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WELCOME

WELCOME TO IGIC’S 2015 ANNUAL INDIANA GIS CONFERENCE

Spring is quickly moving into summer here in Bloomington, my adopted

hometown. As the students file out, our largest annual gathering of GIS

practitioners, service providers, and technology vendors fill in. Like me, you

all must look forward to this time of year, as our surveys show that quality

time with colleagues is just as important as relevant expert content. We

hope we provide plenty of opportunities for both in this year’s conference.

For those who can arrive a bit earlier, there are several pre-conference

events you can attend to get a feel for the Bloomington hospitality that is

so well known. We’ve added some additional down time at Tuesday’s lunch

to network or take extra time to visit our many exhibitors.

Of course, we still have plenty of excellent workshops and thought-

provoking presentations, along with two keynote speakers this year. First,

Mr. Jeff Lovin, Senior Vice President at Woolpert, will bring us his vast

experience to provide us with a national perspective of geospatial initia-

tives and how they can impact our state and local GIS efforts. Next, Kevin

Mickey, Director of Geospatial Technology Education at the Polis Center

and Chair of IGIC’s Education Committee, has been making the rounds

speaking at other state GIS conferences and we thought we should hear

what he has been saying and sharing about Indiana.

On behalf of the Conference Committee, the IGIC Board, our wonderful

sponsors, and all those who have volunteered their time, welcome to the

conference! We thank you for attending and hope you enjoy your time here!

Laura Haley IGIC Conference Committee Co-Chair

LETTER FROM THE CO-CHAIR

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STATE GOVERNMENT Irv Goldblatt State of Indiana IDEM / GIO

Geoff Schomacker Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs

COUNTY GOVERNMENT Adam Johnson Association of Indiana Counties

Kurt Babcock Monroe County Government

Steve Hook Noble County Government

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT Andrew Swenson Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization

Anne E. Trobaugh Indiana Association of Cities and Towns

Rob Mendel (Rural) City of Huntingburg

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT David Nail U.S. Geological Survey

Chris Morse Natural Resources Conservation Service

UNIVERSITY Matt Riggs The Polis Center at IUPUI

Rick Hill Indiana Geological Survey

REGIONAL MEMBERS AT LARGE Kyle Johnson (SE) Delaware County GIS

John Howe (SW) President Gibson County

Dave Estes (NE) Past President Allen County iMap

Dan Niksch (NW) Northwest Indiana GIS Forum/City of Crown Point

Frank Kelly (Central) Indy GIS Users Group, India-napolis Power & Light Co.

REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSIONS Elliot Englert Indiana 15 Regional Planning Commission

GIS SERVICE PROVIDERS Joyce West Secretary Sidwell

Jennifer Dunn HERE, a Nokia business

NONPROFIT Lacey Duncan The Polis Center at IUPUI

Carol Rogers Indiana Business Research Center

UTILITIES Brianna Powers Duke Energy

Chad Hoover LaGrange County REMC

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE Megan Compton Indiana Integrated Public Safety Commission

Matt Rummel Vice President Christopher B. Burke Engineering

SURVEYORS Eric N. Banachbach Indiana Society of Profes-sional Land Surveyors, Indiana Department of Transportation

Al Frisinger County Surveyors Association of Indiana, Allen County Surveyor

MEMBERS AT LARGE Katharine Springer Indiana State Library, State Data Center

Mike Martin Indiana Department of Natural Resources

Larry Stout Hamilton County Government

Justin Peters Indiana University - UITS

IGIC TREASURER Chris Walls 39° north

IGIC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Philip S. Worrall IGIC

IGIC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

THANKS TO OUR PARTNERSIGIC wishes to extend thanks to those organizations who donated time and effort to make the 2015 Indiana GIS Conference a success.

SPECIAL THANKSAnd a special thanks to individuals and organizations who were instrumental in helping IGIC accomplish great things last year!

Carol Rogers, Indiana Business Research Center

Chris Morse, U.S. Department of Agriculture – NRCS

David Nail, U.S. Geological Survey Indiana Liaison

Jim Sparks, Indiana Geographic Information Officer

John Steinmetz, Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University

Justin Peters, Indiana University – University Information Technology Services

Rick Hill, Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University

2015 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND THANKS

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Laura Haley, Co-Chair

Brooke Gajownik, Co-Chair

Kurt Babcock

Irv Goldblatt

Matt Johnson

Kent Park

Matt Rummel

Shaun Scholer

Donna Webb

Joyce West

Phil Worrall

Layne Young

Beck’s Hybrids

Christopher B. Burke Engineering, LLC

City of Bloomington

Esri

Indiana Department of Environmental Management

Indiana Geographic Information Office

Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University University Information Technology Services

Marion County Government Information Services Agency

Monroe County Government

Sidwell

Wayne County/City of Richmond Interlocal

Woolpert

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FIRST GENERAL SESSION 5:05–5:45 pm GREAT ROOM

Jeff Lovin, Senior Vice President at Woolpert, will be our keynote speaker this afternoon.

NETWORKING LUNCH 12:30–1:50 pm GREAT ROOM

Our sponsors are going to feed your mind with a round of Ignite Sessions, but the rest of the time is your own to relax with your colleagues.

OPENING SESSION 8:15 am GREAT ROOM

Welcome to IGIC’s 2015 Annual Indiana GIS Conference. Let’s get started with the IGIC President’s address, IGIC update, and Jim Sparks’ GIO update.

MAP GALLERY OPENS 10:00 am UPSTAIRS HALLWAY

Take some inspiration from the student posters, maps, and nominated projects on display from your fellow GIS professionals and students. Maybe you’ll bring one of your own next year.

EXHIBIT HALL OPENS 11:00 am GREAT ROOM

Get some expert advice, find your next solution, or view the latest tech on display from our excellent exhibitors.

BREAKFAST 8:00–9:15 am

BREAKOUT ROOMS – BIRDS OF A FEATHER (BOAF) BREAKFASTS Grab your food and join your colleagues working in higher education, county government, city/town government, state government, and utili-ties (new this year!) to discuss your GIS issues and ideas. Each breakout will be moderated to keep the conversations moving and to compile a list of topics for future discussion and ideas for IGIC to act upon. To ensure a frank and open atmosphere, attendance at each BOAF breakout is limited to those working in that sector. See the conference schedule for room assignments; there will also be a sector sign outside each breakout room.

GREAT ROOM – BREAKFAST WITH OUR SPONSORS AND VENDORS All other conference attendees not attending a BOAF breakout are invited to have breakfast in the Great Room.

EXHIBIT HALL & MAP GALLERY There is still time to check these out before they close after lunch.

LUNCH & GIS AWARDS PRESENTATIONS 11:35 am–12:50 pm GREAT ROOM

IGIC honors outstanding projects through our annual Excellence in GIS Awards, which recog-nize organizations for their use of geospatial data and technology to improve their communi-ties. Be sure to check out all the nominees in the Map Gallery. Our college student poster contest winners will also be announced.

VENDOR RECEPTION 5:45–7:30 pm GREAT ROOM

Take time to mix and mingle with our wonderful sponsors and exhibitors. Not only do they have the latest solutions and services you should see, they make this conference possible. Use your drink tickets at the Bar. Compete in the ever-popular IGIC Trivia Contest and win some nice door prizes. Did we mention that there will be hors d'oeuvres?

SECOND GENERAL SESSION 9:15–10:00 am GREAT ROOM

Kevin Mickey, Director of Geospatial Technology Education at the Polis Center at IUPUI, will be our keynote speaker this morning.

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

HIGHLIGHTS

BREAKFAST 7:30–9:00 am GREAT ROOM

CLOSING TOWN HALL SESSION 3:10–3:45 pm GREAT ROOM

We gather one last time to sum up our col-lective conference experience and strategize our geospatial future in a highly interactive session. Finally, before sending everyone off, we will wrap things up with some final door prize drawings. Good luck!

