Program 2011

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Thursday, March 3

Informal Activity Day (open time for anyone who would like to arrange and attend an informal activity)

3:00-6:00pm

Hands-on with Neogeography: a VGI/OSM/API Participant Activity Alan Mc Conchie, Ian Parfitt, Nama Budhathoki
3:00-4:00pm Open Street Map: Inside and Out
 
Learn about the Open Street Map data model, and get started adding new features and editing existing ones. Practice using online and offline editing interfaces and importing/exporting OSM data.
4:00-5:00pm OSM micromapping outside
  Dress warmly and join us outside for 30 minutes of collecting data for Open Street Map. Bring your own GPS if you have one (optional). We will then come back inside for another half hour of loading our own data into OSM.
5:00-6:00pm API Hour
  This activity introduces the Google Maps API 3.0 & the ESRI javascript API and shows how to create basic web maps with a text editor, access various map services, & add points from lat/long coordinates.
 

Attendees may attend OSM and /or API parts of the activity.  They will need a laptop for both.

RSVP encouraged: alan.mcconchie at geog.ubc.ca

 

Mixer (evening) in evening to welcome new and returning participants, TBD.

 

Friday,

March 4

 

3:00-4:00pm

Geoweb and Governance
 

1

Enhancing citizen science participation in Geoweb projects through the instance-based data model Roman Lukyanenko, Jeffrey Parsons, Yolanda Wiersma

2

What Motivates Governments to Adopt the Geospatial Web 2.0? Nama Budhathoki, R E. Sieber

3

Unfolding Participatory Urban Design, Capturing Spatial Feelings and Emotions in Digital Space
Korbin da Silva, Renee Sieber, Raphaël Fischler

4

Creating and Testing a Portable Template for Municipal-Level Adoption of the Geospatial Web 2.0
Pierre Beaudreau, Peter A. Johnson, and Renee Sieber

5

“Let the young ones do it” Digital divides influence the use of the Geoweb by farmers and food advocates in rural Canada
Pamela Tudge
 
 

4:15-5:15pm

Applications for Better Decision making
 

1

Where does OSGeo and Rural Development Intersect? Education and Mentorship
Michael Martin

2

Enhancing operational land use decisions for sage-grouse recovery in Alberta
Sandra Dalton, Janna So, G.J. Mc Dermid, and C. Gates

3

Web-Based Participatory Mapping for Parole Boundary Mitigation
Blake Byron Walker

4

Geolive Participatory mapping on the Web
Nicholas Blackwell, Jon Corbett and Sven Koberwitz

5

Mapping and modeling local food capacity in British Columbia
Kathryn Morrison, Trisalyn Nelson, Aleck Ostry
     

5:30-6:30pm

Remote Sensing of the Environment
 

1

A field based depth correction algorithm for submerged aquatic vegetation spectra
D. Birkigt and G.J. Mc Dermid

2

Remote sensing based landcover classification to support northern woodland caribou conservation
Adam Mc Lane, Greg Mc Dermid, Jean Polfus and Mark Hebblewhite

3

Change detection using historical aerial photography in bighorn sheep habitat of the sierra nevada
Erin Latham, Lacey Greene, Tom Stephenson, Greg Mc Dermid, and Mark Hebblewhite

4

Characterizing white pine habitat in Alberta: mapping higly localized tree species across a large study area
Andrew Befus
5 The effects of edges on grizzly bear habitat selection Benjamin P. Stewart, Trisalyn Nelson, Michael A. Wulder, Scott E. Nielsen, Nicholas C. Coops, Gordon Stenhouse
     

6:30-7:30pm

Dinner and Keynote with David Mark, Cultural Differences in Geographic Information: Why Geographic Categories Matter for GIS  

7:30-8:30pm

Mobility
 

1

Digital globes gone mobile: implications for spatial cognition
Britta Ricker Peters, Nick Hedley

2

Indoor localization method comparison Fingerprinting and Trilateration algorithm
Ting Wei and Scott Bell

3

What Makes Difference in Wi Fi-based Positioning Services?
Wook Rak Jung and Scott Bell

4

Positioning using Signal Distribution Patterns
Ehsan Mohammadi, Andrew Hunter

5

Sports, Time Geography, and Mobility Data
Jed A. Long, Trisalyn A. Nelson
     

8:45-9:35pm

Sensing and Evaluating
 

1

Loading Architecture for a Sensor Web Browser on Digital Earth
Chih-Yuan Huang, Steve Liang

