Directions Media Announces Rocket City Geospatial Conference 2010 Agenda
David DiBiase, Director, John A. Dutton E-Education Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, will deliver the keynote address
June 28, 2010 – Huntsville, AL - Directions Media today unveils the preliminary agenda for the fourth annual Rocket City Geospatial Conference to be held in Huntsville, Alabama on November 16th and 17th at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration. The one and one-half-day event will include presentations with a focus on the applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and related geospatial technologies to state and local government. The agenda, as well as registration information, can be found at www.RocketCityGeospatial.com.
“With the region being hit by several natural disasters in addition to the situation in the Gulf of Mexico, geospatial professionals have been called upon to supply much needed geographic information to support first responders for crisis mapping as well as oil cleanup efforts,” said Joe Francica, conference chairman. “So, we anticipate that the conference this year will serve as a focal point to discuss the efforts that support the needs of state and local government agencies.”
The keynote presentation will be delivered by Mr. David DiBiase who is the director of the John A. Dutton E-Education Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. Mr. DiBiase is also a senior researcher with the National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (GeoTech Center – www.geotechcenter.org), a member of the board for the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (www.urisa.org), and president of the GIS Certification Institute (www.gisci.org). Mr. DiBiase will deliver a presentation entitled “2010: The Year the Geospatial Industry Came of Age” on November 17th at 8:30 a.m.
The Rocket City Geospatial Conference continues the tradition of pointing a spotlight at Alabama, and Huntsville in particular, as a major hub of geospatial technology. In addition, the following key issues will be added to the agenda this year:
- Crisis Mapping – Natural disasters demand immediate response
- How to do a better job of cost effectiveness during project implementation in an era of tight budgets
- Coastal Mapping and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response
- Visualization technology trends including building information models (BIM) and Augmented Reality
- Full Motion Video (FMV) and mapping for defense intelligence
- Department of Labor and the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM)
- Crowd-sourced data
- Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
About Directions Media
The conference is hosted by Directions Media, the global leader in collectively covering all aspects of location technology: geographic information systems (GIS), location intelligence, mapping portals and mobile location-based services (LBS). Directions Media, with offices in Huntsville, Alabama and Glencoe, Illinois, encompasses six media properties: Directions Magazine (www.DirectionsMag.com), Directions Magazine français (français,Directionsmag.com), Directions Magazine Español (www.Directionsmag.ed), and All Points Blog (www.AllPointsBlog) as well as the Location Intelligence (www.LocationIntelligence.net) and Rocket City Geospatial (www.RocketCityGeospatial.com) annual conferences.
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