The program is subject to change. Sessions listed here are sorted by track.

TRACK: Business Development & Marketing

Creating a GIS Application for Retail Centers at Jeddah City: A Macro/Micro Scale Approach
7/28/2010 10:45:00 AM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: Abdulkader Murad - King Abdulaziz University
Description: GIS provides advanced analysis tools and complete data package for analyzing retail and demographic information as an aid in making critical retail related decisions. These tolls allows retail users to cover several following tasks including choosing retail locations, identifying and reaching potential customers, finding new markets, performing customer or store prospecting, defining customer-based or store trade areas, and identifying best retail locations. The aim of this presentation is create a GIS application for retail centers in Jeddah city that covers some of these retail tasks. The crated application covers macro and micro scale analysis issues. As for the macro scale approach, the application defines the location and the distribution of all retail centers in Jeddah city. It classifies retail centers based on size and area. For the micro scale extent, the application defines the spatial location of retail demand of selected centers and also defines the primary catchment area of the selected retail centers. A survey is made for selected retail demand and GIS address geocoding function is used to convert the address data of retail demand into points features. In addition, GIS network analysis is used in this application to produce drive time based trade areas for the selected retail centers.

Bringing GIS to Financial Services
7/28/2010 11:35:00 AM - Room 420
Presenter: Andre Parris - Bloomberg, LP
Description: With Bloomberg Interactive Maps (BMAP), we’ve created a strategic decision-support tool that represents data in a visual manner. And, all this is available within the fastest, most interactive mapping platform currently available to the marketplace. Our clients answer vital questions and display answers to queries using maps and other visual formats. By providing big picture understanding of activity and events in real-time, while simultaneously providing granularity of information, Bloomberg clients can build complex impact and response models based on current data. Most importantly, our clients can customize multiple datasets into a single interactive view to determine relationships, patterns and impacts before and as events are happening, not after, when it’s too late.Combine assets with vessels and ports, real-time weather, satellite imagery and more. Track real-time hurricanes, typhoons, monsoons, tropical storms and tropical depressions. See damage forecasts on the oil, power and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico.We have set the standard in the Financial Services industry for using GIS as an important analytical tool. We’ll present why a single, stand alone GIS mapping application can provide the most comprehensive end-to-end analysis tool for both financial and physical energy market participants.

JMap 4.0: A Collaborative, Map-oriented Integration Platform
7/28/2010 2:20:00 PM - Room 420
Presenter: Jean-Robert Desbiens-Haddad - K2 Geospatial
Description: The JMap technology is an open, map-oriented integration platform that serves as a hub allowing heterogeneous systems of all types to converge around the spatial dimension. JMap is already used in nearly 200 municipal and county organizations from 1000 to more than 2 million populations, as well as in many ports and airports around the world, helping them in Land, Building, Assets and Security Management. Furthermore, JMap also offers integration modules for existing tools in Facilities Management (FM), Maintenance, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Vehicle Tracking, Mobile Operations, Public Safety, Taxation, Permits and Parcel Management and Electronic Document Management (EDM). Lately, JMap 4.0 was released. This new major version of JMap goes a step ahead and offers a rarely seen level of richness in a so simple yet powerful solution even for non-technical persons. New collaboration tools now allow users to create and modify data and share it with the community. This session will highlight the features and benefits of using JMap, especially for local governments. The technology will be presented as a hub that helps bringing the information to non-technical decision makers. Many integration examples will be demonstrated, all placing the map at the center of the systems

Empowering Donors to see where their Charitable Donations are Going
7/28/2010 2:20:00 PM - Room 320
Presenter: Olivia Cosgrove, CEO - Donor2Deed
Description: Non-Profits are struggling to compete in this recessionary global environment and develop a strong web, social media and mobile presence. In addition, donors have two major concerns: ‘where does my money go?’ and ‘have I made a difference?’ While effectiveness is the priority in emergencies getting the most from each dollar is critical for non-profits to be sustainable. Geospatial technologies have an important role to play to ensure that donor monies are spent as effectively and efficiently as possible. This presentation will address the challenges faced by charitable organizations and how a real-time location-based fundraising and communications platform connects the GeoWeb to a Non profit organization’s day to day business issues of marketing, collection of donations, and allocation of funds.

Know Your Customer’s Location
7/29/2010 1:30:00 PM - Room 320
Presenter: William Smith - Claraview (a Div. Of Teradata)
Description: With over 3 billion mobile phones in use worldwide, most with GPS (Global Positioning Satellite)
capabilities; businesses are beginning to take advantage of knowing their customersÆ locations, wherever that may be. These businesses are not only able to offer convenient, location-based services (LBS) to customers but they are also amassing valuable data, about customer locations, they are then mining and analyzing that data to respond to an increasingly mobile society.This article presents the business benefits of providing customers answers to their real time question regarding convenient locations of products of interest that are also ‘in-stock’. We discuss key enabling technologies and competencies businesses are developing, to enable LBS, as well as approaches and techniques for analyzing and creating business intelligence from related data. We also describe how collecting, integrating, and analyzing data from all customer locations provides a foundation for a customer analytics program to develop new formats and operating models that can meet emerging customer expectations.

