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Enterprise Deployments BALANCING and Flexible Peripherals WATER NEEDS OF Extend Mobility 36 CROPS Product & 24 40 Business News Data, Hardware and & FISH Industry News This conference is sponsored and supported by GeoTec Media, publisher of GeoWorld magazine and developer of the GeoPlace.com Web portal. Rendering provided by the City of Ottawa, Surveys and Mapping, Cette conférence est parrainée et appuyée par GeoTec Media, éditeur historical map courtesy of ACMLA / La réprésentation 3-D est fournit du magazine GeoWorld et concepteur du portail Web GeoPlace.com. par la Ville d’Ottawa, Secteur des levés et cartographie; les cartes OCC = Ottawa Congress Centre/Centre des congrès d’Ottawa historiques sont une gracieuseté de l’ACACC.1 200 D-SIZE COLOUR PRINTS. BY 9 AM. Introducing the HP Designjet 4500 Printer series. NO PROBLEM. Unattended printing makes getting more done possible.

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© 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Some of the images are simulated. 1HP Designjet 4500 Printer series with optional stacker shown. Celebrating Technology and Innovation This year’s GeoTec Event marks the 100th anniversary of the Atlas of Canada and the 20th anniversary of the event. This year also marks an expansion of the audience with the co-location of the annual meetings of the Association of Canadian Map PROGRAM COMMITTEE Libraries and Archives, the Canadian Cartographic Association and the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada’s Leaders Forum. COMITÉ DE LA CONFÉRENCE This document is designed to help you navigate all the offerings at Louise Boily, Public Health Agency of Canada/Agence de this event. The Conference at a Glance grid starting on page 16 provides a broad santé Publique du Canada overview of everything that is taking place. You may also search by subject and by day. Sébastien Caquard, Cybercartography and the New Economy Project, Carleton University We hope you enjoy your time at the 2006 GeoTec Event. Thank you for attending and Marc Cockburn, Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothéque please don’t hesitate to visit the show management office in the Executive Suite if there’s et Archives Canada (Association of Canadian Map anything we can do to make this experience more rewarding. Libraries and Archives/ Association des Cartotèques et Archives Cartographiques du Canada) Célébration de la Technologie et de l’Innovation Kelly Dean, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada/Agriculture La conference GeoTec de cette année souligne le 100e anniversaire de l’Atlas du Canada et Agroalimentaire Canada de même que le 20e anniversaire de l’événement. Cette année est également marquée par l’expansion du nombre de participants avec le co-emplacement des assemblées annuelles Christine Earl, Carleton University (Canadian Cartographic de l’Association des cartothèques et archives cartographiques du Canada, de l’Association Association/ L’ Association canadienne de cartographie) canadienne de cartographie et du Forum annuel des leaders en géomatique de l’Association Christopher Eckstein, Ontario Ministry of Natural canadienne des entreprises de géomatique. Resources/Ministère des Richesses naturelles de l’Ontario Ian Gillespie, Environment Canada/Environnement Canada Ce document est conçu pour vous guider à travers toutes les contributions à cet événement. La grille « Coup d’oeil sur la conférence » à la page 16 fournit une vue d’ensemble de tout ce qui est Jody Jeffrey, PCI Geomatics offert. Vous pouvez également consulter une liste de présentations et activités par sujet et par jour. Ed Kennedy, Geomatics Industry Association of Canada/ L’Association Canadienne des Enterprises de Géomatique Nous espérons que vous apprécirez l’événement 2006 de GeoTec. Merci de votre présence et n’hésitez pas à visiter le bureau de gestion d’exposition dans la suite exécutive si nous pouvons Dave McIlhagga, DM Solutions faire quelque chose pour rendre votre expérience plus enrichissante. Susan Mowers, University of Ottawa (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives/ Association des cartothèques et archives cartographiques du Canada) Stephen Perkins, City of Ottawa/Ville d’Ottawa Mike Sawada, University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa Neil Spooner, ESRI Canada Matt Ball Show Manager and Editor, Cameron Wilson, Natural Resources Canada/Ressources GeoWorld magazine naturelles Canada Responsable du salon et rédacteur Geoff Zeiss, Autodesk en chef, Magazine GeoWorld

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Conference at a Glance ...... 16-17 Exhibitor Directory /Répertoire des Exposants . . . 23-27 This year, the GeoTec Event will be co-located with the following organizations / Cette anné, la conference GeoTec sera donnée en collaboration avec les organismes suivants: Floor Plans/Map ...... 28-29 General Information /Information Générale ...... 30 General Sessions/Séances Générales ...... 4

Association of Canadian Canadian Cartographic Geomatics Industry GIAC ...... 18 Map Libraries Association Association of Canada and Archives (CCA) (GIAC) Geomatics Leaders Forum (ACMLA) Registration /Inscription ...... 30 Sessions by Day/Séances Quotidiennes Supporting Organizations / Organismes de soutien Monday /Lundi ...... 8-9 Tuesday / Mardi ...... 10-13

Canadian Institute of Geomatics Wednesday /Mercredi ...... 14, 19, 20 Sessions by Subject/Séances par Sujet ...... 6-7 Media Sponsors Special Events /Activités Spéciales ...... 15 Vendor Seminars /Séances des Fournisseurs ..... 21-22 Workshops/Ateliers ...... 5

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MONDAY, JUNE 19/ CONCURRENT PANEL Panelists: LUNDI 19 JUIN DISCUSSIONS/ DISCUSSIONS Karen Siderelis, Associate Director for Geospatial Information and Chief Information Officer, EN GROUPES SIMULTANÉES U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA 08:30 - 09:00 Join one of two concurrent panels that will address Irwin J. Itzkovitch, Assistant Deputy Minister, Earth OCC - Hall E future technology directions. Audience participation is Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada, encouraged and facilitated. Ottawa, ON, Canada Opening Ceremony / Joignez-vous à un des deux panels simultanés qui por- Cérémonie d’ouverture teront sur les orientations technologiques futures. Nous Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research Professor Matt Ball, Show Manager, GeoTec Event encourageons et favorisons la participation du public. in International Affairs, Geography and The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister, Natural Environmental Studies, and the Director of Resources Canada / Ressources naturelles Canada the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Library 10:30 - 12:00 Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, and Archives Canada /Bibliothèque et Archives PANEL—Geospatial Technology Canada Canada Outlook Alex Miller, President, ESRI Canada, Toronto, ON, Elizabeth Wong, Stamp Manager, Canada Post / Postes Canada Canada OCC - Hall E Moderator: Matt Ball, Editor, GeoWorld magazine, Boulder, CO, USA Gala Dinner Keynote/ 09:00 - 10:00 Panelists: Conférencier-invité au dîner de gala OCC - Hall E Joseph K. Berry, Keck Scholar in the Geosciences, Rex Murphy presents in- Opening Keynote/ University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA formed, insightful and Dr. Berry is column author of “Beyond sometimes biting commentary. Discours d’ouverture Murphy is a social commenta- Ambient Findability: Mapping” for GeoWorld. He has written more than 200 papers on the analytic capabilities tor and editorial journalist Mapping the Future Present with weekly television com- Peter Morville, President, of GIS, and he authored the popular books “Beyond Mapping” and “Spatial Reasoning.” mentary on The National Semantic Studios, Ann Arbor, Magazine, host of the Sunday MI, USA Since 1976, he has presented workshops on GIS technology and map analysis concepts to afternoon CBC Radio program thousands of professionals. Cross Country Checkup, an Ambient findability describes editorial contributor to CBC a world, at the crossroads of Henry Kucera, President, Swiftsure Spatial Systems, Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera, and a weekly Saturday ubiquitous computing and Victoria, BC, Canada columnist in The Globe and Mail. the Internet, in which we can Mr. Kucera is a recognised expert in spatial find anyone or anything from anywhere at anytime. and temporal systems design in Canada and It’s not necessarily a goal, since this vision raises serious abroad. His experience in spatial information WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21/ questions about privacy. And we’ll never reach the des- management and analysis spans the fields of MERCREDI 21 JUIN tination, for perfect findability is impossible. But we’re agriculture, mining, mineral and petroleum surely headed in the right direction, and it’s about time exploration, forestry, facilities management, we surveyed the road ahead. health information, remote sensing, nautical 08:00 - 09:00 charting and topographic mapping. OCC - Hall E Of course, it’s not so easy to map this territory where Nick Chrisman, Professor of Geomatics Sciences, Keynote Breakfast/ boundaries blur, for as the Web becomes both interface Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada Petit-déjeuner conférence and infrastructure for a location-aware Internet of Dr. Chrisman’s research has concentrated on objects we can barely imagine, search and wayfinding time in GIS, data quality testing and the social are combining to create a whole new category of spati- The Meaning in the Map: and institutional aspects of GIS. He serves as Examples from Medical osemantic experience, and an entirely new relationship Scientific Director of the GEOIDE Network, to place. Cartography one of the Networks of Centres of Excellence. Tom Koch, Adjunct Professor In this provocative cyberspace safari, Peter Morville PANEL—National Atlases: of Geography (medical) explores the future present in mobile devices, mapping University of British Columbia Now and in the Future and Adjunct Professor of mashups, geotags, sensors, search algorithms, ontolo- OCC - 4B/5B gies, folksonomies, findable objects, and the long tail of Gerontology, Simon Fraser This panel brings together the private sector, academia, the geospatial Web. Reflect with Peter as he challenges University, Vancouver, BC, Canadian and U.S. government leaders to discuss their us to think differently about the power of search and Canada views on National Atlases. Each panelist will provide a findability to redefine where we go, what we find, and brief overview followed by a question and answer ses- who we become. Mapping is about collecting data and presenting ideas sion. Potential discussion points are: Why a national that define the policies that make the world in which atlas? What form of governance suits national atlases in we live. The result is not “representative,” as in a pic- the future? What are the roles of government, industry, ture of the world. It is instead the world centered on a academia and the public in a national atlas? What is specific problem and the solution we wish to achieve. the balance between a citizen participatory atlas and an Medical geographer and historian Tom Koch argues authoritative atlas? that this is what mapping has always done and what it does for us today. The author ofCartographies of Moderator: Cameron Wilson, Project Manager, Atlas Disease, a history of medical mapping from 1690 to the of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, present redefines mapping and its purpose through the Canada medical example, showing how modern GIS technolo- gies increase the potential of the process.

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GEOTEC sualization and its integration with state-of-the-art CCA/L’ACC “Hollywood” photorealistic visualization software. The workshop will be held in a computer lab. SUNDAY, JUNE 18 / SUNDAY, JUNE 18 / DIMANCHE 18 JUIN OCC - Room 2A DIMANCHE 18 JUIN Introduction to Open Source GIS 09:00 - 17:00 Paul Ramsey, President, Refractions Research, Victoria, 09:00 - 12:30 BC, Canada Carleton University, Loeb A237 OCC - Room 1A This hands-on workshop will cover the building of a complete spatial data management system using only Managing Geographic Names in a GIS Best Practices for Developing open-source components. Participants will install and David Raymond, Cartography Faculty, Centre of Geographic Information Models configure the spatial database, load demonstration data Geographic Sciences (COGS), Lawrencetown, NS, Canada David Arctur, Interoperability Engineer, ESRI, Austin, into it, view the data and edit it with a desktop tool, This workshop will encompass four parts: 1. Results of TX, USA and Douglas Adams, Baltimore County GIS create a Web mapping service that publishes carto- the GIS Reference Survey. 2. Discussion of geospatial Manager, Baltimore, MD, USA graphic maps to the Internet, and create a Web feature reference questions. 3. Introduction to MrSID images. URISA CERTIFIED WORKSHOP service that publishes GML to the Internet. 4. Custom ArcGIS map project using data digital air This workshop shows how you can build on your photos, satellite images and road network data. existing data and skills to take advantage of the lat- OCC - Room 3A est generation of GIS tools and practices for database OGC Web Services 13:30 - 17:00 design. After an introduction to the fundamental con- Carleton University, Loeb A220 Sam Bacharach, executive director, Outreach and cepts of GIS database design, a variety of case studies of Adoption Program, The Open Geospatial Consortium, Planning for and Implementing GIS databases will be discussed. Fairfax, VA, USA Cartographic Representations in OCC - Room 5A This workshop will explain the foundation of interna- ArcGIS 9.2 tional standardization efforts, including those of the Robert Jensen, cartographer, and Peter Kasianchuk, in- eGovernment—Planning, Policy and International Organization for Standardization (ISO), structor, ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA relate them to specific business case requirements, the Portal This workshop will discuss the “best practices” for pre- and delve into technical detail about the OpenGIS Jury Konga, manager, GIS Services, Town of Richmond paring a geodatabase and will demonstrate the creation, Implementation and Encoding specifications that form Hill, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada interaction and management of representations in map the Open Geospatial Consortium family of standards. URISA CERTIFIED WORKSHOP production. This workshop is a must to understand the full scope of what eGovernment is and to assess the role that tech- ACMLA/L’ACACC nologies such as GIS need to play.

OCC - Room 6A SATURDAY, JUNE 17 / SAMEDI 17 JUIN Geospatial Metadata Implementation Strategies Bruce Westcott, Geospatial Metadata Consultant, 09:00 - 17:00 Marshfield, VT, USA University of Ottawa, Morisett Library, The United States and Canada are working together Room 211 to develop a North American “profile” of ISO meta- data for joint use. The goal of the workshop is to help Demystifying Geospatial Data information managers and metadata authors gain a Cataloguing complete conceptual understanding of the challenges Mary Larsgaard, Assistant Head, Map and Imagery and benefits of profile compliance. Laboratory, Alexandria Digital Library/Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA and Frank OCC - Room 4A Williams, University of Ottawa and Christine Alexander, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada GIS Modeling This one-day workshop is intended for cataloguers and Joseph Berry, Keck Scholar in Geosciences, University of map librarians who want to learn the basics of catalogu- Denver, Denver, CO, USA ing geospatial data. This intermediate level workshop presents the basic concepts, procedures and applications of grid-based GIS modeling with emphasis in natural resources, envi- SUNDAY, JUNE 18 / ronmental management and business geographics. DIMANCHE 18 JUIN University of Ottawa, LAGGIS, 60 University Street 09:00 - 17:00 Carleton University, MacOdrum Library, Integrating Geomatics and Room 102 Photorealistic Geovisualization Michael Sawada, Associate Professor of Geomatics and GIS Reference Services Director Laboratory for Applied Geomatics and GIS Heather McAdam, Carleton University and Susan Science (LAGGISS), Geography, University of Ottawa Mowers, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Zoran Reljic, M. Sc. Candidate, LAGGISS, Ottawa, This hands-on workshop will deal with geospatial refer- ON, Canada ence questions with an introduction to ArcCatalog. This hands-on workshop will provide practical knowledge in the application of contemporary geovi- Photo By: University of Ottawa

