WHAT IS THE GEOSPATIAL WEBINAR SERIES?

GeoSpatial Webinars are designed to be educational and informative. This page provides a listing of webinars produced by GeoSpatial Webinars and sponsored by a variety of companies. The information in each webinar is designed to be educational and provides a more detailed understanding of solutions offered by these companies. If you are interested in becoming a part of the GeoSpatial Webinar Series and would like to sponsor a webinar, more information can be found on the GeoSpatial Webinars site.

Upcoming Webinars

Webinar: Geo-marketing Analytics in the Cloud - Case Studies from Oracle and TARGUSinfo

Attend this webinar to learn about best practices and techniques to build robust, scalable and secure cloud-based geospatial systems.

TARGUSinfo’s ElementOne is a comprehensive cloud-based geospatial analytics platform that provides rich data and cutting edge analytics and is currently used by customers such as Goldline, Falken and LifeLock. ElementOne is built on top of Oracle technologies – including Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Advanced Security, Partitioning and Spatial 11g, Oracle WebLogic 11g, Oracle MapViewer 11g and others – to provide a feature-rich, secure and highly scalable application to end-users looking to gather market insight, score prospects and customers, and perform location analysis.

Attend this webinar to:

• Learn best practices from ElementOne platform customers such as Goldline and Falken
• See a live demo of ElementOne in action
• Hear techniques for using Oracle’s GeoRaster image overlays, network data model and topology to create and manage a variety of different types of trade areas and markets

Who should attend
Anyone interested in learning about cloud-based applications, location intelligence/analytics, and/or Oracle technology

Webinar - Remote Sensing: It’s Not Just for the Remote Sensing Specialist Anymore ...

Have you noticed?? The Geospatial Revolution is closely tied to new capabilities of earth observing sensors, as well as greater access to their data.

The collection of remotely sensed data from a variety of platforms, including aircraft, commercial satellites, ground-based vehicles, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), is increasing exponentially. Many of the sensors, such as lidar, thermal, multispectral and hyperspectral systems, have been used for years in scientific research and military applications. They are now becoming widely available for domestic, civilian and commercial use.

Coupled with greater access to these data, the power of remote sensing analysis is more widely available than ever before. Visualization tools, such as Google Earth and Microsoft Bing Maps, can be accessed by virtually anyone with a computer or mobile device. Advanced Web mapping and Web-based analytic tools are available for advanced users.

The knowledge, skills and abilities needed to leverage remote sensing comprise a deeply specialized body of knowledge. Organizations such as the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) suggest in their 10-year Industry Forecast that the educational community is not providing graduates with sufficient training in georeferencing, geometry, lidar, photogrammetry and geospatial applications. Penn State’s Online Geospatial Education program is responding to this challenge with an expanded remote sensing curriculum, including one introductory course, two intermediate courses, and two advanced seminars.

Join faculty members Karen Schuckman and Mike Renslow, both past-presidents of ASPRS, Dr. Jay Parrish, and Dr. Todd Bacastow to learn how Penn State’s course offerings can prepare you to answer the growing demand for remote sensing skills.

Who should attend

• New, midcareer and experienced geospatial professionals
• Students and graduates entering the geospatial industry
• Professionals curious about the direction of remote sensing as a component of the geospatial "industry," and where remote sensing fits in to the job market

Webinar: Open Sensor Webs for Better Living in Cities and Regions

Previous OGC GovFuture webinars, produced in cooperation with Directions Magazine, provided an overview of OGC standards for Spatial Data Infrastructures and also looked at the Dutch national program for 3D urban modeling and analysis based on the OGC CityGML Encoding Standard. Our June 12 GovFuture webinar will focus on the many ways in which OGC Sensor Web Enablement standards can help cities and regions improve quality of life for citizens.

This webinar will show how Internet-connected sensors are being used to support municipal and regional operations. Speakers will show how open standards for sensor webs multiply the potential of such sensor networks. The webinar will feature speakers who have been closely involved in multiple projects that take advantage of open standards to help enable officials and citizens to publish, discover, assess, control, access and use sensors as well as live and stored sensor data.