Geospatial Energy Management
7/30/2010 10:45:00 AM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: John Bennett, Vice President - Hunt Energy IQ
Description: So what is a Geospatial Energy Management System or GEMS? It is a Web portal with data warehouses, online analytical processing, and service oriented architecture (SOA) Web services. These functions overlay applications like key performance indicators (KPI), what-if decision support systems, geographical information systems, and business processes onto building systems to create an enterprise resource planning and financial management tool for energy as well as a real-time management and energy policy enforcement tool for the organization.

TRACK: 3D Model Acquisition, Imagery & Visualization

Managing LiDAR Point Clouds using Oracle Spatial and Open Source Software
7/28/2010 1:30:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenters: Dr. Xavier Lopez, Director, Location Based Services - Oracle Corporation; Michael Smith - US Army Corps of Engineers
Description: Recent advances in ground-based, mobile and airborne laser altimetry (LiDAR) have led to the rapid creation of 3D terrain data to support real world 3D simulation for situational awareness. We describe a novel approach that combines the use of Oracle Database 11g Spatial option, alongside open source software to manage, analyze and display LiDAR point cloud data. Results demonstrate that a database-centric approach to visualizing and analyzing LiDAR datasets is fast, scalable, and cost effective.

Utilizing the GPU for Visualization of 3D Geospatial Data
7/28/2010 2:20:00 PM - Room 370
Presenter: Izak Grguric - Galdos Systems Inc.
Description: The programmable pipeline of modern graphics hardware allows for a variety of novel approaches to on-the-fly rendering of 3D geospatial data. We discuss some recent work at Galdos Systems aimed at utilizing the power of consumer-level GPUs for tasks such as blending of 2D street imagery with 3D city models, real-time ray casting terrain triangulation, and physics computation involved in visualization of large tree networks.

Real-time Visualization of Massive Aerial LiDAR Point Clouds
7/28/2010 3:15:00 PM - Room 320
Presenter: Hugo Ledoux - Delft University of Technology
Description: Aerial LiDAR technology is invaluable in the high-quality 3D measurements of natural and man-made features. This process involves enormous quantities of data in large, unstructured 3D point clouds. Before this raw data can be further analyzed, the first step in the workflow of practitioners is often to perform visual inspection. A smooth and interactive 3D visualization should empower the human visual perception by providing recognizable, and intuitive spatial context and is essential for the presentation of the 3D data to a non-expert audience. However, many current geo-software only support slow and simplistic rendering of 3D point clouds, and they are often limited to a few million points. In this case, the shear size of point clouds as currently acquired surpasses the capacity of modern graphics workstations. In the presentation, we describe our approach to visualize in 3D massive point clouds with interactive frame rates. Our system is built upon OpenSceneGraph (OSG), a popular open source rendering framework. We discuss briefly the out-of-core data structures and algorithms (tiling and filtering pre-processing) that we developed to be able to achieve ’smooth’ frame rates, and we highlight the challenges we are facing in balancing rendering performance versus visual quality. Finally, we describe our efforts to visualize a massive LiDAR dataset covering the whole of country of the Netherlands. (Authored by: Gerwin de Haan and Hugo Ledoux)

Ptolemy3D - FOSS client and Globe Building Tools
7/28/2010  4:05:00 PM - Room 370
Presenter: Mark Korver, CTO - SpatialCloud.com
Description: Move to 3D using FOSS tools and support your own business plan, not somebody else’s. Build your own globe, or just the part you actually need, using open tools. Ptolemy3D makes this happen by providing both a Javascript driven Java viewer, targeting AJAX-style development and a web application to build your own 3D worlds. Open tools in combination with commercial cloud resources, allow anyone to build worlds limited only by imagination.

Object Based 3D Model Acquisition for Individual Buildings and Trees from Airborne LiDAR
7/28/2010 4:55:00 PM - Room 420
Presenter: Dr. Fang Qiu, Associate Professor - University of Texas
Description: A true 3D model acquisition for individual buildings and trees was proposed using raw Lidar measurements. The approach was based on a segmentation based filtering of above-ground features, and the object (segment) level classification of these features. The 3D models of individual buildings were reconstructed through automatic roof tracing and wall forming. The 3D individual tree models were acquired using vector morphological operators that identified tree tops and delineated canopy edges and crown structures.

