Sessions at a Glance

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications (FOSS4G) in the USA and around the World

GIS: A Medium for Local and Regional Development (Rocky Mountain URISA)

GIS in Conservation

GIS in Education: Essential Lifelong Learning

Lessons from the Intersection, the GIS Practitioner, and the Land Surveyor (PLSC)

Planes, Drones, and Features (ASPRS – Rocky Mountain Region)

Programming/Development

Using GIS to Support Collaboration, Coordination, and Cooperation across Various Levels of Government (GIS

Colorado)

Vendor Showcase

Web Mapping - Emerging Technologies, Spatial Storytelling, and Public Participation

Poster Session

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Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications (FOSS4G) in the USA and around the

World

Track Chair: Rafael Moreno The creativity, dynamism and high-profile success stories of the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial

applications (FOSS4G) movement are attracting increasing attention from end users, developers, businesses,

governments, educators and researchers around the world. This track will offer the opportunity to see several

FOSS4G projects and developments highlighting the advantages and challenges in using FOSS4G technologies in

diverse contexts and applications in the USA and around the world.

Facilitators and Inhibitors for the Integration and Use of FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for

Geospatial Applications) in the Geospatial Science and Technology Arena (Rafael Moreno, Dave Murray)

Why FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications) in the Preparation of the Next Generation of Geospatial Professionals (Rafael Moreno)

Bringing Spatial Analysis to the Web: Web GIS Decision Tools at NREL (Jon Duckworth)

Developing and Implementing Spatial ETL Processes with Open Source Tools (Matthew Baker)

Building Safe Neighborhoods with Open Source Tools (Matthew Baker)

GRASS GIS Point Cloud Exploratory Data Analysis: An Open Source Toolkit for Point Cloud Data Processing (Robert Dzur)

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GIS: A Medium for Local and Regional Development

Society: Rocky Mountain URISA Track Chair: Vince Rosales A forum to share your success in using GIS for local and regional development in communicating concepts, plans

and ideas to enhance prosperity, promote well-being and improve living standards.

Top 5 Greatest Concerns of Those Seeking to Procure Geospatial Mapping Services (Imagery, Mapping,

LiDAR, etc.) (Larry Schaner)

A Spatial Analysis of Bicycling Behavior in Colorado Using Census Data (Jim Castagneri)

Geographic Programs Supporting the 2020 Census (Jim Castagneri)

Why Data Quality Matters—Now More Than Ever (Joseph Kerski)

Pragmatic Decisions in GIS Data Sharing Portals (James Fee)

Challenges to Implementing an Enterprise GIS Landbase Maintenance Program (Patrick Noonan)

National Hydrography Dataset Network-Linked Data Registry in USGS ScienceBase (Michael Tinker)

Colorado Trail System - A Collaborative Effort to Map Our Trails (Eric Drummond & Seth McClean)

Enterprise Strategy for Mobile Geospatial Applications (Peter Batty)

Integration of Utility Locations, Land Owner Tracking, and Right-of-way Mapping to Support Planning Level Design of over 200 Miles of Water Pipeline (Fredrick Easton & Doug Barker)

Ring-Pattern of Older Adult Population in Urban Areas (Zhou Yu & Jie Wu)

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GIS in Conservation

Track Chair: Alison Gallensky Conservation encompasses the preservation, protection, and restoration of natural and cultural resources. GIS

mapping and analysis has a long history in this field, helping to identify areas with high biodiversity and/or

cultural significance, identifying threats, supporting conservation decisions, and making complex issues easier to

understand. GIS is used by government, corporate, and non-profit organizations, here in Colorado, nationwide

and around the world to protect our history and our planet for ourselves and generations to come.

Off-the-Shelf Data Collection Solutions for Weed Management (Christopher Park, Christopher Ness)

Visualizing, Ranking, and Predicting Fish Habitat Quality: A Mapplication Development Story (Frank Orr)

National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution (NHDPlusHR) Status (Ellen Finelli)

Automated River Classification Using GIS-Delineated Functional Process Zones in the Western U.S. and Mongolia (Nicholas Kotlinski)

Applications of the BLM’s Rapid Ecoregional Assessments and Other Broad Scale Data (Sam Litschert)

Broad-scale Assessment, Planning and Management of Public Lands: BLM’s Landscape Approach and Rapid Ecoregional Assessments (Kevin Miller)

A Climate Change Vulnerability Framework and Custom Visualization Tool (Jennifer Horsman)

Hydrologic and Cartographic Generalization: VisibilityFilter and NHDPlusHR (Ariel Doumbouya)

Under the Hood of an REA: What is within a Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (Chris Woodward)

Identifying Wetland Gems in the Rio Grande National Forest (Alison Gallensky & Aaron Hall)

Analysis of Lidar-derived Stream/River Features and Potential Enhancements to the National Hydrography Dataset (Cynthia Miller-Corbett)

Geolocation by Light: Following the Migration of Lesser Kestrels of Mongolia (Paul Millhouser)

