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UK GIS Day Presentation Schedule Wed. Nov 15th,
Barker Hall
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| Geography The UK Geography Department's efforts in GIS have been primarily in educating students, and in research and software development related to quality control of GIS output. Some 500 students have taken one or more courses in the last 15 years. Many of those students are now in GIS positions with state governments, area development districts (ADDs), local governments, or in the private sector. Last year the Department opened a state-of-the-art GIS teaching lab in CB 313/311. Photos of the lab in use by students will be presented. The Department is also pleased to welcome it newest staff member, Jeff Levy. Jeff has worked in GIS for almost ten years, most recently for the City of Lexington. A map of some of his latest work will be presented. Some demonstrations using ArcGIS software will be shown. Finally, Prof. Michael Kennedy will have available for perusal his latest GIS/GPS textbooks: The Global Positioning System and GIS (2ed), and Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS. | High | Low |
| Kentucky Geological Survey GIS is used extensively in the Earth and environmental sciences to visualize and analyze geospatial information. Geologic maps are the basis for many decision making processes related to land development or conservation, mineral exploration, and hazards assessments. KGS has developed a nationally recognized Internet map service for geologic maps and associated data in Kentucky. This presentation will demonstrate the use of GIS to translate technical geologic maps into visualizations that can be used by a wide variety of disciplines. | High | Low |
Autodesk | High | Low |
| Forestry Songlin Fei and David Maehr will present on Tracing the Secret Creature Using GIS and GPS. In this presentation, they will present an animation program that can trace the movement of wildlife using GPS and GIS. Daily activities of black bear will be displayed as an example. In addition, wildlife pathway will be demonstrated in a 3-D environment using ArcScene. | High | Low |
| Anthropology Anthropology is broadly defined as the study of humans, including their biology, culture, language, and artifacts from the past. Anthropologists have increasingly utilized GIS to map and analyze human organization of space. This presentation will focus on how anthropologists (particularly archaeologists) at the University of Kentucky use GIS for research, cultural resource management, and government compliance. | High | Low |
| Landscape Architecture The Department of Landscape Architecture has used GIS in its teaching, research, and service for a number of years. Dr. Lee will be in the exhibit space highlighting some student work as well as on-going research projects. There will be posters and computer displays explaining the way his department utilizes geospatial technology. The department offers an introductory GIS course in the spring that is cross-listed with Natural Resources Conservation and Management. There are at least three other courses taught in the department that build on the concepts taught in the introductory course. In particular, the final studio course utilizes publicly available geospatial data to undertake a semester long service-learning course to develop a county-based master land use plan. | High | Low |
| Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments Friedrich Fraundorfer will present on 3D reconstruction and object recognition for GIS applications - GIS applications are hitting the masses (e.g. Google Earth) and we are now in need of methods to provide the necessary data. Computer vision can play an essential role in creating GIS content, like 3D models of buildings, automatically without human intervention. In addition object recognition, another main research area in computer vision, will also play an important role for GIS applications in the future, e.g. for obtaining GIS information about a building you just pictured with your camera phone. As a part of my talk I will therefore present state-of-the-art results in 3D reconstruction and object recognition and discuss their relevance to GIS applications. | High | Low |
| College of Public Health This presentation will look at breast cancer distribution across the state correlating distance traveled from patient’s residences to diagnostic facilities. | High | Low |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering The IDEA lab within the ECE department has developed a system which processes images gathered during an autonomous flight for human/visual analysis and target recognition. It does this by associating images with the exact GPS coordinate at which they were taken, and then much like Google Earth, displays the images at their fixed location on the earth. We will be showcasing this technology with computer simulations of the image interpolation process and a plane which is equipped with our GPS and image gather hardware. | High | Low |
| outrageGIS Mapping (private sector) Large-scale 3D Landscape Visualization of the Big South Fork NRRA Over the past year, outrageGIS Mapping has mapped recreational trails with GPS in the Big South Fork and recently published a 1:32k and 1:84k scale maps for this area. As an experiment, they've developed a 3D trail map of the park to better show the region's unique river gorge topography. They will briefly explain the process of creating the 3D map with open-source software and explain the possibilities and challenges of using 3D views for navigation. | High | Low |
| Photo Science, Inc. (private sector) Photo Science is a Geospatial Services firm with headquarters in Lexington that specializes in aerial imaging, data collection, photogrammetric mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and surveying services. They will be showcasing their cutting-edge 2” digital 3D imagery as well as discussing the variety of ways they utilize GIS technologies to meet the needs of their diversified client base. | High | Low |
| Physical Plant Division Facilities Management has made it a priority over the past few years to move forward into the world of GIS. This presentation will show some of the many ways PPD is currently using GIS to meet Facility Management’s needs and to promote the new GIS campus map, including a virtual 3D campus map, which will serve the UK Community and the Commonwealth. | High | Low |
Door Prizes & GIS Day Cake | . | . |
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