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From:         "(Ronald H Hess)" <rhess@EQUINOX.UNR.EDU>
Subject:      Nevada State GIS Conference, Dec 14-16, 1992.

THIRD ANNUAL NEVADA STATE GIS CONFERENCE
SPARKS, NEVADA
DECEMBER 14-16, 1992


CONFERENCE   HIGHLIGHTS

This year's Annual Nevada State GIS Conference will be three days
packed with information about GIS and how it is being used in the
State of Nevada.  Following is a summary of some of the
activities and sessions planned for this year's conference.
Monday morning begins with welcoming comments from John
MacIntyre, Washoe County Manager.  This will be followed with
the keynote address by Dr. H. Dennison Parker.  Dr. Parker is the
founder and president of GIS International, Inc., publisher of
GIS WORLD and GIS EUROPE magazines, the annual International GIS
Sourcebook, and other GIS-related publications.  Dr. Parker also
provides GIS consulting and professional training to government
agencies and private businesses worldwide.  He has conducted
research and applications in GIS and remote sensing technologies
since the late 60s.  He has experience with three private
companies and four federal agencies including the U.S. Forest
Service, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service  and Bureau of Land Management.

PLENARY SESSION
A senior executive from ESRI, Inc. will present a history of the
industry and future trends.  This will include:  an evolution of
GIS applications;  a discussion of the client/server model;
desktop and  distributed computing trends; and continuing needs
in the GIS community.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Monday afternoon panel discussions have been designed to offer
you interactive discussion of two key topics: Information Policy
and Spatial Data Standards.  This is an excellent opportunity for
you to participate in some lively and informative discussions.

Information Policy

We are offering an Information Policy Panel that will cover the
legal aspects of GIS.  This panel is designed to generate
discussion dealing with GIS, public access, and the law.  We
would also like to give you an overview of the current open
record laws and the Freedom of Information Act as well as a
summary of the retention of records by state agencies within the
50 states.

Spatial Data Standards

This session will consist of a presentation by each agency in
which the proposed data standards for that agency will be
discussed.  The presenters will then participate in a panel
discussion concerning spatial data standards.

Introduction To gis
(GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS)
Scheduled concurrently on Monday afternoon with the Panel
Discussions is an Introduction to GIS.  Those new to GIS can
learn the fundamentals and see the full spectrum of GIS with
examples from small single user systems to large multiparticipant
projects.  This workshop will include two 2 hour sessions.  The
first session will focus on basic GIS concepts and functions.
The second half of the workshop will focus on how GIS is being
used around the state.

Welcome Social and Poster Session
The Monday evening poster session is one of the highlights of the
conference and a great place to meet some of your peers in the
GIS community.  The evening is designed to be an opportunity to
see what is happening in GIS throughout the state.  It is here
that you can really see the types of problems that are being
solved using the GIS.  We need your participation to make this a
really successful event.  So don't forget to bring your posters,
large or small, and help 'SHARE THE VISION'!

Conference Lunch
Tuesday the conference committee will be sponsoring a luncheon
featuring the Honorable Mills Lane, Judge of District Court 9.
He will be Sharing his Vision of Nevada with us; Past, Present,
and Future.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Tuesday's  and Wednesday's concurrent sessions will cover what
you have been doing with GIS around the state.  See the
"SESSIONS" on the following pages for detailed descriptions of
topics.

Information Policy
- GIS, Public Access and the Law
A panel including a legislator, an attorney and GIS professionals
will discuss the impacts of GIS on the implementation of
information systems policy.  This session will give you an
overview of the current open record laws and the Freedom of
Information Act.  The panel will also open the discussion to
questions from the audience.

Spatial Data Standards
- What Standard Do I Use?
The exchange of digital data among agencies is becoming common
and important.  This panel examines how standards are being used
for database development at their various federal and local
agencies and among inter and intra government organizations.
This session will also include a discussion of some of the
barriers and opportunities for standardization of digital
databases.

Introduction to GIS - I
This is the first of two sessions on the fundamentals of GIS.
Participants will come away with a good understanding of the
technology and how its great potential can meet many different
needs.

      What is GIS?
      How is it used?
      What hardware/software best meets
       your needs?
      How do you get started?

Introduction to GIS - II
This is the second of two sessions on the fundamentals of GIS.
The second half of the workshop will focus on how GIS is being
used around the state, and will include a question and answer
period where you can ask a panel of GIS professionals, what you
always wanted to know about GIS but were afraid to ask.

State of Nevada
1:24000 DLG and DEM Data Acquisition
This panel will cover the methods by which agencies can cooperate
to complete the 1:24000 digital data for the State of Nevada.
Panel members will discuss cooperative programs their agencies
have participated in and possible funding of the completion of
this program.
Automation of Land Records
- Three Approaches
As a fundamental component of GIS, the techniques for building
and maintaining tax maps are very important.  Approaches from
three Nevada counties are discussed.

     Judy Ramos, Assessor's Office
     Washoe County, NV

     Barbara Byington, Assessor
     Douglas County, NV

     Zane Burgeson, Assessor's Office
     Clark County, NV

GIS Applications in Emergency Management,
A Hydrologic Alert Network, and the Impacts of
Selenium on Waterfowl
Case studies highlight GIS as a tool for emergency management,
including the prediction of floods and hurricanes, and the
effects of hazardous materials on wildlife.

     Jim Jackson, GIS Management Office
     Las Vegas, NV

     Tim  Liebermann, USGS, Water Resources Division
     Carson City, NV

     Lorri Peltz-Lewis, USGS, Water Resources Division
     Carson City, NV

Data Conversion Techniques
Thinking about data conversion or are you in the middle of a big
conversion project?  Improve the odds for success by attending
this session which discusses data conversion techniques.

