Location: Center Ballroom
Presented by:
Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Teaching) and Director of Undergraduate Studies, USC Spatial Sciences Institute
8:30 – 8:32 am
Location: Center Ballroom
8:00 - 8:30 amLocation: Center Ballroom
“What’s Coming with GeoAI?”
What are the opportunities, limitations and challenges with AI in the geospatial world and the impact of GeoAI upon the role of the geospatial analyst?
Moderator:
John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor and Founding Director, USC Spatial Sciences Institute, and
Panelists:
Sean O’Brien, Ph.D., Vice President, Intelligent Systems, HRL Laboratories
Courtney Fassett, Government and Public Sector Strategy & Analytics Consultant, Deloitte Consulting
8:30 - 9:30 amLocation: Center Ballroom
Three students from participating Southern California GIS academic programs present five-minute lightning talks, followed with discussion and Q&A with GIS experts and Summit participants.
Student Presenters:
John Adrian, California State University, Long Beach: “Preprocessing Imagery for Mapping the Martian Landscape using GPT-4 and Python Scripting”.
Leo Lerner, Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place, USC Spatial Sciences Institute: “Affective geographic information science: can visual carto-elicitation evoke the sensorimotor?”.
Priyanka Somai, University of Redlands: “Digital Inclusion in India: A Geospatial and Multivariate Perspective”
9:30 - 10:15 amLocation: Center Ballroom
Presented by Beau MacDonald
Beau is an applied biogeographer and GIS Project Administrator for the Spatial Sciences Institute at USC. She guides Wilson Map Lab student research teams who participate in data-driven collaborations across a range of projects and data Hubs about urban forests, food insecurity, and water conservation. The funded research projects she works with include environmental and social determinants of health, with location analytics and informatics applications; and environmental modelling and visualization, with historical ecology and retrospective data analysis.
10:15 - 10:30 amLocation: Victory Room
Talk with students from participating universities as they present their research through ArcGIS StoryMaps.
Check out the StoryMap Virtual Gallery
10:30 – 11:30 amLocation: Knowledge Network (Champion Room) and Lunch (Galleria Lobby)
11:30 am – 1 pmLocation: Center Ballroom
Isaiah Mack, Eclipse Mapping and GIS gives an overview of the latest and greatest in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
The high-accuracy GNSS landscape is changing rapidly. And California in particular is going through some important changes. This presentation will cover the high-accuracy correction methods available today (SBAS, L-BAND, HAS, RTK), and what is possible in California and beyond. What are the options for RTK corrections in CA today? This presentation will also cover the brand new European HAS Correction service, free 10-20cm worldwide!
1 – 1:15 pmLocation: Center Ballroom
Moderator:
Yi Qi, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Teaching), USC SSI, moderator
Panelists:
Debbie Fugate, Ph.D., Senior GEOINT Authority for Geography and Cartography, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Jason Knowles, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, GeoAcuity
Cathy Power, Technical Expert, NV5 Geospatial
1:15 – 2:00 pmLocation: Center Ballroom
Moderator:
Thomas Horan, Ph.D., H. Jess and Donna Senecal Endowed Dean’s Chair and Dean, School of Business, University of Redlands
Panel:
Christine Devine, Director of Education and Professional Development, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
Andrew Haney, Senior Geospatial Consultant, 1898 & Co.
Chrystine Kern, Ed.D, Chief, Recruitment Strategies, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Canserina Kurnia, Senior Solution Engineer, Education, Esri
2:00 – 2:45 pmLocation: Center Ballroom
Closing Remarks by John P. Wilson, Ph.D., USC Spatial Sciences Institute
Esri announcement of LA Geospatial Summit ArcGIS StoryMaps competition winners by Andrew Haglund.
2:45 – 3 pm