Spring Conference Agenda Wednesday April 6 - Thursday, April 7, 2016 at
UMass Amherst Lincoln Campus Center 1 Campus Center Way 9th Floor, Room 917 Amherst, MA 01003
Wednesday, April 6 12:30 – 1:00 pm
Registration/Check In
1:00 pm Selected UAV & Mobile Lidar demonstrations by presenters from Thursday’s conference.
Thursday, April 7 8:00 – 8:30 am
Registration, Vendors, and Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 am
Tom Range Spillers/GeoShack, Meredith, NH UAV Integrated Solutions Thomas Range is the Geoshack North American Sales Manager for UAV Solutions. Tom has been active in the sales and support of advanced positioning systems in New England for over 15 years. He has worked recently with major contractors in providing UAV solutions, and has expert knowledge with the Indigo Mapper UAV. Other modeling and inspections applications for the Indigo UAV Mapper include Survey/GIS, Construction, and Forestry, to name a few.
9:15 – 10:10 am
David Parkhill Hughes Surveys & Consultants, Saint John, NB, Canada Before GIS … Cadastre Systems: Did they work? David Parkhill graduated from UNB in 1983 with a B.Sc. Engineering (Surveying).He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick, the Association of New Brunswick Land Surveyors and the Association of Canadian Land Surveyors.Parkhill served on the ANBLS Executive Council and GPS Task Force. He has coauthored "Development of a GPS Active Control Point Station” Quek, Creamer, et al., originally published in the Journal of Surveying Engineering, Vol.115, No. 1, Feb. 1989. David’s Professional career began as a Survey Engineer in Alberta, and includes experience in hydrographic surveys; construction pipeline and well site surveys; navigation surveys; and surveys for seismic survey activity.He has been with Hughes Surveys since 1986, starting as a Project Surveyor.
10:10 –10:25 am
Break
10:25 –12:15 pm
Daniel Martin NOAA/NOS/National Geodetic Survey, Montpelier, VT 83/88 Datum: Is it important to your GIS and how do I get on? In 2022, NGS will be replacing the US horizontal and vertical datums (NAD 83 and NAVD 88). This workshop is designed to discuss the need and process for these changes, as well as how these changes may affect users and what users can do to help prepare for these changes. Our journey will begin with a brief discussion of the history of the North American Datum of 1983 and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, their relationships to other reference frames, and the reasons for their ongoing evolution. As LiDAR is becoming much more prevalent within GIS products, we will also discuss the relationships of geoid models to various versions of NAD 83, and what can happen should these relationships be ignored. Dan works for the National Geodetic Survey and has been the Northeast Regional Geodetic Advisor since May of 2015. As the Regional Advisor, he instructs local surveyors, state and municipal agencies, and the geospatial community at large, on how to use and preserve the National Spatial Reference System, and provides liaison between the National Geodetic Survey and the States of ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, and NJ, as well as other federal agencies. He worked in the Route Survey and Geodetic Survey sections of the Vermont Agency of Transportation from 1988 through 2003, and held the position of Geodetic Program Supervisor for the Agency from 1999 through 2003. In 2003 Dan began his career with the National Geodetic Survey as the Vermont State Geodetic Advisor. Dan is a Past President of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS), and is a Fellow Member of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. He is also a member of the Vermont Society of Land Surveyors and the New Hampshire Land Surveyors Association.
12:15 – 1:15 pm
Lunch and Vendors
1:15 – 3:00 pm
Thaddeus Eldredge ESE LLC, Chatham, MA Rapid Data Collection Using a Mobile Platform and the Cloud. An Experience Along Route 27, Cape Cod. J. Thaddeus Eldredge is a professional land surveyor with over 16 years of experience in the practice of land surveying and engineering. An Alumni of both Colby College and Wentworth Institute of Technology he holds both a degree in Mathematics and a certificate in Professional Land Surveying. Mr. Eldredge was licensed to practice land surveying in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2005. Mr. Eldredge is a member of several surveying and engineering societies including the Massachusetts Association of Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers (MALSCE) of which he is a Trustee of the MALSCE Educational Trust and the former Cape Cod Chapter President. He is also a member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS).
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Break
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Steve Santovasi Burns McDonnell, Waterbury, CT Piloting UAV’s for Data Steven P. Santovasi, GISP is the Geospatial Services Manager at Burns & McDonnell, New England Regional Office in Wallingford, Connecticut. His responsibilities include Managing GIS Services, UAV Technologies, 3D Services, GPS technologies, Surveying, Mobile Mapping Solutions, and Web Mapping Solutions for several multi-billion dollar critical infrastructure electrical transmission reliability projects. He has 25 years’ experience in the ESRI GIS market and survey industry, a BS in Management Information Systems, a Certificate in Geographic Information Systems, is a Certified Geographic Information Systems Professional, Certified Civil and Commercial UAV Pilot, and a Member of the GISCI Certification Board.
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NEGIS Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Board of Directors
PRESIDENT Helenmary Hotz University of Massachusetts, Boston
Richard Gosselin Spatial Data & Design
Treasurer Alice Renauld Liberty Utilities
David Merwin Framingham State University Chair Scholarship Committee
Secretary Zachary Shark Boston Fire Department
Robert Page Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut