TECHNICAL SESSION #1 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 Praire IV |
TECHNICAL SESSION #2 |
Leveraging ArcGIS Solutions in your Organization | Scott Oppmann Esri Stone Theatre |
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 |
Floodplain Mapping & 2D Hydraulic Modeling with UAS topobathymetric LiDAR Topobathymetric LiDAR, once limited to costly fixed-wing aircraft, can now be deployed via helicopter or UAS for faster, more affordable surveys. Whiteout Solutions has completed 20+ river projects, delivering ultra-high-density data to support flood modeling and resilience planning, including a 6-mile survey in Lyndon, VT enabling improved hydraulic modeling and mitigation design. | Paul Burrows Whiteout Solutions LLC Glens III |
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 |
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 MSU Libraries Prairie IV |