Schedule of

Events

Sunday, June 17, 2018

2:00pm – 5:00pm Early Vendor Registration Open (Park Place Conference Center)

3:00pm – 4:00pm Early Attendee Registration Open (Park Place Conference Center)

4:00pm Departure for Beer/Wine tour and dinner (Park Place Hotel)

6:45pm Dinner Meet Up (Blue Tractor BBQ, 423 S. Union St Traverse City)

8:30pm – Midnight IMAGIN Hospitality Event (Park Place Hotel – Top of the Park)

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Monday, June 18, 2018 7:00am Registration Opens (Park Place Conference Center)

7:00am Breakfast (Conference Center)

8:15am Opening Remarks and Keynote Session: Tim Cusack (Conference Center)

9:15am Break (Conference Center)

9:30am – 5:00pm Esri Hands on Learning Lab (Minervas Boardroom)

9:30am Technical Session 1 ARUtility Augmented Reality Utility Locating (Courtyard I)

Using Unmanned Aerial Systems to Assess & Quantify Flooding Impacts at Michigan State University (Courtyard II)

Water Asset Management in Clinton Township (Torch Lake)

Disseminating/Engaging your Data with the Public: Geoforms, Web Apps, & Story Maps (Boardman)

10:45am Technical Session 2

The Best Platform and Sensor for your Geospatial Data Project is…? (Courtyard I)

GIS Prevents Crime: Crime Forecasting Aids Police Efforts to Fight Crime (Courtyard II)

Using FME to Integrate Local Government Information (Torch Lake)

Finding Change in your County Using High Resolution Imagery (Boardman)

11:45am Vendor Networking Lunch (Conference Center)

12:15pm Guest Speaker: John Ellingson (Conference Center)

1:45pm Technical Session 3 Drone in 60 Seconds (Courtyard I)

Latitude Geographics Geocortex User Group Meeting (Courtyard II)

Leveraging ESRI Web AppBuilder and Free Widgets in Your Web GIS (Torch Lake)

ArcGIS Platform Overview and What’s New (Boardman)

3:00pm Technical Session 4

Battle Royale: Pix4D vs. Drone2Map (Courtyard I)

City of Hastings Riverside Cemetery (Courtyard II)

Assessing, Web GIS, and Mobile Apps Team Up to Modernize Field Appraisals (Torch Lake)

What’s Old is New Again (Boardman)

4:15pm Vendor Social Event (Conference Center)

5:30pm Downtown Bingo Start/Dinner on Own (Downtown Traverse City)

8:30pm – Midnight Downtown Bingo Finale (9:00pm) / Social Networking (Park Place Hotel, Top of the Park)

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 7:30am Registration / Breakfast (Conference Center)

8:30am Opening Remarks and Keynote Session: Marilyn A. Sanders (Conference Center)

10:00am – 4:00pm Esri Hands on Learning Lab (Minervas Boardroom)

10:00am Technical Session 1

Modern Ways to Obtain Elevations, New Transformation Tools and Free Learning Opportunities from NGS (Courtyard I)

Using GIS to Identify Economic Development (Courtyard II)

Intro to ArcGIS Online Workshop (Torch Lake)

Leveraging the ArcGIS Platform using GIS Based Social Media Monitoring App for School and Community Safety (Boardman)

11:15am Technical Session 2

The Comedy of Crystal Lake: Recreation of a Historic Canal that Became A Beach (Courtyard I)

Crowdsourcing GIS Data Assessment and Improvement (Courtyard II)

Intro to ArcGIS Online Workshop, continued (Torch Lake)

ArcGIS Pro: An Intro to Modern GIS (Boardman)

12:15pm Annual Awards Luncheon (Conference Center)

2:00pm Technical Session 3 Soil Survey Rectification (Courtyard I)

DelDOT’s Oversize/Overweight Automated Routing Solutions (OOARS) (Courtyard II)

