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GIS Day 2007 at University of Houston Nov. 15 |
Nov 9th, 2007 |
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| GIS Day Promotes Geography Week
Internationally celebrated Geography Week offers noted keynote speakers Media Contact: 713.881.3278 Maria Vera, GIS Day Committee mvera@houstontranstar.org Houston, Texas (October 3, 2007) Don’t miss this year’s Houston Area’s GDC GIS Day 2007 on Nov. 15-16, 2007 hosted at the University of Houston - Central Campus, MD Anderson Library. Dr. Gordon Wells, keynote speaker on Nov. 15, presents “Geospatial Technologies for Disaster Response: GIS, GPS and Satellite Remote Sensing.” Dr. Wells serves as the Principal Investigator for the NASA-funded Mid-American Geospatial Information Center at The University of Texas-Austin Center for Space Research. Dr. John Lienhard will be keynote speaker on Nov. 16, 2007. Lienhard is the author and voice talent for more than 2,000 episodes of “The Engines of Our Ingenuity,” a syndicated daily National Public Radio series about machines and the people who created them. Dr. Lienhard is the MD Anderson Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, and of History, at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1980. Presentation Papers Include: GIS in the University of Houston Where was GIS When I needed It GIS for Modeling Water Quality in Houston Implementation of Enterprise GIS within a Petroleum Company Discovering Interesting Regions in Spatial Datasets Utilization of High Resolution Satellitel Data for Atmospheric Modeling Use of GIS in Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Vessel Asset Management Utilizing Google Maps Developing Houston’s “Economic Map” GIS Careers in Consulting Organizations One Click to Any Drawing You Want GISCorps: Who Are We? Customized ArcGIS Server Applications GIS for Pipeline Safety An Integrated Approach to GIS Education and Training Exhibitors Include: Baker Energy, City of Houston – Public Works, Planning & Development, HEC, 911, Public Utilities, Resource Management, Houston TranStar; Collins Software, ESRI, Harris County- Appraisal District, Flood Control, Engineering & PID, ITC, Public Health; HNTB, Houston Community College, Idea Integration, NHMCCD, North Harris College, Red Oak Consulting, Stephen F. Austin University, TCB, TeachMeGIS, Tessellations, Texas Department of Transportation, University of Houston-Dept. of Geosciences, VesselTrax, & Western Data Systems. For more information on the event go online to www.HoustonAreaGISDay.org |
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