GIS Open House - open for self-tours and exploration.
Location: Room 111 Mulford Hall

Computer workstations will be set up, each with a different example of how GIS can be used to visualize data and solve problems.

Presentations

Four speakers will present on a variety of topics in GIS.  There will be 2 concurrent sessions. Speakers to include:

Mulford 103:

• Chieko Plotts (4:00-4:30)
  
• HDR Engineering, Inc.
• Application of LiDAR for engineers and environmental scientists
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• Mark Roest (4:30-5:00)
• DesignEarth.net, Monterey Institute for Social Architecture
  Neo-Geography for Community Sustainability
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• Mulford 159:
  
• Daniel Gluesenkamp (4:00-4:30)
• Calflora
  Calflora's integrated mapping toolbox
  
  
• Cynthia Powell(4:30-5:00)
• California Invasive Plant Council
Mapping Invasive Plants Using Quantitative and Qualitative Data

Break & Poster Session
Location: Room 111 Mulford and surrounding hallway

GIS Open House is open for self-tours and exploration.
Location: Room 111 Mulford Hall

Presentations

Four speakers will present on a variety of topics in GIS.  There will be 2 concurrent sessions. Speakers to include:

• 
  Mulford 124:
  
• Chris Clasen (5:30-6:00)
  Naval Postgraduate School
  Remote Sensing for California Earthquake Monitoring and Response
  
  
• Landon Blake (6:00-6:30)
  Redefined Horizons
  Leveraging GIS to Solve Problems Faced By Central Valley Communities



• Genetics & Plant Biology Building 100:
  
• Bruce Joffe (5:30-6:00)
  GIS Consultants
  Public Access to County GIS Basemap Data: the Supreme decision
  
  
• John Ridener (6:00-6:30)
  UC Berkeley Earth Sciences and Map Library
  Open Data, Data Sharing, and GeoData@UC Berkeley
  
  

Break & Poster Session
Location: Mulford Hallway

Ragi Burhum
AmigoCloud GIS - Founder / CTO

Your GeoData - From the Cloud to Their Hands

With the ubiquity of GPS and Internet-enabled mobile devices, as well as cost-effective cloud infrastructures, the question arises:

Why is your geospatial data still hiding in shapefiles?

In this talk, we will discuss some of the options to help you move your data from your local machine, to the cloud, into smart phones, and back. We will touch upon several of the common (technical) obstacles that are faced by organizations when attempting to do this, and how to overcome the typical pitfalls. It is far easier - and cheaper - than you might think!

Bio:

Ragi has over a decade of software development experience in GIS. 

At ESRI, he was a core developer of the GeoDatabase group, where he designed/wrote/extended several key components of Personal, File, and Enterprise GeoDatabases including versioning, spatial cursors and other ArcObjects.

While at Microsoft, he worked on core spatial components, workflows, and data pipelines used by various projects like Flight Simulator.

During the past few years, he has contributed to several Open Source GIS projects including GDAL, GEOS, etc, which are the foundation of most OS GIS systems.

He is an active member of the CA Chapter of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and the organizer of the local SF GeoMeetup group, which brings in prominent developers to discuss geospatial topics.