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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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Wednesday
, April 29
Atrium
10:30am •
A brief history of topographic mapping
11:00am •
Building a Resilient Imagery Program
11:30am •
GIS for Wildfire Response at the Oregon Department of Forestry
1:30pm •
When Lidar Gets Weird: Adaptive Strategies for Systematic Noise and Classification Challenges for Topographic and Bathymetric Lidar
2:00pm •
Data Integration for Jetty Structure Mapping
2:30pm •
The Importance of Topographic-Bathymetric Lidar: From Collection to GIS-Driven Deliverables
3:30pm •
OpenET: Open Source Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Data for Improved Water Management
4:00pm •
Geospatial Data-Driven Strategies to Improve Freshwater Ecosystems in the West
4:30pm •
Integrating PFAS Data in GIS
Auditorium
10:30am •
GPN-PNW Emerging Professionals Mentorship Program
1:30pm •
This Time the AI Builds Everything
2:00pm •
Lessons Learned in The Special Operations Community - Inspiring GIS & Indoor Mapping
2:30pm •
Simplifying GIS Workflows with Arcade
3:30pm •
Cutting Through the Noise: Reliable Geohazard Alerts From Messy Sensor Data
4:00pm •
Reappraisal Pilot Project: Multnomah County Leverages ArcGIS Survey123 to Inspect Residential Properties
4:30pm •
PNW Surface Stability Monitoring via Time - Series InSar
Cafe
8:00am •
Map Gallery Open
Cascadia
8:00am •
Vendor Booths Open
8:30am •
Opening Plenary and Keynote - Creating Capacity in Times of Change: Understanding the Brain and Moving Forward
12:00pm •
Lunch Buffet (Provided)
5:30pm •
Opening Night Reception (drinks, heavy hors d'oeuvres and live music)
Classrooms 1-4
10:30am •
ArcGIS Pro and Python: Potentially Helpful Bits and Bobs
11:30am •
Linux for GIS Professionals
1:30pm •
Tactile Cartography with 3D Terrain Modeling
2:00pm •
A GIS Workflow for 3D Printing Topgraphic Models
2:30pm •
Stepping Out of The Shadows: Utilizing Invariant Color Spaces to Build a Shadow Mask in ArcGIS Pro
3:30pm •
Legacy Data, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Mess.
4:00pm •
Identifying Patterns of Residential Summer Landscape Irrigation Via Remote Sensing
4:30pm •
Working with Local 3D data in the ArcGIS Native SDKs
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
TBA
10:00am •
Break (Refreshments Provided)
3:00pm •
Break (Refreshments Provided)
Thursday
, April 30
Atrium
8:00am •
Remote Sensing to Restore a Degraded Jurisdictional Wetland in Urban Washington County
8:30am •
Fire Data Transparency with ArcGIS Dashboards, Experience Builder, and ArcGIS Hub
9:00am •
Lessons Learned and the Benefits of a Cloud based GIS
9:30am •
Mobile Clinic Collaborative
10:30am •
Metro Data Resource Center (DRC) Updates: New RLIS Layers, App Enhancements, and Upcoming Work
11:00am •
Animating Urban Growth: Storytelling with RLIS Housing Data in ArcGIS Pro
11:30am •
ODOT Multimodal Inventory - Year 2 Updates
1:30pm •
Responsive Mapping to a Food Access Crisis
2:00pm •
Geospatial Live: Real-Time GIS for Operational Intelligence
2:30pm •
Analyzing Risk with GIS at WSRB
Auditorium
8:00am •
Celestial Infrastructure: The History, Science, and Future of Global Satellite Positioning
9:00am •
How a Plan to Learn AI Became a Companion for ArcGIS Pro
10:30am •
(Virtual) Accessibility best practices in GIS and mapping
11:00am •
Accessibility Updates
11:30am •
Accessibilty Q & A
1:30pm •
Geospatial data storytelling to promote street art (Panel)
3:30pm •
Closing Plenary and Keynote - Spatial Storytelling: Making the Case for an Essential (Vulnerable) Service
Cafe
8:00am •
Map Gallery Open
Cascadia
8:00am •
Vendor Booths Open
12:00pm •
Lunch Buffet (Provided)
Classrooms 1-4
8:00am •
Survey123, Cityworks, FME – oh my!
8:30am •
Snowplows, traffic cameras, and an unfixable Esri bug - A tale of resilience
9:00am •
From Access and ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro Python toolbox: A Parks Analytics Modernization Story
9:30am •
Mapping the Future of Gresham’s Parks
10:30am •
ArcGIS Instant Apps: Engage your community
11:00am •
Mapping Forgotten Routes: From Historical Texts to Interactive GIS Storytelling
11:30am •
Designing Maps for the Next Generation: A Retrospective on the Third Edition of the Student Atlas of Oregon
1:30pm •
Indoor GIS: Step by Step Guide to Implementation and Sustainment
2:00pm •
Bringing SCADA to the Map: Using GIS to Integrate Sensor Data for Wastewater Operations
2:30pm •
(in)visible Oregon
Columbia
9:00am •
Geospatial Professional Network - PNW Board Meeting (Tentative)
TBA
10:00am •
Break (Refreshments Provided)
3:00pm •
Break (Refreshments Provided)
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