Visualization

Advancing global marine biogeography research with open source GIS software and cloud computing

Session Type: 
Academic Session
Presenter(s): 
Mr Jesse Cleary, Duke University
Mr Ei Fujioka

 

Speaker Bio: 

Jesse Cleary is Research Analyst in the Marine Geospatial Ecology lab at Duke University.  He has a diverse GIS background encompassing the geospatial web, spatial analysis, database design, and programming for terrestrial, meteorological, and oceanographic applications.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Room: 
Spruce

HydroLiDAR: A open source GIS towards accessing, visualization and modeling of LiDAR

Session Type: 
Academic Session
Presenter(s): 
Dr Ping Yang, Idaho State University
Dr Daniel Ames

 

With recent improvements in equipment, reductions in costs, and the advent of massive data storage and sharing systems for Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, the need has increased for open source geographic information systems to support LiDAR point cloud data . This study presents an approach and initial open source GIS tool for accessing, processing, visualizing and modeling LiDAR data. Based on the open source GIS software foundation platform, DotSpatial, a software prototype, HydroLiDAR, has been designed for importing and visualization of LiDAR data in the format of LAS files. Terrain parameters such as slope and aspect are calculated through a point-based algorithm and a visualization scheme will be discussed for 2 dimensional visualization of terrain characteristics. Watershed analysis including stream network delineation modeled directly based on the point cloud through an up-climbing and downhill-decline algorithm will also be presented in this study.

 

Speaker Bio: 

Ping Yang currently is conducting postdoctoral research on Open Source GIS towards LiDAR at Idaho State University, Dr. Yang got his Ph.D. in GIS at Wuhan University, China in June 2009. His research interests include Hydrologic modeling with LiDAR, Multi-resolution geographical representation, Spatio-temporal modeling, etc.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm
Room: 
Spruce

GeoCat Bridge - Publish from ArcGIS Desktop into FOSS4G

Session Type: 
Tech Session
Presenter(s): 
Jeroen Ticheler, GeoCat Bv

GeoCat Bridge helps to bridge the gap between proprietary and open source solutions. The goal of this product is to provide a solution that makes it extremely easy for users to publish their data on a GeoNetwork, GeoServer and/or Mapserver based server solution. The tool converts the ArcMap symbology to symbology optimized for GeoServer and MapServer. Data can be loaded to the server on the file system or straight into PostGIS. It manages metadata at the source and publishes it as clean ISO19139 metadata. This extension creates a bridge where both proprietary, open source solution providers and open standards supporters are winners.

Speaker Bio: 

Jeroen Ticheler founded GeoCat bv in 2007. After achieving his MSc in Tropical Forestry (Agricultural University Wageningen, NL), Ticheler worked for the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome for almost ten years. He held various positions in GIS/remote sensing and established the respected GeoNetwork opensource Project.
Ticheler truly believes in sharing knowledge: “I want to make technologies for publishing geospatial data on the internet available to every organization, no matter how big or small. It is wonderful to see how easy it can be to publish geospatial data on the internet and how knowledge sharing can accelerate innovation.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Room: 
Denver
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