During this webinar, you will learn:

• How a European project, EO2HEAVEN (Earth Observation and Environmental Modeling for the Mitigation of Health Risks), has combined environmental sensor data with other sources of data, including public health data, to assess environmental risks
• How a commitment to open standards has transformed the way warnings are provided to people in the path of dangerous debris flows in Taiwan
• How open sensor networks can be managed with respect to privacy, liability and security issues
• How GovFuture membership in the OGC can help governments derive maximum value from geospatial technologies integrated with sensor webs

Speakers

Kym Watson of the Fraunhofer Institute IOSB (Germany) will give a summary of how OGC Sensor Web Enablement standards have been used in EO2HEAVEN to the benefit of policy makers, local authorities and scientists.  Watson is the coordinator of the FP7 project EO2HEAVEN and has represented EO2HEAVEN in various GEOSS meetings organized by GEO and the European Commission.

Simon Jirka, the 52°North representative to EO2HEAVEN, will talk about the technical details and challenges of sensor webs based on open standards. The 52°North group (Germany) is doing most of the SWE implementations for EO2HEAVEN.

Steven Ramage will introduce the speakers and speak briefly about the OGC, OGC's Sensor Web Enablement initiative, and OGC GovFuture membership.

Who should attend

This webinar is oriented toward local and subnational government entities worldwide that could benefit from interoperability standards for sensor networks and could also benefit from access to OGC GovFuture resources.

Webinar - Morning Session - ArcGIS Online: The Mapping Platform for Your Organization

Please note: This webinar is offered at 10 a.m. EDT (3 p.m. BST, 4 p.m. CET) and 2 p.m. EDT (2 p.m. BST, 4 p.m CET). If you register for this webinar, you are registering for the morning session. Please select the session that best suits your schedule.

Providing access to critical information to everyone in your organization, while staying in control of your data, improves organizational efficiency and creates new opportunities. ArcGIS Online, Esri’s cloud-based mapping and collaboration platform, gives organizations all the tools they need to access, create and share maps, apps and other geographic content.

Join Esri’s Paul Ross, ArcGIS Online product manager, and Nate Bennett, solution architect; and Dave Kunz, GIS manager at the County of Sussex, NJ, to learn how your organization can benefit from ArcGIS Online. Register for this webinar to learn more about:

•    Extending access to geographic content to everyone in your organization
•    Creating and sharing maps, apps and data
•    Enabling easy access and self-serve mapping by anyone in the organization or the public

You will also learn more about new ArcGIS Online features and capabilities, including how to make content accessible to anyone in your organization using tablets and smartphones. See how ArcGIS Online can be used with your existing GIS or as a stand-alone platform, how departments and teams can collaborate together, and how you can customize ArcGIS Online to fit your organization.

Webinar - Afternoon Session - ArcGIS Online: The Mapping Platform for Your Organization

Please note: This webinar is offered at 10 a.m. EDT (3 p.m. BST, 4 p.m. CET) and 2 p.m. EDT (2 p.m. BST, 4 p.m CET). If you register for this webinar, you are registering for the afternoon session. Please select the session that best suits your schedule.

Providing access to critical information to everyone in your organization, while staying in control of your data, improves organizational efficiency and creates new opportunities. ArcGIS Online, Esri’s cloud-based mapping and collaboration platform, gives organizations all the tools they need to access, create and share maps, apps and other geographic content.

Join Esri’s Paul Ross, ArcGIS Online product manager, and Nate Bennett, solution architect; and Dave Kunz, GIS manager at the County of Sussex, NJ, to learn how your organization can benefit from ArcGIS Online. Register for this webinar to learn more about:

•    Extending access to geographic content to everyone in your organization
•    Creating and sharing maps, apps and data
•    Enabling easy access and self-serve mapping by anyone in the organization or the public

You will also learn more about new ArcGIS Online features and capabilities, including how to make content accessible to anyone in your organization using tablets and smartphones. See how ArcGIS Online can be used with your existing GIS or as a stand-alone platform, how departments and teams can collaborate together, and how you can customize ArcGIS Online to fit your organization.