title:     USDA-FSA-APFO Products and Modernization Processes for Historical Imagery
Presentor:     Brian Vanderbilt
Description:   Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO) archive holds over 10 million film images from 1955 to the present. APFO is currently designing products and processes to enable digital public access to this potentially limitless dataset. Current and planned projects include photo index scanning, hard copy/digital standard and custom orders and web based research and distribution.

#3      Title:    National Weather Service Geospatial Initiatives:  Opportunities to Improve Decision Support
Presentors:    Kevin Barjenbruch -- of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service
                      Randy Weatherly -- of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service
Description:   The National Weather Service has recently initiated several projects in the geospatial arena to deliver enhanced products and services through the integration of meteorological, hydrological, and geographic information systems data. Ideas, methods, and examples will be presented, including weather, water, and dispersion modeling displays via Google Maps and Google Earth applications, plus available shapefiles derived from gridded forecasts.

#4    Title:       GIS Management (Isn't knowing where it's at enough?) V2
Presentor:       Don Wood of Wasatch County
Description:     What is the difference between being a GIS practitioner and being a GIS manager?  While many of us have been taught how to be effective as GIS practitioners, what do we know about how to manage a GIS operation?  Managing a GIS operation is much more than just overseeing geospatial data and output generation. It involves working with the IT manager’s budget officers and the organization's management not to mention serving our customers. This presentation will discuss ideas about how to effectively manage a GIS operation as well as provide a forum for willing participants to share their ideas and experiences.

#5    Title:     Top 10 GPS Technical Support Questions
Presentor:     Andrew Johnson
Description:   This presentation will cover the top 10 helpdesk questions received regarding Trimble GPS. Afraid to ask a Technical question because you think it’s too simple? Andy Johnson, an experienced technical support specialist will go over the top 10 questions he resolves, and tips & tricks for your GPS and GIS.

#6      Title:    Digital Aerial Camera Systems: Benefits Over Traditional Film Cameras
Presentors:    Seth Tait   -- of aero-graphics
                       Casey Francis  -- of aero-graphics
Description:    The advent of digital aerial camera technology offers multiple benefits over traditional film acquisition. These include 12-16 bit native imagery versus 8-bit imagery associated with scanned film; increased radiometric quality, reduced number of required ground control points; and quicker project turnarounds.

#7    Title:       GIS Data for Regional Carbon Sequestration
Presentor:       Barry Biediger -- of AGRC
Description:     Part of the U.S Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory's regional carbon sequestration partnerships program is to take a high level inventory of  potential carbon sinks in the U.S. AGRC builds and maintains the GIS databases for 2 of the partnerships. The techniques used to create and share these databases as well as some of the challenges involved will be discussed.

#8      Title:     Pavement Management in GIS
Presentors:      Kasey Hansen -- of Gateway Mapping, INC
                         Andy Aston -- of Gateway Mapping, INC
Description:      Pavement Management is a mandatory issue for most cities and counties. With rising costs and a struggling economy, the expense of maintaining roadways is increasing, yet the need for safe, well-kept roads is not going away. Therefore, it makes good sense to have an efficient pavement management program. This presentation will show examples of how GIS is an excellent tool for planning and maintaining a pavement management system.

#9      Title:  CAD and GIS integration – The “gap” has been filled!
Presentors:   Joe Travis of Autodesk, Inc.
                      Pete Southwood of Autodesk, Inc.
Description:  For some years now major CAD and GIS vendors have been trying to “Bridge the Gap” between the two technologies and it is a pain point to many organizations. What if the gap was eliminated? What if there was a technology that fully integrated CAD and GIS? There is, and this session will introduce you to FDO (Feature Data Objects), an open source middleware that vaporizes the word “integration” and replaces it with the term “Native Access”. That’s right, native read and write capabilities to all major GIS formats from your CAD tools!   

#10  Title:       Geotagging Photos and GIS in Public Works
Presentor:       Steven Johnson --  City of Orem
Description:     If a picture is worth a thousand words, a properly geotagged photo must be worth 10,000. This presentation will show the value of using digital photography and GIS to document infrastructure condition and to track incidents and their resolutions.

