Ventura College GIS


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World GIS DAY 

Friday, November 22, 2002  8:30-5:00

Sponsored by: Ventura College, CIRGIS, and the Tri-County GIS Users Group

Major Vendor Support From: ESRI, Digital Map Products

Registration (includes free lunch): Contact our support staff member, Brenda Griego at gisday@vcccd.net
Please include the following information in your message:
    Name, Company/Organization, Address, Phone, Email
    Want lunch? Yes or No
    Will you bring a poster? Yes or No or Don't Know Yet? (You can decide later. If you do plan on bring a poster try to contact Paul Van Zuyle, before the conference. If you want to, you can just show up with the poster, but we may not have the best spot for it.)
If you would like lunch, please register by the end of Thursday, Nov. 14.
If you don't need lunch, you can register until Nov. 20 or just register on site on the 22nd..

Interested in Presenting your GIS work via paper and/or poster? Contact Paul Van Zuyle
(Everyone please consider bringing a poster for the poster session.)

Are you a vendor who would like to show your products? Contact Dawn Robbins

Vendor List:
AirPhotoUSA,  ESRI, Digital Map Products, Geoline Positioning Systems (Trimble), Pictometry, Sage,
Solid Terrain Modeling, GeoInsight, RLA Communications, URS Corporation, GDMS, Applied Geodetics.

General Information: contact: gisday@vcccd.net at Ventura College (for more detailed information on GISDay and the facilities, contact Steve Palladino.)

Organizing Committee:
Steve Palladino: spalladino@vcccd.net  805-654-6400 x1365
Paul Van Zuyle: pvanzuyle@toaks.org
Dawn Robbins: dawn.robbins@mail.co.ventura.ca.us  805-477-7162
Mary Cook: MSmithCook@aol.com

Map to Ventura College's Science Building
Directions: Once you get to campus see map above.
From Ventura or farther north: Hwy 101 South to Hwy 126 East. Go east on Hwy 126 until the Victoria Ave exit (first exit!).  Left over freeway on Victoria until major light at Telegraph Road.  Left on Telegraph.  Ventura College will be on your right side after the 3rd light.
From Oxnard or farther south: Hwy 101 North to the Victoria Ave exit (2nd exit after the Santa Clara River Bridge).  Right on Victoria continue for a few miles until major light at Telegraph Road.  Left on Telegraph.  Ventura College will be on your right side after the 3rd light.
 


GIS DAY SCHEDULE

Ventura College Sciences Building

8:30 - 8:45  Registration (Ventura College Science Building) (Registration will continue through the day).

8:45 - 9:30  Welcome (SCI 222)
    Featured Speaker: Dr. Keith Clarke, UCSB Geography Deptartment

9:30 - 12:30 Breakout Sessions: GIS Application Examples (SCI 116, SCI 222, SCI 221)
Presentations by GIS users from around the Tri-County area. (see detailed Schedule)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Science building loading dock, around the corner from SCI 116)
Free for pre-registrants (see top of this page).

9:30 - 4:30 Vendor Exhibits (SCI 113 and SCI 119)
Vendors can begin to set up at 8am. GIS Day Participants are encouraged to visit exhibits all through the day.

1:30 - 2:30 Poster Session (Breezeway between SCI 119 and Loading Dock.) Judging until 3:30, awards at 3:40.
Poster presentations with maps that show how GIS is used to manage parks, map oil pipelines, do city planning, and the like.
(Posters will be up all day until 3:45)

Sponsor Presentations  (SCI 116) - Come join our sponsors as they showcase the use of their GIS products.
    2:30 - 3:00    ESRI
    3:00 - 3:30      (open slot)

3:30 - 3:45 Poster Session Awards (Breezeway)

3:45 - 4:30 GPS Hands-On Demo (We'll break out all the GPS units and with help from our vendors provide an opportunity to really try them out.)

3:45 - 5:00 Open lab/"Doctor's Office": GIS computer Lab
This will be an opportunity to use GIS software (ArcView 3.2, ArcGIS 8.2 including ArcView and ArcInfo, and perhaps others.)  We will ask the ESRI vendors and any others to stick around to answer individual questions.

For more information contact Steve Palladino, Ventura College, 805-654-6400 x1365, spalladino@vcccd.net


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Last updated November 18, 2002