GISUpdate Conference - Contact: gisupd@geo.ed.ac.uk

GIS UPDATE '03 PROGRAMME

Friday 6th June 2003

 09.30  Coffee (Room 2.01)
 
 10.00	Welcome (Room 2.13)

 10.10	Session: Environmental Research
 	Chair: Chris Hill (University of Edinburgh)

        Remote Sensing Forteana
        Iain Woodhouse (University of Edinburgh)

        Using GIS as a window on the past: 34 million years of Antarctic
        landscape evolution
        Stewart Jamieson (University of Edinburgh)

 11.10	Coffee
 
 11.30	Session: The Past
 	Chair: Sarah Smith (UCL / Ordnance Survey)

        Online developments towards a Scottish Heritage Portal for 
        RCAHMS and HS
        Mark Gillick (RCAHMS)

        The Digital Trowel: GIS and Archaeology at the Discovery Programme
        Anthony Corns

 12.30	Lunch
 
 14.00	Session: Commercial Applications
 	Chair: Duncan Moss (Ordnance Survey)

        Marks & Spencer's Customer Driven Location Strategy
        Ian Parnaby (M&S)

        Mapping Access Land
        Victoria Mohan (Black & Veatch)

 15.00	Tea
 
 15.20	Session: Technological Developments 
 	Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

        Aeronautical Information and the single multi-product Gothic database
        Tim Downs (Laserscan)

        The Maia Project - The World's Biggest Spatial Database?
        Berik Davies (Ordnance Survey)

 16.20	Open Forum
        Chair: Tim Barratt (Tweed Forum)

 17.20	Close


FRIDAY EVENING:  From 6.00pm Pear Tree (opp. Appleton Tower) 
                 8.00pm Restaurant (Ti Amo, South Bridge) 
                 c.10.30pm Brass Monkey (Drummond Street)
                                    
SATURDAY EVENT:  From 3.00pm 'til v.late BBQ at Bruce's House (Tel: 667 0184)
                 26 Cameron March (by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre)
                 Bring Meat and Booze. Sausages, salads, rolls and other basics provided.