City GML
7/29/2010 11:35:00 AM - Room 320
Presenters: Michael Weisman (Safe Software), Volker Coors (Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences), & Carsten Rönsdorf (Ordnance Survey)
Description: CityGML enables rich 3D applications like simulations, facility management, advanced urban planning or emergency response in urban environments. It is an open standard maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium and is a key vehicle to lift mapping data into the Geoweb. Based on a set of thematic modules such as buildings, vegetation or transportation, users can easily create their own customized application schemas and exchange data between different applications.

From 2D to 3D: Examples and Lessons Learned
7/29/2010 11:35:00 AM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: Dale Lutz, VP of Development - Safe Software Inc.
Description: This presentation examines how organizations can leverage the often-implied third dimension from 2D spatial data by transforming it into 3D cityscapes. Examples from cities in Europe (Sweden and Lithuania), as well as North America (Calgary and Nanaimo) will be used to illustrate techniques and key lessons learned. We’ll also explore ways to apply automated techniques to integrate 2D GIS or CAD data, real or simulated building textures, elevation data, and orthophotos of groundcover.

3D / 3D Geoweb Parallel Engine for Real Time Simulation
7/29/2010 3:15:00 PM - Room 420
Presenters: Jeremie Farret, Chief Technology Officer - Parallel Geometry Inc & Jean-Francois Rotge, President - Parallel Geometry Inc
Description: In spite of upcoming HPC, GPU, multi-core processing computing power, existing polygon based simulation solutions face technical limitations in addressing real time simulation requirements on complex 3D environments. Conventional legacy memory optimization methods are not sufficient to address performance issues for large, complex simulation. Leveraging original, truly 3D / 3D Geoweb capabilities, a proposed new generation real time simulation infrastructure supports hyper-large and hyper-complex datasets, addressing combined physical, geometric and graphical applications for the GeoWeb domain.

CityBIM: Exploring the Interface between 3D City and Infrastructure Models
7/29/2010 4:05:00 PM - Room 320
Presenter: Tim Case, Geospatial Practice Lead - Parsons Brinckerhoff
Description: Many new applications are enabling engineers, contractors, facility managers, and urban planners to use emerging information models for better performance. These professionals bring design, construction, and systems models together with 3D context models of whole neighborhoods and cities. Drawing from projects around the world, this session reveals the challenges and best practices for creating and sustaining success models. Applications shown include multiple levels of detail, a range of temporal data, diverse model formats, and complex access control parameters. Practices include data acquisition and storage options as well as analysis and presentation methods.

Towards an Automated Repair of 3D Urban Models
7/30/2010 10:45:00 AM - Room 320
Presenters: Jürgen Bogdahn & Volker Coors - HFT Stuttgart
Description: Three dimensional digital city models are more and more used in different domains. These models are acquired in different ways and in very different levels of detail, due to sensor limitations or simply because of requirements of the specific scenario. The tendency towards more sophisticated models including semantic information, additional attributes and links to larger datasets can be observed in recent years. The use of semantically rich standards (e.g. CityGML) for the modelling of urban space beyond the simple representation of the geometrical aspect is one of the key hints towards a rich ‘urban information space’. This information space is going to be integrated into other applications or will be the basis for sophisticated systems in the urban domain, like simulation tools. Therefore it will be essential to control and enhance the quality of these models in order to be able to meet the needs of the aforementioned urban systems. This paper is going to introduce an approach, for error testing in geometry and topology and first steps towards an automated healing. The authors recommend a test suite that provides modules for specific aspects of the model quality, which can be switched on and off so that customized tests for specific models and specific scenarios can be conducted. Reporting functionality of the tool should be divided into two parts: error report and healing report. In that way the test engineer would have information about which errors occurred, which errors were healed and by which factor the quality of the model was increased. First results of a prototype system developed at HFT Stuttgart will be presented in this paper as a starting point for further research into the field of quality testing of 3D city models.

GPGPU for Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks
7/30/2010 10:45:00 AM - Room 420
Presenter: Izak Grguric - Galdos Systems, Inc.
Description: Many real-life problems can be modeled using large graphs. Human visual perception is a valuable tool in understanding of the local and global structure of such graphs. For large graphs, an interactive visualization must rely on some scheme for reduction of visual clutter. We present work on visualization of graphs as topological force-directed systems with spring forces along the links and electrical repulsions between the nodes. The computational complexity of such a system is roughly quadratic with respect to the number of nodes; however, using general purpose computation on GPU (GPGPU), we are able to interactively visualize and animate the physical dynamics of a system of about 16K nodes and links. This work was done on a baseline NVIDIA GPU - extrapolating to higher end consumer cards, we observe that this method easily allows for an interactive visualization of graphs composed of up to million nodes. Additionally, we observe that such a system naturally tends to a minimum-energy configuration where the distance between the nodes is maximized, and the link configurations exhibit a high degree of rotational symmetry: both of these properties aid the visual perception of global and local graph structure. Furthermore, the distance between the nodes in an equilibrium configuration has implications on path searching and minimal tree computation.

TRACK: Data Aggregation, Integration, Management, Modeling & Publication

Tapping into the Power of Real-time Data Services with Spatial ETL
7/28/2010 1:30:00 PM - Room 320
Presenter: Aaron Koning, Professional Services - Safe Software Inc.
Description: Learn how spatial ETL can help you leverage the power of real-time data services in web mapping applications. Through demonstrations and examples, this session illustrates how you can create and publish data services that utilize popular web standards and protocols, as well as consume both real-time and near-real-time data from services like Twitter and the USGS. We’ll also highlight ways how spatial ETL can be used to load web services data into your data warehouse.

Being Sexy in the Space-Time Continuum
7/28/2010 4:05:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: Christopher Helm, Scientist/GeoDeveloper - NREL
Description: This presentation will focus on two examples of applications that represent methodologies for handling large amounts of spatial/temporal data, creating fast and intuitive applications, and providing access to temporally varying data in useful and visually pleasing ways. An overview of the goals of each application will be discussed and demonstrated in terms of the target audience, the nature of the data being visualized, and the resulting UI decisions that were made during the development process.

Real Time Delivery of Navigation Map Data - Rationale, Challenges and Opportunities
7/29/2010 3:15:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: Paul Bouzide, Principal Architect - NAVTEQ
Description: The publication of navigation-quality map data and subsequent conversion to application formats and delivery to navigation devices and mobile phones currently follows a bulk replacement model, with publication-to-update latencies measured from quarters to years. This model served the industry well as it grew from infancy to pervasiveness. But now we see increasing end user sophistication combining with greater computing and mobile communications capabilities to demand increased currency of map information and updating convenience.

TRACK: Emergency Planning, Public Safety, Response, Monitoring & Analysis

Near-Real Time Emergency Data Updates via GeoPDF, WMS and ArcGIS Server
7/28/2010 10:45 AM - Room 420
Presenter: George Demmy - TerraGo Technologies
Description: Web Map Services are a means for obtaining maps of spatially referenced data from web servers. These maps are typically delivered in a pictorial format such as PNG, GIF or JPG, or occasionally as vector-based graphical elements in SVG. WMS calls are invoked by submitting requests in the form of URLs which contain identification data about the server and information relating to the map AOI and data layers to be returned. WMS requests can be created by manipulating a web browser or from independent applications which fetch map imagery programmaticlly. The resulting images can then be used for map display within a browser view or for adding data to application generated images. In response to a request from FEMA, TerraGo has developed a tool that delivers the latest geospatial information from ArcGIS Server via a WMS call from a GeoPDF file being viewed in Adobe Acrobat. Or the GeoPDF can be requested directly through a web browser The data updates can include multiple layers of raster data and vector data including full vector attributes. We will discuss the technical aspects of building this project within a PDF environment as well review the FEMA implementation in detail.

Automatic Service Dispatch Based on Geo-referenced Information
7/28/2010 1:30:00 PM - Room 420
Presenter: Sandro Danilo Gatto - CPqD
Description: Faults occur on a regular basis in primary electrical distribution network, interrupting power supply for a large number of clients. The time spent in locating the fault to reestablish power in intact network branches is crucial to the quality of service.Frequently, the number of faults exceeds the number of working repair teams. This occurs because fault behavior is unpredictable and because the number of teams is defined to meet a tradeoff between service quality and cost. This work describes the construction and implementation of a model for prioritizing the dispatch of teams to attend faults, based on criteria such fault and team locations, team skills and workload, number of affected clients, clients sensitiveness, harm potential and others. Computational problems that arose from the model are hard and pose a challenge to automatic service dispatch. The result is a high throughput software system based on heuristics that defines priority for faults and interfaces electric companies’ ERP in real time. A human dispatcher interacts with the system and with the teams, having the support of an audio response unit and SMS notifications. Our main case is for an electrical company, but the system is not restricted to this field of application.

Role of NRCans Canada Centre for Remote Sensing in Emergency Management
7/28/2010 2:20:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: Lori White, Environmental Scientist - Natural Resources Canada
Description: The Emergency Management Team at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing CCRS provides expert support for Natural Resources Canada’s Emergency Management Plan 4. State-of-the-art methodologies have been developed that leverage Geographic Information Systems GIS and remote sensing technologies, and at present utilize primarily Canada’s RADARSAT-1 and RADARSAT-2 satellite sensors for flood mapping.

The Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System Initiative: Information Sharing and Collaboration for Emergency Management
7/28/2010 3:15:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: Peter Rushforth - GeoConnections
Description: GeoConnections is supporting the national MASAS initiative to deliver a community-driven solution, based on interoperable standards, to exchange emergency incident information among participating agencies. This session will present the MASAS context and concept, high-level system architecture, and the geospatial standards used to enable interoperability. It will also examine successful stakeholder projects to develop and deploy MASAS component systems within emergency management agencies and data providers. This will be followed by a discussion on the direction of MASAS and opportunities for others to participate in the initiative.

A Web-GIS Disaster Management System for Local Government
7/29/2010 10:45:00 AM - Room 420
Presenter: Dr. Ming-Der Yang, Professor - National Chung Hsing University
Description: Each year Taiwan faces badly attack from several typhoons and heavy rainfalls. Currently the local governments in Taiwan are making their efforts to enhance their capacities of disaster management. This paper addresses the establishment of the Disaster Prevention and Rescue Information System by applying Web-GIS techniques. The main efficiencies of Web-GIS-based Disaster Prevention and Rescue Information System include rendering weather information, publishing mitigation maps, real-time positioning disaster sites, and automatically producing response reports of disasters. Through the system, the chief, professional staffs, and rescuers can implement more efficiently the disaster management based on four-phases procedure, including mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

GeoConnections and the Evolution of CGDI Architecture
7/29/2010 2:20:00 PM - Room 420
Presenter: Peter Rushforth, Technology Advisor - GeoConnections
Description: GeoConnections is a national partnership program led by Natural Resources Canada that collaborates and partners with all levels of government, private sector, non-government organizations, academia and international organizations in order to build and evolve the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI). Since the mid 1990s the CGDI has evolved with the changing technology landscape that is the foundation for the GeoWeb. This evolution can be followed through the initiatives supported by the GeoConnections program. Beginning with the CGDI Interoperability Pilot project in 2007, “mainstream” Web architecture have steadily gained influence in the CGDI, especially the use of feed-based data management techniques. The GeoConnections-initiated Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System defined a community-specific high-level system architecture, based on community needs and earlier successes leveraging GeoRSS and web mapping. Highlights of the evolution of the CGDI from an architecture perspective over the past decade will described. A notional “feed oriented architecture” for the CGDI will be also presented.

TRACK: Environmental & Land Data Management & Registries

Mapping with a Point
7/28/2010 4:55:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenters: Craig Mills, Sr. Program Officer - UN Environment Programme & Javier de la Torre, Founder - Vizzuality
Description: Protectedplanet.net is GeoWeb with a purpose, the latest evolution of the World Database on Protected Areas originating from UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre and IUCN. We present a project which embraces the explosion in geospatial visualization, open source software, and real time global connectivity to create the online conservation project of our time. Protectedplanet.net encourages users to create conservation information that feeds into global decision making.

A Study on Utilization Support of Geotechnical Information for Constructing Ubiquitous National Land
7/28/2010 10:45:00 AM - Room 370
Presenter: YongGu Jang, Senior Researcher - Korea Institute of Construction Technology
Description: To reflect the nationwide requirements for building and utilizing database of 3D national land spatial information which is considered to be one of the most important elements to realize ubiquitous national land, a vision of the NGIS 3rd industry, it is necessary to get support to build, control and use 3D underground information along with that of the ground. In other words, development in support system for control and utilization of national geotechnical information based on 3D GIS DB which takes on the most important role in underground information is urgently needed. In this research conducted in Ju-hwan district of Manduck 5 Buk-gu Busan I experimented 3D GIS technology by using 3D geotechnical information DB gathered during preliminary investigation for construction. Based on the results of 3D GIS technology implementation I concluded that to realize ubiquitous national land it is important to find a way to utilize underground information among other 3D national land. Therefore I presented ideas for developing Geotechnical Information Support System(GISS) for using ground information to achieve the vision.

TRACK: Geospatial Technology & Analysis

Democracy, Data and Collaboration: Trends to Watch in GIS and Beyond
7/28/2010 10:45:00 AM - Room 320
Presenter: Mike Geertsen, President & Founder - Depiction, Inc.
Description: Three important trends are reinforcing each other and driving significant innovation in the Geoweb and beyond: the empowerment of individuals, the increased availability of data and information, and enhanced abilities for people to collaborate visually. Depiction, Inc. CEO Mike Geertsen will describe how his company and others are being affected by these trends, and are in turn trying to harness them.

Building Real-time GIS applications with Twitter
7/28/2010 11:35:00 AM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenters: Andy Gup, Technology Lead & Allan LaFramboise, Technology Lead - ESRI
Description: Real-time social media systems, such as Twitter, has proven to be exceptionally valuable to help monitor and manage a number of disaster situations such as the Haiti earthquake. Since users can Geotag their tweets, GIS applications can be used to take advantage of the geolocation metadata to perform more advanced mapping and spatial analysis on the information. This session illustrates how developers can capture this real-time data and leverage it using the capabilities of GIS.