#11  Title:     Measuring accessibility in complex travel environments using time geographic fields
Presentor:     Harvey J. Miller -- of Department of Geography of University of Utah
Description:   Time geography is a powerful perspective for measuring and analyzing the accessibility to activities and opportunities in a given environment. In particular, the space-time prism can demarcate the accessible locations and times where a person can be given their activity schedule and the travel velocities afforded by available transportation resources. However, classic time geography is limited since it assumes an unrealistic uniform maximum travel velocity for tractability. GIS is relaxing this limitation. Using the “urban fields” tradition in quantitative geography and regional science, this paper formulates definitions of the space-time prism for the case where movement occurs through a velocity field representing the complex travel environment. This paper illustrates the approach in Salt Lake City using a lattice approximation and ArcGIS tools.

#12  Title:    Bridging the Gap – High Accuracy GIS - H-Star Technology
Presentor:    Tom Wussow --  of Monsen Engineering
Description:  Many changes have taken place over the years that have made GPS technology much
better. These are some of the topics discussed in this presentation:
- What types of “real-time” corrections are available and the associated accuracies?
- Does it make sense to use an external antenna or simply use the internal antenna?
- What incremental improvements have we seen in the software?
– Best Practices… how do we ensure getting the best data we can?

#13    Title:  Using MapGuide Open Source to publish spatially aware content (GIS, FM, and BIM)
Presentors:   Joe Travis of Autodesk, Inc.
                      Pete Southwood of Autodesk, Inc.
Description:  This course will cover a brief history of Open Source Web Mapping and how it can be applied in your organization for project tracking, facilities management, GIS, asset tracking, BIM integration, dispatching, Google Earth integration and more! MapGuide Open Source is a web environment that’s easy to manage, easy to deploy and easy to create – believe you me, it’s a technology you can’t live without (and won’t want to after this)!

#14    Title:  Automated Extraction of Structures from Aerial Imagery of Carbon County, UT
Presentors:   Tom Springsteen of UofU
Description:  This presentation overviews methods and results for automated extraction of structures from NAIP imagery for parts of Carbon County, UT, using Visual Learning Systems’ Feature Analyst and ENVI Feature Extraction Module. The intended use is for distribution to counties for automated use.

#15    Title:  Using The Utah Reference Network for GIS Applications
Presentors:  Ryan Judd, Kaysville City    
                     Mike Heagin, AGRC
Description:  Now that The Utah Reference Network GPS (TURNGPS) covers nearly 75 percent of the State, how can GIS users benefit from this mainstream infrastructure? This presentation will discuss the ability to navigate realtime back to a previously collected point with extremely accurate results using a mapping grade GPS receiver connected to TURNGPS and using good field techniques to assure you are getting accurate results.

Access critical information from local, state, and federal government agencies Integrate data such as accessible roads, property ownership, and fire preplans Identify critical areas to develop long-term prevention and mitigation plans Learn how GIS creates streamlined, flexible workflows that provide correct information quickly.

Harness GIS processes that assist with many different strategic and tactical issues such as warrant services, SWAT incidents, search and rescue operations, court presentations, and more. Enhance situational awareness by accessing current, relevant information in the office and the field and serve this information to satellite offices and other agencies.

#18    Title:     GIS and Interagency Collaboration
Presentors:     Steve Bein, PE, GISP of Bush & Gudgell / RBF Consulting
Description:     GIS can enhance the success of multiple agencies or jurisdictions in completing a regional project or creating a regional GIS collaboration by building on the efficiencies of strength in numbers. Particularly germane at this time of limited staffing and tight budgets, this session will present example projects in several western and intermountain states where Cities and Counties collaborate to combine their data and efforts together to create a regional GIS which benefits each entity more than any single effort alone.  

#19    Title:     Economic Analysis of Small Watershed Structure Benefits Using GIS
Presentors:     Julie Suhr Nelson -- of  Natural Resources Conservation Service 
                        Ryan Pierce -- of  Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description:     The USDA NRCS has used GIS, GPS, parcel data, and economic modeling to evaluate the benefits provided by small watershed structures constructed by the agency. NRCS used geodata to estimate the physical damages that would have been expected to occur over time had the structures not been in place.