Ecological and Social Resilience to Climate Variability: The Case of the Bourgou Floodplain Vegetation (Echinochloa stagnina) of the Inland Niger Delta in Central Mali (Hannah Friedrich)

Strategies and Tips for Large Scale Data Collection - The Trust for Public Land's ParkServe™ (Emmalee Dolfi & Holly Winscott)

Soil and Moisture Information Linking to the Amoeba-Plague Relation within Prairie Dog Colonies (Brandon Lemire)

Geospatial and Temporal Population Analysis of Shortgrass Prairie Birds as a STEM Community Service Project (Kathryn de Venecia)

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GIS in Education: Essential Lifelong Learning

Track Chair: Melinda Laturi Spatial literacy and geospatial technologies evolve quickly, so how and when does one begin their GIS journey?

How does one decide what training, education, or lifelong learning works best in this ever-changingfield? What

about internships, the job of your dreams, or retirement? This track will discuss how GIS professionals can keep

their skills up-to-date and how we can all contribute back to the long-term societal impact of spatial learning at

the elementary, post-secondary, and university levels.

Addressing Challenges to Effective Learning in GIS Classes with a Variety of Interests and Skill Levels

(Elizabeth Tulanowski)

Evolving the Classroom: An Experiment to Increase Learning and Comprehension Using a “Flipped Classroom” Model (Jennifer Muha)

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Lessons from the Intersection, the GIS Practitioner, and the Land Surveyor

Society: PLSC Track Chair: Steve Parker

How Advancements in GNSS Technology will Influence the Relationship between Surveying and GIS (Joey Stone)

Creating Custom Projection Files for Ground Adjusted Coordinate Systems (Steven Parker)

An Introduction to the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) (Todd Beers)

In the Woods – Discovering the Survey Forest through the GIS Trees (Bryan Douglass)

Understanding the Language of GIS and CAD (Warren Geissler)

GIS for Surveyors: A GIS Tool For Researching Internal Surveying Control Information (Craig Amey)

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Planes, Drones, and Features

Society: ASPRS – Rocky Mountain Region Track Chair: Harold Schuch In with the old, in with the new. It is easy to forget lessons learned, and to overlook new ones. This track will

cover a variety of topics related to the world of data gathering and processing, something dear to GIS users.

Creating a Burn Severity Map Using Classification and Regression Tree (CART) (Michael Tuffy)

The Lands They Are A’Changing: Evaluating Change on a National Scale (Kristina Yamamoto)

Overview and User Perspective of USGS 3DEP Lidar (John Kosovich)

Advantages of a Supervised Multi-Attribute Classification (SMAC) Method for Vegetation Mapping and Monitorin (Catherine Maynard)

UAVs and the FAA: What You Need to Know to Fly (Caitlin Reusch)

Science, Scale, and Innovation - When Remote Sensing Analytics Drive Solutions in the Modern Enterprise (Rebecca Lasica)

Considering a UAV - Now what? (Bill Timmins)

The Impact of UAS - a remote sensing perspective (Chris Lippitt)

Spatial Analysis at the Continental Scale: A Practical Approach (Daniel Getman)

Characterizing Pavement Surface Distress Conditions with Hyper-Spatial Resolution Natural Color Aerial Photography (Su Zhang)

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Programming/Development

Track Chair: Brooke Cholvin

Real-Time Watershed Delineation on the Client-side Web Applications (Yusuf Sermet)

Geospatial JavaScript - So Many Choices, So Little Time (Andy Gup)

Automating Regional Data Integration for Emergency Services with Python (Heather Widlund)

Using ESRI’s JavaScript API to Disperse GIS Data (Michael Heirendt)

Geospatial Data Complexity in Enterprise level Automated Tool (Shyam Parhi)

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Using GIS to Support Collaboration, Coordination, and Cooperation across Various Levels of

Government

Society: GIS Colorado Track Chair: Barbara Morey This track will present proposed and/or completed GIS projects that have fostered a collaborative working

relationship between government departments and between government agencies. This can include anything

from communication and workflows to software or applications.

GIS and Emergency Response: The Critical Role of GIS in a 911 Environment (Kim McAndrews, Heather Hoelting)

Mapping ROW in Unincorporated Adams County (Brandi Rank, Claire Brewer)

Mapping Marijuana: Eligible Dispensary Locations in the City of Denver (Grant Garstka)

Using GIS and Asset Management to Make Data Driven Decisions (Charles Osterman)

Creating a Quick Map Configured to US Topo Specifications Using the Topo TNM Style Template (Andrew Stauffer)

Print On Demand (POD) and Map Automation (Helmut Lestinsky)

Improving GIS Response for Emergency Management (Stephanie Oliver)

Using GIS in the Marijuana License Permitting Process (Bruce Reagan & Judy Steele)

ArcGIS + Online Time Reporting = Live Online Vote Center Reporting in 2016 (Dominick Cisson)

Put it on a Map: The National Map Corps (Rachel Stevenson & Erin Korris)

Georgia State Route Prioritization (Paul Tanner)

Deploying an Enterprise GIS for the Town of Snowmass Village (Matthew McLamb & Chase Anderson)

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Vendor Showcase

Track Chair: Cerian Gibbes The Vendor Showcase is an opportunity for businesses, small or large, to demonstrate to conference attendees

new products and/or existing products related geospatial technologies and information science.

