LAS or LAZ?  Using QGIS to Create, visualize, convert,and process  point cloud data.

This presentation will demonstrate how to visualize point cloud data in 2D and 3D, convert between compressed and uncompressed point cloud formats, and export point cloud data to raster formats. 

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With a world class team now coalesced around OpenDroneMap (ODM), what are the opportunities and challenges in the near and mid-term, and what are the long term goals? 

As ODM matures in its 12th year as a project, this presentation will serve as a retrospective, state of the art, and prospective exploration of free and open source photogrammetry as provided by OpenDroneMap.

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TNN 911 project update

North River Geographic Systems, Inc.  built a system that combines the best in Free and Open Source Software that meets the State of Tennessee NG911 Standard.

This presenttaion gives an overview of the latest updates. Tennessee has a fairly robust 911 program. The data is defined in a pdf, tools are provided by the state for 911 data collection, and it all is synced into an ESRI Enterprise database. Which means - it's a perfect candidate to rework in QGIS and PostGIS. Over the last few years two counties have moved to an open source stack to manage their address data. Ultimately, this is a giant database problem. Luckily advances with the toos have allowed us to seamlessly deliver data to the TN 911 Enterprise database. 

Doug Newcomb

B.S. Geography University of Illinois, M. A. Geography , UNC-CH,  Retired after 34 years, U.S. U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), (Hydrologist, IT Specialist, Cartographer), Former Co-Chair DOI Open Source Geospatial Software Subcommittee.

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Stephen Matter

President and Executive Director, is the founder of OpenDroneMap as ODM (the command-line tool), co-founder with Piero Toffanin of the OpenDroneMap Ecosystem. He has been in the geospatial tech space for 20+ years and an active user and contributor to FOSS for a well over a decade.  

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Randal Hale

Randal Hale is owner operator of North River Geographic Systems, Inc. He’s been in the Geospatial Industry for far too long. He also hates talking in the third person. He’s currently on the board for a few organizations around the US (TNGIC, OSGEO US, and QGIS US). In my spare time I tend to go canoeing, possibly map something in OpenStreetMap, or go for increasingly long walks. We should go canoeing sometime. 

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