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

GIS UPDATE '16 PROGRAMME

Friday 17th June 2016

Note: Morning sessions are in the Ogilvie Room, afternoon in the usual lecture theatre, Room 2.13

 09.30  Coffee / Tea (Old Library)

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

 10.10	Session: GIS & Health  (Ogilvie Room)
 	Chair: Owen Macdonald (University of Edinburgh)

	Life Course, Green Space and Health
	Mark Cherrie (University of Edinburgh)

	Inequalities in Colorectal Cancer Screening Participation
	Alistair Geddes (University of Dundee)

 11.10  Coffee
 
 11.30	Session: Understanding GIS  (Ogilvie Room)
 	Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh)

	Teaching GIS to non-geographers
	Tom Armitage (EDINA)

	Mapping/GIS Understanding and Responding to the "So What?" Question
	That You Will Hear in your Profession
	Stuart Miller (TerraGo Technologies)

 12.30	Lunch

 14.00	Session: Height and Depth  (Room 2.13)
 	Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

	How Deep Is Your Loch? History Re-imagined
	Phil Taylor (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)

	Lessons in LiDAR
	Caroline Broughton (WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff) 

 15.00	Tea

 15.30	Session: UAVs (Room 2.13)
 	Chair: David Cooper (University of Edinburgh)

	The Democratisation of Earth Observation: A Drone Story
	Paul Georgie (GeoGeo)

	Leveraging GIS Towards Effective Drone Flight Planning: A Start Up's Journey
	Kerr Mackinnon (Flyte Technologies)

 16.30	Demonstrations of Current Students' Work
	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: 0131 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, burgers, salads, rolls and other basics provided.