AutoCarto2020 is going online! Visit cartogis.org/autocarto on GIS Day—Nov. 18, 2020—to see four special keynotes, over 40 presentations, and a variety of workshops. No registration required!

Bandana Kar will be presenting “Geoinformatics for Infrastructure Resilience” at the next GeoBytes webinar on Friday, October 16th at 12:00 pm EST. The webinar is FREE for all CaGIS members. See attached abstract for more information about the presentation.

Please register for the webinar prior to 12:00 pm (noon) EST on Wednesday, October 14th. To register:

1)     Visit https://my.asprs.org/ASPRSMember/Events/GeoByte_Webinars.aspx.

2)     Click on the link to the GeoBytes webinar of interest.

3)     Login to your ASPRS account or create a new account. (Creating a new account does not require you to become a member of ASPRS.)

4)     Click the Register Myself button.

5)     Click Proceed to Checkout.

6)     Enter the Coupon Code “CaGIS2020” to reduce the price to $0. Please note that CaGIS will verify the list of registrants using the CaGIS2020 coupon code to confirm CaGIS membership. Only active CaGIS members using the CaGIS2020 coupon code will be given access to the webinar.

7)    You will receive a separate email asking you to register with zoom. After that registration, you will receive an email from Webinar Host with a personalized link for you to join the webinar.

Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the AutoCarto Organizing Committee has decided to reformat the 2020 conference as an online proceedings with associated recorded presentations and opportunities for discussions with the authors. Check the AutoCarto 2020 page for updates.

Joseph Muhlhausen will present “An Overview of Drone Survey use Cases from the Flying Labs Network and WeRobotics” at the next GeoBytes webinar on Friday, August 14. Register by 12:00 pm (noon) EST on August 12 at https://my.asprs.org/ASPRSMember/Events/GeoByte_Webinars.aspx

GeoBytes are online seminars presented by ASPRS and sponsored by the ASPRS GIS Division, in cooperation with AAGS and CaGIS. GeoBytes are free for CaGIS members. Look for coupon codes in announcement emails or contact khawley.21@gmail.com for details.

Digital Twin of a Utility: GIS, AI, HPC, and Automatic Building Energy Modeling (AutoBEM) software
June 5th at 12 Noon ET
Presenter: Joshua Ryan New

Please register for the webinar by Wednesday, June 3 at 12:00 pm (noon) EST at https://my.asprs.org/ASPRSMember/Events/GeoByte_Webinars.aspx

In 2019, 125 million U.S. residential and commercial buildings consumed $412 billion in energy bills – 40% of primary energy consumption, 73% of electricity, 80% of peak demand, and 39% of greenhouse gas emissions. A resilient and sustainable built environment would be greatly facilitated by the accurate benchmarking, reduction, and offset of buildings’ energy consumption and renewable opportunities.

Dr. Joshua New discusses his team’s goal to create a model of every building in America by the end of 2020. This approach leverages GIS data, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and building energy modeling in conjunction with other non-traditional data sources and technologies
to achieve urban- to nation-scale creation, simulation, analysis, and interactive visualization of energy/demand opportunities for every single building at sub-hourly temporal scales and geographical scales larger than a city. Specifically, results will be showcased, validated, and discussed in the context of a digital twin that was created in partnership with the electrical distributor for Chattanooga, TN (EPB).

Dr. Joshua New is a computer scientist from Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he serves at ORNL’s Building Technology Research Integration Center (BTRIC) as subprogram manager for software tools and models. He has over 130 peer-reviewed publications and has led more than 45 competitively-awarded projects in the past 5 years involving websites, web services, databases, simulation development, visual analytics, supercomputing using the world’s #1 fastest supercomputer and artificial intelligence for big data mining. Dr. New’s team vision is to create a model of every U.S. building by the end of 2020 for quantifying energy, demand, emissions, and cost savings

GeoBytes are online seminars presented by ASPRS and sponsored by the ASPRS GIS Division, in cooperation with AAGS and CaGIS. GeoBytes are free for CaGIS members. Look for coupon codes in announcement emails or contact khawley.21@gmail.com for details.

Jeremy Kirkendall and Garrett Layne will present “NASA Disasters Program Mapping Portal Overview” at the next GeoBytes webinar on Friday, May 1. Register by 12:00 pm (noon) EST on April 29 at https://my.asprs.org/ASPRSMember/Events/GeoByte_Webinars.aspx

GeoBytes are online seminars presented by ASPRS and sponsored by the ASPRS GIS Division, in cooperation with AAGS and CaGIS. GeoBytes are free for CaGIS members. Look for coupon codes in announcement emails or contact khawley.21@gmail.com for details.

Tom Patterson will present “The Equal Earth Projection” at the next GeoBytes webinar on Friday, April 3. Register by 12:00 pm (noon) EST on April 1 at https://my.asprs.org/ASPRSMember/Events/GeoByte_Webinars.aspx

GeoBytes are online seminars presented by ASPRS and sponsored by the ASPRS GIS Division, in cooperation with AAGS and CaGIS. GeoBytes are free for CaGIS members. Look for coupon codes in announcement emails or contact khawley.21@gmail.com for details.

In light of the important public health considerations related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the AutoCarto Organizing Committee has decided to postpone AutoCarto 2020 until November 2020. The new dates for the conference are Wednesday, November 18, through Friday, November 20, with workshops on Tuesday, November 17. The venue will remain the same – the Esri campus in Redlands, California.

We are still working out the details related to registrations and paper submissions. Please bear with us while we determine the best way to handle these and other important issues. In the meantime, please modify any arrangements you may have made to travel to California in May.

If you have any specific issues or concerns, please email the conference chair, Aileen Buckley (abuckley@esri.com). We appreciate your patience as we continue to make arrangements for these new dates for AutoCarto 2020.

Dr. Aileen Buckley, PhD
AutoCarto Conference Chair

This is an archived post. Due to public health considerations, AutoCarto 2020 has been postponed to November 17-20. Please see cartogis.org/autocarto for the most current information.

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Posters has been published for AutoCarto 2020, to be held November 17-20 at the Esri campus in Redlands, CA. The deadline for submission of posters will be announced soon.

CaGIS is proud to present the winners of the 2019 Map Design Competition. We thank the many contributors and judges! Please be sure to visit the 2019 Gallery to see some of the winners from this year’s competition.