High Def Laser Scanning and GIS Partner to Offer A Real World Solution in Kalamazoo (Torch Lake)

Augmented Reality and GIS – What’s Next? (Boardman)

3:00pm Technical Session 4

Tribal Geospatial Systems-Wild Rice and Water Quality GIS Approaches (Courtyard I)

Open Data and ArcGIS Hub (Courtyard II)

Evaluation LiDAR Applications for Forest Vegetation Management (Torch Lake)

Michigan 21st Century Infrastructure Asset Management Pilot Project (Boardman)

4:00pm Drawing for Drone / Conference Close (Conference Center)

Technical

Sessions

Monday, June 189:30 am

Room: Courtyard I

ARUtility Augmented Reality Utility Locating

ARUtility takes asset information and augments a live camera view with a 3D representation of the assets, allowing you to essentially “see through” the ground.

Moderator: Andrew GiguerePresenter: Joe Eastman, P.E. Founder/CEOPresenter Email: jeastmancee@gmail.comAgency: ARUtility

Room: Courtyard II

Using Unmanned Aerial Systems to Assess and Quantify Flooding Impacts at Michigan State University

In late February of this year, Michigan State University campus and the surrounding area experienced one of its worst flood events since 1975. Large portions of campus adjacent to the Red Cedar River were inundated. As the primary UAS group at MSU, RS&GIS was asked by the MSU Police Department and the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Utilities (IPF) to collect imagery over the floodplain to assist with future planning and engineering efforts. RS&GIS will discuss the unique challenges associated with this effort, as well as data products that resulted from the mapping effort.

Moderator: Wade RenandoPresenters: Robert Goodwin, Senior Geospatial Analyst; Nick Weil, GIS & Remote Sensing AnalystPresenter Emails: goodwinr@msu.edu, weilnich@msu.eduAgency: RS&GIS, Michigan State University

Room: Torch Lake

Water Asset Management in Clinton Township

Clinton Township is responsible for maintaining about 350 miles of water mains, 5,000 hydrants and 4,300 valves. As part of the MDEQ directive, the township embarked on the process of creating a Water Asset Management (WAM) plan. One of the end results is a scoring matrix that takes into account probability (POF) and consequence of failure (COF) of each water main segment. The WAM will serve as a guidance tool for future capital improvement projects.

Moderator: Diane O’ConnellPresenter: Magda DiFranco, GIS SpecialistPresenter Email: m.difranco@clintontownship-mi.govAgency: Charter Township of Clinton

Room: Boardman

Disseminating/Engaging your Data with the Public: Geoforms, Web Apps, & Story Maps

You’ve built an amazing GIS dataset for the public, now it’s time to send it out into the world! But how? Paper maps are wonderful, but where’s the interaction? Have you considered powerful tools such as GeoForms, Web Applications, or Story Maps as a medium to disseminate and engage your audience? In this session, we will go over applications for these mediums, and how to make these tools get the most out of your Audience.

Moderator: Keri BloughPresenter: Keith Rikli, Production CoordinatorPresenter Email: keith@droneviewtech.comAgency: DroneView Technologies

Monday, June 1810:45 am

Room: Courtyard I

The Best Platform and Sensor for your Geospatial Data Project is…?

This presentation will use an interactive experience where the audience is presented with various project examples and votes on the preferred platform/sensor combination to meet the specifications. After we reveal which combination was used, discussion around how and why this was the preferred solution follows. Project examples include a variety of platforms; UAVs/Drones, Helicopters, Fixed-Wing Aircraft, Mobile, Hydro and sensors; digital cameras, LiDAR, sonar, etc.

Moderator: Jon MerrickPresenter: Jason Heywood, Director of Business DevelopmentPresenter Email: jheywood@droneviewtech.comAgency: DroneView Technologies

Room: Courtyard II

GIS Prevents Crime: Crime Forecasting Aids Police Efforts to Fight Crime

What is Crime Forecasting and does it really work? Come learn about how GIS can reduce occurrences of crime and the impact it has on communities and police forces.

