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

GIS UPDATE '19 FINAL PROGRAMME
Friday 7th June 2019

 09.30  Registration
	Coffee / Tea (Old Library)

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

 10.10	Session: Open Source or Not?
 	Chair: Catherine Wood (University of Edinburgh)

        Refugees and migrants - are you biased yet?
        Ed Scrase (UNHCR, Geneva)

        The Open Source Advantage
        Tom Armitage (Innovation IT)

 11.10  Coffee
 
 11.30	Session: Data
 	Chair: David Saunders (University of Edinburgh)

	Adding Value and Delivering Open Data
        Carol Blackwood (EDINA)

        The Historic Environment Record: Putting Lincolnshire's Archaeology on the Map
        Kathryn Murphy (Lincolnshire County Council)

 12.30	Lunch

 14.00	Session: Research
 	Chair: Sarah Cheesebrough (University of Edinburgh)

        Dynamic Coast - Mapping the Past and Future Evolution of Scotland’s Shores
	Freya Muir (University of Glasgow)

        Using lidar remote sensing of forests to improve weather and climate models
        Steven Hancock (University of Edinburgh)

 15.00	Tea

 15.30	Session: GIS in the Organisation
 	Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

        Shell's Digital Strategy and the Geospatial Advantage
        Rob Dunfey (Shell, Aberdeen)

        How the US Government does Geospatial: Trends, Observations and  Implications
        Rob Pitts (New Light Technologies, Washington DC)

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

 17.30	Close


FRIDAY EVENING: 
   From 18.00 Pear Tree (West Nicholson Street)
        19.30 Restaurant (Pizza Posto, Nicholson Street) 
      c.22.30 Brass Monkey (Drummond Street)