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

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AT A GLANCE

7:458:00 – 9:15

9:15 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:1510:15 – 11:35 11:35 – 12:50

1:00 – 3:051:00

3:10 – 3:45

7:30– 8:15 8:15

8:30 – 9:209:30

9:30 – 11:00 11:00 – 11:15 11:15 – 12:30

12:3012:30 – 1:50

1:502:00 – 3:203:20 – 3:35 3:35 – 4:55

4:555:05 – 5:455:45 – 7:30

Registration Birds-of-a-Feather Breakfast Meetings or Breakfast and Vendor Exhibits open – Meeting Rooms & Great RoomSecond General Session – Great RoomBreakSessionsLunch & GIS Awards – Great RoomSessionsVendor Exhibits closeClosing Town Hall Session – Great Room

Registration and Breakfast – Great Room Welcome – Great RoomOpening Session – Great RoomTravel to offsite workshopsWorkshops Break and Vendor Exhibits open – Great Room Workshops continuedTravel to Conference Center Lunch and Sponsor IGNITE Session – Great RoomTravel to offsite workshopsSessions/Workshops Break SessionsTravel to Conference CenterFirst General Session – Great RoomVendor Reception – Great Room

Tuesday, May 12

Wednesday, May 13

CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

AT A GLANCE

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7:30 7:30–9:00 8:15 8:30–9:20 9:30 9:30

Registration Open

Breakfast in the Great Room

Welcome in the Great Room

Opening Session in the Great Room: IGIC President's Address, IGIC Update,

and Indiana's Geographic Information Office Update

Travel to Offsite Workshops

Vendor Exhibits setup in the Great Room

9:30–11:00 am

Rooms Cook East/West Duke West Hansen OFFSITE OFFSITEWorkshops Hands-On Workshop

9:30–11:00

Paving the Way for Precision

Accuracy with UAS

Jeff Lovin, Woolpert

What's New with the ArcGIS

Platform Tom Brenneman,

JD Overton, & Dan Haag, Esri

IndianaMap Data Partners: Round Table Discussion with Q&A Session

Rick Hill, IGS; Phil Worrall, IGIC;

Jim Sparks & Mike Martin,

State of Indiana

Indiana University

Wells Library, Room #402

Basics for Geoprocessing

with ModelBuilder in ArcGIS for

Desktop Melissa

Brenneman, TopoWorks

Indiana University

Woodburn Hall, Room #200 (Grand Hall)

Using IndianaMap

Local Government Data

Charline Avey, TechHow

11:00–11:15 Break

11:00 Vendor Exhibits Open in the Great Room 11:00 am – 7:30 pm

11:15–12:30

Paving the Way for Precision

Accuracy with UAS (cont'd)

How to Organize & Put On a GIS Day

Event in your Local Community

Multiple presenters

12:30 Travel from Offsite Workshops to Conference Center

12:30–1:50 Lunch, Sponsor IGNITE Sessions & Networking in The Great Room

1:50 Travel to Offsite Workshops at Jordan Hall, Butler University

Rooms Cook East/West Duke West Hansen Zebendon Ralph Rogers OFFSITE OFFSITE

Tracks Practical Applications Technology Data/

Management Analysis General Hands-On Workshop

2:00–2:35

The Integrating Spatial

Educational Experiences

(Isee) iPad App Darrell G. Schulze

& Nicole Kong, Purdue University

Refresh your Browser and

Update your Apps! (aka What’s New

with ArcGIS Online and Ready-to-Use

Apps) Dan Haag, Esri

Data Requirements for the New

Indiana Floodplain Information Portal

Dave Knipe, Indiana DNR; Matt Riggs &

Lacey Duncan, The Polis Center

Understanding Non-Fatal

Shooting Incidents through GIS

Analysis Lauren Magee, Michigan State Univ., & Natalie

Kroovand Hipple, Indiana University

Vibrant Response 2014 and the IDHS D5 GIS Taskforce

John Milburn, Hancock County Surveyor's Office

Indiana University

Wells Library, Room #402

Using IndianaMap Open Data Portal Andrew Stauffer,

Esri

Indiana University

Woodburn Hall, Room #200 (Grand Hall)

Using Geospatial Resources to Support Local Community

Mapping Matt Johnson

and Kevin Russell, Indiana

Geological Survey; Kathy

Kozenski, GENI; Katie Springer, Indiana State Library; Mike Davis, IUPUI

GIS Graduate Program; and

Bill Holder, Kosciusko

County GIS

2:45–3:20

Mapping Canopy Trees in an Indiana

Old Growth Forest John Taylor, Ball State University

Spatial Data Development and Use in IDEM Office

of Land Quality Kevin Miller,

IDEM

Using Development Trends and

Demographic Data to Support

Municipal Decision-Making

Colby Gray, FlatLand

Resources LLC

GIS Solutions for Indiana’s Marinas

Sara Rotz, IDNR, & EJ

McNaughton, IDEM

3:20–3:35 Break

3:35–4:10

Kung Fungi Masters Part 2: Tracking &

Locating Morels Chris Walls, 39° north

Spatialite: Our Tiny, Relatable

Friend Philip Bernard,

Frontier Geospatial

Integrating GIS into Town

Planning, Operation, and Management Rob Hench,

GRW Engineers

A Trial in Using Spatial Statistics Tools for Property

Assessment Benjamin Maloney,

Allen County Assessor's Office

Enterprise Use of Business

and Consumer Data: Creating a Consistent View

for State Agencies While Saving State Funds

Dan Erker & Al Benek, Infogroup

4:20–4:55

High-Accuracy GNSS Workflows with Esri ArcGIS

Desktop and Trimble Positions Michael DeMory and Tom Rogers, Seiler Instrument

Indiana Geospatial Coordinate

Systems (InGCS) Matthew Badger and Matt Riehle,

Lochmueller Group;

Matthew Healy, VS Engineering

An Enterprise Approach to Managing Road Data

Tom Brenneman, Esri

Using GIS-based Techniques to

Interpret Spatial Clustering in Health Data Debasree

DasGupta, University of Indianapolis

Indiana Bat Monitoring and Conservation

using GIS Bob Magiera,

Civil & Environmental

Consultants

4:55 Travel from Offsite Workshops to Conference Center

5:00–5:45 First General Session in the Great Room: Keynote Speaker – Jeff Lovin, CP, PS, Senior Vice President Woolpert

5:45–7:30 Vendor Reception in the Great Room (hors d’oeuvres, bar, vendor spotlight event, and door prizes)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE - TUESDAY, MAY 12

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7:45 Registration Open

8:00–9:05 Birds-of-a-Feather Breakfast Breakout Sessions

Cook East/West Duke West Hansen Zebendon Ralph Rogers

County Government City/Town Government Higher Education Utilities State Government

8:00–9:05 Breakfast in the Great Room

8:00 Vendor Exhibits Open in the Great Room 8:00 am – 1:00 pm

9:15–10:00 Second General Session in the Great Room – Kevin Mickey, GISP, CTT+, The Polis Center at IUPUI

10:00–10:15 Break

Rooms Cook East/West Duke West Hansen Zebendon Ralph Rogers

Tracks LiDAR Mobile Applications Education & Research

Practical Applications Historical

10:15–10:50

Automated Techniques in Hydraulic Modeling

Dave Knipe, IDNR

Mobile Data Collection for Urban Planners

Kyle Johnson, Delaware County GIS,

& Lisa Dunaway, Ball State University

Mapping Intensity of Urban Heat

Island Effects in Indianapolis, Indiana Sanglim Yoo, Drew Pflaumer & Turki Alhedr, Ball State

University

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder: JavaScript

Apps Made Easy Dan Haag, Esri

Johnson County Historical Story Maps Aaron Shaw, Johnson

County GIS, & Tom Maggard, City of

Greenwood

11:00–11:35

Practical Applications for Remote Sensing

Technologies Kent Park, Woolpert

Your iPhone is Way Better than a Digitizing Board

Tom Brenneman, Esri

Developing Geospatial Modeling and Data

Analysis Building Blocks in HUBzero (GABBs)

Carol Song, Purdue University

Three Case-Study Applications of Regional

Decision Maker Indraneel Kumar, Andrey Zhalnin, & Edward Morrison, Purdue University

How Old Maps Meet Modern Technology

Nicole Kong & Xia Chen, Purdue University

11:35–12:50 Lunch and GIS Awards Presentations in the Great Room – Excellence in GIS Awards and David C. Ford Awards

1:00 Vendor Exhibits Close

Rooms Cook East/West Duke West Hansen Zebendon Ralph Rogers

Tracks Data/Management Technology UAS/UAV Data/Management General

1:00–1:35

LiDAR! What Is It Good For?

(Absolutely Everything!) Mark Ehle,

Tippecanoe County, & Kayla Barnowsky,

GeoCue Group

Chesterton Implements the Collector App Jason Iler, City of

Chesterton Utility, & Lindsey Danforth,

The Sidwell Company

GIS for Ind. Middle School & High School

Students: INView Tutorials & more

Larry Biehl, Purdue University & Kathy

Lamb Kozenski, GENI

Download, Configure and Use: Focused Maps and Apps for your Organization JD Overton, Esri

Unlocking 150 Years of History in

South Bend via City Cemetery

Deb Kuehn, City of South Bend

1:45–2:20

Office Space: According to Veterans Affairs

Lacey Duncan & Matt Riggs,

The Polis Center, & Prem Radhakrishnan,

39° north Introducing ArcGIS Pro

Dan Haag, Esri

Aerial Mapping on Your Own

Landon Patterson & Ethan Snyder, Adams County

Government

GIS for Stormwater Data Management at

Mining Facilities Mark Maguire,

Civil & Environmental Consultants

Mapping out our Partnerships: Sharing Data Resources with Community Partners

Katie Springer, Indiana State Library

Data Center

2:30–3:05

GIS in Emergency Management:

Communication, Collaboration, &

Data Management Steve Maddison,

Latitude Geographics

Using UAS Platforms to Collect NIR Imagery in

Central America Philip Bernard,

Frontier Geospatial LLC

The Indiana Spatial Data Portal: A Look

Under the Hood Justin Peters,

Indiana University

A New GIS for the Ports of Indiana

Eric Lowrey & Steve Leatherman,

WTH Technology

3:10–3:45 Closing Town Hall Session, Great Room – BOAF summaries, strategize our geospatial future, and final door prize drawings

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The Indiana Geographic Information Council’s Excellence in GIS Awards recognize organizations for their use of GIS technology to improve our world.

