Program
Keynote Address
Homeland Security Session

Track 1 - Agriculture and Land Use
Soil Mapping
Precision Agriculture
Land Use
Water Quality / Water Management / Drainage

Track 2 - Natural Resource Management
Forestry, Fish and Wildlife
Watersheds / Riparians
Inventory / Monitoring

Mini-Workshops
Data Collection
Data Management
GIS
Remote Sensing

A Sense of Where You Are: The Growing Role of Geospatial Technologies
Dr. Fred Limp, Director, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST); Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of Geography University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas (Presentation)

Homeland Security Special Session

Implications of Geospatial Technologies for Agriculture and Natural Resource Inventory and Homeland Security Measures
Lane Wood, Interim Executive Director, Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program (Presentation)
Todd Stewart, Director, Program for International and Homeland Security, The Ohio State University (Presentation)

Track 1 – Agriculture and Land Use

Soil Mapping 

Use and Applications of Digital Soils Data of the Ohio Soil Survey
Bob Parkinson, State GIS/Resource Inventory Specialist, USDA-NRCS
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Geospatial Modeling of Soil Properties at Multiple Scales
Erik Ventris, School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University and Brian Slater, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
(Presentation)

A Down to Earth GIS and GPS for Soil Survey Updates
Rick Griffin, Soil Scientist, USDA-NRCS
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Precision Agriculture 

In-Season Variable Rate Application of Nitrogen in Corn Based on Remotely Sensed Imagery
Nathan Watermeier, Program Leader, Technology, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ohio State University Extension
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Low-Cost GPS Receivers and their Accuracy
Reza Ehsani, Assistant Professor, Food, Agriculture and Biological Engineering Department, The Ohio State University
(Presentation)

Precision Agriculture – Beyond Changing Fertilizer Rates
John McGuire, Technology Coordinator, Spatial Agriculture Systems
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Land Use 

Using GIS to Model Patterns of Urban-Rural Land Use Change
Elena Irwin, Assistant Professor, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics Department, The Ohio State University
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Tracking CAUV Violations in Delaware County, Ohio
Shoreh Elhami, GIS Director, Delaware County Auditor, DALIS Project
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Tracking CAUV from Satellites
Kevin Czajkowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo
(Presentation)

Water Quality / Water Management (drainage)  

Preliminary Results of Models that Map Coliform and E. Coli Bacteria in Lake Erie and its Tributaries from LANDSAT TM data
Robert Vincent, Professor, Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University
(Presentation)

Remote Sensing of Water Quality
Carolyn Merry, Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, The Ohio State University
(Presentation)

How GIS can Benefit the NPDES II Process
Steve Phipps, Partner, Woolpert, LLP
(Presentation)

Track 2 – Natural Resource Management

Forestry, Fish and Wildlife 

Ohio Gypsy Moth Detection, Conventional and Remote Sensing
Brian Burke, GIMS Specialist, Ohio Department of Agriculture and Angela Hurley, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, Wright State University
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Geospatial Research Tools to Help Restore Ohio Mixed Oak Communities Via Fire and Thinning
Louis Iverson, Research Landscape Ecologist, USDA Forest Service
(Presentation) (Paper) (Animation)

Edge Effects in Ohio Landscapes:  Fragmented Forests and Fragmented Ecology
Jiquan Chen, Associate Professor, Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences (EEES), University of Toledo
(Presentation)

Development of the Land Cover Map for Ohio
Raul Ramirez, Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Development of a GIS at the Dawes Arboretum
Margaret Popovich, GIS Coordinator, The Dawes Arboretum
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Geospatial Techniques to Model Potential Effects of Climate Change on Tree Habitat Distribution and Colonization
Anantha Prasad, USDA Forest Service
(Presentation)

Watersheds / Riparians 

Watershed Modeling Efforts for the Portage Watershed with Finkbeiner, Pettis and Strout, Inc. and Watershed Modeling for the Auglaize Watershed with the Army Corps of Engineers and USDA NRCS
Kevin Czajkowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo
(Presentation)

Using GIS Technology to Identify High Priority Areas for Conservation Treatment in the in the Indian Lake Watershed
Doug Deardorff, District Conservationist, USDA-NRCS
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Sample Applications of ODNR’s Geographic Information Management System (GIMS) for Lake Erie
David Crecelius, Applications/GIMS Administrator, Office of Information Technology, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
(Presentation)

Inventory/Monitoring 

Vegetation Classification: An Integral Part of Building a Land Cover Map for Ohio
Lawrence Spencer, Vegetation Ecologist, Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Inventorying and Monitoring Ohio’s Soil, Water, and Related Resources using the USDA National Resources Inventory
Bob Parkinson, State GIS/Resource Inventory Specialist, USDA-NRCS
(Presentation) (Paper) 

GIS/GPS .... New Tools .... and New Ways To Complete the Conservation Planning Process
Jim Bennett, District Conservationist, USDA-NRCS
(Presentation) (Paper) 

Mini-Workshops

Data Collection 

Mobile Handheld GPS Units and Computers for Data Collection
Bob Parkinson – USDA NRCS
Jim O’Brien - OSU Extension

GPS/GIS Integration with ArcPad and ArcView
Mark Dann and Nick Thomas, ESRI 

Data Management 

Accessing Spatial Data in Ohio
Lane Wood, OGRIP 

Projections, Coordinate Systems, and Datums Explained
David Conner, National Geodetic Survey, NOAA 

Exploring SSURGO
Brian Slater School of Natural Resources 

GIS 

Using ArcExplorer, A Free GIS Data Browsing Tool
Mark Dann and Nick Thomas, ESRI 

Using GIS and digital data to calculate local watershed areas for conservation planning
Getting Started in Desktop GIS and Data Management Strategies
Sean Browning, USDA NRCS 

Remote Sensing 

Remote Sensing 101- Obtaining and Using Remote Sensing Imagery (OhioView, DOQQs, and other public and commercial imagery sources)
Remote Sensing 101 – Part II: Image Processing and Interpretation
Joel Morrison and Changshen Wu, OSU Center for Mapping 

Edited By:
Lawrence Spencer
Center for Mapping
The Ohio State University