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ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION Tuesday, June 20/ AND VISUALIZATION Mardi 20 juin Geospatial technology is increasingly finding a home in The history of Canada is reflected in the history of information technology (IT) departments. This track 09:00 - 10:30 the atlas. In recognition of the centennial, this track is includes sessions on IT requirements for geospatial Archiving I (ACMLA) — GCC, Sussex Room designed to celebrate the past and explore future roles technology integration, spatial databases, enterprise Data Sharing Agreements — OCC, Room 1A of atlases. This track represents the effective use of car- application integration, Web services, geospatial intel- tographic skills for map communication, and the many ligence and document management. 11:00 - 12:30 new means for more realistic map visualization. In Archiving II (ACMLA) — GCC, Sussex Room addition, this track explores the impact of digital data and software tools on traditional cartographic skills and Monday, June 19/ 13:30 - 15:00 atlas creation. Lundi 19 juin Road Network — OCC, Room 1A 13:00 - 14:30 15:30 - 17:00 Monday, June 19/ Transforming to IT Infrastructure — OCC, Room 2A Elevation Data — OCC, Room 1A Lundi 19 juin 15:30 - 17:00 13:00 - 14:30 System Integration Examples — OCC, Room 2A Wednesday, June 21/ Regional Atlases (CCA) — OCC, Room 3A Mercredi 21 juin Reporting Framework — OCC, Room 4B Past and Present Atlas — OCC, Room 5B Tuesday, June 20/ 13:30 - 15:00 Geographic Names — OCC, Room 4B 15:30 - 17:00 Mardi 20 juin History of Cartography (CCA/ACMLA) — OCC, 11:00 - 12:30 Room 3A Web Mapping — OCC, Room 2A Atlas Futures — OCC, Room 5B GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 13:30 - 15:00 Decision Support Systems — OCC, Room 4B Tuesday, June20/ This track offers educational research highlights and a forum for educators, students and employers to mea- Mardi 20 juin 15:30 - 17:00 sure curriculum against occupational demand. Public Safety — OCC, Room 2A 09:00 - 10:30 Mountain Cartography and DEMs I (CCA) — GCC, Wednesday, June 21/ Annex Room Wednesday, June 21/ Mercredi 21 juin The Future of Internet Mapping (ICA Commission on Mercredi 21 juin Maps and the Internet) — OCC, Room 2A 09:00 - 10:30 11:00 - 12:30 09:00 - 10:30 PANEL—Map Production and Education: What We Database Development — OCC, Room 2A Mountain Cartography and DEMs II (CCA) - GCC, Do and What We Teach (CCA) — OCC, Room 3A Annex Room 11:00 - 12:30 13:30 - 15:00 13:30 - 15:00 Collaborative Resource Management — Cartography and GIS: Human Dimensions (CCA) OCC, Room 2A PANEL—Future of Topographic Mapping in Canada — OCC, Room 3A (ACMLA) - GCC, Sussex Room Map Design I (CCA) - GCC, Annex Room 15:30 - 17:00 GEOSPATIAL DATA Geospatial Career Opportunities Panel — OCC, 15:30 - 17:00 Room 4B PANEL—Cybercartography: Maps and Mapping in Timely access to accurate geospatial data is crucial to the Information Era — GCC, Sussex Room any GIS project. Sessions will address data storage, field Map Design II (CCA) - GCC, Annex Room data collection, data integration, management, dissemi- GIS DEVELOPMENT nation, development and promotion of standards and best practices. The flexibility of current GIS tools and architecture has Wednesday, June 21/ led to increased flexibility for solution customization. Mercredi 21 juin This track contains sessions on tools and resources to Monday, June 19/ empower the advanced GIS user and systems integrator 09:00 - 10:30 Lundi 19 juin to create custom solutions of their own. Planning for the Future (ACMLA) — GCC, Annex 13:00 - 14:30 Room Parcel Mapping — OCC, Room 1A Monday, June 19/ 13:30 - 15:00 15:30 - 17:00 Lundi 19 juin PANEL—Atlas of Canada: Future Opportunities Cross-Border Census Collaboration — OCC, Room 1A — GCC, Annex Room 13:00 - 14:30 User-Centered Design and Development (CCA) Business Geographics — GCC, Annex Room — OCC, Room 1A 15:30 - 17:00 Immersive Environments — OCC, Room 4B

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Tuesday, June 20/ INFRASTRUCTURE AND Tuesday, June 20/ Mardi 20 juin INTEROPERABILITY Mardi 20 juin 09:00 - 10:30 Geospatial data must be shared in order to leverage 09:00 - 10:30 Analytical Problems in GIS (CCA) — OCC, Room 3A existing investments and minimize production costs How the City of Sarajevo Reduced the Cost of and the duplication of effort. Learn how the geospatial Infrastructure Locate Requests through Automation 11:00 - 12:30 data barrier problem is being solved by both large-scale — OCC, Room 5B Collaboration Tools — OCC, Room 1A data distribution efforts, such as the GeoConnections Incorporating Real-Time Data Feeds — OCC, Room 3A program, and the data and system standardization ef- Hurricane Katrina — OCC, Room 4B forts of the Open Geospatial Consortium. 13:30 - 15:00 11:00 - 12:30 Open Source Overview — OCC, Room 3A National Land and Water Information Service Visualization — OCC, Room 2A Monday, June 19/ (NLWIS) — OCC, Room 5B Lundi 19 juin 15:30 - 17:00 15:30 - 17:00 Geographic Exploration Systems — OCC, Room 5B 15:30 - 17:00 Defence Geomatics — OCC, Room 4B Open Source Applications — OCC, Room 3A Data Access — GCC, Sussex Room Wednesday, June 21/ Wednesday, June 21/ Tuesday, June 20/ Mercredi 21 juin Mercredi 21 juin Mardi 20 juin 09:00 - 10:30 09:00 - 10:30 09:00 - 10:30 On-Demand Mapping at the Innovation Acceleration Location-Based Services - OCC, Room 7A Northern Initiatives — OCC, Room 7A Centre (IAC) within Natural Resources Canada Web 2.0 a Platform for Geomatics and the Atlas of (NRCAN), International Division — OCC, Room 5B Canada — OCC, Room 1A 11:00 - 12:30 Imagery Management and Distribution — 11:00 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 OCC, Room 7A Hands-On: Build an Interactive Online Atlas with the Imagery Analysis — OCC, Room 7A Cybercartographic Atlas Framework — GCC, Annex 13:30 - 15:00 Room 13:30 - 15:00 System Interoperability — OCC, Room 7A Analytical Approaches — OCC, Room 7A 15:30 - 17:00 POSTER SESSION International Standards — OCC, Room 7A GIS AND PUBLIC POLICY The following poster presentations will take place in the poster area in the Exhibit Hall. Authors will be avail- GIS is a powerful tool for local and national policy Wednesday, June 21/ able to discuss their presentations during the Opening makers. This track deals with data policy issues as well Mercredi 21 juin Reception from 4 - 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20. The as the application of GIS in social services, emergency posters will be displayed throughout the conference. response, and disaster planning and mitigation efforts. 11:00 - 12:30 Data Distribution Issues — OCC, Room 5B Design and Implementation of a Moving Objects Tuesday, June 20/ 13:30 - 15:00 Server for Location-Based Services, InSung Jang, Senior Researcher, ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea Mardi 20 juin Canadian and U.S. Partnerships — OCC, Room 5B 11:00 - 12:30 National Atlases of European Countries: Brief Overview and Comparison, Vit Vozelinek, Dept. Decision Support for Emergencies — OCC, Room 4B INTEGRATED CASE STUDIES of Geoinformatics, Palacky University in Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic These sessions are devoted to a specific organization’s Wednesday, June 21/ implementation of integrated geospatial technology. The Use of Geographic Metadata Catalogues: A Mercredi 21 juin Presentations provide multiple perspectives with a focus Contextual Inquiry, Shelley Roberts, PhD. Candidate, on increased efficiency, better decision making and Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada 09:00 - 10:30 reduced costs. Mapping Issues in the Geography of Health (CCA), OCC, Room 4B Monday, June 19/ 11:00 - 12:30 Lundi 19 juin Climate Change — OCC, Room 1A Public Health — OCC, Room 4B 15:30 - 17:00 Contemporary and Historical Geographies of the CLAIMaps and Geology Ontario — Canadian Métis — OCC, Room 3A GCC, Annex Room

13:30 - 15:00 PANEL—PC-IDEA — OCC, Room 2A

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MONDAY, JUNE 19/ Panelist, Irwin J. Itzkovitch, Assistant Deputy GeoConnections Regional Atlas: An Integrated Minister, Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Approach to Regional Decision-Making, LUNDI 19 JUIN Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Denis Poliquin, Regional Atlas Advisor GeoConnections, Ottawa, ON, Canada Panelist, Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research 08:30 - 9:00 Professor in International Affairs, Geography and ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Introduction — OCC, Hall E Environmental Studies, and the Director of the VISUALIZATION Opening Remarks, Matt Ball, Editor, GeoWorld Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Reporting Framework — magazine, Boulder, CO, USA Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada OCC, Room 4B

Welcome, The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister Panelist, Alex Miller, President, ESRI Canada, Moderator: Bruce Westcott, Geospatial Metadata of Natural Resources, Ottawa, ON, Canada Toronto, ON, Canada Consultant, Marshfield, VT, USA

Terra Nostra Book Launch, Ian E. Wilson, Protected Areas: A New Canadian Framework Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Library 13:00 - 14:30 for National Reporting, Anna Regan, Geomatics and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives, ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Engineer, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada VISUALIZATION ON, Canada Past and Present Atlas — Commemorative Stamp, Elizabeth Wong, OCC, Room 5B Watersheds: The Evolution of a New Manager of Stamp Design and Production, Environmental Star, Peter Paul, Project Canada Post, Ottawa, ON, Canada Moderator: Donna Williams, Project Manager, Manager, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Atlas of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, ON, Canada Ottawa, ON, Canada 09:00 - 10:00 GI Management in an Atlas Project, Vit Opening Keynote—Ambient The Evolution of the Atlas of Canada 1906- Vozelinek, Dept. of Geoinformatics, Palacky Findability: Mapping the Future 2006, Claire Gosson, Senior Geographer, University in Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Present — OCC, Hall E Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Republic Peter Morville, president Semantic Studios and ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION professor at the University of Michigan’s School The Historical Atlas of Canada Online of Information, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Learning Project: Past, Present and Future, Transforming to IT Infrastructure — Byron Moldofsky, Cartographer and GIS Analyst, OCC, Room 2A University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 10:30 - 12:00 Moderator: Stephen Perkins, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada PANEL—Geospatial Technology The U.S. Census: 1870 and Today, Tim Trainor, Assistant Division Chief for Geographic Areas Outlook—OCC, Hall E and Cartographic Data Products, U.S. Census Best Practices for Enterprise and Multi-agency Bureau, Washington, D.C., USA GIS, Vivek Baijal, Vice President, Consulting, Moderator: Matt Ball, Editor, GeoWorld magazine, Linnet Systems, Kanata, ON, Canada Boulder, CO, USA ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & VISUALIZATION Enterprise GIS - The Ottawa Experience, Laine Panelist, Joseph K. Berry, Keck Scholar in the Regional Atlases (CCA) — Wyman, GIS Manager, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, Geosciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO, ON, Canada USA OCC, Room 3A Inter Agency Committee on Geomatics: Moderator: Sébastien Caquard, Post-Doctoral Panelist, Henry Kucera, President, Swiftsure Perspectives on the Coordination of Geomatics Fellow, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Spatial Systems, Victoria, BC, Canada in the Federal Government, Julie Leese, Director Geomatics, Public Works and Government Services Atlas of Tehran Metropolis, Mohammad Panelist, Nick Chrisman, Professor of Geomatics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Sciences, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada Hassan Mousavizadeh, Petroleum University of Technology, Tehran, Iran GEOSPATIAL DATA PANEL—National Atlases: Now and in Parcel Mapping — OCC, Room 1A the Future—OCC, Room 4B/5B A Renewal of Indonesian National Atlas, Trini Hastuti, Head for Resource and Public Atlas Moderator: Robert Penner, Supervisor, Business Moderator: Cameron Wilson, Project Manager, Division, National Coordinating Agency for Systems Improvement, Town of Markham, Atlas of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Surveys and Mapping, Jakarta, Indonesia Markham, ON, Canada Ottawa, ON, Canada Do Regional Atlases Age Well?, Majella-J. There’s Got to be a Better (Mapping) Panelist, Karen Siderelis, Associate Director for Gauthier, Geographer, Professor Emeritus, Mousetrap!, Bill Martin, Partner, Martin Newby Geospatial Information and Chief Information Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Consulting, Calgary, AB, Canada Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA QC, Canada

8 GCC = Government Conference Centre/Centre de conférences du gouvernement SESSIONS BY DAY/SÉANCES QUOTIDIENNES

Ontario Parcel Program — Revisited, Mike Why Did Augustus Jones Cease Surveying GIS DEVELOPMENT Power, Executive Director, eServices, Teranet in 1800?, Alun Hughes, Associate Professor, Immersive Environments — Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada Department of Geography, Brock University, St. OCC, Room 4B Catharines, ON, Canada Geographic IQ: The Impact of Convergence, Moderator: Joseph Berry, Keck Scholar in Mike Donald, Managing Director, Terralink Re-envisioning the Map Display Case: Geosciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO, International Limited, Wellington, New Zealand Libraries, Historic Maps and Google Earth, USA Larry W. Laliberté, GIS Librarian, University of GIS DEVELOPMENT Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Virtual University City, Marlen Kokaz, Business Geographics — GIS Director, University Of Pennsylvania, GCC, Annex Room Historical Maps Showing First Nations in Philadelphia, PA, USA the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Ken Favrholdt, Instructor, Thompson Rivers What’s New in Business GIS?, Deepta Rayner, Digital City Models from the Ground Up, Fuad University, Kamloops, BC, Canada Research Solutions Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada Khan, Photogrammetry Team Lead/Engineer, Immersive Media Corp., Calgary, AB, Canada ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION Getting Down to the Postal Code, Don Penfold, Research Solutions Inc., Toronto, ON, System Integration Examples — Photorealistic Geovisualization, Michael Canada OCC, Room 2A Sawada, Associate Professor of Geomatics and Director Laboratory for Applied Geomatics and Retail Competition Analysis, Joseph Berry, Moderator: Laine Wyman, GIS Manager, City of GIS Science (LAGGISS), Geography, University Keck Scholar in Geosciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Denver, Denver, CO, USA Asset Management Integration for Sign INFRASTRUCTURE & Maintenance, Robert Penner, Supervisor, INTEROPERABILITY 15:30 - 17:00 Business Systems Improvement, Town of Data Access — GCC, Sussex Room Markham, Markham, ON, Canada ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & VISUALIZATION Moderator: Christopher Eckstein, Ontario Ministry Integrating GIS with Document Management, of Natural Resources, Peterborough, ON, Canada Atlas Futures — OCC, Room 5B Hugh Ritchie, Solutions Manager, Hummingbird, Toronto, ON, Canada Leveraging Google Earth for Local Moderator: Denis Hains, Director, GeoAccess Government Data Dissemination, Jason Birch, Division, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, GEOSPATIAL DATA Sr. Applications Analyst, City of Nanaimo, Canada Cross-Border Census Collaboration — Nanaimo, BC, Canada OCC, Room 1A Future Vision for the Atlas of Canada, Marc Topographic Information Available through D’Iorio, Director General, Canada Centre for Moderator: Paula Hurtubise, Chief Client Liason, Web Mapping Services, Pierre Desjardins, Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Geography Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Project Manager, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada ON, Canada Sherbrooke, QC, Canada Cybercartographic Atlases, Society and Government: New Directions for the Future, Finding Common Ground - Analysis of The Community Information Database Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research Professor Geographic Units Between the U.S. Census (CID), Kate Humpage, Manager of Research in International Affairs, Geography and Bureau and Statistics Canada, Timothy Trainor, and Analysis, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Environmental Studies, and the Director of the Assistant Division Chief for Geocartographic Calgary, AB, Canada Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Products and Customer Services, U.S. Census Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Bureau, Washington, D.C., USA and Henry INTEGRATED CASE STUDY Puderer, Chief, Geographic Concepts, Statistics CLAIMaps and Geology Ontario The Animated Atlas, Michael Peterson, Professor Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada of Geography, University of Nebraska at Omaha, — GCC, Annex Room Omaha, NE, USA The Road Network File, Randy Fusaro, Chief, Brian Berdusco, GIS Project Manager, Ontario National Geographic Partnerships Team, U.S. ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Census Bureau, Washington, D.C., USA Sudbury, ON, Canada VISUALIZATION and Peter Rushforth, Senior GIS Systems History of Cartography (CCA/ACMLA) Analyst, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada — OCC, Room 3A

Moderator: Betty Kidd, (Retired), National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

David Thompson’s Mapping of the International Boundary, 1816-1826, Frances Pollitt, Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME, USA