2015 EXCELLENCE IN GIS AWARDS

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Large Community(population over 50,000)

Mounds Lake Reservoir ProjectThe Mounds Lake project—a 7 mile, 2,100 acre, 11 billion gallon reservoir that will protect against drought vulnerability in central Indiana—is currently in the planning stages. If it successfully goes through the permitting and planning process, the reservoir is slated for completion in 2021. For more than 5 years, the Madison County Council of Governments has been providing maps, data, and assistance that has been vital to the planning of this large project.

Paul McBride, Madison County Council of Governments

Small Community(population under 50,000)

Chesterton Utility Records ModernizationThe Chesterton Utility Department needed to modernize their sewer system inspection process from paper forms and checklists. The Esri Collector application for ArcGIS was customized to streamline data collection using iPads. Data is stored on the Web service layer, which can be ac-cessed in real time, and is transferred to the geodatabase after inspections are performed twice weekly. Chesterton Utility has enhanced their use of GIS data and streamlined their workflows. They now have a digital record of all inspections and a history for each lift station. They are also using this data model to perform inspections on other assets such as sewer manholes, sewer mains, and daily logs.

Terry Atherton, Town of Chesterton Utility Superintendent

Westfield “What’s Happening Here” MapPreviously, the City of Westfield notified the public about building and development projects through property signs, mailings, and newspaper notices, with a phone number to call during of-fice hours. Now, the property signs are empowered with location information that takes the pub-lic directly to a story map using a smartphone. The public is able to get information on private developments 24/7 and no longer needs to call during business hours, freeing up employees and allowing the City to improve accessibility and maintain transparency.

Leane Kmetz, City of Westfield

Huntingburg Gas and Electric Systems Wall MapsThe City of Huntingburg needed a professional-looking and easy way for personnel to discuss upcoming projects using wall maps of its gas and electric systems. Using a Canon iPF8400S plotter and wide-format Contex scanner, they were able to print and mount maps on display boards. The maps are used daily to plan work schedules and for additions to the systems.

City of Huntingburg Gas and Electric Municipal Utilities

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CountyAllen County Reassessment AppA recent state law requires county assessors to perform a cyclical reassessment, namely, to visit 25% of the parcels in their county every year. For Allen County, that is 35,000 to 40,000 parcels per year. Every parcel has a property record card that is typically 1 to 10 pages that the fieldworker must update, besides photographing each property. The challenge was to find a way to perform this reassessment electronically, saving taxpayers thousands of dollars by prevent-ing the printing of more than 100,000 pages every year. The Assessor’s Office developed a GIS-driven app that allows the reassessment to be performed on field tablets, which can also be used to take photos; all the new data can be uploaded and entered into the Assessor’s database. The Assessor’s Office not only saved taxpayers' dollars on printing, they also saved storage space and ensured that the proper images were attached to the appropriate parcels, which had been an issue in the past.

Allen County Assessor, Fort Wayne, Indiana

St. Joseph County Interactive MapsSt. Joseph County has made several interactive maps available to the public using ArcGIS online. The series of maps allows the public to look up information online easily, enabling county staff to focus on their job at hand.

John Carlson and Bev Kingston, St. Joseph County GIS, South Bend, Indiana

Wayne County Barn InventoryOld barns are deteriorating and being razed, taking their stories with them. The Resource Inven-tory Council initiated this project to preserve the history of Wayne County’s barns and to build awareness about the importance of preserving remaining barns. The result of this study has led to nearly 600 barns being included in the inventory and a growing interest for the inside of the barns to be photographed. The inventory has also been expanded to a dynamic online search-able map that includes the report and five photos for each site.

Gunty Atkins, Wayne County GIS Coordinator, and Ed Pollock, Director of the Resource Inventory Council

Huntington County Hazardous Chemical DataHuntington County and the Huntington Fire Department worked together to make facility data available to mobile units in the event of an emergency. Instant access to data about hazardous chemicals and their locations within buildings via Schneider’s Beacon website will lead to safer and more efficient operations. Various layers show the types of business doors at the facility, fire points, and the location of chemical storage areas, as well as aerial photos of the sites. Identifying hazardous chemicals early can help determine what actions must be taken to handle a spill or other emergency. Using this data along with storm sewer layers and aerial photography can prevent further migration of hazardous chemicals.

Dathen Strine, Huntington County

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Noble County Parks WebsiteThe Noble County Parks Board needed a way to provide the public with access to recreational resources. Using Silverlight technology, the GIS Department created a Web application with information on more than 13,000 acres of parks and recreational sites. The website provides hyperlinks to associated pages and provides lake maps showing water depth. The website will be further developed to highlight trail opportunities.

Steven J. Hook, Noble County GIS Department

Education and NonprofitUnited Way's IndianaImpact.orgMany United Ways and nonprofits in small communities lack staff capacity to collect and analyze the location-based data to identify key needs, establish priorities, and track the impact of their efforts. The SAVI team at the Polis Center at IUPUI created IndianaImpact.org to provide quick access to a community dashboard for each county and United Way service area in Indiana. The site is powered by the SAVI Community Information System, which provides socioeconomic and asset data for place-based decision-making. The SAVI team used ArcGIS to process and analyze data into community metrics, integrate data from multiple sources, and format it to allow simple visualizations targeted for non-GIS users. Previously, these organizations were spending valuable staff hours compiling data or paying consultants to do it for them. Now they can spend those resources developing strategies to address the communities’ needs revealed in the data. IndianaImpact.org has increased efficiency and improved access to critical information for informing decisions, which ultimately will improve the quality of life in communities around Indiana.

SAVI / The Polis Center at IUPUI

Social Science Research Using Social MediaPurdue graduate students introduced a social-media-based approach to understanding spatial and temporal patterns of human activities and behaviors. Their study targeted a specific type of urban environment and population: university towns and college students. Scripts were devel-oped to read a large volume of tweets in four midwestern college towns: Purdue (West Lafayette, Ind.), Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), and The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio). Advanced spatial and temporal analysis tools were used to pinpoint tweeting hot spots and discern temporal patterns, thereby deducing commuting pat-terns and calculating average commute distances. This project opens a new area of GIS study, benefitting GIS education and research.

Yue Li and Jie Shan, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

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State or Federal AgencyIDNR’s Floodplain Mapping ToolsMany of the flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) in Indiana are incomplete or have substandard floodplain delineations, owing to their age (mainly circa 1978–1982). FEMA and IDNR had completed the Map Modernization initiative, which moved the FIRMs from a paper to digital format, but only addressed the older floodplains in a limited manner. IDNR received a grant from the Office of Community and Rural Affairs to map floodplains for 10,500 miles of streams using semi-automated techniques. The IDNR developed a series of tools to expedite the floodplain modeling and mapping process; the engineer looking to model a stream needs only to develop cross sections and full hydraulic models can be output. With further review of the model, a floodplain delineation is created. Staff no longer depends on local versions of Advanced ArcInfo, Spatial Analyst, or 3D Analyst licenses, which were often in short supply. Local communities are able to manage floodplain development in a more effective manner, ensuring that future development is safer from potential floods.

David Knipe, Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Water

Identifying Wellhead Protection Areas After 9/11, the Indiana General Assembly enacted legislation that made IDEM’s wellhead inven-tory locations confidential. However, IDEM Office of Water Quality still has a business need to make wellhead protection areas available to the public. The project was designed to allow a user to click on a location on an interactive map and find if it is within a wellhead protection area, with-out disclosing the delineation of the actual wellhead protection area. This frees up significant staff time that was previously spent responding to requests submitted via phone or mail.

E.J. McNaughton, IDEM Information Services, and James Sullivan, IDEM Office of Water Quality

Indiana Conservation Partnership Resource-Sharing ToolsThe Indiana Conservation Partnership (ICP) maps best management practices and their nutri-ent load reductions by watershed across Indiana. To do this, it is necessary for local, state, and federal entities to share several resources. They needed a tool to illustrate workload impact to the participating partners, the public, state legislature, and the U.S. EPA. The maps and meth-odology that the Division of Soil Conservation created are the most comprehensive and widely distributed demonstrations of the Partnership’s success. With this methodology for tracking nutrient and sediment reductions from local-, state-, and federal-assisted conservation, Indiana has been hailed by the EPA as a national leader and the sole example for such efforts on a state-wide scale. The ICP now has a means of setting goals and detailing progress, not as individual members or programs, but as a unified body. Thanks to this program, the conservation com-munity in Indiana confidently claims hundreds of millions of pounds in nutrients and sediment kept from Indiana waters.