Moderator: Trevor HobbsPresenter: Michael Funaro, Account ManagerPresenter Email: mfunaro@latitudegeo.comAgency: Latitude Geographics

Room: Torch Lake

Using FME to Integrate Local Government Information

FME is an industry-leading Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) Tool used by an increasing number of organizations to automate routine data movement tasks. It’s powerful, performant, easy-to-use, and supports hundreds of data structures. Here in Michigan, FME is used for BS&A/GIS data integration, interfaces between various systems, and automated data publication. This presentation will describe and demonstrate these within the larger context of common Michigan county/local government responsibilities.

Moderator: Jason MoorePresenters: Brooks Kelley, Senior Consultant; Thomas Van Bruggen, GIS AdministratorPresenter Emails: bkelley@infogeographics.com, vanbruggenth@co.Muskegon.mi.usAgencies: InfoGeographics, Inc., Muskegon County

Room: Boardman

Finding Change in your County Using High-Resolution Imagery

With Pictometry aerial oblique imagery, Assessment and GIS personnel can pinpoint change in seconds by comparing two sets of imagery. Hear use cases of how jurisdictions large and small have found change with change detection using Pictometry imagery.

Moderator: Brodey HillPresenters: Jeff Nemecek, Regional Technical Manager; Mike Cowles, Senior District ManagerPresenter Email: jeff.nemecek@eagleview.com; Michael.cowls@eagleview.comAgency: Eagleview

Monday, June 181:45 pm

Room: Courtyard I

Drone in 60 Seconds

I won the DJI Phantom 3 door prize at the 2015 IMAGIN Conference which unexpectedly and pleasantly threw me into the world of drones. I'll share my experiences, lessons learned, equipment selection, tips and tricks, drone to GIS workflows, and becoming an FAA certified sUAS Remote Pilot. Attendees will leave the presentation ready to "Drone in 60 Seconds" as well.

Moderator: April KibbyPresenter: Jonathon Merrick, GIS AdministratorPresenter Email: jmerrick@eatoncounty.orgAgency: Eaton County

Room: Courtyard II

Latitude Geographics GeocortexUser Group Meeting

A user group meeting and forum for current Geocortex users.

Presenter: Michael Funaro, Account ManagerPresenter Email: mfunaro@latitudegeo.comAgency: Latitude Geographics

Room: Torch Lake

Leveraging ESRI Web AppBuilder and Free Widgets in Your Web GIS

Esri’s Web AppBuilder has a lot of free downloadable widgets that can enhance anyone’s AGOL or Portal experience. In this presentation, we’ll walk through an application that links Work and Asset Management Systems (Maximo, WAM, and ABB Ellipse) with Web GIS through a custom Web AppBuilder widget. We’ll also review many of the over 30 open source widgets provided through the Web AppBuilder including: Utility Network Tracing, Search Near Me, Nexrad Weather, and Save Session.

Moderator: Karl LinderothPresenter: Dan Loegel, Software Implementation SpecialistPresenter Email: dan.loegel@geo-nexus.comAgency: GeoNexus Technologies

Room: Boardman

ArcGIS Platform Overview and What’s New

As the ArcGIS platform continues to evolve and expand, more capabilities and solutions are included. This session will provide an overview of the current ArcGIS Platform and will also highlight new components and capabilities as well as look at the road ahead.

Moderator: Brodey HillPresenter: Joe Araiza, Account ManagerPresenter Email: jaraiza@esri.comAgency: Esri

Monday, June 183:00 pm

Room: Courtyard I

Battle Royale: Pix4D vs Drone2Map (A Comparison of Drone Processing Softwares as applied to GIS and a “Fly-Through” of UAV/GIS workflows)

With the rise of the “Drone Invasion” many companies are jumping on the band wagon and looking at purchasing a drone, and by extension processing software. From a GIS Perspective, which one will get me what I need for X project? In this session, we will compare the popular Pix4D image processing suite with ESRI’s version: Drone2Map. We’ll also discuss the basic workflow from the UAV hitting the ground (softly and purposefully), to product creation.

