Presentations & Announcements Sacramento GIS User Group Meeting - May 2, 2018

A big thank you to our presenters at the May 2nd Sacramento GIS User Group meeting and to the City of Sacramento for hosting our event in their council chambers.

Below are links to the presentations from the meeting:

UAV Photogrammetry and Lidar Mapping 

Chuan-Shin Chong, Formation Environmental

Datahoods: Using GIS and Data Science to Better Understand Neighborhoods 

Silas Toms, Loki Intelligent

Collaboration During Disaster and Emergency Response

Dan Henderson, ESRI

Python API and ArcGIS Arcade

Asa Strong, ESRI

Announcements

ESRI: User Conference, July 8 - 13, San Diego, CA 
Michael Baker: Preparing Your GIS for NG9-1-1 Webinar, May 21st at 12-1pm 

Careers:
Looking for a new job? Check out the jobs page, there are currently 5 openings posted. One closes tomorrow! 

Next Meeting:
We are planning the next meeting in the fall. Once a date is selected, we will announce it on the blog and meetup. Please contact MaryEllen if you are interested in presenting.

Sacramento GIS User Group Meeting Agenda - May 2nd, 2018

GIS User Group Meeting Agenda -  May 2nd
9am - 12pm

City Hall, Council Chambers
City of Sacramento

915 I Street 

Sacramento CA

9:00am Welcome & Announcements 

9:15am

UAV Photogrammetry and Lidar Mapping

Chuan-Shin Chong, Formation Environmental

9:45am

Datahoods: Using GIS and Data Science to Better Understand Neighborhoods 
Silas Toms, Loki Intelligent

10:15am Break, Refreshments provided by Interwest Consulting Group

10:45am

Collaboration During Disaster and Emergency Response
Dan Henderson, ESRI

11:15am

Python API and ArcGIS Arcade
Asa Strong, ESRI

RSVP via Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Sacramento-GIS-User-Group/

Presentations & Announcements from the November 8, 2017 Sacramento GIS User Group Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at the November 8th Sacramento GIS User Group meeting and to the City of Sacramento for hosting our event in their council chambers.

Below are links to the presentations from the meeting:

Pictometry and GIS
Ruth Zipfel, Eagle View

Starting a UAS Program

Steve Goldman, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Hosted Feature Service to Custom Report with Data Driven Pages 

Joanna Nishimura, Interwest Consulting Group

City of Sacramento - Open Data Portal
Dara O'Beirne and Ryan Malhoski, City of Sacramento 

  

Announcements
ESRI

• Esri Disaster Response Program 
• CIO Summit 
• Esri GeoDesign Summit - January 23 - 25, 2018

URISA - please see the link for URISA announcements regarding: 

• ArcGIS Pro Class - Wed Nov 16th, 9am - 3pm
• Call for URISA board nominations - deadline November 27, 2017 
• Save the Date: NorCal URISA Meeting & Social - December 8, 2017 - 5-8pm
• Save the Date: CalGIS/GIS Pro in Palm Springs, CA - October 8 - 11, 2018 

Careers:
Looking for a new job? Check out the jobs page, there are currently 5 openings posted. 

Next Meeting:
We are planning the next meeting in the spring. Once a date is selected, we will announce it on the blog and meetup. 

Presentations & Announcements from the April 27, 2017 GIS User Group Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at the April 26th Sacramento GIS User Group meeting and the City of Sacramento for hosting our event.  

Below are links to the presentations from the meeting:

USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) 

Lorri Peltz-Lewis, US Forest Service

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Disaster Recovery 

Bill Robberson, EPA

Creating our Public Works Story: The Evolution of an Interactive Map Application for Rancho Cordova Public Works  

Brad Findlay, Interwest Consulting Group contracted to the City of Rancho Cordova 

Insights for ArcGIS

Matt Twietmeyer, Esri 

Below are links to announcements from the meeting:

• CGIA Awards - nominations due on May 1st 
• Poster Palooza at Sac State May 16th, details on page 2
• CalGIS LocationCon - May 22 - 24th

Careers:
Looking for a new job? Check out the jobs page, there are currently 5 openings posted. 

Next Meeting:
We are planning the next meeting in the fall. Once a date is selected, we will announce it on the blog and meetup. 

Presentations & Announcements from the October 19, 2016 GIS User Group Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at the October 19th Sacramento GIS User Group meeting and the City of Sacramento for hosting our event.  

Below are links to the presentations from the meeting:

NG911 for GIS, Coming to aCity/County Near You!?

Steve Bein, P.E., GISP, Michael Baker International

CustomizingData-Driven Pages in ArcGIS: A Case Study in Archaeological Sketch Maps

Shannon DeArmond, FarWestern Anthropological Research Group, Inc.

LandUse Modeling for the MTP/SCS

Jennifer Hargrove, SACOG

LongRange Planning

Jim McDonald AICP, CFM, City of Sacramento

Below are links to announcements from the meeting:

Norcal URISA is accepting applications for a student scholarship program - Deadline Nov 15, 2016
URISA Leadership Academy, San Diego, CA - April 2017 


Careers:
Looking for a new job? Check out the jobs page, there are currently 8 openings posted. 


Next Meeting:
We are planning the next meeting in the spring. Once a date is selected, we will announce it on the blog and meetup. 