Deb Fairhurst, Indiana Department of Agriculture, Division of Soil Conservation

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IDNR Division of Water’s Potentiometric Surface MapsIn 2001, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Water conducted a survey of consultants, drillers, educators, and government entities to determine the need for data, maps, and reports relative to Indiana’s groundwater resource. Returned surveys highlighted the need for digital county-scale coverage of Indiana’s water resources, which included potentiometric surface maps. At the time, groundwater level information was available in IDNR/DOW basin study reports, but it was incomplete for the state and limited in the application and understand-ing of more detailed county and local groundwater flow regimes. After completing a statewide coverage of county-specific aquifer systems maps, the Resource Assessment Section utilized ArcGIS with a digital database of located water-well data to accommodate the need for poten-tiometric surface maps. By the end of 2015, all counties within the Wisconsin glacial extent will be mapped. These maps benefit water resource planning for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational purposes. They display groundwater flow direction, areas of recharge, and dis-charge, and provide information critical in determining hydraulic gradients, groundwater veloc-ity, groundwater availability, aquifer yield, changes in water levels over time, and, in conjunction with models, have the ability to analyze changes in water levels related to pumpage.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Water, Resource Assessment Section

Business or CommercialVectren’s Mobile Training Manual and Education EffortsVectren’s aging field workforce, who are responsible for putting the pipe in the ground and the construction of networks of gas distribution, are largely unaccustomed to working with comput-ers or technology. The challenge was to demonstrate and teach the basics of GIS to more than 100 employees in a limited timeframe so that Vectren’s Mobile GIS could be implemented. With the aid of a custom-written manual (that they wrote), the nominees devoted over 150 man-hours, in 2 different states and 27 different cities, teaching GIS basics, organizing GIS data, inte-grating GPS, running traces on the gas/electric networks, locating and identifying information, geocoding, measuring, selecting, creating buffers, and adding an affected customer report tool. The results of the project have been a safer, more educated workforce. For the communities and state, benefits include a more educated populace, sparked interest in GIS, and most impor-tantly, a safer neighborhood from the reduction of hit gas lines while digging.

Samuel Hoehn and Bobby Wilson, Vectren Energy Delivery

SAMCO’s 811 Ticketing SystemSanitary Management and Engineering Company (SAMCO) provides utility locating to India-napolis and eight surrounding counties. The rapid growth of the company created a need for a system for utility ticket processing and tracking. SAMCO and The Schneider Corporation worked together to create a new interface to the SAMCO 811 ticketing system that allows users to gain access from any Web-enabled device. The need to install software or provide training is eliminated. The new system is much more streamlined and contains checks and balances built in to ensure nothing is missed. It also allows users to see results in real time and not have to wait until the end of the day to get project updates.

Steve Anthis, Director of Line Locating, SAMCO, Fishers, Indiana

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Veterans Affairs Building Management ApplicationThe GSA mandated the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to reduce their leasable space footprint. The VA previously managed their occupancy in Excel to calculate their rented square footage, but it was difficult to visualize the number of buildings and floors that it occupies in the D.C. area. The company 39° north was tasked with spatially enabling the spreadsheets to: 1) automate square footage and costs calculations, 2) create an easy-to-use application for all users, and 3) allow case scenarios for future planning. With the new Space Management Sup-port System, VA management now finds it easy to navigate, visualize, and report information about individual buildings. At present, 39° north is developing an automated workflow for CAD drawings to be uploaded to the application, processed, and updated.

39° north

Duke Energy Digital Conversion to GISThe evolution from hand-drawn maps to an automated GIS-based application has been a long process. At the beginning of this 10-year project, a team of eight full-time CAD technicians were needed to maintain current information on the maps. During the process of conversion, heavy technical challenges ranged from the automated extraction of GIS data from an enterprise GIS to the automated production of GIS-based maps. Constraints included printing the maps on an 11 x 17 sheet with all of the same detail that were originally on paper maps. Now Duke Energy is looking at an initial annual savings of roughly $800,000 a year in labor. After the initial rollout, those savings could increase by 100% or more. This product will also build consistency by providing a single product that all field personnel and operators will understand.

Duke Energy Midwest GIS Team

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2015 WORKSHOPS AND SESSIONS

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Paving the Way for Precision Accuracy with Unmanned Aircraft Systems Cook East/West, 9:30–12:30 Jeff Lovin, Woolpert

The applications for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)-based data collection are everywhere. Woolpert is one of the first private firms in the United States to be granted FAA approval for com-mercial use of UAS in the mapping sciences.

All Skill Levels

What’s New with the ArcGIS Platform Duke West, 9:30–11:00 Tom Brenneman, JD Overton, and Dan Haag, Esri

There’s a lot that’s new with the ArcGIS Platform! Join the Esri team for an overview of ArcGIS at the 10.3 release, including: Online, Server, Desktop, Content, Mobile, and ArcGIS Pro.

Intermediate

IndianaMap Data Partners: Round Table Discussion with Q&A Session Hansen, 9:30–11:00 Rick Hill, IGS; Phil Worrall, IGIC; Jim Sparks and Mike Martin, State of Indiana

IndianaMap data partners are invited to attend a round table discussion with an open question and answer session. This is your opportunity to meet many of the IndianaMap data partners and organizers in an open discussion forum to discuss various topics, including:

• The important role of IndianaMap data partners.

• Status of the data-sharing initiative and future enhancements.

• Additional layers or attributes to IndianaMap.

• Other discussion topics from the data partners.

• Open Q&A session.

Intermediate

Basics for Geoprocessing with ModelBuilder in ArcGIS for Desktop Indiana University Wells Library, Room 402, 9:30–12:30 Melissa Brenneman, TopoWorks

The geoprocessing environment in ArcGIS for Desktop provides a graphical interface (ModelBuilder) for building geoprocessing tools that allow you to perform analysis and auto-mate common tasks. ModelBuilder is available in ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro. ModelBuilder helps you more fully utilize your GIS by providing a visual programming environment that integrates GIS and process models.

This workshop will help you learn how to create and execute models, manage parameters for your model, how to use the ModelBuilder environment to document and distribute your models so they can be used by others, and how to use scripts with your models. It will also introduce the differences in using ModelBuilder in ArcMap vs. ArcGIS Pro. This workshop emphasizes hands-on practice through software exercises to accomplish GIS workflows.

Prerequisites: Students should have experience with ArcMap. They should understand geographic data and be able to create and work with map documents and layers.

TUESDAY MORNING WORKSHOPS

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Using IndianaMap Local Government Data Indiana University Woodburn Hall, Room 200 (Grand Hall), 9:30–12:30 Charline Avey, TechHow

Get familiar with a new way to access data from IndianaMap and learn how to implement the Local Government Model for your organization using downloads from Esri. We will also learn to modify the IndianaMap Local Government Model to use additional parcel data present in the Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF).

For three years, the Indiana Data Sharing Initiative has published a statewide data set for 90 of the 92 counties. Many organizations have downloaded the data to use as their basemap. IGIC is interested in making the information more useful for all. Esri has also developed many out-of-the-box applications to reduce the time to implement these applications. The development of the Local Government Model has helped to promote very fast implementations for a wide variety of applications. Migrating Data Sharing data sets to the Local Government Model drastically reduces the barrier to entry.

This workshop covers the steps to implement the Local Government Model for Indiana, whether you want to use the whole Indiana data set or just a portion. It will also describe how to use the DLGF data available for the State of Indiana.

During the workshop we will review the general purpose map, address management application, damage assessment application, tax parcel, current land use, public safety, and several public works applications. We will also cover using the Attribute Assistant, dynamic value table, and the generate ID table with the Local Government Model.

How to Organize and Put on a GIS Day Event in your Local Community Hansen, 11:15–12:30 Multiple presenters

IGIC members have participated in GIS Day events held around the state each year in the month of November. In late 2014, the IGIC Board of Directors voted to expand this effort and encourage IGIC members to become more proactive in organizing GIS Day events in their local communi-ties and sectors around the state.

This workshop provides training and guidance on how to organize a GIS Day event and use IGIC resources such as Cvent, the listserv, and the website to help promote and manage it. The goal is to prepare you to hold new GIS Day events in the state starting in November 2015.

These GIS Day activities can be planned as stand-alone events in each IGIC At-Large Region, in collaboration with local universities, K-12 schools, local governments, and regional planning organizations. Another opportunity is to invite local elected officials and business leaders to attend to educate them about GIS and the resources available in their local communities.

TUESDAY MORNING WORKSHOPS

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

Using IndianaMap Open Data Portal Indiana University, Wells Library, Room #402, 2:00–4:55 Andrew Stauffer, Esri

Open data is a hot topic across all levels of government. Open data allows organizations to provide the public with open access to authoritative data. To date, many open data sets have not come from GIS systems; however, many open data sets are GIS-ready, as they often contain geospatial location attributes such as state, county/city/town, zip code, census tract, street address, or even an XY coordinate to locate these data on a map.

It is clear that the next step for our GIS communities is to make our authoritative geospatial data available as open data and give a whole new audience of data consumers access to it without the need for them to be GIS savvy. Consumers can then easily interact with our open data through charts, tables, and maps.

Publishing our IndianaMap GIS data as open data is just a first step. By making IndianaMap GIS data available through our new ArcGIS open data portal, we can also include publically available open data from other organizations. We can configure one or more open data sites to help leverage our GIS data with the larger community of open datay so that new users can discover, explore, and use it.

