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

GIS UPDATE '14 PROGRAMME

Friday 13th June 2014

 09.30  Coffee (Room 2.01)

 10.00	Welcome (Room 2.13)
        Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

 10.10	Session: Scottish Public Sector Applications
 	Chair: Selena Masnikosa (AECOM)

        Step Change: Embedding GIS in the delivery of a digitally connected Scotland
        Colin Morrison (Digital Scotland)

        Asset information visualisation for Scottish Water, an open source and agile project
        Tom Stork (Kemeling Consulting)

 11.10	Coffee
 
 11.30	Session: Web-based Working
 	Chair: Robin McLaren (Know Edge)

        Moving 1000+ ArcGIS for Desktop Editor users to the Web
        Morag Hawkins (Forestry Commission) and Murray Roden (ESRI)

        The GeoWeb Challenge
        Rob Dunfey (Shell)

 12.30	Lunch
 
 14.00	Session: Data and Beyond
 	Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh)

        SpaceBook: The Final Frontier and Beyond?
        William Mackaness (University of Edinburgh)

        Information Technology and Environmental Data Management; from Observations 
        and Measurements to Decision Support Systems
        Felipe Fernandez Perez, (IH Cantabria, Spain)

 15.15	Tea

 15.45	Session: Data Acquisition Research
 	Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

        New Opportunities for Synthetic Aperture Radar in Research and Business
        Chris Haworth (Selex ES)

        Gecoding Scottish Civil Registration Records from the C19th and C20th: 
        Challenges and Research Opportunities
        Chris Dibben (University of Edinburgh)

 16.45	Open Forum
        Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

 17.30	Close


FRIDAY EVENING:  From 6.00pm Pear Tree (opp. Appleton Tower) 
                 7.30pm 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 to make sure its on if weather poor)
                 26 Cameron March (by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre)
                 Bring fancy meat (if you want to) and drink. Sausages, salads, rolls and other basics provided.