#20    Title:  Earth and Utah—The Big Picture: an interactive workshop
Presentors:   J Andrade, The Leonardo/Utah Science Center, 
                     with: Jake Hanson, Laura Shearer, Jeremy Smith, and S. Matuauto --University of Utah
Description:  A team of University of Utah student interns, USC staff, and local GIS/mapping experts are developing planetary and regional visualization programs, activities, and exhibits to be presented via Magic Planet (www.globalimagination.org) and flat screen modalities. The team is focusing on the Earth’s and Utah’s energy resources and energy geography via a ‘big picture’, integrated approach.

Global, regional, and local data -- using sphere projection for global data and perspectives and traditional flat screen/zooming for regional and local perspectives—will be inter-connected to facilitate a Google Earth—like zooming experience with at least some GIS data layering capabilities. This experience will be presented to and evaluated by conference participants -- using a portable Magic Planet system.

#21   Title:     Utah’s Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Use of GIS to Gain Situation Awareness
Presentor:      Mike Heagin
Description:    Utah's Child Abduction Response Team, provides professionals from a variety of local, state, and federal agencies to assist local law enforcement when ever a child is missing or endangered. The Utah State Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC) provides assistance in
organizing, analyzing, and producing any GIS data or products required.

#22    Title:   Creating an IMS, It's that easy
Presentors:   Brock Fausett, GIS Tech of Carbon County GIS
                      Mellissa Lasslo, GIS Tech of Carbon County GIS
Description:   Has anyone ever been frustrated with the task of creating and maintaining an IMS? Carbon County, UT has been working on creating and implementing a more manageable system of IMS. One that in fact can be created quickly with relative ease and be tailored for more specific applications. As more and more GIS professionals are being required to make their data public, IMS systems have proven to be invaluable. Come and learn of methods that can make this vital tool even more convenient.

#23    Title:     FEMA Flood Insurance Map Modernization in Utah and associated GIS tools and standards
Presentors:     Remmet deGroot of URS Corporation
                        Amisha Lester of UT Dept of Public Safety  
Description:     Since 2004 FEMA has been updating the nation's Flood Insurance Maps into a standardized GIS format. The Utah Division of Homeland Security has partnered with FEMA to update each of Utah's counties. This breakout session will discuss the status of Utah's counties and highlight FEMA GIS processes and spatial standards.

#24    Title:     New GIS-Based Geologic-Hazard and Adverse-Construction-Condition Maps for the St. George-Hurricane Metropolitan Area, Southwestern Utah
Presentors:     Tyler R. Knudsen of Utah Geological Survey 
                        Garrett S. Vice of Utah Geological Survey 
                        Lucas M. Shaw of Utah Geological Survey 
                        Barry Biediger of Utah Geological Survey
Description:     The Utah Geological Survey has released a new report, including 14 GIS-based maps that identify geologic hazards and adverse construction conditions in the St. George-Hurricane area. A GIS search application, developed in consultation with the Utah AGRC, permits users to query specific locations or parcels for mapped geologic hazards or adverse construction conditions.

#25    Title:   Transportaion Discussion
Presentors:   James Wingate of Blue Stakes
                      Bert Granberg of AGRC
Description:  One of the outcomes from the Utah Geospatial Infrastrure (UGI) strategic plan was a priority to develop and refine data models used to share data across the state. The Utah Transportation Data Model was the first such data model developed in the state for data sharing. It attempts to meet many of the great variety of data elements associated with centerline street/road data but it is 10 years old and could stand some improvement. The same goes for the methodology used to share and aggregate centerline data across jurisidictions. This session will include a brief presentation by AGRC and Blue Stakes, sharing the position of the data aggregator and data consumer. From there we plan a discussion on where we should take the UTDM and data sharing processes to better meet current and future geospatial data needs.

#26    Title:    Commercial Internet Mapping Impacts Government GIS Data Development and Services
Presentors:    Wansoo
Description:    Commercial Internet applications like Google Maps™, Google Earth™ and Microsoft Virtual Earth™ are having a significant impact on the GIS industry by exposing the power of spatial data to the general public through their friendly user interfaces and easily accessible application programming interfaces (API). The question remains as to how these open map API technologies affect government investments in geospatial data development and geospatial services. As part of the research, we conducted an online survey of 310 agencies representing various North American governmental sectors (federal, state/provincial, county, municipal and agency levels) in 2008. According to the survey, nearly 50% of government sector respondents used or planned to use Google Maps API or MS Virtual Earth API in the near future. In this presentation, we will review the survey outcome in detail and discuss its implications to GIS professionals.

