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GIS in Action 2026

Welcome to the 2026 GIS in Action Annual Conference hosted by the Oregon & SW Washington Chapter of the Geospatial Professional Network & Cascadia ASPRS.

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Atrium

Auditorium

Cafe

8:00am • Map Gallery Open

Cascadia

Classrooms 1-4

Columbia

10:30am • Lightning Talks Round 1 - Multi-Season UAV and LiDAR Assessment of Landscape and Vegetation Dynamics Following Dam Removal in the Klamath River Basin
10:39am • Lightning Talks Round 1 - The Great Burn
10:48am • Lightning Talks Round 1 - Orthometric Correction of Ground Control Points
10:57am • Lightning Talks Round 2 - Greater Cooling Sensitivity of Evapotranspiration in Water-Limited Urban Environments: Evidence from Portland, Oregon
11:15am • Lightning Talks Round 2 - Investigating Affordable Homeownership Program Impacts on Homeowner Equity: A GIS-Based Real Estate Index Approach
11:24am • Lightning Talks Round 3 - Data equity in transportation safety
11:33am • Lightning Talks Round 3 - Designing Accessible Static Maps: WCAG Compliance at Metro
11:42am • Lightning Talks Round 3 - Beyond the Slogan: Testing 15 Minute Neighborhoods in Seattle
11:51am • Lightning Talks Round 4 - Modeling Streams & Drainage from High-Resolution Elevation Data
1:38pm • Lightning Talks Round 4 - What would a road map of the Moon look like?
1:48pm • Lightning Talks Round 5 - Scaling Utility UAS Inspections Through GIS-Driven Operation Efficiency
1:57pm • Lightning Talks Round 5 - Student Project: Potential Permanent Ground Deformation on Emergency Transportation Routes
2:06pm • Lightning Talks Round 5 - Historic Counties of Oregon
2:15pm • Lightning Talks Round 6 - Hoop Dreams: Mapping American Streetball
2:24pm • Lightning Talks Round 6 - Burning Up the Walkshed: How Land Surface Temperature in one Portland, Oregon neighborhood restricts access to transit and other services.
2:33pm • Lightning Talks Round 6 - Remote Sensing Based Digital Inventory and Management System for Urban Forestry
2:42pm • Lightning Talks Round 7- Pishno Pi̱yakni (Our Land): Environmental Justice, Colonialism, and Indigenous Land Sovereignty of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
2:51pm • Lightning Talks Round 7 - Metro's Safe Routes to School Walkshed Application
3:30pm • Lightning Talks Round 7 - For a Good Time Call: Bathroom Graffiti & Private Space
3:39pm • Lightning Talks Round 8 - Spatial Patterns of Salp Blooms in the California Current: A Decade of Change
3:48pm • Lightning Talks Round 8 - LiDAR in Complex Natural Forest: Practical Implications for Inventory and Management
4:04pm • Technologies of Containment and Bordering: Community Resistance Against the NWDC
4:30pm • Oregon Multi-Modal Case Study: Hillsboro

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