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TUESDAY, JUNE 20/ GEOSPATIAL DATA Mapping the Effects of the Modifiable Areal Archiving I (ACMLA) — Unit Problem on Local Measures of Spatial MARDI 20 JUIN GCC, Sussex Room Autocorrelation, Carson Farmer, Masters Student, Department of Geography, University 09:00 - 10:30 Moderator: Anna Jasiak, Research Geographer, Atlas of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, VISUALIZATION ON, Canada Immigrant Settlement Services in Toronto: A Case Study on Accessibility for Seven Mountain Cartography and DEMs I Immigrant Groups, Alejandro Cervantes, (CCA) — GCC, Annex Room Archiving and Preserving Geospatial Data: Some Challenges, Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research M.Sc. Student, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Moderator: Roger Wheate, Geography/GIS Professor in International Affairs, Geography and Environmental Studies, and the Director of the Coordinator, University of Northern British INFRASTRUCTURE & Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada INTEROPERABILITY Northern Initiatives — OCC, Room 7A Designing a New Visitor Map of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, Tom Patterson, Do Data Access Portals, Repositories, and Cartographer, Harpers Ferry Center, U.S. Catalogues, Preserve or Archive Geospatial Canada’s Northern Geospatial Infrastructure, National Park Service, Harpers Ferry, WV, USA and Science Data?, Tracey Lauriault, Carleton Daniel Clavet, Project Officer, Natural Resources University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Canada, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada Current Mountain Cartographic Work by the Alpine Mapping Guild, Martin Gamache, Case Study in Building a Preservation ERS Interferometric CDED Production for Alpine Mapping Guild & American Alpine Environment for a GIS, Evelyn Peters McLellan, Northern Canada, Alexandre Beaulieu, Post- Journal, Boston, MA, USA Corporate Information Analyst, Insurance Doctoral Fellow, Natural Resources Canada, Corporation of British Columbia, Vancouver, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada Mapping the Natural Playgrounds of BC, Canada New Zealand: The Terralink International Mapping Susceptibility to Landslides in Recreational Map Series, Fanny Lariviere, GEOSPATIAL DATA a Permafrost Environment, Simon Riopel, Cartography Unit Manager, Terralink Data Sharing Agreements — Geomatics Specialist, Natural Resources Canada, International Limited, Wellington, New Zealand OCC, Room 1A Ottawa, ON, Canada

ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Moderator: Greg Bay, Manager, Data Warehousing INTEGRATED CASE STUDY VISUALIZATION and Distribution Systems, Ontario Ministry of How the City of Sarajevo Reduced PANEL—The Future of Internet Natural Resources, Peterborough, ON, Canada the Cost of Infrastructure Locate Mapping (ICA Commission on Maps Requests through Automation — Cutting Orthophotography Costs Through OCC, Room 5B and the Internet) — OCC, Room 2A Partnerships, Quintin Lang, Project Leader GIS, County of Lambton, Wyoming, ON, Canada Moderator: Michael P. Peterson, Chair, Maps Geoff Zeiss, Director of Technology, Enterprise, and the Internet Commission of the International Autodesk, Ottawa, ON, Canada Data Sharing on a Shoestring: Local Cartographic Association, Professor, University of Government Perspective, Jason Birch, Sr. Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA Haris Kurtagic, General Manager, SL-King Inc., Applications Analyst, City of Nanaimo, Slovenia Nanaimo, BC, Canada Panelist, Sverre Iversen, Senior Engineer, GIS and Web Application Developer, Geological INTEGRATED CASE STUDY CivicAccess.ca: Democracy in an Information Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway Hurricane Katrina — OCC, Room 4B Age and the Need for Free and Open Civic Data, Gabe Sawhney, Co-Founder, Producer and Technical Panelist, Jeff McKenna, Geomatics Manager, Moderator: Matt Ball, Editor, GeoWorld Director, [murmur], Toronto, ON, Canada DM Solutions Group, Ottawa, ON, Canada magazine, Boulder, CO, USA GIS DEVELOPMENT Panelist, Peter L. Pulsifer, Research Associate, Mississippi Experience, Talbot Brooks, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Analytical Problems in GIS (CCA) — Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada OCC, Room 3A Information Technologies, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS, USA Panelist, Tim Trainor, Assistant Division Chief Moderator: Ian J. O’Connell, Senior Instructor and for Geographic Areas and Cartographic Data Co-ordinator, Geomatics Program, Department of GIS and Remote Sensing Implementation Products, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada for Emergency Response During Hurricanes D.C., USA Katrina and Rita, Jason Blackburn, World Health An Anti-Aliasing Algorithm for Calculating Organization Collaborating Center for Remote the Perimeter of Raster Polygons, Steven Sensing and GIS for Public Health, Louisiana Prashker, Instructor, Department of Geography State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA & Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

10 GCC = Government Conference Centre/Centre de conférences du gouvernement SESSIONS BY DAY/SÉANCES QUOTIDIENNES

11:00 - 12:30 Building a Digital Photo Library System Meeting Up-to-Date E911 and Disaster for the National Air Photo Library, Karen Management Geodata Needs, Mark Sondheim, ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & McEwen, Geomatics Specialist, Natural Manager, Provincial Baseline Atlas, Integrated VISUALIZATION Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Land Management Bureau, Victoria, BC, Mountain Cartography and DEMs II Canada (CCA) — GCC, Annex Room GIS DEVELOPMENT Collaboration Tools — OCC, Room 1A Researching the Role of GIS in Emergency Moderator: Tom Patterson, Cartographer, Harpers Management and Critical Infrastructure Ferry Center, U.S. National Park Service, Harpers Moderator: Jason Birch, Senior Applications Protection, Brian Klinkenberg, Associate Ferry, WV, USA Analyst, City of Nanaimo, Nanaimo, BC, Canada Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada A Data Model for Named Features of the Natural Internet-based Onscreen-Digitizing, Henri Landscape, Aileen R. Buckley, Cartography Audirac, President, Cartodata, Zapopan, Jalisco, INFRASTRUCTURE & Research Group, ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA Mexico INTEROPERABILITY Imagery Management and Distribution Reconstructing Past Landscapes Using DEM Using Collaboration Technology to Create — OCC, Room 7A Manipulation Techniques, Alex Tait, Chief Efficiencies and Maximize the Value of Cartographer, International Mapping Associates, Existing Investments in Geospatial Data, Moderator: Quintin Lang, Project Leader GIS, Ellicott City, MD, USA Allister Lundberg, DWF Infrastructure County of Lambton, Wyoming, ON, Canada Sr.Product Marketing Manager, Autodesk, San Value Added Mapping: 3D Modeling and Francisco, CA, USA DIM as an Interoperable Web-Based Digital Photorealistic Representation of Arctic Image Management System, Rostam Yazdani, Mountain Landscapes, Zoran Reljic, Laboratory GIS DEVELOPMENT DIM Program Manager, Ministry of Agriculture for Applied Geomatics and GIS Science Incorporating Real-Time Data Feeds and Lands, Victoria, BC, Canada (LAGGISS), Ottawa, ON, Canada — OCC, Room 3A Creating a Seamless Nationwide Digital ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION Moderator: Michael Sawada, Associate Professor Orthophoto Access Service, Jose Ornelas de Web Mapping — OCC, Room 2A of Geomatics and Director Laboratory for Applied Anda, GIS Applications Subdirector, INEGI, Geomatics and GIS Science (LAGGISS), Geography, Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico Moderator: Patrick Moore, Director, Integral GIS, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Inc., Seattle, WA, USA High Performance Image Serving with Near Real-Time Dissemination of Geo- Open Source, Chris Hodgson, Senior Analyst, Web Mapping - Past, Present and Future, Referenced Imagery by an Enterprise Server, Refractions Research, Victoria, BC, Canada Glen Newton, Group Leader (Acting), Research, Alison Brown, NAVSYS Corporation, Colorado National Research Council Canada, CISTI, Springs, CO, USA INTEGRATED CASE STUDY Ottawa, ON, Canada National Land and Water Information Sensor Server: A Tool for Real-time In-situ Land Information Ontario’s Web Services: Service (NLWIS) — OCC, Room 5B Sensor Data, Patrick Assouad, President, ACG What You Can Do with Web Mapping, Space Technologies Corp., Ottawa, ON, Canada Moderator: Kelly Dean, National Land and Water Greg Bay, Manager, Data Warehousing and Information Service, Agriculture and Agri-Food Distribution Systems, Ontario Ministry of Modernizing the Municipal Geo-Spatial Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Natural Resources, Peterborough, ON, Canada Reference System in British Columbia, Brad Hlasny, Manager, Geo-Spatial Reference Section, A National Land and Water Information The Challenges in Implementing Enterprise Base Mapping & Geomatic Services, Victoria, Service, Susan Till, Assistant Deputy Minister, Systems for Municipalities, Valerie Kelly, Senior BC, Canada National Land and Water Information Service, Project Manager, CARIS, Fredericton, NB, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada GIS & PUBLIC POLICY ON, Canada GEOSPATIAL DATA Decision Support for Emergencies — Inside the National Land and Water Archiving II (ACMLA) — OCC, Room 4B Information Service, Peter Schut, Director, GCC, Sussex Room Moderator: Ian Gillespie, Geographic Information Geomatics, National Land and Water Officer, Environment Canada, Burlington, ON, Information Service, Agriculture and Agri-Food Moderator: David Brown, Library and Archives Canada Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Emergency Response and Security Business National Land and Water Information Service Issues, Ian Becking, Manager Geomatics, Public Applications, Bob Parkinson, Outreach and Digital Record-keeping Practices of GIS Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, Detailed Business Requirements Manager, National Archaeologists Worldwide, Randy Preston, Ottawa, ON, Canada Land and Water Information Service, Agriculture Research Assistant, The University of British and Agri-Food Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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13:30 - 15:00 Managing the Bulk Transmission Grid with GIS DEVELOPMENT GIS, Patrick Moore, Director, Integral GIS, Inc., ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Open Source Overview — Seattle, WA, USA VISUALIZATION OCC, Room 3A PANEL—Future of Topographic The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Moderator: Peter Pulsifer, Carleton University, Mapping in Canada (ACMLA) - GCC, Palanterra - A secure, Web-enabled Common Ottawa, ON, Canada Sussex Room Operational Picture, Mark Riccio, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Delivery of Geospatial Content through Moderator: David Jones, Map Librarian, Bethesda, MD, USA Open Source Web Mapping Technology, Dave University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada McIlhagga, President, DM Solutions Group, (ACMLA President) Deployment of Service Oriented Architecture Ottawa, ON, Canada for Dynamic Multi-Scale Multi-Temporal NRCan Perspective, Jean Cooper, Director Intelligence Analysis, Henry Kucera, Senior A Brief Survey of Open Source GIS, Paul General, Mapping Services Branch, Natural Principal, Swiftsure Spatial Systems Inc, Victoria, Ramsey, President, Refractions Research,Victoria, Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada BC, Canada BC, Canada

ACMLA Perspective, Colleen Beard, Map INFRASTRUCTURE & Infrastructure Management using Open Librarian, James A. Gibson Library, Brock INTEROPERABILITY Source for the Utility, Telecom, and University St. Catharines, ON, Canada System Interoperability — Government Sectors, Geoff Zeiss, Director of OCC, Room 7A Technology, Autodesk Canada, Ottawa, ON, CCA Perspective, James Boxall, Director, GIS Canada Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Moderator: Christopher Wooding, Spatial Vision Group Inc., Gananoque, ON, Canada Exploring the Boundaries of Open Source Commercial Distributor Perspective, Juliet Geospatial: Integration for Communicating Atha, Federal Maps, Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada Maintenance of Enterprise Geospatial Data and Exploring Environmental Change, Peter with Open Standards Based Solutions, Yao Pulsifer, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Cui, Sr. Geospatial Data Specialist, Integrated Canada VISUALIZATION Land Management Bureau, Victoria, BC, Map Design I (CCA) — Canada GIS DEVELOPMENT GCC, Annex Room Visualization — OCC, Room 2A Spatial ETL: Bringing the Power of Location Moderator: Sally Hermansen, Senior Instructor, to Applications, Don Murray, President, Safe Moderator: Jo Treadwell, Publisher, GeoTec Media, Department of Geography, University of British Software Inc., Surrey, BC, Canada San Francisco, CA, USA Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada GPS, Geography Markup Language, Computer Simulation and Visualization of Eye Movements in Map Comparison - OpenGeospatial Web Services and Google Diesel Plume Using MVS Software, Hélène Preliminary Results and Lessons Learned, Earth, David Burggraf, Director of Research and Richer, Eng. Associate, Golder Associates Ltd., Claus Rinner, Department of Geography, Development, Galdos Systems Inc., Vancouver, Montréal, QC, Canada University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BC, Canada Geology Integrated with GIS: Strategies for Smarter Symbols: Smarter Maps, Edith M. GEOSPATIAL DATA Development, Débora Rios, Federal University Punt, ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA Road Network — OCC, Room 1A of Bahia (Brazil), Salvador, BA, Brazil

Perception of Symbol Size on Online Maps as Moderator: Mark Sondheim, Manager, Provincial First Airborne IFSAR Mapping in Alberta: The a Function of Zoom Factor and Map Density, Baseline Atlas, Integrated Land Management Old Man River Project, Hugh MacKay, Business Avi Parush, Associate Professor, Human Oriented Bureau, Victoria, BC, Canada Development Manager, Intermap Technologies, Technology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Ottawa, ON, Canada Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Updating Statistics Canada’s Geographic Framework with Collaborative Road Network ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION Data, Glen Hohlmann, Geographic Analyst, 15:30 - 17:00 Decision Support Systems — Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & OCC, Room 4B VISUALIZATION The Ontario Road Network, Tom Malone, PANEL—Cybercartography: Maps Moderator: Kelly Dean, National Land and Water Manager, Geographic Information Ontario, Information Service, Agriculture and Agri-Food Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough, and Mapping in the Information Era Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada ON, Canada — GCC, Sussex Room

Multi-Phase Conflation and Maintenance of a Moderator: Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research Provincial Road/Boundary Network, Samuel Professor in International affairs, Geography and Smith, Senior Analyst, Refractions Research, Environmental Studies, and the Director of the Victoria, BC, Canada Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

12 GCC = Government Conference Centre/Centre de conférences du gouvernement SESSIONS BY DAY/SÉANCES QUOTIDIENNES

Panelist, Glenn Brauen, PhD Student & Lead Supporting Municipalities Using a Spatial- GIS DEVELOPMENT Sound Cluster, Geomatics and Cartographic Temporal GIS for Earthquake Recovery, Open Source Applications — Research Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada Hiroyuk Yamada, Researcher, National Research OCC, Room 3A Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Panelist, Elvia Martinez Viveros, Centro Prevention, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, Japan Moderator: Dave McIlhagga, President, DM de Investigación en Geografia y Geomática Solutions Group, Ottawa, ON, Canada (CentroGEO), Mexico City, Mexico Geovisualization of Opportunity — At and Between Ports-of-Entry, Fraser Moffatt, Developing a Water Monitoring OGC Portal Panelist, Brian Eddy, PhD Student & Lead Manager - Research and Corporate Statistics, Using Open Source Tools, Tom Kralidis, Trade Atlas, Geomatics and Cartographic Canada Border Services Agency, Ottawa, ON, Senior Systems Scientist, Environment Canada, Research Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada Canada Burlington, ON, Canada

