KEYNOTE - KPMG/Environics - Casey Price and Eugene Chan; Big data & GIS: Collision or Collaboration?
Confederation College - Raquel Glavish and Marcello Pettenuzzo; Selecting Locations for Pedestrian Crosswalks for the City of Thunder Bay
First Base Solutions / JD Barnes - Joseph Ababio; Data Capture from the Ground to the Sky: Revolutionizing Land Surveying with Aerial Advancements and the Future Frontiers in Geospatial Intelligence
CRIBE - Sarah Benčić; GIS for NetZero Solutions in Our Changing Reality.
CE Strategies - Rylie Nellis and Ericka James; Emergency Management Shifting to a Digital Environment
Airborne Imaging - Susan Muleme Kasumba; MNRF GeoHUB LiDAR Review; data to manage chaos
Multiple Speed Networking Events throughout the day
Presenter AbstractsKeynotesKPMG/Environics - Casey Price & Eugene Chan: Big data & GIS: Collision or Collaboration?
Our exciting Keynote Address from Casey Price at Environics and Eugene Chan from KPMG, will conceptualize how the GIS community is using hyper scalers to access datasets that are petabytes in size to make informed decisions when it comes to emergency response efforts, digital twins, tourism and economic development. Geospatial experts are being tasked with solving larger and larger challenges as decision makers and the general populace at large realize how many decisions are actually location based. In the last five years mobile data has begun to become integrated into geospatial solutions with the hopes of adding an element of temporally based, observed human behaviour to GIS based platforms in an effort to answer an even greater number of questions. Session Presenter AbstractsConfederation College - Raquel Glavish, Professor and Marcello Pettenuzzo, Student: Selecting Locations for Pedestrian Crosswalks for the City of Thunder BayThe City of Thunder Bay received funding towards implementing 12 new pedestrian crosswalks (PXO) to improve access to public transportation and active transportation within City limits. In the summer of 2023, 4 locations were selected and constructed. The decision of where to place these PXO’s was influenced by public recommendation and proximity to current public transportation. For the remaining 8 locations, a team from the City’s engineering department partnered with an Applied Research Team from Confederation College to determine a series of appropriate metrics to implement the remaining PXO’s to support a wider range of community members who would benefit from the addition of PXO’s. Forestry students, Marcello Pettenuzzo & Tristian Sault, utilized ArcGIS mapping capabilities and open source data to propose the optimal locations that align with the City of Thunder Bay’s strategic goals. The results finalized into a visual hierarchical map and database creating a model of best fit for these proposed PXO locations based on relevant stats and data, as well as community values considerations. Aerial data capture and image intelligence began in Canada in the early 1900s, but was initially limited to large-budget projects, predominantly for government agencies. Fast forward a century to the early 2000s, and we witnessed the proliferation of advanced aerial data capture tools, notably Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), becoming accessible to the public. This development introduced a new paradigm and expanded the toolkit available for land surveyors in data capture. My presentation will explore the journey from the 1990s that led to this proliferation in the early 2000s. It will examine how RPAS are transforming land surveyors' workflows and consider the future of the technology and software used for processing RPAS-captured data. The advancements in data capture technologies and techniques available to surveyors today are growing at an exponential rate compared to just a decade ago. While this is exciting, it also poses questions on how we can harness these benefits for our businesses, fully understand the limitations, and address the ethical concerns that arise. CRIBE - Sarah Benčić, GIS for NetZero Solutions in Our Changing RealityThe Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has been the warehouse of mapping data for the province for decades. In 2017, they started the largest ever LiDAR acquisition project for the province. Over 35,000 square kilometers was acquired. In 2022, a four year project was started with the goal of over 60,000 square kilometers to be acquired. Year 3 spring acquisition has just been completed. All of this data is available for free under the Ontario Elevation Mapping Program. The presentation will discuss LiDAR has been acquired, the specifications and the deliverables. Susan will also share the proposed future locations of acquisitions, under the four year program. Finally, Susan will demonstrate how to access the data on the GeoHub website. Your contribution plays a crucial role in supporting this geospatial and information community event and ensuring its success.If you have questions or dietary restrictions, please contact: Angela MacEachern Sponsors |