GIS-Pro 2019

We are so excited to kick off GIS-Pro 2019 in New Orleans!

With the help of the Louisiana URISA Chapter, we are pleased to provide the GIS Community with important education and ample opportunities to connect. Take advantage of everything!

The Chairs of GIS-Pro 2019 (John Nolte, Ashley Hitt, and Judy Colby-George) will discuss program highlights and recognize the many contributors who made this event possible.

Then, hear from URISA's President Kim McDonough and some invited guests as we kick off an education-packed conference in New Orleans.

We'll hear about the "Earth as Art" Exhibition from Brent Yantis (you'll be able to view several pieces of the exhibit in the exhibit hall). 

Then meet Nate Herold from NOAA Office for Coastal Management who is our keynote speaker. He will discuss NOAA and Digital Coast:

Coastal communities are striving to protect their citizens, infrastructure, and economy in the face of many threats and challenges. NOAA seeks to help these communities be effective, creative, and science-based in their approach. This keynote will highlight the resources available on the Digital Coast website, the partnership of organizations that help ensure that these resources are relevant to meeting our common coastal management needs, and a high resolution land cover being developed to provide detailed data useful at the local level.

It's already time for the Closing Session & Keynote Address.

Active members of URISA's Policy Advisory Committee will provide an update on legislative activity and the use of a tracking tool to keep current.

We are pleased to bring you Denis Riordan, PSM of NOAA, National Geodetic Survey as the 'cherry on top', bringing an exciting and valuable week to a close. He will discuss ....Are You Prepared For The New Datums?
Building upon the latest technology, the National Geodetic Survey will improve the National Spatial Reference System by replacing the North American Datum of 1983 and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 with a new geometric frame and geopotential datum in 2022. Are you prepared for this change? Have you decided how you will be making this transformation? Dr. Denis Riordan will explain how this change could impact your data and what you should be doing now to prepare.

Then, we'll wrap up GIS-Pro 2019 with a little look-back at the preceding days and look ahead to GIS-Pro 2020 in Baltimore!