Panelist, Tracey Lauriault, PhD Student - Lead Development of Spatial Temporal GIS for The uDig Open Source Desktop, Paul Ramsey, Collaboration and Transdisciplinarity, Carleton Disaster Information Management, Shigeru President, Refractions Research, Victoria, BC, University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Kakumoto, Vice Director, National Institute of Canada Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Kawasaki, Panelist, Peter Pulsifer, PhD Student & Lead Kana, Japan The Atlas of Canada Using Open Source, Jean- Antarctica Atlas, Geomatics and Cartographic Francois Doyon, Internet Service Development Research Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada GEOSPATIAL DATA and Systems Support, Natural Resources Canada, Elevation Data — OCC, Room 1A Ottawa, ON, Canada Panelist, Carmen Reyes, Director, Centro de Investigación en Geografia y Geomática Moderator: Jeff Clark, Spatial Vision Group, North Enhancing the Delivery of Health Care (CentroGEO), Mexico City, Mexico Vancouver, BC, Canada through Web-based Mapping, William Bronsema, Sr Applications Specialist, DM Panelist, Amos Hayes, Technical Manager, Digital Elevation Models for the World, Hugh Solutions Group, Ottawa, ON, Canada Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, MacKay, Business Development Manager, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Intermap Technologies, Ottawa, ON, Canada INFRASTRUCTURE & INTEROPERABILITY ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Validation of CDED Data with ICESat International Standards — LIDAR, Alexandre Beaulieu, Post-Doctoral VISUALIZATION OCC, Room 7A Map Design II (CCA) — Fellow, Natural Resources Canada, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada GCC, Annex Room Worldwide Standards Overview, Sam Bacharach, Executive Director, Outreach and Cartographic Visualization of Topographic Moderator: Lori King, Geomatics Analytical Adoption Program, The Open Geospatial Maps in the Atlas of Canada, Peter Bruton, Technician/ Cartographer, Ontario Ministry of Consortium, Fairfax, VA, USA Natural Resources, Timmins, ON, Canada Project Officer, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada ISO19100 Suite of Standards: A Canadian How Not to Lie with Maps: Some Old Rules for GIS DEVELOPMENT Implementation Perspective, Jean Brodeur, the New GIS Cartographers, Sally Hermansen, Senior Project Officer, Natural Resources Geographic Exploration Systems — Senior Instructor, University of British Columbia, Canada, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada Vancouver, BC, Canada OCC, Room 5B Standards Implementation Showcase A Framework for Quality Assessment of Web Moderator: Matt Ball, Editor, GeoWorld Magazine, Mapping, Mike Ballard, Professor, Geographic Boulder, CO, USA INTEGRATED CASE STUDY Information Systems Technologist Program, Defence Geomatics — OCC, Room 4B Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON, Canada Panelist, Bernard Szukalski, Senior Product Manager, ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA Moderator: Pierre Bilodeau, Commanding Officer, Interactive 3D Geographic Animation Using Mapping and Charting Establishment, Ottawa, Panelist, Michael Jones, CTO, Google Earth, Macromedia Flash, Kris Moulton, Cartography ON, Canada Student, Centre of Geographic Sciences Mountain View, CA, USA (COGS), Lawrencetown, NS, Canada Mapping and Charting Establishment’s Panelist, Vincent Tao, Director, MSN Virtual Support to Canadian Forces Operation Earth, Redmond, WA, USA ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ARCHER in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Y. Public Safety — OCC, Room 2A Michaud, Officer Commanding (OC), Geomatic Panelist, Ronnie Yaron, President, Skyline Support Squadron (GEO SP), Mapping and Software Systems, Inc., Chantilly, VA, USA Moderator: Louise Boily, Chief, Geo-Spatial Charting Establishment, National Defence HQ, Information System, Public Health Agency of Ottawa, ON, Canada Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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3-Dimensional Terrain Database (3DTDB) ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION Uniting Web Services, Open Source Systems Section, Glen Cornect, Officer Commanding Database Development — and OGC´s OpenLS Standards to Deploy Digital Production Squadron, Mapping and OCC, Room 2A Location-Based Services, Geovane Magalhaes, Charting Establishment, National Defence HQ, Technology Innovation Manager, CPqD - Ottawa, ON, Canada Moderator: Bob Johnson, Coordinator, GeoBase Telecom & IT Solutions, Campinas, SP, Brazil Secretariat, GeoBase Steering Committee, Ottawa, Collection of High-resolution Digital Stereo ON, Canada Implementing An Enterprise-Wide AVL Imagery for Rapid Mapping Applications, Application, Brent Gannon, Manager Matieu Primeau, Captain, Operations Officer, Database Management Systems: A Platform Operations, TELUS Geomatics, Edmonton, AB, Geomatics Support Squadron, Mapping and for Geospatial Applications, Jean Ihm, Principal Canada Charting Establishment, National Defence HQ, Product Manager, Oracle, Nashua, NH, USA Ottawa, ON, Canada Implementing a Cultural Assets Guide, Sangho Optimizing Traditional Vector Mapping Data Yeon, Professor, P.Eng, Semyung University, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21 / for Use in a Municipal GIS, Stephen Perkins, Jecheon-SiChungbuk, South Korea City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada MERCREDI 21 JUIN GIS DEVELOPMENT Technical Architecture for a Municipal Web 2.0 a Platform for Geomatics and 08:00 - 09:00 Enterprise GIS, Dave Tracy, Technical The Atlas of Canada — OCC, Room 1A Keynote Breakfast Coordinator, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, The Meaning in the Map: Examples from Canada Moderator: Cameron Wilson, Project Manager, Medical Cartography, Tom Koch, Adjunct Atlas of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Professor of Geography (medical), University GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH & Ottawa, ON, Canada of British Columbia and Adjunct Professor EDUCATION of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, PANEL—Map Production and Web 2.0 Business Models — Opportunities Vancouver, BC, Canada Education: What We Do and What We and Challenges, Max Bottoni, Principal, Sierra Teach (CCA) — OCC, Room 3A Systems, Ottawa, ON, Canada GlobeXplorer Web 2.0 Industry Solutions and 09:00 - 10:30 Moderator: Lori King, Geomatics Analytical Case Studies, Paul Smith, COO, GlobeXplorer, Technician/ Cartographer, Ontario Ministry of ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Walnut Creek, CA, USA VISUALIZATION Natural Resources, Timmins, ON, Canada Planning for the Future (ACMLA) — Geomatics and Web 2.0, Mike Adair, Geospatial Panelist, Aileen R. Buckley, Cartography GCC, Annex Room Infrastructure Architect, Natural Resources Research Group, ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Moderator: Colleen Beard, Map Librarian, James Panelist, Paul Heersink, Cartographer, Ontario A. Gibson Library, Brock University St. Catharines, Atlas of Canada Prototype Based on Web Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough, ON, Canada 2.0 Technologies and Business Models, Dave ON, Canada McIlhagga, President, DM Solutions Group, When a Library Morphs into a Centre: Cameron Wilson, Peter Morton, Natural Panelist, Anna Jasiak, Research Geographer, Geographic Information Management Issues, Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Atlas of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, James Boxall, Director, GIS Centre, Dalhousie Ottawa, ON, Canada University, Halifax, NS, Canada GIS & PUBLIC POLICY Panelist, Ian J. O’Connell, Senior Instructor Mapping Issues in the Geography of GéoIndex: un nouvel accès aux données Geomatics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Health (CCA) — OCC, Room 4B géospatiales du Centre d’information Canada géographique et statistique de la Bibliothèque Moderator: Scott Mitchell, Assistant Professor, de l’Université Laval, Stéfano Biondo, Centre Panelist, Clifford H. Wood, Professor (Retired), Department of Geography & Environmental Géo/Stat, et Pierre Racine, Étudiant à la maî- Memorial University, Ilderton, ON, Canada Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada trise en géographie, Université Laval, Laval QC, Canada Panelist, Patricia Connor, Director, Cartographic Open Source Online Mapping as an Services, The University of Western Ontario, Innovative Cost-Effective Approach for Health Toward a Canadian Digital Information London, ON, Canada Services Planning and Delivery, Malcolm Strategy, Susan Haigh, Senior Advisor, Anderson, PhD candidate, Department of Transformation, Library and Archives Canada/ GIS DEVELOPMENT Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Queen’s Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, Gatineau, QC, Location-Based Services — University, Kingston, ON, Canada Canada OCC, Room 7A

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14 GCC = Government Conference Centre/Centre de conférences du gouvernement SPECIAL EVENTS/ACTIVITÉS SPÉCIALES

SATURDAY / SAMEDI Une soirée exclusive est prévue afin de célébrer le 100e an- niversaire de l’Atlas du Canada. L’événement se tiendra dans la Grande Galerie. Le gala comprendra le dîner, la présence 10:00 - 15:00 de conférenciers d’honneur ainsi qu’une soirée au cours de Steam Train To Wakefield/ laquelle vous pourrez danser tout en admirant la merveil- Train à vapeur vers Wakefield leuse vue qu’offrent la rivière des Outaouais et la Colline du Parlement. All aboard for a scenic expedition of a lifetime! In just five hours, take in the beauty of the Gatineau countryside on a journey on the award-winning Hull- Gala Dinner Keynote/ Chelsea-Wakefield Steam Train. Go back to a time Conférencier-invité au when the train was one of the only ways to travel. dîner de gala En voiture pour une excursion inoubliable! En cinq Rex Murphy is a social com- heures seulement, admirez la beauté de la nature en mentator and editorial journalist parcourant les collines de la Gatineau à bord du train with weekly television commen- à vapeur Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield; attrait touristique tary on The National Magazine. qui a reçu les plus hauts honneurs de son industrie. Described as The National’s “star Remontez au temps où le train constituait l’un des seuls opinion jockey,” Rex Murphy moyens de voyager. presents informed, entertaining and fiercely witty commentary on current events and SUNDAY / DIMANCHE noteworthy subjects. Rex Murphy, commentateur social et journaliste édito- rial; à chaque semaine, il participe à l’émission télévisée 16:30 - 18:30 de la SRC, The National. Décrit comme étant la « star de WEDNESDAY / MERCREDI CCA Orienteering Event/ l’opiniâtreté » du The National, Rex Murphy est connu pour ses commentaires fondés, divertissants et pleins Course d’orientation de l’ACC d’esprit sur l’actualité et sur d’autres sujets intéressants. 11:00 - 13:30 Take to the field to practice your map-reading CCA Annual General Meeting and skills. Orienteers will be given a map and set free on Awards Luncheon — the University of Ottawa campus. Pit your skills against TUESDAY / MARDI others in a friendly competition. GCC, Centennial Room (Fifth Floor) Rendez-vous sur le terrain pour pratiquer vos ha- biletés à lire une carte. Les coureurs d’orientation 12:00 - 13:30 recevront une carte et seront relâchés sur le campus de ACMLA Annual General Meeting— THURSDAY / JEUDI l’Université d’Ottawa. Testez vos capacités contre les GCC, Sussex Room autres lors d’une compétition amicale. 09:00 - 12:00 18:30 - 21:00 16:00 - 18:00 Gatineau Preservation Centre/ CCA/ACMLA Icebreaker Reception/ Exhibit Reception and Wine Tasting/ Centre de préservation de Gatineau Réception de brise-glace Réception et dégustation donnée lors This centre houses all of the National Archives of Canada’s preservation laboratories. Storage vaults ac- University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa de l’exposition commodate a significant portion of Canada’s archival 509 Arts Hall, 70 Laurier Avenue East SPONSORED BY: heritage. Tous les laboratoires de préservation de Bibliothèque et MONDAY / LUNDI Join the exhibitors for an evening reception with light Archives Canada se trouvent dans ce centre. Les cham- hors d’oeuvres and an Ontario wine tasting. bres d’entreposage contiennent une part importante du Joignez-vous aux exposants lors d’une soirée où l’on patrimoine documentaire canadien. 18:00 - 00:30 vous proposera de petits hors-d’œuvre accompagnés The Atlas of Canada Gala Dinner d’une dégustation de vins de l’Ontario. 12:30 - 16:30 Gatineau Satellite Receiving Station/ and Dance/Dîner de gala et soirée 18:00 - 20:00 dansante de l’Atlas du Canada Station de réception de Gatineau ACMLA/CCA Reception, Library and The Gatineau Satellite Station receives data from the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Musée canadien following Earth observation satellites: ERS, ENVISAT, des civilisations Archives Canada Book Launch Reception Landsat, RADARSAT-1. La station de réception de Gatineau reçoit des données The Atlas of Canada Turns 100!/ ACACC/ACC, Lancement de livre de des satellites d’observation de la Terre suivants : ERS, L’Atlas du Canada a 100 ans! Bibliothèque et Archives Canada ENVISAT, Landsat, RADARSAT-1. Congress Centre Terrace/Terrasse du Centre des congrès 17:30 - 21:00 Members of ACMLA and CCA are invited to the Horseback Riding in the Gatineau launch of the new publication Terra Nostra: The Stories Hills/Équitation à travers les collines Behind Canada’s Maps, 1550-1950, written by senior de la Gatineau archivist Jeffrey S. Murray of Library and Archives Captiva Farms offers acres of trails through panoramic Canada. mountains and hillsides of the Gatineau. A special evening is planned to celebrate the 100th Les membres de l’ACACC et de l’ACC sont invités au Captiva Farms offre des acres de sentiers à travers les Anniversary of The Atlas of Canada. The event will take lancement de Terra Nostra. Les cartes du Canada et leurs montagnes panoramiques et les collines de la Gatineau. place in the magnificent Grand Hall. The Gala will include secrets, 1550-1950, rédigé par Jeffrey S. Murray, archiv- dinner, distinguished keynote speakers, and an evening of iste principal à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. dancing overlooking the Ottawa River and Parliament Hill.

OCC = Ottawa Congress Centre/Centre des congrès d’Ottawa 15 Mercredi 21 juin Wednesday, June 21 / ISUALIZATION VISUALIZATION V ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & 20 juin Tuesday, June 20 / Mardi VISUALIZATION GIS DEVELOPMENT ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Immersive Environments Atlas Futures ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Lundi 19 juin Monday, June 19 / ISUALIZATION (CCA/ACMLA) VISUALIZATION V Regional Atlases (CCA) Reporting Framework Past and Present Atlas OCC, Room 4B/5B Vendor Seminars / Conférences de Fournisseur Vendor Seminars / 09:00 – 09:3009:30 – 10:0010:00 – 10:3010:30 – 11:0011:00 – 11:3011:30 – 12:0012:00 – 13:00 13:00 - 13:30 NRCan - CSRS13:30 – 14:00 BAE Systems14:00 – 14:30 ESRI Canada14:30 – 15:00 ESRI Canada MapInfo Cansel Survey Equip15:00 - 15:30 Linnet Systems MapInfo Spatial Geo Link15:30 – 16:00 Spatial Geo Link ESRI Canada Cansel Survey Equip Kheops Technologies16:00 – 16:30 Cansel Survey Equip. MapInfo Intergraph PCI Geomatics MapText, Inc.16:30 – 17:00 MDA Geospatial Optech MDA Geospatial ER Mapper Spatial Geo Link CARIS PCI Geomatics GeoConnections NRCan - CSRS PCI Geomatics Intermap Infrastructure OCC, Room 2A OCC, Room 3A OCC, Room 4B OCC, Room 5B OCC, Room 7A System Integration Examples History of Cartography Collaboration , Peter Morville, President, Semantic Studios, Ann Arbor, MI, USA OCC, Room 1A Cross-Border Census Carleton University, Loeb A220 Ontario GIS DEVELOPMENT GEOSPATIAL DATA ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & GCC, Annex Room Business Geographics Parcel Mapping Transforming to IT INTEGRATED CASE STUDY GEOSPATIAL DATA ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & OCC, Room 1A University of Ottawa, LAGGIS, 60 St. Y Ambient Findability: Mapping the Future Present — OCC, Room 5A Data Access CLAIMaps and Geology INTEROPERABILIT INFRASTRUCTURE & GCC, Sussex Room Carleton University, Loeb A237 PANEL/Réunion d'experts—Geospatial Technology OutlookLunch Break PANEL/Réunion d'experts—National Atlases: Now and in the Future OCC, Hall E Welcome and Introduction / Mot de bienvenue et introduction OPENING KEYNOTE Break OCC, Hall E Break in the Exhibit Hall The Atlas of Canada Gala Dinner and Dancing - Museum Civilization

OCC, Room 6A Registration 08:00 - 17:00 - 08:00 Registration

OCC, Room 2A Exhibits 14:00 - 18:00 - 14:00 Exhibits OCC, Room 3A OCC, Room 4A 13:00 - 14:30 10:30 - 12:00 12:00 - 13:00 08:30 - 09:00 09:00 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:30 15:30 - 17:00 SESSIONS / SÉANCES Monday, June 19, 2006 / Lundi 19 juin 14:30 - 15:30 18:00 - 24:30 Registration (17:00 - 19:00) Full Day / Jounée Complète (09:00 - 17:00) ACMLA — Geospatial Map Cataloguing - University of Ottawa, Morisett Library, Room 211 Registration (07:30 - 17:00) Full Day / Jounée Complète (09:00 - 17:00) ACMLA — GIS Reference Services - Carleton University, MacOdrum Library, Room 102 Best Practices for Developing Geospatial Information Models - Integrating Geomatics and Photorealistic Geovisualization - eGovernment - Planning, Policy and the Portal GIS Modeling - Intro. to Open Source GIS - Metadata Implementation Strategies - OGC Web Services - CCA Half-Day Workshops Morning / Avant-midi (09:00 - 12:30) Managing Geographic Names in a GIS - Afternoon / Après-midi (13:30 - 17:00) Planning for and Implementing Cartographic Representations in ArcGIS 9.2 - WORKSHOPS / ATELIERS Saturday, June 17, 2006 / Samedi 17 juin Sunday, June 18, 2006 / Dimanche 18 juin CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE CONFERENCE AT