2

A Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Architecture to Enhance OGC Web Catalogue Services for Geospatial Web Service Discovery Shawn Chen, Steve Liang

3

Mesoscale temerature patterns in southern Alberta R. Cullen and S. Marshall

4

CGDI Operational Policies Facilitate the Access, Use, and Sharing of Canadian Geospatial Information
Simon Riopel, Paula Mc Leod, Cindy Mitchell, and Ken Marshall
     

Saturday,

March 5

 

3:00-3:50pm

Accessing Health  

1

Evaluating Potential Spatial Access to Trauma Centres in Canada using Geographic Information Systems
Fiona Lawson, Nadine Schuurman, Lisa Oliver, and Avery Nathens

2

The use of geovisualization to public health in the context of open source applications and digital earths: an effective representation?
Ana Brandusescu, Renee Sieber, Nadine Schuurman

3

GIS and evidence based decision-making
Jonathan Cinnamon and Nadine Schuurman
4 Obesity and the Built Environment: a cluster analysis of urban
and peri-urban communities in the Greater Vancouver Regional District
Charles Fritz, Nadine Schuurman, Scott Lear
     

4:00-5:00pm

The World Wide World of Models
 

1

Mass Casualty a Spatial Model to Support Triage Decision Making
Ofer Amram and Nadine Schuurman

2

Spatial Epidemiology and GIS/ABM  a case study looking at the Red Colobus monkey

Tyler Bonnell, Raja Sengupta, and Colin Chapman

3

Linking a land-use cellular automata and a hydrological model to investigate the impact of land-use changes on the hydrological processes in the Elbow River watershed in southern Alberta, Canada
G. N. Wijesekara, A. Gupta, P. Delaney, C. Valeo, J.-G. Hasbani, and D. J. Marceau

4

Literature Review Studies Linking Climate Change Scenarios to Biodiversity and Species Data in Order to Protect Future Distributions
Keith Holmes, Trisalyn A. Nelson, Nicholas Coops, and Michael Wulder
5 Using the Geospatial Web 2.0 to Improve Climate Model Accessibility Jian Zhou, Renee Sieber, Mark Chandler, Linda Sohl
     

5:15-6:15pm

Discursive GIS  

1

Visualizing Climate Change in Canadian Newsprint Media Daniel Graham, Conny Davidsen, and Dan Jacobson

2

Maps and Memes
Gwilym Eades

3

Territorial representations and collective participation in the planning process: A case study in suburban Dakar
Genevieve Reid

4

Digital networks and the geoweb
Alan Mc Conchie
5
Harnessing chaos using the Geoweb to as a tool to support social change Samantha Brennan, Aidan Whiteley, and Jon Corbett
     

6:15-7:15pm

Dinner and Student Awards

 

 

7:15-8:15pm

After Hours GIS
 

1

“I don’t come from anywhere.” Using maps to rediscover a sense of place
Jon Corbett

2

Land Use Consultation Services for First Nations, Dreamcatcher Geomatics Beta Service Development
Fred Mc Garry, Don Cowan, Paulo Alencar, and Dan Mc Carthy

3

Intra-Urban Heat Vulnerability Assessment for Toronto
Claus Rinner

4

What happened to Overlay Engines: A Story of Technological Shifts
Nicholas Chrisman
5 VGI in the Geoweb: an experiment to test data reliability Michael Buzzelli
     

8:30-9:30pm

After Hours Raster and Services
 

1

HEAT – Home Energy Assessment Technologies
Geoffrey J. Hay, Bharani Hemachandran, Christopher D. Kyle, Gang Chen, Sulakshmi Das and Mustafiz Rahman

2

Estimating Crop Yields from Remote Sensing Data
Joseph M Piwowar

3

Impacts of sensor noise on land cover classifications
Scott Mitchell and Tarmo Remmel

4

Ten years of Geospatial research for alberta grizzly bear conservation
G.J. Mc Dermid, S.E. Nielsen, S.E. Franklin and G.B. Stenhouse

5

Dealing with noise in multi-temporal NDVI datasets for the study of vegetation phenology: Is noise reduction always beneficial? Jennifer N. Hird and Greg Mc Dermid
 
 

9:30pm+

Panel TBD  

 

Sunday, March 6

Wrap-up