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  • 07/11/2025 11:07 AM | Jeannette Byrd (Administrator)

    The popular FEMA resource, Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT), has been updated! 

    "The Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool gives everyone access to powerful data and GIS mapping that can help everyone understand their community. RAPT has more than 100 preloaded layers with data on population, infrastructure and hazards. This data and the analysis tools in RAPT extend GIS capacity for state and local officials to help understand disaster impacts and the potential challenges to resilience they face."

    Visit https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/resilience-analysis-and-planning-tool

  • 07/11/2025 10:02 AM | Jeannette Byrd (Administrator)

    Dan Mellott, GISP, and VP of the GISAA Board of Directors, authored a Sain Associates blog post about our organization.

    Check it out: https://www.sain.com/advancing-gis-across-alabama/

    We would also like to thank Sain Associates for being a GISAA sponsor!

  • 09/05/2024 12:00 PM | Jeannette Byrd (Administrator)

    Area of Interest Techniques

    With Esri's John Nelson

    When: 09/05/2024 12:00 PM, CDT
    Where: Google Meet

    Register here: https://gisaa.org/event-5834678

    Google Meet Link will be emailed upon registration. 

    When making your map, you want the focus area to be prominent, to help draw the audience's attention to your area of interest. There are lots of different ways we can do this, and we'll explore a variety of them using ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online. Get ready to live!

    John Nelson is a map maker, software experience designer, and writer at Esri creating fringe geographic data, curious web experiences, marginally educational blogs, and debatably instructional videos. He works in a small woodshed in Michigan and relishes the opportunity to chat with other map folks.


  • 04/09/2024 1:48 PM | Jeannette Byrd (Administrator)

    Join us for the UNA Geography Alumni Conference, Thursday and Friday April, 18-19, 2024. This year, the conference will be $10 for all UNA Alumni & Non-Alumni registrations and student registrations are free. See the conference page for more information. GISAA looks forward to being a sponsor again this year.

    Registration page: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoVQkra46YoKZBLl4L0GPVJo5-pWycOL-JnaU4pCeVpqvVxA/viewform

  • 04/02/2024 2:21 PM | Jeannette Byrd (Administrator)

    The Alabama Geographic Information Office is excited to announce the dates for this year’s GIS of Alabama (GISA) Conference! The conference will be held November 18-21, 2024, so mark your calendars and make plans to join us back at The Lodge at Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, AL. Registration will open up this summer, so be on the lookout for more information soon. If you missed the conference in 2023, you don’t want to miss this year’s!

    For more information or questions...

    Jaime H. Lambert

    GIS Specialist

    Alabama Geographic Information Office (AGIO)

    Office: 334-676-6421


    https://algeohub.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html


  • 01/05/2024 2:22 PM | Jeannette Byrd (Administrator)

    The GISAA would like to thank the Sweet Trails Alabama initiative for their Lunch and Learn presentation on December 6, 2023.

    If you missed this presentation, it can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/-Vj8U7nfvzQ

  • 07/27/2022 6:59 PM | Justin Quinley, GISP (Administrator)

    Earlier this year, GISAA members Keith Conville and Ken Busby participated in interviews and webinar with Equipped Events on the topic of Using GIS for Search and Rescue (SAR). 

    A recording of the webinar and more resources related to using GIS for search and rescue are available here.  

  • 10/08/2021 10:58 AM | Alison Sepulveda

    Huntsville, AL – GeoCue Group Inc. is pleased to announce an embedded version of Agisoft’s Metashape photogrammetric processing software.  We have built interfaces directly into our LIDAR/Photogrammetric processing software, True View EVO, for driving both an embedded version of Metashape (Metashape for EVO, MfE) as well as the full GUI version of Metashape Professional.  This design provides a seamless photogrammetric workflow for users of GeoCue True View EVO processing software. 

    While EVO has always supported generating “Photogrammetry Data Packages” for Metashape, Pix4D and Context Capture, users were still forced to exit the EVO environment to run these flows and then import results back into EVO.  Now with Metashape for EVO (MfE), users can set up Metashape processing using a simple dialog and schedule the processing using EVO’s new Job Manager.  The MfE job runs as a background task, allowing users to work on other projects in EVO while the MfE job runs in the background.  Upon completion of the job, results are automatically added back in to the EVO project.  EVO’s Job Manager can queue jobs, allowing users to set up a series of tasks to run in the background without the need to start the next job when the current one completes. 