Presentations & Announcements from the May 18, 2016 GIS User Group Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at the May 18th Sacramento GIS User Group meeting and to Nate Jennings and the City of Sacramento for hosting our event.  

Below are links to the presentations from the meeting:

Emerging Trends for Local Governments

Amadea Azerki and Dan Henderson, GISP, PMP, Esri 

Drones in GIS

Dr. Jeff Tolhurst, Professor of Earth Science and GIS at Columbia College

Managing NPDES Outfall Surveys using Workforce

Carlos Porras, Interwest Consulting Group

Below are links to announcements from the meeting:

• URISA info for students
• URISA 2016 Professional Education Calendar
• 2016 AWRA Summer Specialty Conference July 11 - 13, 2016
• National Hydrography Dataset Workshop July 14 - 15, 2016

Careers:
Looking for a new job? Check out the job page, there are currently 12 openings posted. 

Next Meeting:
We are looking to plan the next meeting in October. Interested in presenting? Please contact me at merosebrough@interwestgrp.com  

Presentations from the May 15, 2015 GIS User Group Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at the May 15th Sacramento GIS User Group meeting and to Nate Jennings and the City of Sacramento for hosting our event.  Below are links to the presentations from the meeting:

"The City of Elk Grove Enterprise GIS Platform" - Steve Gay and Jason Latoski, Interwest Consulting Group

"Stolen?  Introducing the Sutter Land Claim, and perhaps the Largest Theft of Public Property in our History" - Andrew McLeod

"GIS is the Wine Industry" - Andy Morgan and Martin Mendez-Costabel, Gallo Winery*

Mapping in the City using Geocortex" - Nate Jennings, Sacramento City GIS*

*This presentation was live only/not available for download

Presentations from the Dec 4, 2014 User Group Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at the Dec 4th user GIS User Group meeting and to Rong Liu and the City of Sacramento for hosting our event.  Below are links to the presentations from the meeting: 

"Implementing ArcGIS Collector for Field Inspection" - Mark Dumford, Interwest, GIS Manager

"Working From Anywhere Using ArcGIS Collector" - Ronnie Richards, Sacramento County, GIS Manager 

 "GIS Jobs in California State Service" - Jane Schafer-Kramer, Research Analyst II (Geographic Information Systems), Department of Water Resources 

“Rim Fire Lidar Overview" - Jim Schmidt, GIS Analyst, Rim Fire Recover Project 

Presentations from the April 28, 2014 Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at last week's GIS User Group meeting and to Jane Schafer-Kramer and the Water Resources Department for hosting our event.  Below are links to the presentations from the meeting: 

Compiling and Developing Emergency Data for Use in Drought Response, Aaron Cuthbertson and Christina Boggs, DWR

CalEnviroScreen: GIS and Environmental Justice, Walker Wieland, CalEPA

GISCorps and Search & Rescue (SAR) Project, Lorri Peltz-Lewis, US Forest Service & GISCorps

Presentations from the May 14, 2013 Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at this week's GIS User Group meeting and to Jane Schafer-Kramer and the Water Resources Department for hosting our event.  Below are links to the presentations at this week's meeting:

• Ruppert Grauberger, Department of Water Resources, Chief, Mapping and Photogrammetry Section -- "DWR’s Aerial Photography Indexing System"

• Ronnie Richards, Senior GIS Analyst, Interwest Consulting Group -- "Relational Editing using Attribute Assistant in ArcGIS Desktop"

• Dr. Hugh Howard, Professor, GIS and Geography, American River College
• Magy Hoyer, Program Assistant, and Julia Lave Johnston, Director, Land Use and Natural Resources, UC Davis Extension
• Rod Brown, Sierra College

Announcements from Christina Boggs at the Department of Water Resources

State employees are invited to sign up for the  California GIS Council Email List Signup.

Anyone in the GIS community is invited to attend DWR’s Night at the Raley Field on Monday, May 20^th

NorCal URISA is now accepting student scholarship applications

GIS Job Opportunities

Post a GIS Volunteer Opportunity http://bit.ly/postagisopportunity

Find a GIS Volunteer Opportunity http://bit.ly/findagisopportunity

Post a Paid GIS Opportunity http://bit.ly/postapaidgisopportunity

Find a Paid GIS Opportunity http://bit.ly/findapaidgisopportunity

GIS Jobs in Sacramento

The Sacramento GIS User Group blog now includes a job page for GIS jobs in the Sacramento region.  If you’d like to add a link to this page, email it to merosebrough@interwestgrp.com

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Presentations from the Nov 27th Meeting

A big thank you to our presenters at this week's GIS User Group meeting and to Jane Schafer-Kramer and the Water Resources Department for hosting our event.

Links to the presentations are below:

• Tom Stopka, UC Davis -- "Spatial Epidemiology: GIS and Geostatistical Applications for Public Health"

• Steve Goldman, Cal Dept of Fish and Game -- "Biogeographic Data at DFG: CNDDB, Vegetation, Range maps"

• Steve Gay and Jason Latoski, Interwest Consulting Group,  -- "ArcGIS Online: Architecture applications for a local Government"

• Kellie Larvie, Cal Fire - "Wildfire Mapping"