From the Office to the Field, and Back Again: Leveraging ArcGIS Field Maps Tasks

This session shows how ArcGIS Field Maps tasks enable a unified, map-based approach to defining, assigning, and tracking work—connecting field crew and staff in a single workflow. Attendees will see how this approach links inspections and maintenance activities, supports real-time status updates, and improves coordination and accountability without adding unnecessary complexity.

Ryan Kizewski

Esri

Stone Theatre

Moderator: Keith Rikli

Reading the Landscape: Aerial Photo Interpretation for Wetland Mapping in the State of Michigan

Accurate wetland mapping depends on more than high-resolution imagery. It also requires skilled manual aerial photo interpretation supported by remote sensing and multiple geospatial datasets. This presentation provides an overview of interpretation techniques and GIS resources used by the Wetlands, Lakes, and Streams Unit of the Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.

Jeremy Jones

EGLE

Glens I & II

Moderator: Kate Berg

The Detroit Tree Census: Understanding urban tree canopies

The Tree Census approach delineates all dominant trees within the city and provides the information as a management tool and assesses their value to the community. Using Esri’s Experience Builder the information allows residents to interact with the trees in their neighborhood providing them a platform to see their trees, understand their value and provide feedback on their health to the City.

Andrew Brenner

NV5

Glens III

Moderator: Sasha Maxey

Leveraging AI & GIS to Build a Sidewalk Repair Program

An Experience Builder app was used to analyze thousands of vertical and horizontal defect locations collected by AI sensors mounted on an ATV driven across 300 miles of sidewalk. Field Maps was used during field evaluation to record the concrete slabs to be replaced as part of a new citywide sidewalk repair program. Entering repair updates in GIS supported reporting through ArcGIS Dashboards.

Keri Blough

City of Novi

Prairie V & VI

Moderator: Ariana Toth

Mapping Major League Baseball Home Run Data and an Unexpected Existential Crisis

A personal side project turned 5 seasons of MLB Statcast home run data into interactive 3D trajectories in ArcGIS Pro. The results, methodologies, and AI's role in the project, and our greater profession, will be discussed.

Ed Dempsey

Prein&Newhof

Prairie IV

Moderator: Cade Armstrong

Leveraging ArcGIS Solutions in your Organization

This presentation explores how organizations can leverage ArcGIS Solutions to optimize operations, improve decision-making, and enhance collaboration. By integrating GIS tools into daily workflows, state and local governments can better manage resources, analyze spatial data, and gain valuable insights across sectors like urban planning, transportation, and public safety. We’ll demonstrate how ArcGIS enables real-time data analysis, streamlined processes, and smarter, data-driven decisions. Attendees will learn how to effectively implement ArcGIS Solutions to solve challenges, improve efficiency, and drive innovation, all while maximizing the value of geographic data within their organization.

Scott Oppmann

Esri

Stone Theatre

Moderator: Nate Hollenbeck

Can You Dig It? Unlocking Statewide Coordination with MIDIG

Shared road rights-of-way house diverse utilities, but isolated planning triggers repetitive construction cycles that drain public budgets. MIDIG solves this via a free, GIS-powered data-sharing platform. By moving coordination out of the field and onto a secure digital statewide CIP, asset owners can proactively align projects, eliminate local barriers, and optimize every infrastructure dollar.

Ryan Laruwe

Michigan Infrastructure Council

Glens I & II

Moderator: Pete Schneider

Floodplain Mapping and Geomorphic Assessment with Topobathymetric LiDAR

Helicopter-based topobathymetric LiDAR provides an efficient and cost-effective approach for mapping river corridors at scales that can be challenging for both ground-based and UAS surveys. Whiteout Solutions has applied this technology across more than 20 river projects, acquiring continuous, ultra-high-density elevation data encompassing channels, banks, floodplains, and adjacent terrain. These datasets provide a detailed representation of both submerged and terrestrial morphology that supports floodplain mapping, geomorphic assessment, hydraulic modeling, and resilience planning. The presentation will focus on a 9-mile river survey near Huntington, Vermont, where integrated channel and floodplain topography supports improved 2D hydraulic modeling and the development of flood-mitigation and resilience strategies for flood-affected residents, farmers, municipalities, and engineering firms involved in recovery efforts.

Trevor Hobbs, GISP

Whiteout Solutions LLC

Glens III

Moderator: Anthony Kowalchick

Arcade for Pros Q&A: Stump your Pro Dev Pros!

Come meet CMPASS Professional Development Team and bring your questions on Arcade. We will share some additional cool tips and tricks. Hope to see you there!

Pro Dev Team

CMPASS

Prairie V & VI

Moderator: Magda DiFranco

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Information Network: Discovery, preservation, and access at scale

Since 2015, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Information Network has developed and maintained a geoportal that federates metadata for over 100,000 public and institutional geospatial resources. We will present the project history, the newly revised geoportal architecture and interface and geospatial data citation tool, and future directions such as archiving and sharing ephemeral datasets.

Amanda Tickner & Nicole Scholtz

MSU Libraries

Prairie IV

Moderator: Janet Mocadlo