Using Geospatial Resources to Support Local Community Mapping Indiana University, Woodburn Hall, Room #200 (Grand Hall), 2:00–4:55 Matt Johnson and Kevin Russell, Indiana Geological Survey; Kathy Kozenski, Geography Educa-tors’ Network of Indiana; Katie Springer, Indiana State Library; Mike Davis, IUPUI GIS Graduate Program; and Bill Holder, Kosciusko County GIS

This is a hands-on workshop using geospatial data and technology to support local community mapping activities for Indiana’s bicentennial. Indiana’s GIS community can play an important role to support the Geography Educators’ Network of Indiana (GENI) efforts to promote the State’s 2016 bicentennial theme “Two Hundred Years: Mapping Indiana’s Bicentennial.” Al-though this workshop has Indiana’s bicentennial as its focus, the lessons learned here can apply to any mapmaking activity.

Good cartography is key to producing a good map. There are no shortages of data available for making maps, whether they are high- or poor-quality data. Here in Indiana there is a large amount of free and easily accessed data. These data have the potential to either enhance a map or greatly complicate it. An overly complicated map can overwhelm the user, thus making the map ineffective.

This workshop will show how to leverage IndianaMap data with local GIS data and other non-GIS data to produce pleasing, creative, and meaningful maps. We will teach these principles using three different geospatial technology platforms—ArcGIS Desktop, the IndianaMap Viewer, and ArcGIS.com.

This workshop serves more than hands-on training. An additional goal is to inspire attendees to go back home and support GENI’s bicentennial mapping efforts in their local community. The results and feedback from this workshop also will be used by GENI and the Indiana Geological Survey to evaluate the base map, technology templates, and workflows before expanding this initiative statewide later this summer.

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS

The Integrating Spatial Educational Experiences (Isee) iPad App Cook East/West, 2:00–2:35 Darrell G. Schulze and Nicole Kong, Purdue University

The Integrating Spatial Educational Experiences (Isee) project uses highly detailed digital maps of soil properties to teach students how and why soils occur across landscapes at various spatial scales. We will demonstrate the Isee iPad app, which is designed to allow the user to zoom, pan, and switch maps quickly and fluidly. We will also describe our experience of developing an app that can access terabytes of cached map data hosted online by ArcGIS Server and tens of gigabytes of map data resident locally on the iPad as tile packages.

Intermediate

Refresh your Browser and Update your Apps! (aka What’s New with ArcGIS Online and Ready-to-Use Apps) Duke West, 2:00–3:20 Dan Haag, Esri

ArcGIS Online and its ready-to-use apps have seen some significant updates recently. This ses-sion is an overview of these updates on ArcGIS Online and hosted Web applications templates, story maps, and apps such as Collector, Operations Dashboard, and Explorer.

Intermediate

Data Requirements for the New Indiana Floodplain Information Portal Hansen, 2:00–2:35 Dave Knipe, Indiana DNR; Matt Riggs and Lacey Duncan, The Polis Center

The Department of Natural Resources Division of Water created the Indiana Floodplain Informa-tion Portal (INFIP) for disseminating floodplain information to floodplain managers and the general public. This tool has evolved since its initial deployment in 2007 and, with the increase in data sources over the years, has adapted the tool to reflect more refined data. This presentation provides details on the data management strategy developed to update the various floodplain layers in INFIP, and the vision of how this tool is essential for keeping future development safe from flood risk.

Intermediate

Understanding Non-Fatal Shooting Incidents through GIS Analysis Zebendon, 2:00–2:35 Lauren Magee, Michigan State University; Natalie Kroovand Hipple, Indiana University

In 2012, there began a citywide effort to better understand the circumstances surrounding gun violence in Indianapolis. The police department and a team of researchers began collecting data to record how many victims of shootings survived their injuries. In Indianapolis, an average of 350 individuals per year survive a gunshot wound. GIS is used to better understand the pat-terns, repeat locations, and individuals involved in multiple non-fatal shooting incidents. This discussion explores how GIS analysis has helped researchers to identify the situations surround-ing non-fatal shootings.

Beginner

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Vibrant Response 2014 and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security D5 GIS Taskforce Ralph Rogers, 2:00–2:35 John Milburn, Hancock County Surveyor’s Office

The presentation provides an overview of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security District 5 GIS Task Force's support of the District 5 Incident Management Team during the Vibrant Response 2014 exercise.

Intermediate

Mapping Canopy Trees in an Indiana Old Growth Forest Cook East/West, 2:45–3:20 John Taylor, Ball State University

Emerald ash borer (EAB) (Agrilus planipennis) selectively feeds on ash trees (Fraxinus spp.) and kills most infested trees within 3 to 5 years. Forests in the eastern United States and Canada are experiencing profound disturbances as EAB spreads. To document the changes in forest struc-ture and composition, we created an inventory and map of all the canopy trees in a 161- acre (65-ha) old growth forest in east-central Indiana. A GIS model was created to identify locations where large canopy gaps will form. This map has other practical applications.

Intermediate

Spatial Data Development and Use in the IDEM Office of Land Quality Hansen, 2:45–3:20 Kevin Miller, Indiana Department of Environmental Management

Since the early 1990s, GIS data has been used in the Office of Land Quality (OLQ) to sup-port the mission of the agency and office. OLQ GISers create spatial data layers of solid and industrial solid waste sites, and many of these layers are available in the public domain through IndianaMap. They digitize, geocode, and address match numerous waste sites throughout the state, using framework data produced and made available by the unique collaboration in data development and access we enjoy in Indiana. This is a report on some of OLQ GIS activities in spatial data development and analysis, as we are pleased to show and contribute our work to the cooperative environment that is GIS in Indiana.

Intermediate

Using Development Trends and Demographic Data to Support Municipal Decision-Making Zebendon, 2:45–3:20 Colby Gray, FlatLand Resources LLC

This case study shows how Muncie, Indiana, deployed demography data and GIS to identify “hardest-hit” areas and forecast future socio-economic trends in the community. We will also explore how the information and insights are being used to justify decision-making regarding neighborhood reinvestment and sanitary system improvements, as well as fostering collabora-tion between public works projects and private sector initiatives.

Intermediate

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS

GIS Solutions for Indiana’s Marinas Ralph Rogers, 2:45–3:20 Sara Rotz and E.J. McNaughton, Indiana Department of Environmental Management

To reduce water pollution from recreational boaters, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management was tasked with disseminating information to the public about marinas in Indiana. IDEM wanted to show these locations and the amenities that are available, as well as highlight “Indiana Clean Marinas” and pumpout facilities. We used GIS to publish a printed guide, but also created a Story Map to electronically display this information for Indiana’s boaters. We will discuss the decision-making process and the steps used to create these products.

Beginner

Kung Fungi Masters Part 2: Tracking and Locating Morels Cook East/West, 3:35–4:10 Chris Walls, 39° north

Back by popular demand: morel mushrooms! Who doesn’t crave them after being introduced to this delicious treat that Mother Nature provides after a long winter? Have you wondered how to apply GIS to locate and track your finds? Plan to attend this session to learn how. Chris Walls, Jason Perry, and Mike Priddy use mapping technology coupled with morel hunting knowledge to locate potential locations. You'll learn why it is important to track previous years' locations for future harvests. (This is a continuation of last year’s presentation with additional data, techniques, and technology.)

Beginner

Spatialite: Our Tiny, Relatable Friend Duke West, 3:35–4:10 Philip Bernard, Frontier Geospatial

Do you need to transfer data between organizations? Do you need to join spatial data to non-spatial data? Do you need the power of SQL, but your data is in shapefiles? Spatialite can help with all of these and more. Spatialite is a spatial extension to the Open Source relational database SQLite. SQLite stores an entire database in a single file, allowing you to easily move data from person to person. It gives you the power of a relational database without the hassle of setting up and maintaining a server.

Intermediate

Integrating GIS Into Town Planning, Operation, and Management Hansen, 3:35–4:10 Rob Hench, GRW Engineers

The Town of Whitestown, Boone County, is using GIS technology to support a wide variety of engineering, planning, and administrative functions. The Whitestown incorporated area covers 10.7 square miles and has a population of slightly under 4,000 people. This presentation will focus on the phased implementation of GIS over several years within the relatively modest resources of a small town and will cover a variety of desktop and Web-based GIS applications in-cluding: existing GIS resources; water/wastewater systems; comprehensive planning document management; transportation; land use/zoning; sign inventory; ADA sidewalk inventory; building permits; annexations; and fire response.

Intermediate

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS

A Trial in Using Spatial Statistics Tools for Property Assessment Zebendon, 3:35–4:10 Benjamin Maloney, Allen County Assessor’s Office

Three methods are typically used in real estate appraisal—cost approach, income approach, and sales comparison—with the latter being used most often for single-family homes. Since Rosen (1974), multiple regression analysis (MRA) in a hedonic framework has been available as a variation of the sales comparison. While this method has the ability to incorporate much more data, allowing for the potential of more accurate assessments, its usage has been slow to gain popularity. This presentation details the use of MRA in ArcGIS for appraisals, along with other spatial statistics tools and a discussion of the pitfalls that may be hampering more widespread use.

