Back To School Time. And Geo Is On The Syllabus.

The kids are going back to school and your vacation is in the rear-view mirror: time to get in gear and learn some Geo.

Think Snow! And Think About Measuring Snow Depth With LiDAR and SAR

Jeff Deems, National Snow & Ice Data Center

As Coloradans, we're all thinking about snow by the time late August rolls around. Jeff will show us the latest and greatest in snow depth measuring using LiDAR and SAR and where these cutting-edge technologies succeed where legacy methodologies fell short. After this presentation you'll be looking around your ski mountain with a subtler eye while the basic chads clogging I-70 will still be taking a resort's mid-mountain snowpack depth reading at face value.

Your Map Is Cool To You--But What's Its Potential Virality?

Patrick McGranahan, MapPorn Tweeter & Redditor

As cartographers we've always been obsessed with composition, fonts, colors, etc., etc. Patrick thinks about what makes civilians link to and click on maps on social media. He'll lay out the the key ingredients so you can evolve from a Print-to-PDF schmo to a Viral Social Media Carto-Influencer.

Roll Up Your Sleeves: Blender-izing Your Geo Data

David Haines, Boulder County Landuse

Your grayscale DEM hillshades are boring. David will show us how Blender ( a open source 3D graphic toolset) can ingest spatial data to produce hillshades and draped-ortho landscapes that are eye-popping and not GIS-y. Get with Blender and you'll have something to talk about with the cool Graphic Designer kidz.