2025 Big Sky GeoCon - Mapping the Future: Innovations in Geospatial Technology: Full Schedule

The Montana Association of Geographic Information Professionals (MAGIP) looks forward to your participation at this year’s 2025 Big Sky GeoCon!

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10:10am MDT

Trust for Public Land ParkServe

Wednesday April 16, 2025 10:10am - 10:40am MDT

Helena Room

Trust for Public Land® is a national NGO whose mission is to conserve open space lands and promote parks in the United States and it’s territories. One of the central goals of the Trust For Public Land is to ensure that “Everyone in U.S. cities should have access to a quality park within a 10-minute walk of their home.” Working toward this goal requires accurate information on the location of parks and people in urbanized areas, a database that we call ParkServe®. In this presentation, Dave Highness will describe the ParkServe® database and the methods for maintaining and presenting it to the public.

Presenters

Dave Highness

Trust for Public Land

Wednesday April 16, 2025 10:10am - 10:40am MDT
Helena Room

Conservation/Natural Resources

4:30pm MDT

Neighborhoods as Fuel for Wildfire

Wednesday April 16, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT

Helena Room

Wildfire’s destruction of homes is an increasingly serious global problem. Characterizing home hardening and defensible space at the individual structure level may reduce loss through enriched understanding of structure susceptibility. However, improved data and methods are required to accurately characterize parcel-level features at scale. Here, we present a remote sensing and statistical learning approach to representing single-structure susceptibility in Ouray County, Colorado. Using LiDAR and property records, we characterize fuel attributes in the built environment. This method uses open-source data and may be used by communities to develop policies and mitigation programs.

Presenters

Bryce Young

National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis

Wednesday April 16, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Helena Room

Remote Sensing/UAS, Geospatial and AI