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Session/Topic |
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| Wednesday (April 8) |
| 1:00 PM |
5:00 PM |
Registration & Sponsor/Partner Move In |
Foyer Cotillion Ballroom |
| 2:00 PM |
4:15 PM |
Student Presentation Competition Session 1 (time: title; speaker name) |
Carnival Suite (in the Cotillion Ballroom) |
| 2:00 PM–2:15 PM: A Multi-Index Sentinel-2A and Machine-Learning Approach for High-Resolution Flood Mapping: Insights from Kerr County’s 2025 Floods; Mohammad Sohail |
| 2:15 PM–2:30 PM: The use of LiDAR and Hyperspectral data to identify vegetative cover and geomorphic profile to monitor Flotant in the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary System; Noah Wurtzel |
| 2:30 PM–2:45 PM: Mapping Phragmites australis Dynamics Through Deep Learning Techniques Based on Time Series Sentinel-2 Imagery and Evaluating its Temporal Transferability; Manisha K C |
| 2:45 PM–3:00 PM: A Time-Series Approach to Forecasting Land Area Dynamics in the Mississippi River Delta; Basant Awasthi |
| 3:00 PM–3:15 PM: 15-minute break |
| 3:15 PM–3:30 PM: Seasonal Beach Morphology and Shoreline Change Detection Using Mobile LiDAR at Padre Island National Seashore; Vamshi Gindam |
| 3:30 PM–3:45 PM: Mapping and Evaluating Fine-Scale Variations in Crop Growth Parameters of Corn Using UAV-Based Remote Sensing; Bikash Ghimire |
| 3:45 PM–4:00 PM: Quantitative assessment of surface urban heat island intensity over major cities of Alabama, USA using remotely sensed land surface temperature and land-use/land-cover data; Ruwini Rathnayaka |
| 4:00 PM–4:15 PM: Estimating canopy height of crops using SkySat stereopair images and stereophotogrammetry; Benjmain Ghansah |
| 2:00 PM |
8:30 PM |
Student Poster Competition |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 4:30 PM |
5:30 PM |
Gulf South Region Annual Business Meeting |
Bollinger Suite |
| 6:00 PM |
8:30 PM |
Welcome Reception |
Carnival Suite (in the Cotillion Ballroom) |
| Thursday (April 9) |
| 8:00 AM |
5:00 PM |
Registration |
Foyer Cotillion Ballroom |
| 8:00 AM |
9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 8:00 AM |
12:00 PM |
Sponsor/Partner Move In |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 9:00 AM |
5:00 PM |
Sponsor/Partner Exhibit Hours |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 9:00 AM |
5:00 PM |
Student Poster Competition |
Cotillion Ballroom |
9:00 AM
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10:00 AM
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Session 1: Opening Remarks
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Le Bijou Theater
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Conference Chair: Bill Swope, CP (Conference Welcome)
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GSR President: Balaji Ramachandran, Ph.D. (Corporate Sustaining Members, Sponsors)
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Nicholls State University President: Jay Clune, Ph.D. (Nicholls State University Welcome)
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GSR Student Chapter Liaison Co-Chair: Will Alexander (Student Chapters, Partners)
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GSR Past President: Scott Dunham, CP, CMS Lidar (Agenda Overview, Housekeeping)
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| 10:00 AM |
10:30 AM |
Break with Sponsors/Partners |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 10:30 AM |
11:30 AM |
Session 2: Mobile Lidar Data Acquisition for Railroad Applications
Speaker: Ciaran Manning, CLT |
Le Bijou Theater |
| 11:30 AM |
1:00 PM |
Keynote Address by Christopher Potter, Ph.D. (NASA Ames Research Center) and Lunch with Sponsors/Partners |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 1:00 PM |
2:00 PM |
Student Presentation Competition Session 2 (time: title; speaker) |
Le Bijou Theater
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| 1:00 PM–1:15 PM: Quantifying Measurement Uncertainty in Repeat UAS-SfM and UAS-Lidar Surveys; José A. Pilartes-Congo |
| 1:15 PM–1:30 PM: From Visualization to Surveying: 3D Scene Representations with Novel View Synthesis for Coastal Mapping; Esther Oladoyin |
| 1:30 PM–1:45 PM: A Geospatial and Machine Learning Framework for Modeling Freshwater Inflow Variability in the St. Marks–Apalachee Bay Watershed; Christianah Adegboyega |
| 1:45 PM–2:00 PM: Species-Specific Phenology of Phragmites australis in Coastal Louisiana Using Machine Learning and Multi-Sensor Satellite Data; Bijaylaxmi Sahoo |
| 2:00 PM |
2:15 PM |
Short Break with Sponsors/Partners |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 2:15 PM |
3:15 PM |
Session 4: Applying ASPRS Standards and Guidelines to Engineering Project Mapping
Speaker: Karen Schuckman, PLS, CP, CMS, GISP |
Le Bijou Theater |
| 3:15 PM |
4:00 PM |
Short Break with Sponsors/Partners |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 4:00 PM |
5:00 PM |
Session 5: From Geometry to Reality: Photorealistic 3D Visualization
Speaker: Unal Okyay, Ph.D. |
Le Bijou Theater |
| 6:00 PM |
8:30 PM |
Keynote Address by Clifford J. Mungier, CP, CMS, Awards Dinner, and Networking |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| Friday (April 10) |
| 8:00 AM |
12:00 PM |
Registration |
Foyer Cotillion Ballroom |
| 8:00 AM |
9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 9:00 AM |
1:00 PM |
Sponsor/Partner Exhibit Hours |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 9:00 AM |
10:00 AM |
Session 6: TopoDOT Lidar Data Assessment and Reporting
Speaker: Jennifer Triana - TopoDOT |
Le Bijou Theater |
| 10:05 AM |
11:30 AM |
Session 7: Geospatial Experts Panel — Moderated by Kent Groh of The Geoholics
Panelists: Rob Crawshaw, CP; Michael Starek, Ph.D.; Nicholas Enwright, Ph.D. |
Le Bijou Theater |
| 11:30 AM |
1:00 PM |
Lunch with Sponsors |
Cotillion Ballroom |
| 1:00 PM |
3:00 PM |
Session 8: Sponsor Demonstrations |
Le Bijou Theater
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| Indoor |
| Gratia Geomatics |
| McKim & Creed |
| TopoDOT |
| Cobb-Fendley |
| Forsite |
| Outdoor |
Outdoor Demo Area |
| Frontier Precision Unmanned |
| G4 Geomatics Resources |
| Phoenix Lidar |
| Seiler Geospatial |
| 1:00 PM |
5:00 PM |
Session 9: Preparation for ASPRS Certification Workshop
Instructors: Scott Dunham, CP, CMS Lidar; Bill Swope, CP |
Carnival Suite (in the Cotillion Ballroom) |