Intermediate

Enterprise Use of Business and Consumer Data: Creating a Consistent View for State Agencies While Saving State Funds Ralph Rogers, 3:35–4:10 Dan Erker and Al Benek, Infogroup

Sharing data across state agencies is not a new concept; however, the shared data can sometimes result in confusion. Where did the data originate? Can I trust the source? Are other agencies I am working with using the same information? Several states are moving to an en-terprise license of data for all agencies to use as a benchmark. The transportation, emergency management, state police, health, and economic development sectors are all making decisions based on the same data. This eliminates the opportunity for conclusions based on disparate data and results in a cost-effective model. We will look at different examples of how data is used from Indianapolis to Lincoln, Nebraska.

High-Accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System Workflows with Esri ArcGIS Desktop and Trimble Positions Cook East/West, 4:20–4:55 Michael DeMory and Tom Rogers, Seiler Instrument

ArcGIS is the leader in GIS software. This robust software, along with Trimble Positions software suite, allow users to have a complete streamlined workflow to manage their global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data collection for optimal accuracy and integrity. Trimble Positions works with ArcPad, ArcGIS for Windows Mobile, Trimble TerraSync, and Trimble TerraFlex GNSS data collection software for easy flow of data to and from the field. We will review all four desktop options, review the workflow, and examine the pros and cons of each application.

Intermediate

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Indiana Geospatial Coordinate Systems Duke West, 4:20–4:55 Matthew Badger and Matt Riehle, Lochmueller Group; Matthew Healy, VS Engineering

Land surveying data and GIS data. When will the two ever be on the same plane? For Indiana, the answer is sooner than you think! The Indiana Department of Transportation will be introducing the Indiana Geospatial Coordinate Systems (InGCS) to geospatial users in the near future. Once the InGCS is included in geospatial software, end users of GIS platforms will be able to share data back and forth with land surveyors without any modifcations to the data, such as shifting, scaling, rotating, or rubbersheeting. It will also allow users to re-project data to and from state plane or UTM coordinates on the fly.

Intermediate

An Enterprise Approach to Managing Road Data Hansen, 4:20–4:55 Tom Brenneman, Esri

Much of local government data is tied to the road centerline, for example, addressing, road clo-sures, speed limits, bridges, road projects, and lanes. With the release of 10.3.1, the Esri Roads and Highways product will have tools focused on local governments that allow you to manage all of these data through a configurable Web application. Come out and experience a brave new world where this data can live harmoniously on a single centerline!

Intermediate

Using GIS-Based Techniques to Interpret Spatial Clustering in Health Data Zebendon, 4:20–4:55 Debasree DasGupta, University of Indianapolis

Identifying whether health outcomes vary similarly across neighboring counties—in other words, whether there is spatial clustering—is vital for an accurate interpretation of health disparities and, in turn, local health planning. Health disparities are avoidable, unfair differences in health that adversely affect groups of people based on their demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, or geographic residence. In Indiana, high birth rates in the 15 to 19 age group continue to challenge health planners. This presentation will demonstrate how GIS-based techniques can be applied to identify and interpret spatial clustering in a data set using the example of teenage birth rates in Indiana.

Intermediate

Indiana Bat Monitoring and Conservation Using GIS Ralph Rogers, 4:20–4:55 Bob Magiera, Civil and Environmental Consultants

Proper identification of Indiana bat habitats and subsequent delineation of areas that should be preserved for their potential use will go far in the effort to stabilize and rebuild the species’ populations. Using GIS and other high-tech solutions to perform data collection, tracking, and analysis is very beneficial to the future of the Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis), as well as other bat species whose populations have become threatened in recent years. This presentation high-lights how GIS and other geographically based tools can serve to limit any further loss in species populations by pinpointing critical habitats, minimizing impacts, and implementing proper mitigation efforts.

Intermediate

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WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSIONS

Automated Techniques in Hydraulic Modeling Cook East/West, 10:15–10:50 Dave Knipe, Indiana Department of Natural Resources

With the advent of statewide LiDAR and the local resolution National Hydrography Dataset, automated techniques for deriving hydraulic modeling information is easier than ever. We will discuss examples of using ArcGIS tools (general and scripting tools) for calculating water sur-face elevations for streams and rivers. Examples include tools created for single section ratings, the FEMA First Pass Analysis methodology, the DNR's Zone A tool modeling, and modeling for detailed hydraulic studies.

Advanced

Mobile Data Collection for Urban Planners Duke West, 10:15–10:50 Kyle Johnson, Delaware County GIS; Lisa Dunaway, Ball State University

Ball State University's Department of Urban Planning and the Delaware County GIS Department have partnered over the last four years to complete neighborhood action plans for blighted areas of Muncie, Indiana. In the Neighborhood Analysis Studio, students utilize local GIS data and an ArcGIS Online smartphone application to do inventory, analysis, suitability, and priority maps for plan initiatives. Upon completion, the final plans are given to the neighborhood as-sociations for implementation.

Intermediate

Mapping Intensity of Urban Heat Island Effects in Indianapolis, Indiana Hansen, 10:15–10:50 Sanglim Yoo, Drew Pflaumer, and Turki Alhedr, Ball State University

Heat stress has been addressed as a significant issue in urban areas, particularly during summer, because it can aggravate the heat island effect in urban regions. As many previous researchers have confirmed, intraurban spatiotemporal variations in surface temperature are more dramatic than rural-urban differences. Our research investigated intraurban surface tem-perature differences in the Indianapolis metropolitan area during the summer months of 2012 to 2014 using thermal band of Landsat ETM+ image. We aim to map the intensity of urban heat island effects to provide empirical guidelines regarding climate change to urban planners.

Intermediate

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WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSIONS

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder: JavaScript Apps Made Easy Zebendon, 10:15–10:50 Dan Haag, Esri

Esri’s new ArcGIS Web AppBuilder is an HTML5/JavaScript-based application that allows you to create your own intuitive, fast, and beautiful Web mapping apps in 2-D or 3-D, without writing a single line of code. Learn how you can interactively configure workflow-driven GIS apps that run seamlessly across all devices, and create both ready-to-use apps and ArcGIS Web App templates for ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Portal. Learn the possibilities for developers to create custom widgets and themes for Web AppBuilder through the extensibility framework.

Intermediate

Johnson County Historical Story Maps Ralph Rogers, 10:15–10:50 Aaron Shaw, Johnson County GIS; Tom Maggard, City of Greenwood

This presentation covers the creation of story maps of historical information for Johnson County and will focus on the county's historical markers. We will show the method of creating the story maps, from bringing together information, choosing a template, and customizing the map using some minor code. We will also look at other possible story maps of historical importance for Johnson County.

Intermediate

Practical Applications for Remote Sensing Technologies Cook East/West, 11:00–11:35 Kent Park, Woolpert

In this session, we will go over some of the uses of imagery and LiDAR. We will discuss auto-mated feature extraction techniques and mapping impervious surfaces, land cover, change detection, and solar potential.

Intermediate

Your iPhone is Way Better than a Digitizing Board Duke West, 11:00–11:35 Tom Brenneman, Esri

It’s time to put the power of GIS in the hands of all your field workers. Why use paper forms or data input screens that don’t record a GPS location? Save time and money by making it easy for everyone to share data about what they see in the field. Using Collector for ArcGIS and the Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS, you can quickly configure field applications for data collec-tion and dashboard applications for mangers who want to keep track of what is going on in the real world.

Intermediate

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WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSIONS

Developing Geospatial Modeling and Data Analysis Building Blocks in HUBzero (GABBs) Hansen, 11:00–11:35 Carol Song, Purdue University

Responding to the need for geospatial tool and data capabilities in HUBzero from various com-munities, a Purdue team is developing and integrating geospatial capabilities into the HUBzero software. Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Data Infrastructure Building Blocks initiative, the follow-on program to the DataNet program, the GABBs project is at the beginning of a four-year development effort aiming at enabling scientific users to create and share geospa-tial data and tools without requiring significant levels of software expertise or IT administrative privileges. The new geospatial functions will be integrated into the existing HUBzero framework, such as Rappture for rapid tool development, resource management and publishing, and so on, and will be available along with the Open Source HUBzero software releases. The GABBs devel-opment is building on past and ongoing projects such as DRiInet, GeoShare, and WaterHUB, as well as integrating with other community efforts including iRODS distributed data management and Globus data transfer. This presentation will provide an overview of the project, use case examples, and expected outcome, and solicit feedback from the HUBzero community.

Intermediate

Three Case-Study Applications of Regional Decision Maker Zebendon, 11:00–11:35 Indraneel Kumar, Andrey Zhalnin, and Edward Morrison, Purdue University

Regional Decision Maker (RDM) is an online GIS-based interactive system under development at the Purdue Center for Regional Development, funded by the University Center Grant, U.S. Economic Development Administration. We will demonstrate how the RDM platform is deployed and used in three projects related to veterans, economic development, and regional transporta-tion. The scale of projects varies from statewide in Indiana to the Chicago metropolitan region to several counties in Illinois. Speakers will share experiences with ArcGIS Server project manage-ment, data integration, building Web applications, and custom tool development.

How Old Maps Meet Modern Technology Ralph Rogers, 11:00–11:35 Nicole Kong and Xia Chen, Purdue University

The Purdue University Campus Maps collection archives “Welcome to Purdue” campus maps, campus accessibility maps, self-guided tour maps, and numerous other campus maps created from 1874 to 2014. Recently, there has been interest in converting it to an online collection so that more users can access it. We will describe how we evaluated the historic maps in the archival collection and georeferenced and digitized the maps. A geodatabase was designed to host the georeferenced raster maps, as well as vector building footprints data. Metadata were created for each geospatial data set so they can be retrieved via geoportal.

