Vertical GeoSolutions

VerticalGeo will be attending the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, DC, February 17-19. Dr. Rick Marshall will be presenting a paper titled, “ArcGIS Server and GeoPDF Applications for Remote Airfield Visualization”.   Rick’s presentation will explore the capabilities that ArcGIS Server and GeoPDF technology provide for mission and flight planning for Air Mobility Command mission planners and aircrews.  The presentation will be on Thursday February 18th at 10:30 in Room 149A.

The ESRI Events link for the Federal User Conference is located here. Link.

Dr Rick Marshall of VerticalGeo is at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, assisting the US Air Force in their effort to re-write the curriculum for the Expeditionary Site Survey Process (ESSP) Course. ESSP is the process used to collect and analyze data for airfields that might have strategic use in the future. VerticalGeo’s part is to add value to the Expeditionary Site Mapping (ESM) section of the ESSP Course. ESM is using imagery and geospatial data to plan operations and contingencies at these airfields; using this information to map out airfield surfaces, roads, infrastructure, and environmental resources so that we can more easily use them when/if we find a use for the airfield. We participated in the last re-write 2 years ago, but the technology has changed substantially and it is time for an update.

Dr Rick Marshall, President of VerticalGeo, will be attending the Department of Defense (DoD) Installation Geospatial Information and Services (IGI&S) Conference in Dallas June 7-13, 2009.   Rick will be presenting a paper during the Expeditionary Operations Brreakout Session called Creating Deployable Data for AMC’s Contingency Response Wings.  The presentation will be on  Tuesday from 1400-1430 in the Lone Star A2  Conference Room.

The presentation will outline the Expeditionary IGI&S workflow to acquire and process pre-deployment, employment, and post-deployment information for Air Mobility Command (AMC) Contingency Response Group (CRG) operations at potential Forward Operating Bases.  Headquarters AMC and the CRGs work hand-in-hand to ensure current information is acquired, processed, and shared for pre-mission planning, collected and validated during the mission, and verified and disseminated after the mission is complete.  This workflow ensures the end-users receive the highest quality and most current products available.

This will not be a technical presentation, but one that focuses on information the discovery and sharing techniques that make this program successful.  All conference attendees are welcome to the presentation.