Bettering Our GNSS Data Collection: How Do You Really Know the Accuracy and Precision of Your

GPS/GNSS Field Data? (Zach Edwards)

Benefits of Large Volume Production of High Density Airborne LIDAR Using Geiger Mode Technology (Anthony Palizzi)

Transforming Asset Management Inspections Leveraging the GIS (Joe Pilimai)

ArcGIS Online: Management Tips and Tools for Success (David Vaillancourt)

GIS, Work, and Asset Management - A Powerful Trio (Quint Pertzsch & Todd Henderson)

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Web Mapping - Emerging Technologies, Spatial Storytelling, and Public Participation Track Chair: Guthrie Alexander While maps on the web are nothing new, their usage and applications are quickly evolving. Over the past few

years several companies and open source solutions have been offering “Software as a Service” applications that

are spatially focused, opening up data processing, visualization, and user interaction to a much wider audience

than traditional GIS. Web mapping technologies are also revolutionizing the way we tell stories online adding a

spatial depth to issues that static maps and infographics cannot. Telling stories in a spatial format take on a

broad range of topics from major online publications, nonprofit conservation efforts, tracking races, the

possibilities are endless in a world where everything we do has a place.

Development of an ArcGIS Online Web-Application for Real-time Laboratory Capacity Monitoring in

Cameroon, Africa (Travis Sondgerath)

Towards Cartographic Standards for Web-Based Flood Hazard Maps (Eben Dennis)

Colorado Oil & Gas Wells Over Time (William Carter)

QGIS Cloud and ArcGIS Online Comparison: Novice Design from a Historian's Perspective (Kirby Page-Schmit)

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Poster Session Track Chair: Stephen Bankston The Poster Session is a great way to visually present current or past projects and/or cartographic productions

without having to sign up for a full presentation in a designated room. Poster topics range all across the board

on subject matter and are a great visual tool to present projects and maps.

* Abstract will also be presented as a talk in technical session.

Using ESRI's JavaScript API to Disperse GIS Data (Michael Heirendt) *

Water & Climate Web Atlas: An Interactive Application for Wyoming Stakeholders (Jalynda Mckay)

Utilization of GIS Software to Develop As-Built Terrains for Hydraulic Modeling (Joel Murray)

Mapping Spruce Beetle Outbreak Severity and Distribution in Colorado Using Landsat and Integrative

Spatial Modelling (Brian Woodward)

Web-based Flood Loss Estimation and Emergency Support System (Enes Yildirim)

What Does 5,280 Look Like? (Grant Garstka)

City of Phoenix Enhanced Flood Risk Analysis - Estimated 100 Year Flood Damages (Jason Isherwood)

Snowbird & Alta Ski Resorts, Little Cottonwood Canyon Utah (Matt Liapis)

New Mexico - Be Lightning Aware (Alex Rice)

Using Facility Use Survey Data to Create a Future Use and Transition Plan (Brian Best & Kathleen Arbogast)

Hydrologic Flow Accumulation Modeling Using Surface Area (Mehran Ghandehari)

Assessing Field Site Suitability for Paleoecological Avalanche Research Through GIS Analysis (Zara Hickman)

EMPSi GIS in Bureau of Land Management Resource Management Plans: A Case Study (Marcia Rickey & Jenna Jonker)

Geospatial and Temporal Population Analysis of Shortgrass Prairie Birds as a STEM Community Service Project (Kathryn de Venecia)

Ecological and Social Resilience to Climate Variability: The Case of the Bourgou Floodplain Vegetation (Echinochloa stagnina) of the Inland Niger Delta in Central Mali (Hannah Friedrich)

GIS and Avalanche Susceptibility: Logistic Regression Analysis and Hazard Mapping (Benjamin Glennon)

Assessment of GlobalLand30 Classification of Temperate and Tropical Mexican Forest (Daniel Carver)

Making Data Conversion Sexy - We Had to Get Your Attention Somehow (Casey Fortman & Derek Hoshijo)

Volunteers of The National Map Corps (Erin Korris)

NHDPlus High Resolution (Ariel Doumbouya & Karen Adkins)

Possible Indicator for Non-Stationarity in Cache la Poudre Watershed and Potential Relationship with Climate Variability (Brandon Lemire)

Growth. Growth? (Tammi Renninger)

High School Graduation Rates vs Violent Crime in Denver 2010-2012 (Melissa James)

Indicators of Spatial Autocorrelation Applied to Cesarean Section Rates from 1990-2014 (Kathleen R. Weimer)