GIS Day 2023
East Texas GIS & GPS User Group
Stephen F. Austin State University
November 10, Friday
Forestry Building, Rm 117
09:30 AM - Networking
09:45 AM - Welcome & Announcements
10:00 AM - Group Picture with SFA Forestry Building (soon to be demolished for a new building)
10:10 AM - Keynote Presentation
Geospatial Archaeology: LiDAR for Hidden Feature Identification in a Forested Environment, Jeff Williams, A Landscape Archaeologist
11:00 AM - Break - Provided by Hydrex Environmental
11:20 AM - (3) ETUG Member Presentations – 20 minutes each
12:20 PM - Lunch - Provided by Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture and South Central Arc User Group (SCAUG)
1:40 PM – (3) SFA Student Presentations - 20 minutes each
2:40 PM - Break - Provided by Allterra
3:00 PM - Panel Discussion
Prepare for the Ever-Evolving Geospatial Job Market
3:50 PM - Door Prizes and Closing
The Keynote:
Mr. Jeff Williams retired from the College of Forestry and Agriculture at SFA in the spring of 2021 after serving 18 years as the GIS Administrator. Jeff is an archaeologist and geospatial scientist who specializes in landscape level studies utilizing remote sensing and GIS applications for cultural resource identification in a forested environment. He has been using GIS while conducting archaeological investigations and inventorying historic trail segments in eastern Texas and western Louisiana for over 30 years. For the last 20 years, Jeff has been using LiDAR to aid in his search for East Texas’ earliest archaeological sites.
Abstract: Composed of physical disturbances, the archaeological record at the landscape level is at best an incomplete catalog of the interactions of human activity and the natural world. A forested environment obscures surface features of the archaeological record. East Texas is a culturally rich area that is heavily forested thereby both protecting and obscuring the features associated with activities of these indigenous peoples. The capture and subsequent analysis of LiDAR are being used with terrestrial surveys to aid in the identification of these hidden archaeological features not easily seen on the ground or in conventional aerial photography
Stephen F. Austin State University, Forestry Building, Conference Room
419 E College St
Nacogdoches, TX 75965
United States
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