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LiDAR! What Is It Good For? (Absolutely Everything!) Cook East/West, 1:00–1:35 Mark Ehle, Tippecanoe County, and Kayla Barnowsky, GeoCue Group

What can you do with LiDAR data? This is a question that is asked by many in the GIS industry. LiDAR data can be used in various ways, adding a different kind of element to your GIS workflow. In this presentation, we will explore some common ways to derive significant value from LiDAR data sets within the ArcGIS environment, including visualization of the point cloud, land uses, and hydrological purposes. We will also present a detailed demonstration of break line creation. The overall aim is to provide GIS users who have access to LiDAR with ideas that can allow them to unlock hidden value in these often underused data sets.

Intermediate

Chesterton Implements the Collector App Duke West, 1:00–1:35 Jason Iler, City of Chesterton Utility Department; Lindsey Danforth, The Sidwell Company

The Chesterton, Indiana, Utility Department has integrated sewer inspection and maintenance data with their GIS project and modernized their process using mobile data collection capabili-ties. The Sidwell Company developed and deployed a GIS field data collection workflow using ArcGIS Online and the Collector Application for ArcGIS on iPads. This presentation will review the workflow process and discuss the results and benefits.

Intermediate

GIS for Indiana Middle and High School Students: INView Tutorials and More Hansen, 1:00–1:35 Larry Biehl, Purdue University, and Kathy Lamb Kozenski, Geography Educators' Network of Indiana, Inc. (GENI)

The IndianaView and GENI have developed three online educational interactives for middle school and high school students. Each tutorial begins with the basics in geospatial technologies education and advances toward more challenging topics. Each tutorial is accompanied by a for-mal lesson plan linking the materials to academic standards and a PDF tutorial for those unable to access the Internet readily. Esri has granted all schools and programs with a K-12 education site license for ArcGIS use. Join us in sharing the interactives, lesson plans, and tutorials. We will discuss next steps that we can take to develop additional outreach and materials for Indiana K-12 educators and students.

Beginner

Download, Configure, and Use: Focused Maps and Apps for Your Organization Zebendon, 1:00–1:35 JD Overton, Esri

ArcGIS Solutions provide ready-to-use maps and applications designed to help you leverage your geographic information and the ArcGIS Platform in your organization. Join us as we provide an overview of recent updates to the ArcGIS Solutions for state and local government.

Intermediate

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Unlocking 150 Years of History in South Bend via City Cemetery Ralph Rogers, 1:00–1:35 Deb Kuehn, City of South Bend

The City of South Bend is celebrating 150 years of being established as a city. One of its oldest treasures is the City Cemetery, established in 1832. Some of the founding citizens of South Bend are buried there, along with U.S. Vice President Schuyler Colfax and the grandparents of U.S. President William J. McKinley. The records for City Cemetery are in a written format, the most recent being a hand-drawn mylar map with typewritten 3x5 note cards indicating where each person is buried. GIS is being used to make finding the gravesites easier for family members. We are also exploring the possibility of expanding the cemetery for public uses. This presenta-tion will cover how the gravesite information was gathered and consolidated and put online via ArcGIS On Line.

Intermediate

Office Space: According to Veterans Affairs Cook East/West, 1:45–2:20 Lacey Duncan and Matt Riggs, The Polis Center; Prem Radhakrishnan, 39° north

The Veterans Affairs Central Offices in Washington, D.C., consist of 8 buildings, 31 divisions, and more than 6,000 staff and office spaces. The Space Management Support System is a Web application that allows building management staff to manage office tenants and to run group (division) and vacancy reports. We highlight the project goals and processes required to launch the application including: completing field verifications, updating CAD drawings, developing the database, and connecting to external databases.

Beginner

Introducing ArcGIS Pro Duke West, 1:45–3:05 Dan Haag, Esri

ArcGIS Pro is the essential application for creating and working with spatial data on your desktop. It provides tools to visualize, analyze, compile, and share your data, in both 2-D and 3-D environments. Join us for this session as we provide an overview of this exciting new release.

Intermediate

Aerial Mapping On Your Own Hansen, 1:45–2:20 Landon Patterson and Ethan Snyder, Adams County Government

Our presentation focuses on using a small drone to perform aerial photography, 3-D models, and oblique photography.

Beginner

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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS

GIS for Stormwater Data Management at Mining Facilities Zebendon, 1:45–2:20 Mark Maguire, Civil and Environmental Consultants

Pairing a relational database management system (RDMS) with a GIS interface creates a sound data storage solution and map-based interface for access to environmental data. National Pol-lutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) data management for mining operations presents an excellent example of this concept and is especially relevant given the stringent NPDES moni-toring and time-sensitive reporting requirements. We will explore how a central ArcGIS Server application, when tied to a robust SQL RDMS, can serve as a central dashboard for stormwater data access, document storage, and automated reporting to improve data workflows.

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Mapping Out our Partnerships: Sharing Data Resources with Community Partners Ralph Rogers, 1:45–2:20 Katie Springer, Indiana State Library Data Center

The Indiana State Data Center network depends heavily on partnerships among members of the GIS and public data communities. Discover how we’ve created effective geographic tools and other resources by using GIS data and maps in projects with the Indiana State Library, the Indiana Business Research Center, and other state agencies and community organizations.

Beginner

GIS in Emergency Management: Communication, Collaboration, and Data Management Cook East/West, 2:30–3:05 Steve Maddison, Latitude Geographics

In an emergency, it is essential for field workers and incident commanders to communicate clearly and have access to accurate, comprehensive data. Gathering information from a wide range of sources is key to making decisions that save lives and protect property. We’ll highlight technology advances that enable faster decision-making, giving responders and incident com-manders a better overview of emergency situations. Managing GIS data offers powerful ways to structure planning and response to crises. This presentation illustrates how an intuitive GIS application can play a central role in successfully resolving incidents while keeping communities and response teams safe.

Intermediate

Using Unmanned Aerial Systems Platforms to Collect Near Infrared Imagery in Central America Hansen, 2:30–3:05 Philip Bernard, Frontier Geospatial LLC

Unmanned aircraft are becoming a more common sight over Indiana cornfields, but now they’re moving south. Flying in Central America presents a new set of challenges and a range of crops not available in Indiana (not to mention the opportunity to break out short-sleeved shirts in December). Overcoming a lack of source data to use as reference was challenging, but in the end we provided data to help farmers improve their yield.

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The Indiana Spatial Data Portal: A Look Under the Hood Zebendon, 2:30–3:05 Justin Peters, Indiana University

The Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP) has more than 3,000 active registered users and has been providing public access to terabytes of geospatial data for more than a decade. During this time, the user interfaces have changed very little, though the back end has been updated con-tinuously. During 2015, the ISDP and gis.iu.edu will see a user interface update. We will discuss the needs for the redesign, show current progress, and discuss the process of moving the ISDP toward an Open Source environment.

Intermediate

A New GIS for the Ports of Indiana Ralph Rogers, 2:30–3:05 Eric Lowery and Steve Leatherman, WTH Technology

The Ports of Indiana operates the state’s three port facilities: Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan and Mount Vernon and Jeffersonville on the Ohio River. Indiana’s port facilities annually ship more than 70 million tons of cargo, ranking the state 14th in the nation. We will discuss the new GIS system developed for the Ports of Indiana, including legacy data conversion, the creation of unique port-related GIS layers, extensive data sharing, and the creation of a public-facing WebGIS site.

Beginner

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BIOGRAPHIES

Turki Alhedr is a graduate student in Urban Planning at Ball State University.

Charline Avey started her own consult-ing company, TechHow LLC, last year after retiring from Citizens Energy Group. She was on the technical committee for Indianapolis Mapping and Geographic Information System (IMAGIS) for 25 years and active on the Indiana GIS Council.

Matthew Badger is a professional surveyor and survey project manager for Lochmueller Group, the developer of the Indiana Geospa-tial Coordinate Systems for INDOT.

Kayla Barnowsky is a business development associate with GeoCue Group. She has a B.S. in Geography from the University of North Alabama.

Al Benek has been working with state and county government for more than 20 years. He has been instrumental in introducing Infogroup data to the public sector.

Philip Bernard was introduced to GIS in 2001, when he helped oversee the creation of Vanderburgh County’s GIS. He has been an avid user ever since.

Larry Biehl is Systems Manager for the Pur-due Terrestrial Observatory and is Coordina-tor for the IndianaView consortium. He has been involved with remote sensing and image processing projects at Purdue since 1974.

Melissa Brenneman, GISP and owner of TopoWorks, is a professional trainer and GIS analyst with more than 20 years of GIS experience.

Tom Brenneman spends most of his time dreaming up GIS solutions for the Indiana Department of Transportation. Some of his ideas are even good.

Xia Chen is a graduate student at Purdue University.

Lindsey Danforth is a GIS implementation analyst for The Sidwell Co., performing GIS project management and analysis, and supporting data conversion and application development.