#27    Title:     Tracking Maintenance Operations and Costs in a versioned SDE Environment
Presentors:      Billy Lang of Cityworks by Azteca Systems
                        Tamara Wambeam of SLC Public Utilities
Description:     Using an ArcSDE 9.3 geodatabase and Azteca Systems Cityworks GIS- Centric CMMS solution, Salt Lake City Public Utilities distributes multiple versions of its asset geodatabase in support of ongoing activities for both administrative and field staff. Working as a team, administrative and field personnel document the maintenance of our asset infrastructure including water, sewer, and storm drainage maintenance activities. Through our work order system we can keep track of time worked, equipment and materials used, and the costs associated with each project. The CMMS is attached to our GIS features and can be queried through ArcGIS. We use Crystal Reports to create monthly and yearly reports for auditing purposes and planning for future infrastructure needs. We will discuss our database set up including versioning, how we create and maintain the work order system, how our inventory system is run, and how we use the information we collect.

#28  Title:    Creating GIS Web Dashboards with the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API
Presentor:    Scott Davis, GIS Coordinator of Sandy City Public Works
Description:  Web Dashboards are web pages that are a “one stop shop” for management to get an overall feel of what is going on in their organization. The new ArcGIS Server JavaScript API is a great tool for creating dashboards that display your own organization's GIS data. The goal of this presentation will be to introduce and define dashboards, give some examples of some that I and others have created, and give you some resources and ideas on how to get started creating your own.

#29   Title:    Accuracy of object based classification of fine spatial remote sensing data in Orem, UT
Presenter:     Rich Curran – of the Department of Geography of Brigham Young University
Description:   Object-based classification is a method of classifying an aerial image by using spectral and spatial information, which allows for classification of high-resolution imagery. Since 1996, Orem City has been using hand digitization to classify commercial impervious surfaces through out the city. This is done in order to calculate the total square footage of impervious surface to in turn asses a storm sewer fee for each commercial lot in the city, which can be a time consuming process. This presentation will show our study of the accuracy of object based classification and its potential to replace hand digitization.

#30  Title:       Successful Integrations of GIS and Google Earth    
Presentor:       Matt McCullough -- GIS Specialist II from Farmington City
Description:     Farmington City (Davis County) has created numerous successful projects in the past year involving the integration of our GIS data into Google Earth. We would like to present these projects along with the steps involved in making them successful to the GIS community at the 2009 UGIC Conference.

#31    Title:     Demographic Modeling Techniques Using GIS for Nuclear Power Plant Emergencies
Presentors:     Bill Proger
Description:     This paper describes one approach to building the population component of a disaster evacuation model for the 10-mile emergency planning zone of a nuclear power plant, using categories of current and projected future populations. These categories include permanent, daytime employed, and a “special facility” category.

#32   Title:     Using Remote Sensing to Monitor Tamarisk Defoliation by the Saltcedar Leaf Beetle in Southern Utah
Presentors:     Philip Dennison of the UofU
Description:     Non-native tamarisk (saltcedar) has invaded riparian ecosystems throughout Utah. The saltcedar leaf beetle has been released in southern Utah in an attempt to control tamarisk infestations. Remote sensing data are being used to map defoliation of tamarisk and quantify potential water savings as the beetle spreads.

#32   Title:     Mapping Vegetation in the Wasatch Mountains using AVIRIS hyperspectral imagery and various classification methods
Presentors:    Abigail N. Guess of the UofU 
Description:    We examined the ability to map vegetation in the Wasatch Mountain Range using hyperspectral imagery. The imagery used was 20m AVIRIS acquired in August 1998. The imagery was corrected to apparent surface reflectance and resampled to 40m and 60m pixels. Classification techniques used included MESMA, SAM and Maximum Likelihood Supervised Classification.  