16 GCC = Government Conference Centre/Centre de conférences du gouvernement Y Y Y Y Distribution INTEROPERABILIT INTEROPERABILIT INTEROPERABILIT INTEROPERABILIT GIS DEVELOPMENT GIS DEVELOPMENT Northern Initiatives Analytical Approaches International Standards Location-Based Services Y NLWIS Imagery Management and Systems Automation Partnerships Requests through INTEROPERABILIT INTEROPERABILITY Reduced the Cost of Infrastructure Locate International Division Innovation Acceleration Data Distribution Issues Imagery Analysis Centre (IAC) within Natural On-Demand Mapping at the Resources Canada (NRCAN), Métis Panel EDUCATION Emergencies Hurricane Katrina How the City of Sarajevo GEOSPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE & Geographic Names Canadian and U.S. Decision Support for GIS & PUBLIC POLICY INTEGRATED CASE STUDY GIS DEVELOPMENT Mapping Issues in the GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH & Geography of Health (CCA) Geographies of the Canadian Geospatial Career Opportunity (CCA) Data Feeds EDUCATION EDUCATION Public Health Contemporary and Historical GIS DEVELOPMENT INTEGRATED CASE STUDY INTEGRATED CASE STUDY INFRASTRUCTURE & What We Teach (CCA) Human Dimensions (CCA) Analytical Problems in GIS Education: What We Do and ISUALIZATION Management V OCC, Room 2A OCC, Room 3A OCC, Room 4B OCC, Room 5B OCC, Room 7A OCC, Room 2A OCC, Room 3A OCC, Room 4B OCC, Room 5B OCC, Room 7A PANEL—PC-IDEA Cartography and GIS: GIS & PUBLIC POLICY GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH & Database Development PANEL Map Production and Maps and the Internet) Mapping (ICA Commission on , Tom Koch, Adjunct Professor of Geography (medical), University British Columbia and Canada ISUALIZATION V Climate Change Collaborative Resource OCC, Room 1A OCC, Room 1A GEOSPATIAL DATA ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & GEOSPATIAL DATA GIS DEVELOPMENTGEOSPATIAL DATA GIS DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION GIS DEVELOPMENT INTEGRATED CASE STUDY GIS DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE & INFRASTRUCTURE & GIS DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION GIS DEVELOPMENT GIS & PUBLIC POLICY INTEGRATED CASE STUDY INFRASTRUCTURE & GIS DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH & Collaboration Tools Web Mapping Incorporating Real-Time Development (CCA) Web 2.0 a Platform for Data Sharing Agreements The Future of Internet User-Centered Design and Geomatics and the Atlas of ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & (ACMLA) Framework ISUALIZATION ISUALIZATION ISUALIZATION ISUALIZATION ISUALIZATION ISUALIZATION DEMs I (CCA) DEMs II (CCA) V V V V V V Hands-On: Build an Map Design I (CCA) Road Network Visualization Open Source Overview Decision Support Systems System Interoperability GCC, Annex Room GCC, Annex Room Map Design II (CCA) Elevation Data Public Safety Open Source Applications Defence Geomatics Geographic Exploration Future Opportunities Planning for the Future PANEL—Atlas of Canada: INTEGRATED CASE STUDY GIS & PUBLIC POLICY ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION GIS & PUBLIC POLICY GIS & PUBLIC POLICY INFRASTRUCTURE & ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & the Cybercartographic Atlas Interactive Online Atlas with Era ISUALIZATION ISUALIZATION V V GEOSPATIAL DATA ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & GEOSPATIAL DATA ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Archiving I (ACMLA) Mountain Cartography and Archiving II (ACMLA) Mountain Cartography and GCC, Sussex Room GCC, Sussex Room GIAC LEADERS FORUM ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Mapping in Canada (ACMLA)

PANEL—Future of Topographic

and Mapping in the Information PANEL—Cybercartography: Maps Professor of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada Break in the Exhibit Hall Lunch Break Break in the Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall Reception & Wine Tasting (Sponsored by BAE Systems) Terra Nostra Book Launch for ACMLA/CCA Members OCC, Hall E Keynote Breakfast: The Meaning in the Map: Examples from Medical Cartography Break in the Exhibit Hall Lunch Break

Registration 08:00 - 13:30 - 08:00 Registration Registration 08:00 - 17:00 - 08:00 Registration

(see pg. 18 for schedule) Exhibits 10:00 - 14:00 - 10:00 Exhibits Exhibits 10:00 - 18:00 - 10:00 Exhibits Gatineau Preservation Centre – 09:00 12:00 Gatineau Satellite Receiving Station – 12:30 16:30 Horseback Riding – 17:30 21:00 09:00 - 10:30 09:00 - 10:30 11:00 - 12:30 13:30 - 15:00 15:30 - 17:00 18:00 - 20:00 Wednesday, June 21, 2006 / Mercredi 21 juin 08:00 - 09:00 11:00 - 12:30 13:30 - 15:00 Tuesday, June 20, 2006 / Mardi 20 juin 10:30 - 11:00 12:30 - 13:30 15:00 - 15:30 16:00 - 18:00 10:30 -11:00 12:30 - 13:30 15:30 - 17:00 Thursday, June 22, 2006 / Jeudi 22 juin GIAC Geomatics Leaders Forum Post-Conference Tours / Visites organisées après la conférence

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The annual GIAC GEOMATICS LEADERS The National Land and Water Information Service Responded and Where We’re Going, Jeff Labonte, FORUM provides a unique opportunity for industry — Current Status and Future Plans, Susan Till, Director General, Information Management and and government representatives to exchange views and Assistant Deputy Minister, National Land and Water Dissemination Branch, Natural Resources Canada, develop closer working relationships. This year’s Forum Information Service, Agriculture and Agri-Food Ottawa, ON, Canada will feature presentations by trendsetters in the spatial Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada information business, several international speakers, Geomatics in Infrastructure Applications, Tony Varriano, as well as updates on Canadian federal programs of Geomatics Programs and Activities at the National Director General, Issues Management, Program Operations interest to the geomatics community. The forum will be Level in Canada, Jeff Labonte, Director General, Branch, Infrastructure Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada held at the Government Conference Centre. Information Management and Dissemination Branch, Le Forum annuel des leaders en géomatique offrira Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada SDI and Critical Infrastructure Databases, Jean une occasion unique aux représentants de l’industrie Cooper, Director General, Mapping Services Branch, et du gouvernement d’échanger leurs visions et de Cooperation in the Development and Maintenance Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada créer des relations de travail plus étroites. Cette année, of the National Road Network Data Set, Gordon le forum mettra en vedette des exposés de la part de Deecker, Director, Geography Division, Statistics 10:00 - 10:30 faiseurs de tendances et de plusieurs conférenciers de Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Refreshment Break / Pause santé renommée internationale ainsi que les mises à jour des programmes fédéraux qui pourraient intéresser les gens Defence Production of Digital Geospatial SPONSORED BY: provenant du milieu de la géomatique. Le forum se Information for Military Applications Worldwide, tiendra au Centre de conférences du gouvernement. LCol. Pierre Bilodeau, Commanding Officer, National Defence Mapping and Charting Establishment, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, ON, Canada 10:30 - 12:00 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21/ Round Table Discussion — Implementing the CGDI MERCREDI 21 JUIN 15:30 - 16:00 Refreshment Break / Pause santé 12:00 - 13:30 Luncheon Speaker, Thongchai Charuppat, Director, 9:30 - 9:50 Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Refreshment Break / Pause santé SPONSORED BY: Agency, Royal Thai Government, Bangkok, Thailand

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: 13:30 - 14:00 9:50 - 12:00 16:00 - 17:30 The Environmental Emergency Management Serving a Rapidly Changing Spatial New Market Directions / Évolution du Marché System, Mary-Ann Spicer, Manager, Response, Information Market / Servir un Environmental Emergencies Program, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada marché de l’information spatiale en Where the Worldwide Remote Sensing Market évolution rapide is Heading, Shawana Johnson, President, Global 14:00 - 14:30 Marketing Insights, Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA The Changing Role of GIAC, Alex Miller, GIAC Enhancing and Supporting Public Health and Emergency Management in Canada Using GIS, Chairman The Impact of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Louise Boily, Manager, Geo-Spatial Information Standards on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Building the Canadian Geospatial Data System and CBRN Scientific Information, Public Development Worldwide, Robert Moses, Director, Infrastructure, Irwin Itzkovitch, Assistant Deputy Health Security Centre for Emergency Preparedness Open Geospatial Consortium and President, PCI Minister, Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources and Response, Public Health Agency of Canada, Geomatics, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Ottawa, ON, Canada The U.S. Experience—Building the Geospatial One-Stop, Location-Based Services — Poised for Tremendous 14:30 - 15:00 Hank Garie, Executive Director, Geospatial One-Stop, U.S. Growth, David Williams, CEO, E911-LBS Department of the Interior, Reston, VA, USA Consulting, Wilton, CT, USA Refreshment Break / Pause santé Microsoft Virtual Earth: New Horizons in the 17:30 - 20:30 SPONSORED BY: Spatial Information Business, Vincent Tao, Director, MSN Virtual Earth, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA Networking Reception and Dinner 15:00 - 16:30 Provinces Ballroom, The Westin Ottawa Round Table Discussion — Engaging India’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure Plans and Progress, Maj. Gen. M. Gopal Rao, Surveyor Guest Speaker: The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister the Key Stakeholder Communities General of India, Department of Science and of Natural Resources, Ottawa, ON, Canada / Table ronde : Encourager la Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India participation des principaux groupes SPONSORED BY: d’intervenants 12:00 - 13:25 Luncheon Speaker, Michael Jones, Chief Technology 16:30 - 17:00 Officer, Google Earth, Mountain View, CA, USA THURSDAY, JUNE 22/ Wrap-up / Synthèse JEUDI 22 JUIN SPONSORED BY: Registration for the GIAC Geomatics Leaders Forum is 8:25 - 10:30 separate from the GeoTec Event registration fee. You will need to register for both if you would like to attend both. 13:25 - 15:30 National Geomatics Policy Workshop National Geomatics Initiatives / / Atelier sur les politiques nationals L’enregistrement pour le forum des Chefs de GIAC Geomatics est séparé des honoraires d’enregistrement Initiatives Nationales en Géomatique relatives à la géomatique Moderator, Jim Huff, GIAC Vice-Chairman d’événement de GeoTec. Vous devrez vous inscrire à tous Moderator, Alex Miller, GIAC Chairman GeoConnections: What We’ve Heard, How We’ve les deux si vous voudriez vous occuper de tous les deux.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 British Columbia Atlas of Mortality 1989- Merging Landsat TM Thermal-IR band With The Use of GIS in Health Care at the 2002, John J. Fowler, Senior Lab Instructor, Higher-resolution Reflective Bands, Linhai Community Geomatics Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Department of Geography, University of Jing, York University, North York, ON, Canada Ontario, Paul Beach, Manager, Community Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Geomatics Centre, Sault Ste. Marie Innovation GIS & PUBLIC POLICY Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada Predicting Outbreaks: A Spatial Risk Climate Change — OCC, Room 1A Assessment of West Nile Virus in British INFRASTRUCTURE & INTEROPERABILITY Columbia, Brian Klinkenberg, Associate Flood Risk Modeling for Storm Surge Events Professor, University of British Columbia, and Long term Sea-level Rise, Tim Webster, Data Distribution Issues — Victoria, BC, Canada Research Scientist, Centre of Geographic OCC, Room 5B Sciences (COGS), Lawrencetown, NS, Canada INTEGRATED CASE STUDY Moderator: Dave Tracy, Project Manager for Enterprise CADD/GIS Technical Support Services, On-Demand Mapping at the Innovation Web-based Spatial Decision Support System City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Acceleration Centre (IAC) within for River Runoff Prediction, Lei Wang, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Department of Geography, York University, Geospatial Interoperability: Some Rules to International Division — Toronto, ON, Canada Live By, Raphael Sussman, Manager, Land OCC, Room 7A Information Ontario, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterbororough, ON, Canada Sylvain Lemieux, Director of R&D, GIS & PUBLIC POLICY GeoCapacity Solutions, PCI Geomatics, Contemporary and Historical GeoBase Principles, Policies and Procedures, Gatineau, QC, Canada Geographies of the Canadian Métis Bob Johnson, Coordinator, GeoBase Secretariat, — OCC, Room 3A GeoBase Steering Committee, Ottawa, ON, 11:00 - 12:30 Canada Towards a Historical Geography of the ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION Métis Nation: GIS and Potential Mapping Collaborative Resource Management INTEGRATED CASE STUDY of Surnames, Frank Tough, Professor, Native Hands-On: Build an Interactive Online — OCC, Room 2A Studies, University of Alberta, AB, Canada Atlas with the Cybercartographic Atlas Framework — Moderator: Peter Schut, Director, Geomatics, Three Miles to 1 inch Sectional Maps: A National Land and Water Information Service, Source for Reconstruction of the Historical GCC, Annex Room Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Geography of the Métis, Erik Ellehoj, Moderator: Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research Canada University of Alberta, AB, Canada Professor in International Affairs, Geography and Environmental Studies, and the Director of the Great Lakes Information Network, Pete Manitoba Metis Harvesting Initiative: Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Giencke, Program Specialist, Data and Land Use and Occupancy Mapping, Al Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Information Management Group, Great Lakes Benoit, Senior Policy Advisor, Manitoba Metis Commission, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Federation, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Amos Hayes, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa, The RésEau Water Portal, Sarah Hall, GIS & PUBLIC POLICY ON, Canada Environment Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada Public Health — OCC, Room 4B Jean-Pierre Fiset, Carleton University, Ottawa, National Forest Information System, Brian ON, Canada Moderator: Tom Koch, Adjunct Professor of Low, Geospatial Scientist, Canadian Forest Sébastien Caquard, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Geography (medical), University of British Service, Victoria, BC, Canada Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Columbia and Adjunct Professor of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada Peter Pulsifer, Ph.D. Student & Lead Antarctica GIS DEVELOPMENT Atlas, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Imagery Analysis — OCC, Room 7A GIS-Based Methodologies for Modeling Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada Anthrax Distribution in North America, Moderator: Jody Jeffrey, Marketing Manager, PCI Jason Blackburn, World Health Organization Geomatics, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada 13:30 - 15:00 Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and GIS for Public Health, Louisiana State ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Kernel-based Statistical Learning for Individual University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA and Bob VISUALIZATION Tree Recognition in Forest Inventory, Marek Parkinson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Zaremba, Professor, Université du Québec, PANEL—Atlas of Canada: Future Calgary, AB, Canada Gatineau, QC, Canada Opportunities — GCC, Annex Room Human and Animal Disease Surveillance A GIS and Remote Sensing Based Analysis in Moderator: Cameron Wilson, Project Manager, Systems, Valerie Rice, Ph. 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Panelist, Jean Thie, Executive Director, GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH & Advances and Perspectives of the Cuban SDI, Canadian Institute of Geomatics, Ottawa, ON, EDUCATION Colonel Eloy Luis Alum Ortiz, Director General, Canada Cartography and GIS: Human Oficina Nacional de Hidrografía y Geodesia, Dimensions (CCA) — OCC, Room 3A Havana, Cuba Panelist, Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research Professor in International Affairs, Geography and Moderator: Byron Moldofsky, Cartographer and INFRASTRUCTURE & Environmental Studies, and the Director of the GIS Analyst, Department of Geography, University INTEROPERABILITY Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Canadian and U.S. Partnerships — Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada OCC, Room 5B The Use of Remote Sensing and GIS for Geo- Panelist, Denis Hains, Director, GeoAccess Archaeology Mapping in Indonesia: Cultural Moderator: Paula Rojas, CGDI Content Division, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Mapping Experience, Priyadi Kardono, Head Coordinator, GeoConnections, Ottawa, ON, Canada ON, Canada of Geomatic Research Division, National Coordinating Agency for Survey and Mapping U.S. and Canadian Joint Pilot Projects to Panelist, Dave McIlhagga, President, DM (BAKOSURTANAL), Jakarta, Indonesia Advance Spatial Data Infrastructure, J. Milo Solutions Group, Ottawa, ON, Canada Robinson, Coordinator, Federal Geographic The 1855 Map of Welland City, and How Data Committee, Reston, VA, USA ATLASES, CARTOGRAPHY & Merritton Came to Be, Alun Hughes, Associate VISUALIZATION Professor, Department of Geography, Brock Gulf of Maine Project, Dean Gadoury, Product User-Centered Design and University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada Manager, DM Solutions Group, Ottawa, ON, Development (CCA) Canada Using Cartography as a Teaching Tool for Applying UCD in Cyber-Cartography: The Social Studies, Geography, History and Mapping Infectious Disease, Eddie Oldfield, Emergence of User Interface Concepts and Economics, Paul Beullac, B&B Publishing, Director, New Brunswick Lung Association, Designs, Shamima Khan, Human Oriented Montreal, QC, Canada Fredericton, NB, Canada Technologies Lab, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Charting a Poetic Cartography Across Canada: Navigating an Emotional Landscape of 15:30 - 17:00 Usability and the National Atlas of the United Mourning, Michael J. Coulis, M.A. candidate, GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH & States of America, Jay Donnelly, National Atlas Department of Adult Education and Counselling EDUCATION of the United States of America, Reston, VA, Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Geospatial Career Opportunities Panel USA Education, Toronto, ON, Canada — OCC, Room 4B A Case Study, Integrating Topographic Maps GIS DEVELOPMENT Moderator: Brian Klinkenberg, Associate Professor, Into the Atlas of Canada, Eric Kramers, Senior Analytical Approaches — University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Project Officer, Natural Resources Canada, OCC, Room 7A Canada Ottawa, ON, Canada GIS-based Box-counting Fractal Model on GEOSPATIAL DATA GISJobs.ca, Jonathan Murphy, GeoCognition, Characterizing Mineral Components, Zhijing Gatineau, QC, Canada Geographic Names — OCC, Room 4B Wang, Ph.D. Candidate, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada Opportunities in the Federal Public Service, Moderator: Grace Welch, Associate Unversity Clifford Scott, Resourcing Officer, Public Service Librarian, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Locational Variables for Property Valuation Commission of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Canada in the City of Calgary, Matthew Reid, MSc. Candidate, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Technical School Perspective, David Broscoe, Geoname Management in a Bilingual Context: Canada Head, GIS Department, Algonquin College, The Ontario Experience, Andre Lapierre, Ottawa, ON, Canada Assistant Dean and Secretary of the Faculty, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada GIS & PUBLIC POLICY PANEL—PC-IDEA — OCC, Room 2A The Geometry of Geographical Names, Ivy Rose, Project Leader, Natural Resources Canada, Advances and Perspectives of the Chilean SDI, Ottawa, ON, Canada Colonel Luis A. Alegría Matta, Director, Military Instituto Geográfico, Santiago, Chile Accessing Geographical Names Using the Open Geospatial Consortium International Advances and Perspectives of the Mexican SDI, Standard, André Mainville, Project Leader, Francisco Antonio Hansen Albites, Executive Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Secretary of PC-IDEA, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informática, Mexico City, Mexico

