Knoxfoss4g20170519

Knoxville FOSS4G Meeting - May 19th 2017

Date

May 19th 2017

Description

This is Tennessee's first FOSS4G meeting.

It's an opportunity for Free and Open Source Software for GIS users in the area to get together and discuss projects (like Forestry projects, or small Gov't projects), software (QGIS, PostGIS, etc), and get to know one another. The event is free. We are looking for sponsors (we'll make you famous). If you want to present a paper please email Randal Hale (rjhale@northrivergeographic.com) and the group will get back with you ASAP. There are a limited number of tickets. So please reserve one so we'll know about refreshments.

Location

Plant Biotech Building

UT Ag Campus

2505 EJ Chapman Dr

Knoxville, TN 37996

Tickets

There are a limited number of tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foss4g-in-tennessee-tickets-32330056068

Parking

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Speakers

If you want to speak email rjhale@northrivergeographic.com and the committee will get back with you.

List of topics and speakers in nor particular order.

• Introduction to OSGEO Live - TBA
• What's New in QGIS 3.0 - Randal Hale

• Landscape Level LiDAR Analysis for Vegetation Structure - Doug Newcombe - The State of North Carolina is in the process of collecting LiDAR data statewide at USGS QL2 ( 2 pts/meter) resolution or better. The point clouds generated from this effort can be more than 10 billion points per county. GRASS GIS can be used to quickly analyze massive LiDAR point clouds for canopy heights and other vegetative structure metrics that can be used to try to characterize habitat of different terrestrial species at a landscape scale.

• LIDAR AND 3D Building Extraction - Carl Anderson
• Image Classification using QGIS - Frank Obusek

Sponsors

• Location Tech
• North River Geographic Systems, Inc.
• University of Tennessee Department of Geography
• UT County Technical Assistance Service