Use-Case of u-Position
7/28/2010 11:35:00 AM - Room 320
Presenter: Hae-Kyong Kang - Korea Research Inst Human Settlememts (KRIHS)
Description: In order to handle the heterogeneity and mobility problems of spatial data, a logical identification scheme, called u-position (unified position) has been proposed as an ISO standard. The u-position is a logical surrogate of a physical position where a u-position server maintains a table of (u-position, physical location) pairs. The u-position framework consists of three components; first a naming rule to identify a u-position based on URI scheme, second interfaces of four operations including creation, deletion, retrieval, and update to request to the u-position server, and third an interface protocol between clients and u-position server as an extension of HTTP. The application systems of u-position specify locations by their u-positions instead of physical locations such as (longitude, latitude) coordinates. They do not need to take care of difference of spatial reference systems and dynamic updates of location data and they exchange location data by using u- position. In this presentation, we will show a use-case of u-positions of different environments. It will demonstrate how the u-position supports seamless navigation between different types of spaces such as euclidian space and indoor symbolic space.

LiDAR Compression with MrSID Generation 4
7/28/2010 3:15:00 PM - Room 370
Presenter: Michael Rosen, Engineering Manager - LizardTech, Inc.
Description: In this presentation we introduce LiDAR compression with MrSID Generation 4, a refinement of the widely-used MrSID format for raster compression. Utilizing a specialized wavelet transform, the resulting files are not only several times smaller than their corresponding input, they are inherently pre-pyramided (allowing for very fast sub sampling) and small areas can be decoded while leaving the vast bulk of the input unread. This has dramatic implications for large-dataset workflows.

People-Powered Data
7/28/2010 3:15:00 PM - Room 420
Presenter: Joshua Knauer - Rhiza Labs
Description: Just in the past months, durable mobile devices, open-source data-collection tools, and innovative distributed databases have arrived. These new tools take the mystique out of collecting, aggregating, visualizing, and broadcasting geodata. Regardless of training, anyone can now create high-quality structured data. Stakeholders can then collaboratively visualize this data in real time using a host of technology platforms. The resulting insights inform decision-makers using information from the most reliable sources: first-hand witnesses. This lets leaders base their decisions on better information. The result is that the community is not simply engaged in the decision-making process, but is in fact driving it — to everyone’s benefit. Drawing on their experience and knowledge of the field, Knauer and Christensen will illustrate successes and best practices through real stories from the rain forests of Brazil to the streets of Pittsburgh to epidemiology laboratories in D.C. Using these case studies, they will describe the design techniques and workflows that have simplified user interfaces to increase participation and usability. Speaking to the best practices in implementing these systems, they will detail real successes in decentralized data collection. You’ll leave with a broad overview of agencies using people-powered data to make better decisions, and their successes in this field. You’ll also leave with roadmap for deploying people-powered data to make better decisions in your organization, regardless of what technology you use.

Linking Community Innovation through Location Data
7/28/2010 4:05:00 PM - Room 320
Presenters: Joseph Greenwood, Product Manager
Description: The convergence of technology and the increased social expectation to be informed about local events has broadened the user community using traditionally ‘professional data’. The release of UK government data in RDF ‘linked-data’ and new APIs is enabling new communities to use location data for local interests. The paper will address the opportunities and challenges for data providers in closing the design-gap to make SDIs, linked data and key reference datasets useable to new innovators.

Web-Enabled Mapping Via the Adobe FLEX API
7/28/2010 4:05:00 PM - Room 420
Presenter: Phillip Davis - GeoTech Center
Description: Web-enabling GIS information holds the best promise for making maps and geospatial information available to end-user consumers and customers.  The Adobe FLEX API interface provides a quick and convenient method for delivering geospatial data in an attractive and fast format that requires nothing more than a compatible browser.  By eliminating complex and time-consuming proprietary desktop software interfaces, the Adobe FLEX API allows end-users to connect with your organization’s data using nothing more than a typical browser. Learn the basics of the API and see a demonstration of the technology in a live demonstration.

Searching Spherical Areas on the Earth and Sky
7/28/2010 4:55:00 PM - Room 370
Presenters: Dr. Gyorgy Fekete, Research Scientist & Dr. Tamas Budvari, Research Scientist - Johns Hopkins University
Description: A multi resolution hierarchical decomposition of the surface of the sphere in a triangular mesh provides a robust framework for managing spatial indices in a very large database. Among its many applications is the efficient computation of spatial components of queries. It is already widely used in scientific catalog archives such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Hubble Legacy Archive. This work introduces the core algorithms and presents examples of their use.