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Monday, June 19 Tuesday, June 20 Wednesday, June 21 on automation, interoperability, and complete support Lundi 19 juin Mardi 20 juin Mercredi 21 juin for Oracle 10g, this desktop software offers solutions for all of your geospatial processing needs. 09:00 — 09:30 NRCan - CSRS ESRI Canada 09:30 — 10:00 BAE Systems MapInfo 10:00 — 10:30 ESRI Canada Cansel Survey Equip TUESDAY, JUNE 20/ 10:30 — 11:00 Cansel Survey Equip Spatial Geo Link MARDI 20 JUIN 11:00 — 11:30 Spatial Geo Link Intergraph 11:30 — 12:00 Kheops Technologies PCI Geomatics 9 - 9:30 12:00 — 13:00 NRCan - Canadian Spatial Reference 13:00 — 13:30 MDA Geospatial NRCan - CSRS System (CSRS) 13:30 — 14:00 MapInfo MapText, Inc. GeoConnections CSRS- Precise Point Positioning (PPP) Free Online Post- 14:00 — 14:30 Linnet Systems MapInfo Processing Service Learn all about NRCan’s CSRS-PPP service that al- 14:30 — 15:00 ESRI Canada ER Mapper ALL VENDOR lows GPS users in Canada (and abroad) to compute 15:00 — 15:30 Cansel Survey Equip. Optech SEMINARS TAKE positions to accuracies that rival phase-differential post-processing. No need to access data simultane- 15:30 — 16:00 MDA Geospatial CARIS PLACE IN 16:00 — 16:30 Spatial Geo Link PCI Geomatics ously collected from a base station, simply submit raw OCC, ROOM 6A observation data from your (single or dual-frequency) 16:30 — 17:00 PCI Geomatics Intermap GPS receiver over the Internet. Establishing decimeter to centimeter accuracy geodetic control anywhere has never been this easy! MONDAY, JUNE 19/LUNDI 19 JUIN 15:00 - 15:30 Cansel Survey Equipment 9:30 - 10:00 13:30 - 14:00 Trimble GPS Hardware: The Latest Leap in the Evolution BAE Systems MapInfo of the GeoExplorer Product Line and the Pathfinder Pro The Latest Release of SOCET SET Adrift in Islands of GIS Information: Effective Navigation Series Receivers Learn about the innovations in BAE Systems’ latest Do you have islands of GIS information in your mu- The GeoExplorer 2005 series builds on the phenomenal release of SOCET SET, the renowned photogrammetry nicipality? Is your location information inaccessible to success of the GeoXT and GeoXM handhelds with the software for geospatial analysis and mapping. SOCET those who could benefit from it the most? Are your citi- addition of a new high-end receiver — the GeoXH - to SET v5.3 enables users to design rapid, productive zens empowered and informed about where your assets provide sub-foot accuracy in a fully integrated hand- workflows to expedite the generation of geographic are? This presentation focuses on sharing your location held GPS system. Learn about the H-Star technology information from imagery. information and GIS data to the municipal workers found in the GeoXH and Pathfinder ProXH receivers. 10:00 - 10:30 who need it the most. Eighty percent of data in any 15:30 - 16:00 organization has a spatial component. Find ways of le- ESRI Canada veraging this information and make your municipality MDA Geospatial Services Overview of Server GIS at ArcGIS 9.2 more efficient and more open to your citizens without RADARSAT 2: Adding Capabilities to an Operational This presentation will cover in depth the capabilities having to replace any of your existing technology. Success of ArcGIS server products with a focus on 9.2, the RADARSAT 1 has been providing operational SAR upcoming major release of ArcGIS. Topics will cover 14:00 - 14:30 data for over 10 years. Radarsat 2 will be launched in Personal and Workgroup ArcSDE, built on SQL Server Linnet Systems 2006 and will provide innovative imaging modes for Express, geodatabase replication and archiving. Web Accountability and Information Management for new application techniques, as well as ensuring data application development with the new AJAX-enabled Conservation Authorities continuity for operational users. ADF (Application Developer Framework) common to both ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server will also be exam- Conservation authorities face increasing pressure to 16:00 - 16:30 justify program expenditures while improving program ined. New capabilities for geoprocessing on the server, administration. Linnet Systems has developed Spatial Geo-Link Limited/Leica and the new Mobile ADF will also be covered. This Watershed—The System, a tool, currently in use in sev- Geosystems Geospatial Imaging presentation is for those who have an understanding of eral hundred conservation districts in the United States, Fixing What’s Wrong with Existing Methods for Digital ArcGIS 9.x and are looking to explore the new func- that allows conservation organizations to manage Orthophoto Production tionality of ArcGIS server products at 9.2. information on stakeholders, conservation plans and The presentation will review new tools introduced in 10:30 - 11:00 practices, budgeting and grant management, progress the Leica Photogammetry Suite to facilitate rapid data reporting, performance measurement and more. capture and orthorectification. It will also introduce the Cansel Survey Equipment Streamlined GPS Data Processing Inside of ArcGIS with 14:30 - 15:00 Leica Ortho Accelerator (LOA) that provides a compre- hensive view of the production project that is similar to Trimble GPS Analyst Extension for ESRI ArcGIS and the ESRI Canada a Geographical Information System (GIS) application. GPScorrect Extension for ArcPad What’s New in ArcGIS 9.2? All project data are maintained on the central LOA See how to improve efficiency and improve your data This presentation will examine the new functionality server. Users interact with the project via graphical quality with this ArcGIS extension. GPS Analyst op- of ArcGIS 9.2, the upcoming major release of ArcGIS. clients. The entire ortho processing workflow is ac- timizes field-to-office workflows by allowing you to Topics will cover Desktop enhancements like cartograph- complished through the Map View interface, custom work with GPS data directly inside your personal geo- ic representations, charting and animation. Geodata menus and checklists. database. Checkout and check-in data from ArcPad or management enhancements such as geodatabase replica- import and export Trimble SSF files. Utilize Trimble’s tion and archiving will also be covered. On the server, 16:30 - 17:00 built-in differential correction engines to improve posi- the presentation will highlight the new AJAX-enabled PCI Geomatics tional accuracy. ADF (Application Developer Framework) common to Geomatica 10 - Overview and What’s New 11:00 - 11:30 both ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server. New capabilities for With Geomatica 10, PCI Geomatics offers the most geoprocessing on the server, and the new Mobile ADF complete geospatial solution to date. No other geomat- Spatial Geo-Link Limited/Leica will also be examined. This presentation is for those who ics software has the built-in capabilities to support your Geosystems Geospatial Imaging have an understanding of ArcGIS 9.x and are looking to organization’s geospatial data processing needs and Conveying 3D Digital Reality explore the new functionality. increase productivity like version 10. With an emphasis Maximizing the understanding of 3D spatial relation-

OCC = Ottawa Congress Centre/Centre des congrès d’Ottawa 21 VENDOR SEMINARS/SÉANCES DES FOURNISSEURS ships is critical to any logistical application. By increasing information you can ensure that your Web-based GIS 10:30 - 11:00 spatial awareness the costs of a project or process can content is current, accurate and always available. Spatial Geo-Link Limited/Leica be reduced while increasing efficiency. The aim of this presentation is to unveil the ultimate 3D visualization 16:00 - 16:30 Geosystems Geospatial Imaging tool suite—Leica Virtual Explorer, a scalable enterprise PCI Geomatics ERDAS IMAGINE 9.0 — Enterprise Enabled Geospatial solution that permits users to analyze, annotate, model, Geomatica X - The Next Generation of Image-Centric Image Processing overlay, animate and collaborate while communicating Solutions This presentation will detail the new functionality in and editing 3D scenes in real-time via the Web. PCI Geomatics has introduced a series of image-centric IMAGINE 9.0, which provides enterprise-enabled solutions designed to address geospatial industry needs geospatial image processing (imagery and feature geo- 11:30 - 12:00 for automation and production capacity. Geomatica X spatial information) by leveraging relational database Kheops Technologies contains the company’s software components used for capabilities and providing client-side interaction with JMap 3.0: An Open Integrated Web-GIS Solution for building production workflows, such as automated DEM spatially aware databases such as Oracle Spatial 10g, or Land and Asset Management extraction, orthorectification, mosaicking, and more. ESRI ArcSDE. Jacques Charron, president of KHEOPS technologies, 11:00 - 11:30 will review release 3.0 of JMap 3.0 and it’s capabilities 16:30 - 17:00 to integrate various technologies to help manage ter- Intermap Technologies Intergraph ritorial and infrastructure networks. Intermap Technologies is re-mapping the United States Spatial Technology Trends in Security and Public Safety and Western Europe using airborne radar mapping sys- In recent years, our society has been increasingly focused 13:00 - 13:30 tems. The programs, NEXTMap USA and NEXTMap on security and public safety. This increased attention MDA Geospatial Services Europe, are producing high-accuracy/high-resolution has been driven by a number of (natural and man-made) From RADAR to OPTICAL Satellite Imagery - We have Digital Elevation Models. Specifications and access to actual events as well as by the increasing recognition you covered! these homogenous, low cost DEMS will be presented. of the increasing potential for various types of events. MDA’s Geospatial Services provides data, informa- Fortunately, advanced technologies are allowing us to tion products and services from the majority of address security and public safety needs more effectively Earth observation satellites. A description of satellite WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21/ than in the past. This presentation will take a look at the imaging services with examples from Ontario and evolving role that spatial technology is and will be play- Nunavut will be presented, as well as a look into the MERCREDI 21 JUIN ing in addressing society’s needs for increased security future of imagery. and public safety. The presentation will include some actual case studies that employ spatial technology. 13:30 - 14:00 9:00 - 9:30 MapText, Inc. ESRI Canada 11:30 - 12:00 Geodata Management in ArcGIS 9.2 Cartographic Text Placement PCI Geomatics This presentation will discuss some of the latest devel- MapText is the leading provider of cartographic label- Geomatica OEM - Empowering Image-Centric Solutions opments in the management of geospatial data available placement solutions for desktop and Web applications Utilize the PCI Software Development Kit V1.0 from ESRI. Topics will include new features in ArcGIS worldwide. Our software is compatible with all major (ProSDK) and PCI ProPacks to incorporate state- 9.2 that supports the integration of spatial data into GIS systems. You get high-quality cartographic text of-the-art PCI Geomatics geospatial data processing the enterprise: non-versioned editing, versioned data placed automatically for any kind of map or chart at technology into your product. The PCI ProSDK replication, archiving geodatabase history and spatial incredible speeds. and ProPacks are designed for Original Equipment SQL for Oracle. Manufacturers (OEMs) who wish to improve or add-to 14:00 - 14:30 the geospatial processing power of their products. Plan Map Info The presentation will also talk about advance- to attend this session to learn more. ments made in on-going National Road Network Adrift in Islands of GIS Information: Effective Navigation 13:00 - 13:30 Please see the description under the Monday time slot. Collaboration project. The NRNC uses the latest functionality in ArcGIS 9.2 in the implementation of a NRCan - Canadian Spatial Reference 14:30 - 15:00 distributed multi-user road network geodatabase. This System (CSRS) ER Mapper presentation is intended for those who have an under- CSRS-Precise Point Positioning (PPP) Free Online Post- Enterprise Geospatial Imagery Solutions standing of spatial databases and have a requirement Processing Service ER Mapper will have a presentation for their latest to explore new trends in the management of enterprise Learn all about NRCan’s CSRS-PPP service that al- Enterprise Geospatial Imagery Solutions. This feature geodatabases. lows GPS users in Canada (and abroad) to compute demonstrates our Image Web Server technology, and so- 9:30 - 10:00 positions to accuracies that rival phase-differential lutions for processing, managing, serving, and remotely MapInfo post-processing. No need to access data simultane- accessing JPEG2000 and ECW geospatial imagery. ously collected from a base station, simply submit raw Adrift in Islands of GIS Information: Effective Navigation observation data from your (single or dual-frequency) 15:00 - 15:30 Please see the description under the Monday time slot. GPS receiver over the Internet. Establishing decimeter Optech Incorporated 10:00 - 10:30 to centimeter-accuracy geodetic control anywhere has The Optech ALTM 3100 EA Airborne Laser Mapping never been this easy! System Cansel Survey Equipment In this session the specifications and features of Using the Power of the Internet and GPS Infrastructure 13:30 - 14:00 Optech’s new ALTM 3100 EA will be presented, for Mobile GIS—Cansel’s Can-Net GeoConnections Learn about the advantages of ‘being connected’. including roll compensation, first, second, third and The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Infrastructure systems are enabling technologies: cel- last pulse capture, wide and narrow beam divergence provides the technology, standards, access systems lular networks, pipelines, highways, fiber optics, power and much more. Navigation software, flight planning and protocols necessary to harmonize all of Canada’s grids. Can-Net is a new serviced managed by Cansel. software and the REALM processing suite will be geospatial databases, and make them accessible on the It’s comprised of a series of reference stations across discussed, as well as data samples from third-party pro- Internet. Please join us for a presentation on the rede- Canada that provide GPS data for real-time and post- cessing packages such as Terramodel and QT Modeler. signed GeoConnections Discovery Portal. processed applications. The data is delivered over the 15:30 - 16:00 Internet and for real-time applications the Internet is CARIS linked to GPS receivers using the cellular wireless tech- CARIS offers the latest spatial data warehouse and nologies of 1X and GPRS. Web-based GIS technology in their Enterprise System for Municipalities. By centralizing all your spatial