Debasree DasGupta uses GIS-based techniques in her research to analyze geo-referenced health data and has 10 years of experience working with large data sets.

Mike Davis is a graduate student in Geo-graphic Information Science at IUPUI and a geospatial technologies education consultant with the Geography Educators’ Network of Indiana.

Michael DeMory has been a mapping sales representative with Seiler Instrument since 2012. He previously worked for county governments in Indiana; he also has six years of experience using GPS in the field. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in Geography from Indiana University and Western Michi-gan University.

Lisa M. Dunaway, AICP, LEED AP, is Instructor of Urban Planning at Ball State University. She has a bachelor's in Landscape Architec-ture and a master's in Ecological Planning.

Lacey Duncan is a GIS analyst with The Polis Center, working primarily to assist the DNR with their FEMA RiskMAP efforts and the Veterans Affairs space management project.

Mark Ehle has worked with GIS since 1994, most recently as GIS Administrator for Tippe-canoe County. He became involved with IGIC while serving on the UGISA/IGIC conference and education committees from 1998–2001.

Dan Erker has been working with state and county government for more than 20 years. He works with state agencies across the Midwest.

Irv Goldblatt works for the State of Indiana as IDEM/GIO, Infrastructure Manager/State Agency GIS Coordinator. Active with the GIS community since the 1990, he received the David Ford Special Achievement Award in 2010.

Colby Gray is an urban and environmental planner at FlatLand Resources.

Dan Haag is a solution engineer manager with Esri, based in St. Louis. He works with state and local governments to deploy best practice ArcGIS Platform solutions.

Matthew Healy is a professional surveyor and survey project manager for VS Engineering and subconsultant for Lochmueller Group. He assists with QC/QA and other tasks of the InGCS project.

Rob Hench, GISP, is GRW's GIS Manager, He has managed many large and small GIS projects across the country, including in Whitestown, Ind.

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Rick Hill, Indiana Geological Survey Assistant Director for Technical Services, has been with the IGS for 41 years. He leads and manages the IndianaMap project and many other projects.

Jason Iler is Maintenance Chief of Collections for the Town of Chesterton Utility.

Natalie Kroovand Hipple is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice at Indiana University.

Bill Holder is the GIS Director for Kosciusko County. He served on the IGIC Board from 2007 to 2009 and was elected president of IGIC in 2008.

Kyle Johnson has worked with GIS for 14 years and is a member of the IGIC Board. He has facilitated the integration of GIS applica-tions into many departments and agencies.

Matt Johnson is the Cartographic Coordina-tor of the Indiana Geological Survey. He has a background in cartography, GIS, print produc-tion, and geography.

David Knipe is Engineering Section Man-ager for the Central Basin team at the IDNR Division of Water. He is responsible for the completion and review of floodplain studies for both state and federal programs.

Nicole Kong is Asst. Professor of Library Science and GIS Specialist at Purdue Univ. Libraries. Her interests include GIS data discovery and cyberinfrastructure design.

Kathy Lamb Kozenski has worked in educa-tion outreach for 25 years as Director and Executive Director of the Geography Educa-tors’ Network of Indiana, Inc. She has degrees in Atmospheric Physics and Agriculture from Purdue University and Education from Indiana University.

Deb Kuehn has been with the City of South Bend for 18 years and GIS Manager for the last 15 years. She helped to build geodatabases for the city utilites. The city was given a SAG Award in 2008 from Esri.

Indraneel Kumar is a Regional Planner and GIS/Spatial Analyst at the Purdue Center for Regional Development and also a Ph.D. candi-date in Transportation Planning at Purdue.

Steve Leatherman works for WTH Technol-ogy, Inc., and has 15 years of experience in the applied use of GIS.

Jeff Lovin is Senior VP and Managing Prin-cipal of the Government Solutions Market at Woolpert. During his 30-year career, he has worked to integrate leading-edge technol-ogy while playing a critical role in developing proprietary software and technology.

Eric Lowrey is a former 911 director and current Senior Consultant for WTH Technol-ogy, Inc. He has more than 21 years of GIS experience.

Steve Maddison is an Account Manager with Latitude Geographics, Toronto, Canada. He helps organizations achieve their geospatial targets with Web GIS.

Lauren Magee is a Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice at Michigan State University and has worked as a crime analyst for the Indianapo-lis Metro Police Department. Her research interests are in policing, gun violence, and geospatial analysis.

Tom Maggard is a senior technician who provides GIS analysis and support for the City of Greenwood. He has 9 years of experience in GIS, focusing on asset management and stormwater.

Bob Magiera is a GIS Analyst/Environmental Scientist at KCI Technologies, Inc., and is involved in GIS compilation, and stream, wetland, and vegetation monitoring.

Mark Maguire, GISP, has more than 12 years of professional experience providing GIS and data management services to clients across several disciplines.

Benjamin Maloney is a Residential Appraisal Deputy for the Allen County Assessor's office. He has a background in economic geography, GIS, and meteorology.

Mike Martin is the agency GIS Coordinator for the Ind. Dept. of Natural Resources. He also serves as the chair of the IGIC Waters Framework Dataset Workgroup.

E.J. McNaughton is the GIS Coordinator for the Indiana Dept. of Environmental Manage-ment and has worked for IDEM for 14 years. Before joining IDEM, he worked at MSE Corp.

Kevin Mickey is the Director of Geospatial Technologies Education at The Polis Center at IUPUI, and Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI, where he teaches courses in the application of GIS for emergency management and public safety.

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John Milburn is the Hancock County GIS Coordinator and leader of the District 5 GIS Task Force.

Kevin Miller, GISP, is a geologist with IDEM. He has worked with GIS since 1993, providing services and support for the Office of Land Quality. He also knows a few things about rocks, cooking, and morels.

Edward Morrison is a Regional Economic Development Adviser at the Purdue Center for Regional Development. He holds an M.B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Amanda O’Daniel has spent most of her career working with technology. Currently, she coordinates the collection and mapping of Indiana broadband service data in the Office of Technology.

JD Overton is in his 20th year working for Esri to educate and support users with their deployments of ArcGIS.

Kent Park of Woolpert has 30 years of experi-ence with geospatial services. He has planned and supervised every facet of geospatial projects from conventional mapping to devel-opment of LiDAR surface modeling, feature extraction, and GIS applications.

Landon Patterson is the IT and GIS Director for Adams County government.

Justin Peters is an information scientist with the Research Technologies division of Univer-sity Information Technology Services and an affiliate of the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.

Drew Pflaumer is graduate student of Urban Planning at Ball State university.

Prem Radhakrishnan is the co-founder and CTO of 39° north. He is a self-proclaimed geek and believes the true power of GIS lies in help-ing people in their daily work and life.

Matt Riehle is an environment scientist for Lochmueller Group.

Matt Riggs, who has worked with GIS for more than 26 years in both the private and public sectors, is employed at the Polis Center He is also an IGIC Board Member.

Tom Rogers, a mapping sales representa-tive with Seiler Instrument, has more than 12 years of experience using Trimble GPS. He has a degree from Southern Illinois University in Applied Engineering Technologies.

Sara Rotz is a Grant Coordinator with the In-diana Department of Environmental Manage-ment, managing federal grants with Indiana marinas to keep our water clean.

Kevin Russell is a Cartographic Specialist at the Indiana Geological Survey.

Darrell G. Schulze, Professor of Soil Science at Purdue University, teaches classes that integrate classroom lectures with weekly field labs that focus on how soils occur in the field as components of landscapes.

Aaron Shaw, GIS Director for Johnson County, is responsible for managing GIS data, usage, and maintenance. He has a bachelor’s degree in Geography from Indiana State University and has been involved with GIS for nearly 18 years.

Ethan Snyder is the GIS Specialist for Adams County government.

Carol Song is Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Scientific Solutions group in Research Computing at Purdue University. Her research interests include high-perfor-mance computing and distributed systems, cyberinfrastructure science, and data-driven methods and applications.

Jim Sparks has spent most of his career working with geospatial information. In 2007, He was appointed Indiana’s first Geographic Information Officer. He has a B.A. in Business Administration and a M.S. in Management.

Katie Springer is a reference librarian at the Indiana State Library and Coordinator for the Indiana State Data Center Program, a coop-erative partnership between the state and the U.S. Census Bureau. She is the currently on the board of IGIC.

Andrew Stauffer is an ArcGIS online product manager at Esri.

John Taylor is Land Manager for the Field Station and Environmental Education Center at Ball State University.

Dawn Torok has been the GIS Coordinator for the City of Lawrence, Ind., since 2008. She has enjoyed working in the GIS community for more than 20 years.

Chris Walls is the founder of 39° north, an outdoor enthusiast, lover of great food, and father of one Milkbone-eating four-legged son.

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Phil Worrall is the Executive Director of the Indiana Geographic Information Council, lead-ing the organization’s efforts in the statewide coordination of GIS through dissemination of data and data products, education and outreach, adoption of standards, building partnerships, and IndianaMap.

Sanglim Yoo is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Ball State University.

Andrey Zhalnin works in the area of GIS and spatial analysis. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Forest Ecology from Purdue University.

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