Linking Data through Multiple Representation
7/30/2010 11:35:00 AM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenters: Hugo Ledoux - OTB Research Institute & Carsten Roensdorf - Ordnance Survey
Description: Geographic Information at different scales is critical decision-making at local, regional and global levels. Based on two use cases it is demonstrated how the value of geographic data is increased if different representations of the same real world objects are linked across scales and progressively streamed into client applications. This paper introduces a more intelligent automated process to create and maintain data at various levels of detail through multi/varioscale data models and the calculation of shape descriptors which relate features in different scales.

TRACK: GeoWeb & SDI Architecture & Registries including Sensor Webs

Restful Geoweb Services of the Province of British Columbia
7/28/2010 11:35:00 AM - Room 370
Presenters: David Skea, Sr Technical Architect - BC Integrated Land Management Bureau
Description: In 2007, the BC Integrated Land Management Bureau embarked on an ambitious program to develop restful geoweb services. In this talk, we will describe progress so far and our plans for the future. Web services released include geographical names, geocoding, and geomarking. We have also developed the Cloud Processing Framework which supports the development of the restful equivalent of OGC Web Processing Services. The CPF is being used to perform very large raster computations in parallel for Hectares BC, a raster-based decision support tool.

Web Feature Service 2.0
7/29/2010 11:35:00 AM - Room 420
Presenter: Satish Sankaran - ESRI and Xia Li - Galdos Systems Inc.
Description: In 2010 OGC and ISO are expected to publish the next release of the Web Feature Service standard. The new version is expected to include a number of enhancements including support for stored queries, support for temporal operators, and decoupling from specific versions of GML. This release is already foreseen for use in several communities, e.g. in INSPIRE in Europe. In addition to highlighting key features the new release, the presentation will provide a critical analysis about its role in the Geoweb.

Assessing the Quality of Web Services for SDI
7/29/2010 1:30:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenters: Gordon Plunkett, Director - ESRI Canada Limited & David Coleman, Professor - University of New Brunswick
Description: Within a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) all systems and Web services must be functioning properly, however this is often difficult to ensure or even assess. A project was developed to examine and test various types of SDI compatible sites using a Service Status Checker and other test applications. This presentation will describe the project, explain the testing methodology, explain the results of the tests and provide some possible solutions to the issues uncovered.

The GeoWeb Unleashed on an Encrypted Peer-to-Peer Network
7/29/2010 2:20:00 PM - Room 320
Presenter: Perry Peterson, President - The PYXIS Innovation
Description: The key to a robust GeoWeb is its ability to deliver geospatial content directly from creators to data-hungry end-use decision-makers. This presentation will feature a live demo of massive multi-source geo-data access over a secured Peer-to-Peer GeoWeb network. Geo-data streams are synchronized to the Icosahedral Snyder Equal Area hexagonal discrete global grid. A pipeline architecture on the data independent ISEA grid permits complex real-time multi-source spatial analysis. The resulting mash-ups can be shared back to the network.

Distributing Spatial Data in Real-time
7/29/2010 4:05:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: Seth Fitzsimmons, Map Enthusiast - SimpleGeo
Description: GeoWeb & SDI architecture & registries including Sensor Webs 75-Word Description: We are collecting more geo-located data than ever before–real-time dissemination is increasing important to establishing context. This talk discusses various approaches (including XMPP and PubSubHubbub) that may be used to distribute real-time data to interested parties.

The Potential of Digital (Meta)Data
7/29/2010 4:05:00 PM - Room 420
Presenter: Arnulf Christl, Spatial Systems Architect – Metaspatial
Description: Modern metadata catalogs use ontologies and thesauri to create hierarchical and polyhierarchical indexes. But catalogs still seem to miss the needs of both consumers and producers of geospatial data alike. A concise introduction to the syntax and semantics of geospatial metadata shows how to get there and that is misses pragmatics (the third semiotic discipline). One path to solve this problem is to automize metadata generation by better linking IT and to allow more interaction of actors.

How to keep a Nations Geographic Database fit for the Future
7/29/2010 4:55:00 PM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenters: Carsten Roensdorf, Corporate Data Manager
Description: Geographic Information has finally arrived in the mainstream of information technology. The speed of innovation has rapidly accelerated and as a result customers are expecting more: cheaper more flexible geographic data that can be combined with other data available on the web in real time. This paper will demonstrate how web services, linked data, semantic web technologies, 3D city models and Spatial Data Infrastructures have influenced the development of National Geographic Databases. Challenges are outlined and a solution to modularize and manage systems is demonstrated.