Moderator: Bob GoodwinPresenter: Keith Rikli, Production CoordinatorPresenter Email: keith@droneviewtech.comAgency: DroneView Technologies

Room: Courtyard II

City of Hastings Riverside Cemetery

Several years ago the City of Hastings established a cemetery millage for the upkeep, maintenance and improvement of Riverside Cemetery. A portion of the millage was intended for the modernization and publishing of the City’s 16,000 burial records. I will discuss the entire process from the conversion of Excel documents and paper to a new BS&A database, the creation of grave features, and the publishing of data to ArcGIS Online.

Moderator: Troy RosencrantsPresenter: Ed Dempsey, Team Leader –CAD, Survey, & GISPresenter Email: edempsey@preinnewhof.comAgency: Prein & Newhof

Room: Torch Lake

Assessing, Web GIS and Mobile Apps Team Up to Modernize Field Appraisal

Are your field appraisers still using paper and pencil for field work? Do you want to build them better GIS tools but access to CAMA data is challenging? Pivot Point is partnering with local government entities to build solutions that bring CAMA and GIS together into an easy to use native mobile app (connectivity not required). See how Big Rapids Twp used the Field App to seamlessly push field collected data to BS&A and AGOL.

Moderator: Janet MocadloPresenters: Brian Kienle, Partner; David Kirwin, Training RepresentativePresenter Emails: brian.kienle@pivotpoint.us; davidkirwin@bsasoftware.comAgencies: Pivot Point, BS&A Software

Room: Boardman

What’s Old is New Again

The engaging aesthetic of a hand-drawn map has the tendency to stir memories of fantasy books and conjure a sense of adventure. I’ll share simple methods and resources to easily produce digital versions of these wonders in your own GIS system. In addition to the general benefits of engaging design, I’ll help you rationalize to your boss or customer why yellowed parchment and ink create an effective environment where your map can really communicate.

Moderator: Brett HeistPresenter: John Nelson, CartographerPresenter Email: john_nelson@esri.comAgency: Esri

Tuesday, June 1910:00 am

Room: Courtyard I

Modern Ways to Obtain Elevations, New Transformation Tools and Free Learning Opportunities from NGS

With the rise of the “Drone Invasion” many companies are jumping on the band wagon and looking at purchasing a drone, and by extension processing software. From a GIS Perspective, which one will get me what I need for X project? In this session, we will compare the popular Pix4D image processing suite with ESRI’s version: Drone2Map. We’ll also discuss the basic workflow from the UAV hitting the ground (softly and purposefully), to product creation.

Moderator: Pete SchneiderPresenter: John Ellingson, Geodetic Advisor for the Great Lakes RegionPresenter Email: john.Ellingson@noaa.govAgency: National Geodetic Survey

Room: Courtyard II

Using GIS to Identify Economic Development Potential

Within the Flint, MI region, auto industry relocation and the ensuing job losses have not been fully compensated by diversification and expansion into other economic sectors This study identified factors related to available property, labor, education, and derived measures of transportation connectivity to assess the feasibility of creating a SmartZone within a 7-county region surrounding Flint, MI.

Moderator: Bill RowePresenter: Troy Rosencrants, GIS Center ManagerPresenter Email: rosencra@umflint.eduAgency: University of Michigan - Flint

Room: Torch Lake

Intro to ArcGIS Online Workshop

Does your organization have an ArcGIS Online Account but doesn't use it? Have you browsed around ArcGIS Online but feel overwhelmed about where to start? Have you started using ArcGIS Online but need some tips, tricks and that little nudge to get you going? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, then this workshop is for YOU!

NOTE: Laptop and ArcGIS Online account required. Please plan accordingly.