    Metashape for EVO supports the generation of:

    • ·         Block Bundle Adjusted (BBA) imagery for improving the positional accuracy of imagery
    • ·         Point clouds from imagery (“structure from motion”) – typically used in DJI camera workflows
    • ·         Orthomosaics

    Having Metashape directly integrated into True View EVO offers some unique advantages in hybrid imagery/LIDAR workflows. These include:

    • ·         The ability to use a LIDAR-derived elevation model (typically a ground model) in orthomosiac generation
    • ·         For True View 3D Imaging Sensors (3DIS®), the ability to “inject” the sensor’s Applanix Position and Orientation System (POS) solution into Metashape where image correlation fails.  This reduces “holes” in orthos over areas where Metashape fails to find image matches (typically over vegetation).

    True View EVO with the MfE add-in supports:

    • ·         All True View 3DIS® - True View 410, 515 and 635/640 sensors
    • ·         DJI Phantom 4 RTK
    • ·         DJI M300 RTK with P1

    MfE is a must-have for any serious production shop.  It dramatically streamlines the production of ground surface orthomosaics when using a True View or DJI sensor. 

    MfE is available now and will be bundled with all new True View 515 and True View 635/640 sensors shipped after September 1, 2021.  MfE is available for purchase for all other sensors.  If you already own a full GUI version of Metashape Professional, True View EVO will automatically connect to and use the software. 

    About GeoCue

    GeoCue is the largest supplier of kinematic LIDAR processing tools in North America and LP360 is one of the world’s most widely used tools for exploiting point cloud data. In 2014, GeoCue Group started a division focused on using small Unmanned Aerial Systems for high accuracy mapping. Leveraging our expertise in LIDAR/Photogrammetric production, risk reduction, and point cloud processing tools, we are continuing to bring new services and products to market to provide surveyors and other geomatics professionals exciting tools for geospatial data extraction.  Our most recent addition is our fused LIDAR/Camera drone surveying system, the True View® 3D Imaging System (3DIS®) product line.  True View 3DIS offer compete hardware/software solutions for drone mapping from topography collection to high accuracy DOT work.  To learn more, visit www.geocue.com.

    About Agisoft Metashape

    Founded in 2006 as an innovative research company with focus on computer vision technology, through years of intensive R&D work Agisoft LLC has gained expertise in image processing algorithms, with digital photogrammetry techniques setting the direction for development of applied tools. To learn more, visit www.agisoft.com.

  • 08/12/2021 8:24 AM | Alison Sepulveda

    July 21, 2021

    HUNTSVILLE, AL – North Dakota Department of Transportation recently acquired a GeoCue True View 640 3D Imaging System (3DIS®) for their UAS program. “We are very pleased to be selected by NDDOT as their UAS drone LIDAR/Camera system supplier,” said Lewis Graham, President/CTO of GeoCue Group. “The DOTs literally keep America moving and we are honored to be an integral part of that mission.” To read more on this achievement, here is the full press release: North Dakota Department of Transportation Selects GeoCue True View LIDAR/Imagery Technology for UAS Program


  • 05/04/2021 5:27 PM | Anonymous

    It is with mixed emotions we announce the GIS Association of Alabama membership has voted to disaffiliate from URISA, with 26 of 39 votes for disaffiliation. With this change, we will remain the GIS Association of Alabama (GISAA). Disaffiliation will not impact your current membership. If you are currently a member of GISAA, you will remain a member of GISAA. Likewise, there will be no change in URISA membership if you are currently a member.

    Change in affiliation with URISA will not change our mission to be an impactful organization to our community. GISAA will continue to strive to be the premier association of GIS professionals and students.

    The disaffiliation process is not immediate and will take place over the next several months. The Board of Directors will work with URISA as we move through this process. We have maintained a close relationship with URISA over the years and wish them the best as we part ways. We support and encourage members who wish to participate with URISA, to continue to do so.

    We would like to thank our membership for voicing their concerns throughout this process and casting their ballot on the matter.  We are excited to be moving forward as an independent organization and anticipate this change will allow GISAA to be more impactful within the community. We are looking forward to continued service to our membership. 


    If you have any questions or concerns, reach out to us on Slack or email info@gisaa.org.
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