Challenges and Implications of Access and Usage Control for the GeoWeb
7/29/2010 4:55:00 PM - Room 320
Presenters: Graham Vowles - Independent Consultant & Andreas Matheus, Managing Director - University of the Bundeswehr
Description: One of the critical challenges of the GeoWeb is how to manage access and usage of geospatial resources. Today, many systems independently manage the access and few examples exist which manage how the resources actually get used. This implies we need to develop mechanisms that allows us to bring together the technical and legal frameworks therefore enabling a seamless and integrated approach. The technologies to help us do this are available; However, the legal and cultural framework needed to achieve this does not yet exist. One important aspect we will discuss is the definition of licensing terms that encompass both technical and legal constraints on access and usage. This paper will explore how an example set of licensing terms could enable the dynamic access and usage of geospatial information.

GIS Cluster Response to INSPIRE Testing
7/30/2010 11:35:00 AM - Room 420
Presenter: Solgerd Tanzilli, Process Manager - Future Position X
Description: This presentation has two objectives, the first is to show how the GIS-cluster FPX and its members react to the demand created from INSPIRE directive and Swedish Geodata strategy. The second objective of the presentation is to introduce a holistic approach for testing INSPIRE demands of geodata, i e datasets, data specifications and data services as well as framework to different Geoportals. The proposed approach includes the testing of the data specifications for different geographical themes and data structure, performance testing of open geospatial web services OWS, usability of geoweb portals and services, testing of spatial metadata and data quality, and cost benefit considerations for regional and national portals.

TRACK: Security, Defense, Privacy & Intelligence

Protection of Geo-spatial Data and Services with GeoXACML Policies
7/29/2010 10:45:00 AM - Room 320
Presenters: Andreas Matheus, Managing Director - University of the Bundeswehr & Martin Kyle, Principal - Sierra Systems, Inc.
Description: Many different types of high quality and up-to-date geospatial information are available from different providers. Making the information available to users requires the implementation of many security requirements of which Access Control is paramount.

TRACK: Urban Infrastructure, Planning, Design, Management, Protection & BIM

Virtual Philadelphia: More than just a Pretty 3D City Model
7/29/2010 10:45:00 AM - Asia Pacific Hall
Presenter: Gert van Maren, Technical Product Manager 3D - ESRI
Description: 3D city models, also known as Virtual Cities, are becoming more and more important in the fields of urban planning and design, architecture, environmental visualization, telecommunication and emergency response. In most cases, these 3D city models are derived, highly optimized 3D models that are disconnected from the source GIS data. In this presentation, we will show Virtual Philadelphia, an example of a Virtual City created, managed, analyzed and shared using ArcGIS.

WB3 - an Entirely Web- and XML-based Geoinformation System
7/29/2010 1:30:00 PM - Room 420
Presenter: Prof. Peter Henning, Professor for Computer Science - Karlsruhe University of Applied Science
Description: The XML based geoinformation system WB3 generates 3D city models from 2D land register data. By incorporating several other data sources via XSLT, city models with a very rich semantical content may be created and of course then exported into various XML-based 2D and 3D formats for visualization. This allows for a multitude of applications, ranging from thematic visualization to city management and the coupling to governmental workflow engines.

Combining GIS and BIM over the Web
7/29/2010 3:15:00 PM - Room 320
Presenter: Nicolas Loubier, Product Manager - Bentley Systems, Inc.
Description: As we all know now, the CAD/GIS/BIM convergence has started few years ago now and is becoming a reality for users. This convergence has reduced technological barriers and has enabled new workflows like the 3Dcity GIS workflow where 3D intelligent objects are shared between GIS and BIM/engineering. The next challenge is now to have this integration performed for a wider user base. This presentation will address the integration of GIS and engineering content in a Web environment and its benefits.

TRACK: Virtual Worlds & Media Application

Geotagging - and Reverse Geotagging: Consumer Technology Accelerating into Augmented Reality
7/28/2010 1:30:00 PM - Room 370
Presenter: Anton Fricko, Community Manager - OSSBIG
Description: While consumer applications like Google Earth and Flickr have made the benefits of geotagged material quite obvious, camera manufacturers have not yet fully succeeded to make the process of automated location recording broadly available. This talk will explain the current technology advances and demonstrate benefits of current and future applications that make use of geotagged material. Reverse geotagging will be explored with examples from augmented reality applications like Wikitude or Layar.

3D City Models on Mobile Devices
7/29/2010 4:55:00 PM - Room 420
Presenters: Baoxuan Xu & David Noggerath - Galdos Systems, Inc.
Description: This talk discusses the project at Galdos Systems aimed at building an interactive 3D city model on iPhone 3GS. We investigate the following topics: 1. the touch sensor of the iPhone allows for novel interaction with the 3D city model; 2. the mobile nature of the device allows for correlation between the device’s position and the model display (through the GPS locator and accelerometer).