Moderator: Janet MocadloPresenters: Keri Blough, Geospatial Applications Services Manager; Jon Merrick, GIS AdministratorPresenter Emails: kblough@cityofnovi.org, jmerrick@eatoncounty.orgAgencies: City of Novi, Eaton County

Room: Boardman

Leveraging the ArcGIS Platform using GIS Based Social Media Monitoring App for School and Community Safety

This presentation will describe the development and implementation of an ArcGIS Social Media Monitoring App for school and community safety.

Moderator: Andrew GiguerePresenters: Ofc. Adele Gardner, Gang Intelligence Officer; Randy Raymond, GIS SpecialistPresenter Emails: adele.gardner@detroitk12.orh, aerraymond@aol.comAgency: Detroit Public Schools Community District Police Department

Tuesday, June 1911:15 am

Room: Courtyard I

The Comedy of Crystal Lake: Re-creation of a Historic Canal that Became a Beach

Crystal Lake, the 9th largest inland lake in MI, was lowered in 1873 in a failed attempt to build a canal to nearby Lake Michigan. GIS analysis of a QL2 LiDAR dataset (MiSAIL) allowed reconstruction of elevation drop (17 ft); water surface lost = beach gained (2,000 A, 21 mi); water volume discharged (56,000,000,000 Bgal); and dredged volume (105,000 cu yds) from cross-sections of three canals. All features are portrayed in a dramatic topographical map.

Moderator: Ulrika ZayPresenters: Dr. Stacy Leroy Daniels, President pro tem; Trevor Hobbs, Owner/ConsultantPresenter Email: stacydan@chartermi.net; info@contourgeographic.comAgencies: Benzie County River Improvement Company; Contour Geographic

Room: Courtyard II

Crowdsourcing GIS Data Assessment and Improvement

Crowdsourcing to assess the quality of parcel data and to create a high quality address point feature class in Genesee County – a test case.

Moderator: Matt MalonePresenter: Ken Koleda, GIS DirectorPresenter Email: kkoleda@co.genesee.mi.usAgency: Genesee County

Room: Torch Lake

Intro to ArcGIS Online Workshop, continued

Workshop continues from the 10:00 am time slot.

Moderator: Janet MocadloPresenter: Keri Blough, Geospatial Applications Services ManagerPresenter Email: kblough@cityofnovi.orgAgency: City of Novi

Room: Boardman

ArcGIS Pro: An Intro to Modern GIS

ArcGIS Pro is here and is the premier professional desktop GIS application from Esri. ArcGIS Pro supports the core GIS experience through an elegant and intuitive contextual user interface built upon a modern architecture. This session will detail the fundamental concepts surrounding ArcGIS Pro as well as highlight several key workflows. This includes editing, symbolizing, styling, and data management as well as how ArcGIS Pro fits into your deployment of Enterprise or ArcGIS Online.

Moderator: Brodey HillPresenter: Gustavo Castro, Solution EngineerPresenter Email: gcastro@esri.comAgency: Esri

Tuesday, June 192:00 pm

Room: Courtyard I

Soil Survey Rectification

During the SSURGO initiative, the atlas sheets from the published soil survey were used for manual recompilation. Many of the soil surveys in Michigan were manually recompiled to the USGS topographic base maps due to lack of available digital orthophotography. Because of this, most of these surveys have areas of poorly recompiled soil lines. To improve the line placement for these poorly recompiled surveys, we rectify the scans of the atlas sheets and then extract the soil lines from the rectified image of the atlas sheet.

Moderator: Scott SwanPresenter: Bernie Skipper, CartographerPresenter Email: Bernie.skipper@mi.usda.govAgency: Natural Resource Conservation Service

Room: Courtyard II

DelDOT’s Oversize/Overweight Automated Routing Solution (OOARS)

Anantics is developing web based mapping OOARS solution for DelDOT which retrieves Vehicle and Permit information, and creates optimized route for the vehicle against the network barriers/restrictions.