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Phone: 418-688-3556 Fax: 418-527-4978 Canal Geomatics Inc. www.septentrion.qc.ca Booth 325 [email protected] 51 St. Andrew Street Septentrion publishes titles specialized in history, although it Ottawa, ON, K1N 5E8, Canada welcomes titles in other topics of the humanities such as archae- Phone: 819-595-5015 ology, political science, ethnography, etc. Septentrion also greets Fax: 819-595-0089 DAT/EM Systems International literary works, especially historical novels. Septentrion’s catalog www.canalgeomatics.com Booth 408 offers not only scholarly works, but also a large number of titles [email protected] 8240 Sandlewood Place, Suite 101 from art books to popular works. Most of the catalog’s titles are Canal Geomatics Inc. is an industry-leading distributor of Anchorage, AK 99507, USA published in French, but some are bilingual (French and English) surveying and navigation technology, specializing in OEM Phone: 907-522-3681 or unilingual English. At GeoTec 2006, Septentrion and Library GPS, land survey, wireless and GIS data collection hardware Fax: 907-522-8688 and Archives Canada present Terra Nostra: The Stories Behind and software for markets requiring high accuracy and reliability. www.datem.com Canada’s Maps, 1550-1950 / Terra Nostra. Les cartes du Canada Our mission statement is to find the best products and extend [email protected] et leurs secrets, 1550-1950, written by senior archivist Jeffrey premium support to ensure the success of our customers. DAT/EM Systems International is an Alaska-based company S. Murray. The volume reveals the stories behind 400 years of mapmaking in Canada and is the first history of Canadian that has been developing photogrammetric software since 1987. As a leading developer of photogrammetric hardware cartography to come out in the last 30 years. Visit the booth to Cansel Survey Equipment Inc. and software products and services, DAT/EM specializes in meet the author and have your book signed. Booth 113 3-D feature collection software with its digital stereoplotter, 3751 Napier Street SUMMIT EVOLUTION. Environment Canada Burnaby, BC Canada V5C 3E4 Booth 103 Phone: 604-205-7658 70 Cremazie, 7th Floor Fax: 604-299-1998 DM Solutions Group Gatineau, QC Canada K1A 0H3 www.cansel.ca Booth 416 Phone: 819-934-1004 [email protected] 30 Rosemount Ave, Suite 200 Fax: 819-994-5738 Cansel is the largest distributor of land-based positioning Ottawa, ON Canada K1Y 1P4 www.environmentandresources.gc.ca/reseau systems in Canada, providing sales, rentals, repair, training, and Phone: 613-565-5056 [email protected] technical support at nine locations nationwide. We offer the Fax: 613-565-0925 RésEau is a new and innovative water information demonstra- largest selection of land-based measurement equipment includ- www.dmsolutions.ca tion led by the Government of Canada. The RésEau Web ing high-end optical survey instruments, GPS, construction [email protected] portal features interactive maps, tools and data from a diverse lasers, machine control, accessories, and field supplies. DM Solutions Group has developed a reputation as a leader in cross section of partners. Topics include water quality, quantity, the open source community and the clear corporate leader in use, groundwater and human health. CARIS the development and maintenance of MapServer — the most used Web mapping rendering engine in the world. Building on Booth 221 open source success, The DM Solutions Group business model ER Mapper 115 Waggoners Lane focuses on custom solution delivery, professional services, Booth 110 Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 2L4 hosted online mapping services, and value-added products 13400 Sabre Springs Parkway, Ste. 150 Phone: 506-458-8533 for transportation (ATS), Location-Based Services and mobile San Diego, CA 92128 USA Fax: 506-459-3849 delivery and other vertical markets. Phone: 858-391-5638 www.caris.com Fax: 858-391-5649 [email protected] www.ermapper.com From its headquarters in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, The Drafting Clinic Canada [email protected] CARIS develops and supports rigorous, technologically advanced Booth 209 ER Mapper leads in the invention, development and deploy- geomatics software. Its systems give value to spatial data and 1500 Trinity Drive ment of the industry’s most advanced Geospatial Imagery empower its customers with information that is meaningful. Mississauga, ON Canada L5T 1L6 Solutions. Since 1989, ER Mapper has been building software Phone: 905-564-1300 solutions for organizations that need to produce, manage, Compusult Limited Fax: 905-564-4949 and/or distribute very large geospatial images (typically mosaics www.dccltd.ca of airphotos or high resolution satellite images). We provide Booth 316 [email protected] off-the-shelf software components, software kits to other ap- 40 Bannister Street The Drafting Clinic is Canada’s leading source for GIS Imaging plication developers, software customization and integration Mount Pearl , NF Canada A1N 1W1 Solutions. We are the sole authorized distributor for Contex large services, consultancy and application hosting. Phone: 709-745-7914 format scanners and Consistent Software. Output solution part- Fax: 709-745-7927 ners include HP and Canon. www.compusult.net [email protected] COMPUSULT is the leading provider of open-architecture, DVP Geomatic Systems Inc. interoperable, geo-portal solutions designed to facilitate geo- Booth 127 spatial data access, integration and rapid, reliable, real-time 3645, boul. Ste-Anne geospatial data distribution. COMPUSULT’s Web Enterprise Beauport, QC Canada G1E 3L1 Suite provides the most comprehensive, standards-based portal Phone: 418-780-1900 system for geospatial data discovery, access and delivery en- Fax: 418-877-3773 abling more informed and accurate decision making. [email protected] www.dvp-gs.com

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Geomatics Institute at Fleming Booth 420 200 Albert St. South eSpatial, Inc. Lindsay, ON Canada K0M 2C0 Phone: 705-324-9144 Booth 408 Fax: 705-878-9318 2325 Dulles Corner Blvd, #500 The Geomatics Institute at Fleming is an award-winning centre Herndon, VA 20171, USA of excellence—excellence in the developing and nurturing of Hewlett-Packard Canada Ltd. (HP) Phone: 703-788-6580 cartographic, GIS, remote sensing, and surveying skills. From Booth 401 Fax: 703-788-6511 the comfort of a small town situated among the Kawartha 5150 Spectrum Way www.espatial.com Lakes, these advanced skills are provided to those individuals Mississauga, ON Canada L4W 5G1 [email protected] who wish to enter the geomatics industry with a level of exper- Phone: 905-206-3252 eSpatial is a world leader in enterprise strength spatial informa- tise and motivation that has employers repeatedly saying, “Get Fax: 905-206-3485 tion management technology. The company provides integrated me a Fleming grad!” spatial solutions that consolidate all forms of spatial data, www.hp.ca integrate that information with business systems and distribute [email protected] the derived intelligence to users anywhere, on any device, con- Geospatial Information and HP is the number one IT company world wide, supplying nected or disconnected. Its standards based Rapid Application Technology Association (GITA) millions of people and industries with premiere computing Development environment, ISMART, enables organizations to and printing. HP provides GIS professionals with the ability to quickly and easily build new or extend existing applications to Booth 111 use the powerful personal workstations to present geographical include spatial functionality. 10 Nester Ct information on the widest variety of large format printers. As Whitby, BC Canada L1P 1H9 the leader in reliable printing, we provide industry standard Phone: 705-665-5994 performance systems that deliver fast, premium-quality large- Fax: 705-665-0947 format prints. HP does all this while lowering your total cost www.gita.org of operations. [email protected] For nearly three decades, GITA has provided high-quality, Hunter GIS ESRI Canada unbiased information for professionals involved with geospatial information and technology. Tap into the wealth of geospatial Booth 515 Booth 201 knowledge available from GITA by visiting our Web site. 2285 Dunwin Drive, Unit 18 49 Gervais Drive Mississauga, ON Canada L5L 3S3 Toronto, ON Canada M3C 1Y9 Phone: 905-607-4120 Phone: 416-441-6035 Fax: 905-855-2411 Fax: 416-441-6838 www.hunter-gis.com www.esricanada.com [email protected] [email protected] GeoTec Media Hunter GIS develops Geographic Information System solu- Established in 1984, ESRI Canada is a Canadian-owned Booth 324 tions on the Autodesk MapGuide platform for the municipal, company specializing in geographic information systems (GIS) utility, and resource sectors. Solutions are customized to client 760 Market Street, Suite 432 solutions. We provide organizations with complete solutions data, business practices and future requirements, offering com- San Francisco, CA 94102 USA based on the world’s leading GIS technologies. ESRI Canada pelling economic advantages for information communication Phone: 415-839-5060 also provides professional services including training, technical to user desktops. Fax: 303-544-0595 support, and enterprise GIS implementation services. ESRI www.geoplace.com Canada has 13 regional offices across the country, with head- [email protected] I.S.M. International Systemap Corp. quarters in Toronto, Ontario. GeoTec Media has been providing guidance for practitio- Booth 101 ners and a voice for vendors for 20 years as the publisher of Suite 1800 - 1188 West Georgia Street GeoWorld magazine and Geospatial Matters, the developer of Gemini Positioning Systems Vancouver, BC Canada V6E 4A2 the Web portal GeoPlace.com, the distributor of the weekly Booth 123 Phone: 604-669-8439 “GeoReport” e-newsletter, and the organizer of the annual 611 - 71 Ave SE Fax: 604-669-8496 GeoTec Event tradeshow and conference. Calgary, AB Canada T2H 0S7 www.mypurview.com Phone: 403-252-5007 [email protected] Fax: 403-252-5392 GIS Development I.S.M. International Systemap Corp. demonstrates wwww.gps1.com PurVIEW—an integrated 3-D mapping extension for ArcGIS. [email protected] Booth 511 Newly released in 2005, PurVIEW enables precise stereoscopic Gemini Positioning Systems is the exclusive Canadian distribu- G-4 Sector 39 viewing and accurate Virtual-ZT 3-D feature digitizing, geoda- tor for Thales Navigation’s professional line of GPS products. Noida, VP India 201301 tabase-direct, with only a standard mouse. Using the staple data Our Canada-wide network of sub-dealers provides ideal expo- Phone: 91-120-2502180 ingredients for orthophoto processing, without external imag- sure of Thales Navigation’s GPS products. Gemini also provides Fax: 91-120-2500060 ing engine or exotic photogrammetric interface, bypassing data complete GPS hardware/software development for specific www.gisdevelopment.net translation or interoperability issues, PurVIEW is the efficiency applications. [email protected] ideal finally attained. GIS Development is a Geospatial Communications Network organisation, which strives to promote and propagate usage GeoConnections Secretariat of Geographic Information Science, technology and applica- Intergraph Canada LTD. Booth 215 tions through its publications, portal, conferences/tradeshows Booth 214 615 Booth Street, 6th floor, Room 644v and training programmes in the Asia, Pacific and Middle East 2912 Memorial Drive SE Ottawa, ON Canada K1A 0E9 Regions. Calgary, AB Canada T2A 7R9 Phone: 613-947-8947 Phone: 403-569-5500 Fax: 613-947-2410 Fax: 403-569-5801 www.geoconnections.org www.intergraph.com [email protected] [email protected] GeoConnections is a national partnership program to evolve Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR) is the leading and expand the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure global provider of spatial information management (SIM) (CGDI)—an online resource that provides Canadians with software. Security organizations, businesses and governments in on-demand, inter-jurisdictional access to geographic informa- more than 60 countries rely on the company’s spatial technolo- tion (e.g. maps, satellite images). GeoConnections funds the gy and services to make better and faster operational decisions. development of Web-based geospatial applications to support Intergraph’s customers organize vast amounts of complex data decision making in the following areas of interest: public into understandable visual representations, creating intelligent health, public safety, Aboriginal communities, and environ- maps, managing assets, building and operating better plants ment and sustainable development. and ships, and protecting critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

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Intermap Technologies Inc. [email protected] MapInfo is the global leader in Location Intelligence solutions, Booth 222 integrating software, data and services to provide greater value 400 Inverness Parkway, Suite 330 from location-based information and drive more insightful Englewood, CO, 80112-5847 USA decisions. Our mission: enable every business and govern- Natural Resources Canada, Earth Phone: 303-708-0955 ment—worldwide—to harness the power of location. Sciences Sector / Ressources Fax: 303-708-0952 www.intermap.com naturelles Canada, Secteur des [email protected] Mapping and Charting Establishment sciences de la Terre Intermap is digitally remapping entire countries, building Booth 116 Booth 309 unprecedented national databases, called NEXTMap, of 615 Booth Street 615 Booth Street highly accurate digital topographic maps (including elevation). Ottawa, ON Canada K1A 0E9 Ottawa, ON Canada K1A 0E9 Customers purchase Intermap’s high-quality, low-cost data to Phone: 613-996-6203 Phone: 613-996-3919 facilitate better decision making for numerous commercial, The Mapping and Charting Establishment provides geospatial Fax: 613-943-8742 governmental, military and consumer applications. information and geomatics support to the Canadian Forces. www.ess.NRCan.gc.ca [email protected] Kheops Technologies MapText, Inc. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is home of the Earth Booth 415 Booth 224 Sciences Sector: the Government of Canada’s principal Earth 300 St-Sacrement, Suite 114 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 1025 sciences agency, providing Canadians with timely and reliable Montreal, QC Canada H2Y 1X4 Plainsboro, NJ, 08536 USA geomatics and geoscience knowledge. NRCan builds upon the Phone: 514-285-1211 Phone: 609-716-7552 Government of Canada’s commitment to create a world-leading Fax: 514-285-1177 Fax: 609-716-7553 economy driven by innovation, ideas and talent. www.kheops-tech.com www.maptext.com [email protected] [email protected] KHEOPS Technologies is the software creator of JMap, an MapText is the leading provider of cartographic label-place- open solution that allows online interactive access to spatial ment solutions for desktop and Web applications worldwide. information and analysis tools through various networks Our software is compatible with all major GIS systems. You (Internet, Intranet, Mobile, etc.). One hundred percent Java, get high-quality cartographic text placed automatically for any JMap is a robust application recognized for its speed, its in- kind of map or chart at incredible speeds. teroperability (multi-formats/multi-environments) and its ease of use and administration. MDA Geospatial Services Océ Canada Inc. Booth 321 Booth 315 4711 Yonge Street, Suite 1100 Land Information Ontario 13800 Commerce Parkway Toronto, ON, M2N 6K8, Canada Booth 114 MacDonald Dettwiler Building Phone: 416-228-3607 300 Water St. PO Box 7000 Richmond, BC Canada V6V 2J3 Fax: 416-224-5778 Peterborough, ON Canada K9J 8M5 Phone: 604-231-4972 www.oce.ca Phone: 705-755-1672 Fax: 604-231-4900 [email protected] Fax: 705-755-2149 www.mdacorporation.com Océ, a leader in manufacturing Wide Format Printing Systems, www.lio.gov.on.ca [email protected] from stand-alone monochrome or colour printers and scanners [email protected] MDA’s Geospatial Services International (formerly to multifunctional systems. Complimented by our professional Land Information Ontario supports the collaborative use of RADARSAT International) is a world-leading provider of data, imaging supplies portfolio and service organization, we provide geospatial data through a number of programs that provide ac- information products and services derived from radar and cess to geographic information about Ontario. Land Information optical Earth imaging satellites. Our markets include resource customers with unsurpassed quality, reliability and productivity. Ontario also works with partners to establish common data mapping, agriculture, environmental monitoring, disaster standards so geographic information is efficiently collected, management and maritime surveillance. Contact us today! Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. stored and managed. (OGC) National Geospatial-Intelligence Booth 322 Agency 35 Main St., Ste 5 Booth 117 Wayland, MA, 01778 USA Phone: 508-655-5858 4600 Sangamore Road, Mail Stop D-143 Fax: 508-655-2237 Bethesda, MD, 20816-5003 USA www.opengeospatial.org Phone: 301-227-1045 [email protected] Fax: 301-227-0117 The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. is a non-profit, inter- www.nga.mil national, voluntary consensus standards organization that is Linnet Systems [email protected] leading the development of standards for geospatial and loca- Booth 125 NGA provides timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intel- tion based services. Through our member-driven consensus 1600-444 St. Mary Ave. ligence (a combination of imagery, imagery intelligence, and programs, OGC works with government, private industry, and Winnipeg, MB Canada R3K 0P4 geospatial information) to the military warfighter and to our academia to create open and extensible software application Phone: 204-957-6470 nation’s senior policy and decision makers. programming interfaces for geographic information systems Fax: 204-957-7568 (GIS) and other mainstream technologies. www.linnet.com National Land and Water Information [email protected] Linnet Systems develops Internet and GIS-based software Service (NLWIS) Optech Incorporated solutions for natural-resource-based business processes. Linnet’s Booth 115 Booth 320 business intelligence and program delivery products serve agri- Building 57, 960 Carling Ave 300 Interchange Way culture, forest products, environment, utilities and government Ottawa, ON Canada K1A 0C6 Vaughan, ON Canada L4K 5Z8 markets across North America and worldwide. Phone: 613-694-2671 Phone: 905-660-0808 Fax: 613-715-5111 Fax: 416-661-4168 MapInfo www.agr.gc.ca/NLWIS www.optech.ca [email protected] [email protected] Booth 507 The National Land and Water Information Service, a four- Optech is the world leader in lidar survey instruments, with One Global View year Major Crown Project led by Agriculture and Agri-Food a global client base. The company’s Airborne Terrain Laser Troy, NY, 12180-8399 USA Canada, will provide online agri-environment data, informa- Mapper (ALTM) is the latest in cutting-edge airborne survey- Phone: 518-285-7133 tion, tools and expertise to support land-use decision making. ing lidar equipment for large or small surveying opportunities. Fax: 518-285-7090 Implementation of the Service began in May 2005, with full- www.mapinfo.com service delivery being phased in by 2009.

