Geospatial Technologies & Geomorphological Mapping
October 15 to 17, 2010 – University of South Carolina – Columbia, SC
Tentative Program Schedule (subject to revision)
Friday, October 15th
- 11:30-12:30 Registration
- 12:30-5:00 Field trip to Congaree National Monument led by John Kupfer, Kimberly Meitzen, and Will Graf
- 6:30-10:00 pm Icebreaker & Registration in Top of Carolina, Capstone Building (revolving restaurant with overview of Columbia)
Saturday, October 16
- 7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast & Poster Setup
- 7:30-10:00 Registration and proceedings volume sales
- 8:30-10:00 Session I – INTRODUCTIONS
- 8:30 – 8:40 Welcome to Columbia – Will Graf, Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, USC
- 8:40 – 9:10 Convocation: Taking the Measure of a Landscape – Alan D. Howard, University of Virginia.
- 9:10 – 9:40 Introduction: Concepts, Issues, and Research Directions – Michael P. Bishop, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Stephen Walsh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Allan James, University South Carolina.
- 9:40 – 10:10 Coffee Break & Poster Session I
- 10:10-12:30 Session II – REMOTE SENSING, Methods and Technology
- 10:10 – 10:40 Mapping Surface Mineralogy Using Imaging Spectrometry – Fred A. Kruse , University of Nevada, Reno.
- 10:40 – 11:10 Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR Technology for Assessing Topography, Michael Hodgson and John R. Jensen, University South Carolina.
- 11:10 – 11:40 Microwave Remote Sensing, Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Lab.
- 11:40 – 12:10 Recent Developments in Geophysical Methods for Landform Studies – Remke L. Van Dam, Michigan State University.
- 12:10 – 12:30 Discussion
- 12:30-1:30 Lunch (BGS Steering Committee Meeting)
- 1:30-3:30 Session III – REMOTE SENSING, Applications
- 1:30 – 2:00 Making Riverscapes Real – Patrice Carbonneau, University of Durham; Mark A. Fonstad, Texas State University, San Marcos; W. Andrew Marcus, University of Oregon; S. J. Dugdale, APEM Ltd., Riverview, Embankment Business Park, Heaton Mersey, United Kingdom.
- 2:00 – 2:30 High-Resolution Mapping and Modeling of Floodplains – James Brasington, University of Aberystwyth, UK.
- 2:30 – 3:00 Snow distribution in the Wind River Range, Wyoming: the influence of topography and regional climate – Dorothy Hall, NASA
- 3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session II
- 3:30 – 5:00 Session IV – GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE
- 3:30 – 4:00 Geomorphometry, Landform Representations, and Geomorphic Mapping – Ian Evans, Durham University, UK.
- 4:00 – 4:30 Digital Terrain Modeling – John Wilson, University of Southern California.
- 4:30 – 4:30 Scientific Visualization of Landscape and Landforms – Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University.
- 4:30 – 5:00 Discussion
- 7:00-9:00 pm Banquet
- Spatial Scale in Geomorphology – Jonathan D. Phillips, University of Kentucky.
Sunday, October 17th
- 8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast & Poster Session III
- 9:00-12:00 Session V –GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE
- 9:00 – 9:30 Spatial Analysis and Mapping in Geomorphology – Thomas R. Allen, East Carolina University.
- 9:30 – 10:00 Soil Mapping and Modeling – Jon Pelletier, University of Arizona.
- 10:00 – 10:30 GIS-based Hydrological Modeling and Mapping – Lawrence Band, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- 10:30 – 11:00 Landscape Evolution Modeling and Mapping – Peter Koons, University of Maine
- 11:00 – 11:30 Geospatial Analysis and Time: Historical Reconstructions and Change Detection – Allan James and Subhajit Ghoshal, University of South Carolina, Mary Megison, Michael Singer, and Rolf Aalto.
- 11:30-12:00 – Discussion
- 12:00 Adjourn