Moderator: Brodey HillPresenter: Anurag Kulshrestha, President & CEOPresenter Email: Anurag@anantics.comAgency: Anantics

Room: Torch Lake

High Definition Laser Scanning and GIS partner to offer a real-world solution for the Rose Park Veterans Memorial in Kalamazoo.

Working with the Rotary Club of Kalamazoo Sunrise and the City of Kalamazoo, Wightman utilized High Definition Laser Scanning (HDLS) to inventory the bricks located in the Rose Park Veterans Memorial, reducing field data collection time by more than half. An online GIS application is hosted by the City that allows for better management of the bricks and improved public access for citizens to locate their loved ones at the memorial.

Moderator: Michelle LazarPresenters: Ryan Miller, GIS Manager; David Langley, Laser Scanning ManagerPresenter Emails: rmiller@gowightman.com; dlangely@gowightman.comAgency: Wightman & Associates

Room: Boardman

Augmented Reality and GIS – What’s Next?

Building on the concepts presented last year at the IMAGIN conference, this presentation outlines the vision for the future of visualization technologies in the GIS space.

Moderator: Jim MillerPresenter: Alec Pestov, CEOPresenter Email: alec.pestov@meemim.comAgency: Meemim, Inc.

Tuesday, June 193:00 pm

Room: Courtyard I

Tribal Geospatial Systems – Wild Rice and Water Quality GIS Approaches

Tribal approaches to monitoring natural resources may consider differing indicators than those used by other government agencies. Additionally, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) should guide GIS practices such as data collection and restoration metrics. The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi are incorporating Geospatial technologies into environmental programs to monitor water resources (NIBI) and wild river rice (MNOMEN), utilizing engaging narrative content through Story Maps.

Moderator: Jon GarthaPresenter: Eric Kerney, Senior Environmental SpecialistPresenter Email: ekerney@nhbpi.comAgency: Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi

Room: Courtyard II

Open Data and ArcGIS Hub

Open Data is not just for data download. Overview of how government agencies are leveraging ArcGIS Open Data to support their organization’s open government strategy to own the narrative of their authoritative information and data, to provide context to their content, and to show progress and metrics of projects and more. Presentation will include considerations and user examples.

Moderator: Brett HeistPresenter: Gustavo Castro, Solution EngineerPresenter Email: gcastro@esri.comAgency: Esri

Room: Torch Lake

Evaluation LiDAR Applications for Forest Vegetation Management

In the summer of 2016, the Huron-Manistee National Forests collected a QL1 LiDAR dataset for the Olga Lake project area in Lake and Wexford Counties, Michigan. The purpose of the data collection was to evaluate the use of LiDAR as a tool for vegetation management planning. This presentation will review a variety of applications of the data for forest management purposes including: mapping forest inventory variables, wildlife habitat, cultural resource inventories, and soil and watershed applications.

Moderator: Tatiana VladPresenter: Trevor Hobbs, Physical Scientist/GIS CoordinatorPresenter Email: trevor.c.hobbs@gmail.comAgency: Huron-Manistee National Forests

Room: Boardman

Michigan’s Geographic Framework & Governor’s 21st Century Infrastructure Project Updates

Over the past year, a regional asset management pilot was conducted to identify existing infrastructure data and gaps, determine a statewide database system, and evaluate methods to improve coordination across infrastructure sectors. This presentation will review the activities of the pilot from data collection to data integration including data analytics, and how GIS was leveraged throughout the process. The presentation will also include an overview of the final report, lessons learned, and recommendations from the pilot project.

Moderator: Brodey HillPresenter: Mark Holmes, Geospatial Services Manager, Jason Moore, GIS Manager, Brian Mohr, Transportation EngineerPresenter Emails: holmesm3@Michigan.gov; moorej@gvmc.org; mohr@semcog.orgAgency: State of Michigan, GVMC, SEMCOG