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Spatial Geo-Link/ Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Booth 120 Topcon Positioning Systems PCI Geomatics Suite 224 3075 14th Avenue Booth 404 Booth 408 Markham, ON Canada L3R OG9 Phone: 905-470-5990 7400 National Drive 50 W. Wilmot Street, Suite 200 Fax: 905-470-5992 Livermore, CA, 94551 USA Richmond Hill, ON Canada L4B 1M5 Spatial Geo-Link Limited is the exclusive Leica Geosystems Phone: 925-245-8372 Phone: 905-764-0614 distributor in Canada of ERDAS IMAGINE remote sensing Fax: 925-245-8586 Fax: 905-764-9604 software, Leica Photogrammetry Suite (LPS) products, and www.topcon.com www.pcigeomatics.com ArcGIS/ESRI Extensions—Image Analysis, Feature Analyst, [email protected] [email protected] LIDAR Analyst and Stereo Analyst—and as such distributes Topcon is the worldwide leading manufacturer of precision PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of image-centric and supports these products throughout Canada. Spatial Geo- positioning equipment. Topcon offers the widest selection of geomatics software solutions. Recently, PCI Geomatics has Link Limited is an ESRI Business Partner. precision GPS+ systems, laser and machine control solutions, begun offering custom solutions, providing professional services www.spatialgeolink.com and land surveying instruments today. Topcon maintains its for large and small projects. leadership by developing new technologies and supplying in- novative products that target the needs of customers. Refractions Research Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging is streamlining work- Booth 423 flows, enabling users to work more efficiently and accurately. URISA - Ontario Chapter Suite 400 - 1207 Douglas St. Offering industry-leading photogrammetric mapping and re- Booth 517 Victoria, BC Canada V8W 2E7 mote sensing software, it facilitates the efficient capture of data, 15 Thornlea Road Phone: 250-383-3022 accurate referencing of imagery, easy measurement and analysis, Thornhill, ON Canada L3T 1X2 Fax: 250-383-2140 and versatile presentation of spatial information. Phone: 416-338-2219 www.refractions.net www.gi.leica-geosystems.com Fax: 905-709-0764 [email protected] www.urisaoc.ca Refractions Research is a consulting and product development Statistics Canada [email protected] organization, dedicated to providing great technology and a URISA (Urban & Regional Information Systems Association) great client experience. We specialize in spatial and database ap- Booth 220 is the premiere non-profit organization for the use and integra- 3-C4 J.T., Tunney’s Pasture plication development, application integration, and automatic tion of spatial information technologies to solve challenges in Ottawa, ON Canada K1A 0T6 data transformations. government agencies and improve the quality of life in urban Phone: 613-951-1880 and regional environments. The Ontario Chapter has over 500 Fax: 613-951-0569 individual and group members from all levels of government, Safe Software www.statcan.ca GIS applications vendors, consultants, educators, students, and [email protected] Booth 421 business professionals that provide educational programs and Statistics Canada maintains a spatially referenced geographic Suite 2017 - 7445 132nd Street services related to spatial information systems and integrated database in support of the Censuses of Population and Surrey, BC Canada V3W 1J8 solutions. Phone: 604-501-9985 Agriculture, the Standard Geographical Classification and other Fax: 604-501-9965 Statistics Canada programs. STC also develops geographical www.safe.com concepts, delineates geographic areas, produces maps and other [email protected] published reference materials, and offers a variety of services. Safe Software Inc., the makers of FME, is the Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) industry leader. Safe Software’s Teranet focus is on providing software solutions and professional ser- vices that deliver seamless data access and format translation. Booth 414 1 Adelaide St. E., Ste. 600 Toronto, ON Canada M5C 2V9 Sani-International Technology Phone: 416-360-8863 Advisors Inc./LizardTech Fax: 416-703-5036 www.teranet.ca Booth 217 [email protected] 3075 14th Ave, Suite 224 Teranet provides business-to-government (B2G) and business- Markham, ON, L3R 0G9, Canada to-business (B2B) e-service solutions that enable organizations Phone: 905-943-7774 to greatly enhance the services they provide to their customers. Fax: 905-943-7775 With a combination of unique capabilities and state-of-the-art Sani-International Technology Advisors Inc. (SANI-ITA) pro- systems, Teranet is at the forefront of delivering service poten- vides services and consulting in Geomatics. The Corporation, tial in the land, legal, and financial services industries as well as a GeoEye and LizardTech distributor, is also the authorised enabling electronic government service delivery. training centre in Canada for the ERDAS IMAGINE and Leica Photogrammetry Suite of software products. SANI-ITA is ISO 9001:2000 registered. Terralink International www.sani-ita.com Booth 422 PO BOX 2872 LizardTech Wellington, New Zealand Phone: 64 4 915 6022 LizardTech, a Celartem company, is a worldwide leader in Fax: 64 4 915 6030 software solutions that make it significantly easier to manage, www.terralink.co.nz distribute, and access digital content such as aerial photogra- [email protected] phy, satellite imagery and scanned color documents. Terralink International Limited provides GIS and mapping www.lizardtech.com solutions that enable better business management. The com- pany assists businesses with integrating their own data sets with imagery, cartography, spatial databases and mapping tools to create effective GIS systems.

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"Ottawa Emerges: Images Through Time" Display DVP-GS E-mail/Web Kiosks 127 GeoTec Job Fair SESSION POSTER Linnet Media MapText Canal Systems ACMLA CCA Geomatics 125 124 225 224 325 324

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Cansel AISLE 100 AISLE 200 AISLE 300 AISLE 500 113 AISLE 400 GIS GITA PCI Geo- Develop- Earth Sciences matics / ment 111 511 ER Drafting Sector, Natural Autodesk eSpatial/ Mapper Clinic Resources Canada Canada DAT/EM CIG 408 109 110 209 309 409 509 FREIGHT MapInfo ELEVATOR 507 BAE Topcon Systems

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Registration Hours/ The One-Day Conference registration includes ad- A Workshop registration includes admission to one Heures d’inscription mission to all conference sessions and entrance to the workshop on June 18 along with workshop material exposition on the day of your paid registration only. and a boxed lunch. Saturday, June 17 / Samedi 17 juin NOTE: The Wednesday Keynote Breakfast is an ad- L’inscription à l’atelier comprend les droits d’entrée 17:00 - 19:00 ditional fee. à un atelier, qui se tiendra le 18 juin, et au matériel Sunday, June 18 / Dimanche 18 juin L’inscription à la conférence d’une journée com- essentiel à celui-ci. 07:30 - 17:00 prend toutes les séances de la conférence, l’exposition Monday, June 19 / Lundi 19 juin et les pauses-café de la journée à laquelle vous vous êtes 08:00 - 17:00 Proceedings/Actes inscrit seulement. Tuesday, June 20 / Mardi 20 juin The conference Proceedings will be compiled on an The Student/Educator registration includes all confer- 08:00 - 17:00 interactive Web site. Access will be provided to all pay- ence sessions, entrance to the exposition, and admission Wednesday, June 21 / Mercredi 21 juin ing registrants immediately following the event. to the Tuesday Reception and coffee breaks on Monday, 08:00 - 13:30 Les actes de la conférence seront compilés sur un Tuesday and Wednesday. NOTE: The Wednesday site Web interactif. L’accès sera donné immédiatement Keynote Breakfast is extra. What’s Included?/Ce qui est inclus? après l’événement à toutes les personnes inscrites ayant L’inscription pour les enseignants et les étudi- acquitté leurs frais. The Conference registration includes admission to ants comprend toutes les séances de la conférence, all conference sessions, entrance to the exposition, l’exposition, la réception du mardi et les pauses-café du admission to the Opening Reception, admission to the lundi, mardi et mercredi. Keynote Breakfast and a copy of the conference pro- The Expo-Only registration includes admission to the ceedings. NOTE: Workshops are an additional fee. exposition and vendor seminars. It is valid for all three L’inscription à la conférence de trois jours com- days of the show. prend toutes les séances de la conférence, l’exposition, L’inscription à l’exposition seulement comprend la réception du mardi, le petit-déjeuner d’ouverture toutes les activités relatives à l’exposition. L’inscription ainsi que les pauses-café du lundi, mardi et mercredi. est valide pour les trois jours au cours desquels aura lieu Note: Vous devez payer des frais additionnels pour l’exposition. assister aux ateliers.

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Job Fair/ ainsi qu’au Centre Rideau et offre des vues splendides sur Message Centre/ Salon de l’emploi le Canal Rideau et la Colline du Parlement. Centre des messages Exhibit Hall, Booth 427 Incoming messages for attendees will be posted on a Westin Ottawa The job fair at the 2006 GeoTec Event will provide bulletin board near the registration area. Please check 11 Colonel By Drive excellent opportunities for matching employers and the board regularly if you expect messages. Ottawa, ON K1N 9H4 professionals. The Job Fair is located on the exhibit Les messages reçus à l’intention des participants Phone: 613-560-7367 floor and will be open during exhibit hours. No charges seront affichés sur un babillard situé près de l’aire Fax: 613-560-7359 or fees are asked from participants. d’inscription. Veuillez donc le consulter régulièrement Salle des exposants, kiosque 427 si vous attendez des messages. Le salon de l’emploi qui se tiendra à la conférence Speaker Ready Room/ GeoTec 2006 permettra aux employeurs de rencontrer Salle de préparatifs des conférenciers Lunch Arrangements/ des professionnels. Le salon de l’emploi aura lieu dans OCC — Coat Check A / Vestiaire A Arrangements de déjeuner la salle d’exposition et les heures d’ouverture seront Sunday through Thursday/ The Rideau Centre has a large food court and the les mêmes que celles de la conférence. Aucuns frais ou Dimanche au mercredi – 08:00 – 17:00 Byward Market is also close by with a large variety montant ne devront être défrayés de la part des par- of dining options. Workshop attendees will receive a ticipants. Internet Access/ boxed lunch on Sunday. Accessibilité à Internet Le Centre Rideau possède une grande aire de res- Westin Ottawa/ Wireless Internet will be provided in all meeting rooms tauration et le Marché By, offrant une grande variété Hôtel Westin d’Ottawa at the Ottawa Congress Centre for a fee of $25 for the de restaurants, est également situé à proximité. Les The Westin Ottawa is the official conference hotel. The duration of the event. Visit the registration desk to sign participants de l’atelier recevront un panier-repas pour hotel is connected both to the Ottawa Congress Centre up for this service. le dîner de dimanche. and the Rideau Centre and has wonderful views of the Internet sans fil sera offert dans toutes les salles de Rideau Canal and Parliament Hill. réunion du Centre des congrès d’Ottawa au coût de 25 L’hôtel Westin d’Ottawa est l’hôtel officiel de la con- $ pour toute la durée de l’événement. Visiter le bureau férence. L’hôtel est relié au Centre des congrès d’Ottawa d’inscription afin d’avoir accès à ce service.

30 GCC = Government Conference Centre/Centre de conférences du gouvernement

HIGHLIGHTS / POINTS CULMINANTS BOOK LAUNCHES / LANCEMENTS DE LIVRE

UI ND Mobile Mapping Unit on Display / Unité cartographique Geospatial Matters ALL TORS mobile exposée GeoTec Media’s new book Geospatial Matters: Exploring The Canadian Department the Implications of a Digital Earth will be available during of National Defence will the GeoTec Event at Registration and is also available display the Deployable online at www.geoplace.com. The book is a collection of some of the best GeoWorld magazine columns written Geomatic Support System Exploring the Implications by renowned authorities Jerry Dobson, Nigel Waters, of a (DGSS) on Tuesday out- Digital Earth Jeremy Crampton and Daniel Sui. An edited volume of side of the Government GeoWorld/ Conference Centre. This This book captures a broad perspective of geospatial GIS World Columns technology tools and applications, and promises to Daniel Z. Sui system can be deployed and Matt Ball, almost anywhere and work motivate and inspire discussion about the implications Co-Editors in environments ranging of the technology in today’s society. from extreme cold to exces- Geospatial Matters is the perfect teaching tool, not sive heat, as well as heavy only for the academic environment, but also for anyone humidity and blowing dust. The current build of the DGSS focuses on the ability in government operations or land use planning and development. It’s a must-read for to be transported in a small footprint and is easily carried, setup and dismantled by a anyone interested in GIS fundamentals. Geomatic Support Team (GST) of two. Le ministère de la Défense nationale du Canada exposera son système de soutien Presenting Terra Nostra / géomatique déployable (SSGD) mardi à l’extérieur du Centre de conférences du gou- Nouvelle publication - Terra Nostra vernement. Ce système peut être déployé pratiquement partout et fonctionne dans Backed by extensive historical research and drawing on the diverses conditions allant de froids extrêmes à des chaleurs excessives, ainsi que dans world’s largest and most important collection of early maps des climats très humides ou dans des tourbillons de poussière. La version actuelle du relating to Canada, Terra Nostra: The Stories Behind Canada’s SSGD est orientée sur sa capacité à être transportée facilement et dans des petits en- Maps, 1550—1950 is the first history of Canadian cartography droits; celle-ci peut être installée et démontée par une équipe de soutien géomatique to come out in the last 30 years. constituée de deux personnes. In this new volume published by les éditions du Septentrion in co-operation with Library and Archives Canada, author and Cartographic Exhibit / Exposition cartographique Senior Archivist Jeffrey S. Murray reveals the stories behind 400 Maps and cartographic works are on display at The Atlas of Canada’s 100th years of mapmaking in Canada. He unlocks the secrets of some Anniversary Cartographic Exhibit. The Cartographic Exhibit is located in the exhibit 200 maps, plans, photographs and paintings from the Library hall adjacent to the tradeshow floor. and Archives Canada collection—all beautifully reproduced in A special collection of historical and recently published paper maps will be dis- full colour. He tells of the people who created these artifacts, why played alongside digital cartographic products. The exhibit will be open to all GeoTec they were made and how they influenced the lives of Canadians. Event participants for self-guided exploration from June 19 to 21. Come visit the Septentrion/Library and Archives Canada A total of 10 computer stations will display digital cartographic products such as booth at the 2006 GeoTec event to purchase a copy of Terra Web-based mapping sites and other digital products. Supplemental documentation Nostra and to meet author Jeffrey S. Murray, who will be on and map products are on display on the walls and adjoining tables. hand to sign books and answer questions. Des cartes et des travaux cartographiques seront présentés lors de l’Exposition car- Terra Nostra : Les cartes du Canada et leurs secrets, 1550-1950 est le fruit de recher- tographique du 100e anniversaire de l’Atlas du Canada. L’Exposition cartographique ches historiques approfondies et la première histoire de la cartographie canadienne à se tiendra dans la salle des exposants attenante à l’étage du salon professionnel. paraître depuis les trente dernières années. L’auteur a puisé dans la plus vaste et plus Une collection spéciale de cartes papier historiques et récemment publiées seront importante collection au monde de cartes anciennes se rapportant au Canada. affichées aux côtés des produits cartographiques numériques. L’exposition se tiendra Dans ce nouveau livre, publié par les éditions du Septentrion en collaboration du 19 au 21 juin et sera offerte à tous les participants de la conférence GeoTec pour avec Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, l’auteur Jeffrey S. Murray, archiviste principal, une exploration autoguidée. retrace les histoires qui ont marqué 400 années de cartographie au Canada. Il soulève Un total de 10 postes informatiques exposera des produits cartographiques le voile des secrets de quelque 200 cartes, plans, photographies et tableaux de la col- numériques tels que des sites cartographiques sur le Web et tout autre produit nu- lection de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, tous merveilleusement reproduits en mérique. De la documentation supplémentaire et des produits cartographiques seront couleurs. Il nous parle de ceux qui ont produit ces artéfacts, expliquant pourquoi ils affichés sur les murs et les tables avoisinantes. les ont créés et en quoi ils ont influé sur la vie des Canadiens. Vous pourrez vous procurer ce livre au stand de Septentrion/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada à la conférence Geotec. L’auteur Jeffrey S. Murray sera présent et se fera un plaisir de dédicacer ses livres et de répondre aux questions. SAVE THE DATE! June 11-14, 2007 Calgary Telus Convention Centre Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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