Maine GIS User Group

May 2016
Maine Municipal Technology Conference
Augusta, ME

February 5, 2016
Winters Educators Conf
Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport

• The Maine Ortho Imagery Program and Raster Analysis for Municipalities Leveraging the Maine Ortho Imagery Program
• MePUC Municipal Infrastructure Mapping and Requirements
• Firefighting, Police Work and GIS
• Free Web Mapping Tools that Help Municipal Government
• New Uses of LiDAR and GIS Technology for Visualizing Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts in Maine
• Municipal Uses of ArcGIS Online for Web & Mobile Mapping Applications
• GIS for Assessing Officers

• Getting Started with the Maine Digital Atlas and ArcGIS Online
• Community Studies with ArcGIS Online
• Every Day Geodesy
• High-Tech Geospatial Solutions for a Rural Region
• Your Brain is Wired for Spatial Thinking
• Connecting Students with Arctic Research through Virtual Fieldwork
• GIS with Free Tools: A Trip Through the Universe of Free/Open Source Mapping Software
• GIS and Learning Standards: Connecting Dots & Planning a Lesson
• Reconstructing Past Climate Change & Settlement with Help from LiDAR in Broo, Shetland

• Keynote Address: Ted Janusz
• The Cloud: What’s in it for Municipalities
• Maine’s FOA Laws: Potential and Pitfalls
• Web Based Records Management for Public Works
• Innovation Through Civic Technology
• Gigabit Network Coming to Old Town and Orono
• Keynote Lunch Speaker:  Patrick Cunningham, Blue Marble Geographics
• Creating a Data Disaster Recovery Plan
• Overview of RUS Telecom Loan and Grant Programs
• MEGUG Business Meeting

• LiDAR Track: Abdullah Qassim, Woolpert
• ArcGIS Online and Application Use Areas: John Cassidy, ESRI and Mark Scott, ESRI
• LiDAR Track: Patrick Cunningham, Blue Marble Geographics
• Cartography 101: Judy Colby-George, Spatial Alternatives GIS Solutions
• LiDAR Quality and Accuracy: Thomas Asbeck, PointCloud
• Cartography 103: Judy Colby-George, Spatial Alternative GIS Solutions

• Forestry
• Government and Environment
• Engineering and Development
• Working with LiDAR and Imagery Data Files

• Discussion focused on the efforts of UMPI’s EPSCoR land use analysis of underused and historic available farmlands in conjunction with ongoing studies in the cultivation of Biomass fuels, NMDC’s HUD Sustainable Development Communities Initiative Climate Change Component defining the issues that our communities will face while dealing with the effects of our changing climate conditions and the use of technology to aid our community in their planning efforts.

• GIS in Forest Management
• Use of GIS for Determining Lynx Home Range and Habitat Use in Northern Maine
• When the Point They’re Looking for is You: Airborne Search and Rescue
• Assessing the Feasibility of Forest Inventory Predictions in Northern Maine

• GIS 101
• Orthos are More Than Just Pretty Pictures
• Integrating Document Management and GIS
• What’s New in Web Mapping 1
• Using Maine’s 2011 LiDAR Data for Terrain Analysis in Global Mapper
• GPS and Where Is It Going
• What’s New in Web Mapping II
• Can You Actually Use LiDAR Data in GIS

• GIS 101: Basic Concepts and Uses for Local Government
• ESRI Intro Session Part 2
• Maine GeoLibrary Adopts land Use Codes Using Stakeholders to Develop a Watershed- Scale Land Use Suitability Model
• NextGen 9-1-1 for Maine
• Maine’s Strategic Broadband Plan: An Overview
• Orthoimagery
• Flood Inundation Mapping in Fort Kent, ME and Flood Plain
• Virtual Maine, an Emergency Situational Awareness System

• Population Density Tools for Natural Gas Pipelines, Michael White
• Migration from Company Developed GIS to COTS GIS, Glenn Gagne and Chuck Gerry
• Flood Inundation Mapping Project for Fort Kent, Maine
• Using ArcGIS tools with Water Utilities, Michael Miller
• GIS and Outage Management at Bangor Hydro, Steve Severance
• The Maine Orthoimagery Program
• Visual Assessment of Windpower, Judy Colby-George and Danielle Matkoskey

• GIS in Forest Management
• Use of GIS for Determining Lynx Home Range and Habitat Use in Northern Maine
• When the Point They’re Looking for is You: Airborne Search and Rescue
• Assessing the Feasibility of Forest Inventory Predictions in Northern Maine

June 24, 2011
Summer School 2011 Sunday River, Bethel

• Use of Census Products – Census Data
• Use of Census Products – Downloading Data
• Use of Census Products – TIGER Files
• What to do with Lidar data
• Applied Geodesy

• High Accuracy GPS – Pitfalls of Post-Processing
• Status of Flood Mapping in Maine
• Town Level Landslide Risk Assessment
• The Future of Geospatial Technology
• Maine Orthoimagery Program: More Info and Lower Costs
• GeoParcels Slideshow 3/3/2011
• GeoParcels Discussion 3/3/2011
• Business Meeting Handout 3/3/2011
• Business Meeting Minutes 3/3/2011

• Integrated_Land_Records for Maine
• GeoParcels Slideshow 1/26/2011
• GeoParcels Discussion 1/26/2011

• GPS Implementation
• Up in the Air about Getting to the Field?
• Leveraging your existing GIS system for Infrastructure Asset Management
• Common Operating Picture for Utility Outages
• On Target Utility Screening with the aid of GIS
• Chapter 140 Discussion

• Tek Trek/Online Mapping & Applications for Scenic View Assessments
• Lidar for the Northeast
• GIS at COA
• GeoParcels
• Lobster Buoy Counting

• Centralized Data Management Strategies
• CommunityViz
• Close-range Photogrammetry
• Eye Candy You Can Measure
• Flex Viewer for Web Mapping
• Hands on workshop for NHD Tutorials for Water Quality Projects

• Mapping Shoreland Zoning
• Mapping Vernal Pools
• Linking Parcels to Deeds
• Local, State, and Federal GIS Data Sharing in Maine
• NHD Tutorials for Water Quality Projects

• GIS 101
• Web Services Technologies: Part I – Introduction to GIS Web Services
• Web Services Technologies: Part II – A Partial Catalog of Web Services

• Images
• Interfacing GIS and GPS to Mooring Management Software
• Managing Assets and the Important Role of GIS and GPS
• Service Area Analysis of Portland’s METRO Bus System
• Mapping out a Career in GIS 2009 MEGUG Version