     Clint Woods, GIS Management Office
     Clark County, NV

     Russell Pandell, Information and Graphics Systems
     Encinitas, CA

     Jim Duncan, USDA Forest Service
     Salt Lake City, UT

Planning, Zoning and GIS
GIS can be used as an effective analysis tool in the planning
process.  The use of GIS for planning, zoning and socioeconomic
analyses are presented.

     Garrett TerBerg, GIS Management Office
     Clark County, NV

     Tim Davis, Comprehensive Planning
     Washoe County, NV

     Stephen Campbell, Planning Information Corp.
     Denver, CO

Integration of Raster and Vector Technology in GIS
Two different technologies are now being integrated in many GIS
applications.  This session discusses the trend as well as
applications where both types of data are being used.

     Michael Kevany, Plangraphics
     Silver Springs, MD

     Kenn Cartier, USGS, Water Resources Division
     Carson City, NV

     Lindsay Christensen, Nev. Bur. of Mines & Geology
     Reno, NV

Database Design, Quality Control, and the Future of GIS
Sources of digital data, database design, and quality control
issues are addressed along with a discussion of what we may see
in the next generation of GIS.

     Robert Earl, USDA, Forest Service
     Salt Lake City, UT

     Robert Garza, GIS Management Office
     Clark County, NV

     Niki Pissinou, National Supercomputing Center for
     Energy and the Environment
     Las Vegas, NV

CAD and GIS Integration - I
This is the first of two sessions on the integration and use of
CAD for a GIS.  This session addresses the potential linkages of
CAD and GIS and includes a discussion of these combined
technologies used in both water and electric utility companies.

     S.J. Camarata, ESRI
     Redlands, CA

     James Donahue, NALS/McElhanney Geosurveys
     Hemet, CA

     David Hough, Associated Consulting, Inc.
     Las Vegas, NV

CAD and GIS Integration - II
This is the second of two sessions on the integration and use of
CAD for a GIS.  This session discusses the use GIS for downtown
redevelopment and also standards for AutoCad drawings that enable
the automatic coding of GIS attributes.

     Karen Melby, SEA, Inc.
     Reno, NV

     Jim Jackson, GIS Management Office
     Clarks County, NV

GIS Applications in Transportation Planning
Specialists discuss how GIS can be used to support transportation
modeling, travel forecasting, and alignment design.

     Reginald Souleyrette, UNLV
     Las Vegas, NV

     Judy Althoff, RTC
     Reno, NV

     Shashi Sathisan, UNLV
     Las Vegas, NV

ArcView and ArcCad
Presented by ESRI
Two new powerful software tools that bring geographic information
to your desktop.  ArcView gives you the power to visualize your
data together with existing geographic databases and explore it
in a different way.  ArcCAD extends the AutoCAD data model for
creating topological and spatial database relationships, and for
communicating with entities of AutoCAD drawing database.


Surveying, Photogrammetry, and GPS for GIS
The use of surveying, photogrammetry and global positioning
systems and how they are used to build a GIS database are
discussed.

     David Gray, Nevada Aerial Mapping
     Reno, NV

     James Donahue, NALS/McElhanney Geosurveys
     Hemet, CA

     David Hough, Associated Consulting, Inc.
     Las Vegas, NV

GIS Education - What's Available in the West
Professors from universities and community colleges in Nevada and
surrounding states discuss the educational opportunities in GIS
that are currently available and those planned in the future.
The panel will also be open to questions and suggestions from the
audience on what they would like to see in the way of formal GIS
education.

Soil Conservation Service Digital Soil Geographic Databases
An overview of the federal digital soil databases will be
presented by an expert from the Soil Conservation Service.

     Pete Bigham, USDA, Soil Conservation
     Service
     Portland, OR


It will be a chance to see the latest GIS hardware and software
and catch up with the latest developments in the GIS

Arizona CADD Systems, Inc.
EOSAT
ERDAS, Inc.
ESIC
ESRI, Inc.
Genasys II, Inc.
Intergraph Corporation
Information & Graphics Systems, Inc.
Silicon Graphics
Sun Microsystems, Inc.


PRE   AND   POST   CONFERENCE   SHORT   COURSES

SPANS SHORT COURSE - December 12 - 13, 1992
The hands-on SPANS workshop will focus on the use of GIS for
geologic data integration, spatial analysis and modeling.  The
objective of the course is to provide the attendees with a
fundamental understanding of the basic concepts of GIS, its
utilities and cost-effectiveness for integrating diverse types of
spatial information, and the power of the technology for quickly
evaluating complex spatial relationships such as those
encountered in mineral exploration and environmental geology.  A
variety of actual case study examples will be used.  SPANS runs
under MS-DOS, 0S/2 and UNIX.  December 12 - 13, 9 am - 5 PM.
Course cost $100.  Maximum number of students 24.

GRASS SHORT COURSE - December 16 - 20, 1992
The Geographic Resources Analysis Support Systems Course is
designed to introduce the participants to the capabilities of the
GRASS software.  Upon completion of this training and tutorial
lessons, the participant will be able to:  install GRASS software
and configure the hardware to run GRASS, digitize using GRASS
software, analyze, overlay, and manipulate raster and vector maps
using GRASS, describe the procedure for importing and exporting
data to and from GRASS, describe capabilities of the GRASS
software for producing cartographic output products and create
macros for use in GRASS applications.  Course cost $300.


 2 Day SPANS Short Course          3 1/2 Day GRASS Short Course
          $100                          $300


CONFERENCE COST     $70.00
SPOUSE              $25.00


IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CONTACT RON HESS AT (702) 784-6691 OR
EMAIL AT: rhess@equinox.unr.edu










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