#33    Title:    The New, Old Unified Addressing System
Presentors:     Benjamin B Clement of Carbon County
Description:     As more disparate groups require accurate situs addresses, the need for unification becomes more apparent. Utility companies, insurance companies, delivery personnel and even your local libraries need to know your situs address. Each city within each county in the nation has set up a similar but unique addressing system and the sheer number of systems ensures that there cannot be seamless and accurate interpretation across them all. Nowhere is this more problematic than when there is an emergency and time and accuracy are paramount. E-911 systems use traditional street addresses for land lines, but cell phones and VOIP systems require the use of latitude and longitude. I propose that using a latitude and longitude based addressing system will be able to unify all the systems into one. And most importantly, it will be a system that computers and GPS devices speak natively cutting out the middle man entirely.
Come join the panel discussion and express your views and concerns. Please see the Carbon County proposal under addressing standards at AGRC's website for a preview.

#34    Title:    Geodatabase Replication - A Real World Example
Presentors:    Scott Davis from Sandy City
                      Joe Borgione from VECC
Description:   This presentation will outline the Replicated Geodatabase model that Salt Lake Valley Emergency Communications Center (VECC) has implemented in conjunction with participating cities. This technology has allowed individual cities to maintain a local copy of their street centerline data and automatically synchronize any changes with the VECC database via a simple Python script. We will go over the initial setup and some custom configurations that have been implemented from the perspective of one of the participating cities.

#35   Title:      Public Health Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment
Presentor:       Janice Panichello  -- Epidemiologist, Utah Department of Health
Description:     Experiences and examples of the Utah Department of Health's use of GIS for disease mapping and risk assessment including novel approaches GIS-based approaches for defining at risk populations and linking those populations to environmental hazards. Particular emphasis will be on the implementation of the Rapid Inquiry Facility application.

#36  Title:      Introduction to Open Source RS/GIS programming with Python
Presentor:      Chris Garrard -- of the RS/GIS Lab at Utah State University
Description:    This presentation will briefly introduce the Python bindings for the Open Source GDAL and OGR libraries. This is for you if you need to perform simple geoprocessing or raster data manipulation using free software. We have also used these to automate raster processing that proprietary software choked on.

#37    Title:    Using ArcGIS to map and atribute landslides for Land Management in twelvemile canyon, Utah, Manti-LaSal National Forest
Presentors:    Richard E. Giraud 
                       Greg N. McDonald
                       Pete Kilbourne
Description:    Twelvemile Canyon is an area of extensive landsliding that has historically impacted Manti-LaSal National Forest lands. We use ArcGIS as a tool to map, inventory, and attribute landslides for subsequent land-management analysis. ArcGIS is also an effective analysis tool to understand the spatial relationships between landslides and impacted forest resources for use in forest land management.

#38    Title:     Accessibility Audit using Public Participatory Geographic Information System (PPGIS) in West Windsor Township, NJ
Presentors:     Wansoo
Description:     Mapping technology has played a vital role for non-profit organizations, such as the West Windsor Bike and Pedestrian Association (WWBPA), providing powerful tools for data visualization and communication. The WWBPA applies PPGIS strategies to evaluate street and sidewalk conditions in their community to aide in their campaign for improved sidewalk and crosswalk conditions, for the benefit of the general public as well as disabled citizens. The maps are also used as a visual representation of the existing bike and pedestrian infrastructure for local residents, who are able to participate in improving accessibility by voicing their concerns via easy-to-use PPGIS applications. In this presentation, we examine the potential of PPGIS in communities that promote accessibility and a barrier-free environment, using the WWBPA as a case study.

#39   Title:   Urban land cover maps: imagery and methods for operational production of GIS-ready data
Presentor:     Kent L. Simons of BYU Geography Dept., Candidate for MS Degree
Description:   Creation of land cover maps of urban areas is an increasingly important and useful application of remote sensing. Municipalities use land cover data for numerous critical planning and monitoring functions. This study examines using low-cost high resolution imagery, coupled with efficient processing methods, to produce GIS-ready detailed land cover maps of urban areas.
 
#40  Title:    Utah and Western Energy Policy in a Carbon Constrained World: How Do We Weigh Our Options?
Presentor:    Jason Berry of State Energy Program, Utah Geological Survey
Description:  Utah is unique in comparison to the rest of the West, and our energy use and consumption is no different. How will Utah and the rest of the West overcome the challenge of increasing demand for energy that is reliable, cost-effective, and carbon free?  How will governments and politicians make sound decisions regarding our energy policies?  GIS is currently one of the most important forms of data analysis and media for policy makers. Come learn how it has evolved with energy policy in the West.