GIS UPDATE '23 PROGRAMME
Friday 16th June 2023
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09.30 Registration - Ogilvie Room, Geography Building
10.00 Welcome
Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
10.10 Session: Building the Technology
Chair: Tom Armitage (Maptiler)
Building a Corporate Spatial Data Infrastructure with PostGIS & QGIS
Karl-Erik Wilson (Oceans Winds)
Unreal Geospatial: Rise of the Game Engines
Paul Georgie (GeoGeo)
11.10 Coffee
11.40 Session: Ecology through Remote Sensing
Chair: Catherine Schroder (Landmark Information Group)
Varying spatial resolution UAV data affects species classification accuracy in peatland environments
Caroline Nichol (University of Edinburgh)
Use of variable resolution remote sensing platforms to detect early onset tree disease in commercial conifers in Scotland
Liz Poulsom (University of Edinburgh)
12.40 Lunch (Ogilvie Room)
14.00 Session: Supporting Government
Chair: Miles MacCalman (Scottish Water)
Using Geospatial and Geodatabase skills to support broadband delivery for Scottish Government
Robin Guy (Scottish Government)
The HM Land Registry Land Charge Migration project
Carmel Connolly (ESRI-UK)
15.00 Tea
15.30 Session: Using Geospatial to Make a Difference in Energy
Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
Energy Transition: Title TBC
Callum Crawford (Wood Mackenzie)
A Soho Pub, Jail House and Story Telling with Geospatial Data
Rob Dunfey (Shell)
16.30 Open Forum
17.30 Close
FRIDAY EVENING:
From 18.00 Pear Tree (West Nicholson Street)
7.30pm Restaurant (Pizza Posto, South Bridge)
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