East Texas GIS & GPS User Group / Stephen F. Austin State University GIS Day

November 10, 2023
Stephen F. Austin State University, Forestry Building, Conference Room
Nacogdoches, TX
Registration Closed

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

  • GIS for the Greater Good: On the Uses of (and Possibilities for) GIS in Local Government, Rachel Abouras, Data Analyst, City of Longview - Information Services
  • GIS Adjacent:  Some Things I Didn’t Know I Needed to Know, Kasey Cox, 9-1-1 GIS Data Administrator, North Central Texas Emergency Communications District
  • Planning and Maintaining Land Management Activities Using GIS, Jason Raines, Vice President – Operations, Acorn Forestry

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

  • Goal for a Litter-Free Campus: A Survey123 Project, Rebecca Arnold & Dayton Hamilton, Senior in Geospatial Science
  • Mapping Emergency Call Boxes on SFA Campus, Damian Santaclara & Garrison Layne, Senior in Geospatial Science and Senior in Environmental Science
  • Mapping the 100 Pine Trees of SFA’s Centennial Celebration, Stephanie Huerta, Senior in Environmental Science

2:40 PM - Break - Provided by Allterra

3:00 PM - Panel Discussion

Prepare for the Ever-Evolving Geospatial Job Market

  • John Streeb, GIS Administrator, Deep East Texas Council of Governments
  • Rob Davis, Vice President - Survey, Lamb-Star Engineering
  • Robert Potts, Natural Resources and Planning Staff Officer, National Forest and Grasslands in Texas
  • Bobby Miller, Drone Division Manager, Hydrex Environmental

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

Thanks to our Sponsors

Stephen F. Austin State University

ARTHUR TEMPLE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY & AGRICULTURE

South Central Arc User Group (SCAUG)

Hydrex Environmental

Allterra

When

November 10, 2023
9:30 a.m.
to
November 10, 2023
4:00 p.m.
America/Chicago (-6:00)

Where

Stephen F. Austin State University, Forestry Building, Conference Room
419 E College St
Nacogdoches, TX 75965
United States

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Tickets

  • ETUG/SFASU GIS Day
    Free
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