The ESRI Survey and GIS Summit Conference Proceedings is a compilation of professional abstracts and papers presented at our fourth annual conference, August 5–8, 2006. Both ESRI software users and nonusers contributed a fundamental part to the conference by submitting and presenting papers on a diverse collection of surveying, engineering, and GIS applications. The proceedings promote the integration of Survey and GIS by stimulating our speakers to share their experiences and knowledge.

Download complete Summit Agenda [PDF-3.57 MB, 6 pages]
Agenda Supplement [PDF-851 KB, 4 pages]

Opening Day

• Welcome and Opening Remarks [PDF-6.55 MB, 84 pages]
  Brent Jones, PE, PLS
  Surveying Industry Manager, ESRI
• Keynote Address [PDF-19 KB]
  Wendy Lathrop, LS
• What's New in GIS for Surveying
  Ray Carnes/Tim Hodson, ESRI
• The Future of Surveying [PDF-3.99 MB, 47 pages]
  Clint Brown
  Director of Software Products, ESRI

Industry Executive Panel
Trimble, Topcon, Leica, and the National Geodetic Survey will discussed opportunities for surveying and GIS and how they are leading the way. This engaging forum discussed the opportunities for surveyors and how these respective companies plan to support surveyors in the GIS marketplace.

• Dave Zilkoski
  Director, National Geodetic Survey
• Peter Wallace
  National Sales Manager, Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.
• Jason Kandrick, PLS
  Product Marketing Manager, Leica Geosystems, Inc.
• John Stenmark
  Surveying Marketing Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.

Plenary Closing
Robert Young, RPLS, Chief Operating Officer, Frontier Surveying

Breakout Session I

• Limited Liability and Constant Cash Flow
  —Richard Gosselin, Northeast Engineers & Consultants
• GIS is a Tool for Surveying and Mapping Business Development
  —Robert L. Young, RPLS, Digital Mapping Services, L.P.

• Mapping the Portage Path Using GIS and GPS
  —Larry Shubat, University of Akron
• Significant WAAS Advancement in 2006
  —Eric Gakstatter, DMG

• Application of GIS and Mathematical Models in Planning Urban Parks
  —Nasrin Sesar, City of Kermanshah
• GIS and Parcel Conversions—'Why Don't They Fit?'
  —Gary Kent, The Schneider Corporation

• Intro to GIS for Surveyors
  —Eric Rodenberg, ESRI

• ESRI Technical Session: Survey and GIS Technical Q&A
  —Tim Hodson, ESRI
• Cadastral Information Management with ArcGIS [PDF-795 KB, 37 pages]
  —Christine Leslie, Chris Buscaglia, Kevin Kelly, and Tim Hodson; ESRI
• Cadastral Surveyors Time to Go Forward Digitally and Coordinate Accurately
  [PDF-52 KB, 19 pages]
  —M.H. Elfick, Geodata Australia

Breakout Session II

• Accuracy Issues Related to Implementing a GIS Project
  —Bishwa Acharya, Earth Mapping International, Inc.

• Submeter Mapping...Really? The Revenge of the Shift
  —Joel Cusick, National Park Service, GIS

• An Online Positioning User Service for Geographic Information Systems
  —Gerald Mader, National Geodetic Survey, NOAA/NOS
• The National Readjustment
  —Dale Pursell, National Geodetic Survey, NOAA/NOS

• Low-Distortion Map Projections for Surveying and GIS
  —Michael Dennis, Geodetic Analysis, LLC

• Working Together to Collect 2,000 Manhold Inverts
  —Janet Jackson, McKim & Creed, P.A.

Breakout Session III

• City of Covington Storm Water Infrastructure Mapping Initiative
  —Issac Standard, City of Covington
• The San Diego County Real-Time RTK Correction System
  —Michael Binge, County of San Diego Public Works

• Hillsborough County's Right of Way Inventory Program
  —John Lyons, Hillsborough County, Surveying Division

• High Accuracy, Survey-Grade GIS
  —Robert Jones, R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc.
• Survey Accurate GIS Cadastre
  —Ian Harper, Geodata

• Low-Distortion Map Projections for Surveying and GIS
  —Michael Dennis, Geodetic Analysis, LLC

• 3D Modeling of Ground Subsidence
  —Ernest Sinohui, Tetra Tech
• Creating High Precision GIS for a Large California Water Agency
  —Gavin O'Leary, Provost & Pritchard Inc.

Breakout Session IV

• Building an Accurate GIS
  —William Linzey, National Geodetic Survey, NOAA/NOS

• Sufficiency of Geodetic Infrastructure of Turkey for GIS
  —Caner Gueny, Istanbul Technical University

• Incorporating GIS Practitioners into the Arizona Professional Land Surveyors Association
  —Jack Avis, APLS, GISP

Closing Session

• Closing Session—Intersect LIVE! [PDF-147 KB, 2 pages]
  —Janet Jackson, McKim & Creed, P.A./Randy Rambeau

Professional Surveyor Magazine "Intersect" columnists Janet Jackson, GISP, and Randy Rambeau, PLS, look at the business issues of surveying and GIS and discuss their intersection, overlap, synergies, and benefits of having both practices in the same company. What are the issues with providing GIS services in a surveying atmosphere, and what are the benefits of providing surveying capabilities in a GIS services organization? This important and entertaining forum will take questions from the audience to help convey that there might not be a gap at all to be bridged but opportunity to be exploited.

Conference Videos

• Lewis and Clark Windows Media [04:29]
• "Maps in Our Lives"—Library of Congress/ACSM/ESRI Video Windows Media [01:58]