Water, Wildfire, and Resilience Talks at FOSS4G NA
This is a suggested agenda for attendees interested in water, wildfire, and resilience work, including hands-on workshops and talks on wildfire intelligence, evacuation, watersheds, flood response, groundwater, terrain, and post-fire hazards. Browse the full schedule and build your own path. And don’t forget to register!
MONDAY - NOVEMBER 2 - HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Routes to Safety: A Wildfire Evacuation Map from Open Data · Vishal Kumar & Shaishav Mahendrakumar Maisuria
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Geohazard Change Detection for Emergency Management with GRASS · Corey White
TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 3 - CONFERENCE TALKS
10:30–10:55
Wildfire Intelligence with Open Geospatial AI · Fuxun Yu & Rishi Madhok · Compagno
11:00–11:25
Wildfire Needs a Hazmat Overlay · Bernardo Salazar · Compagno
OR
Giving LLMs a Sense of Place: a Spatial MCP Server - Pat Smyth - Carr
11:30–11:55
Open Source Utilization of 3DHP for Fire Adapted Watershed Management · Tim Bailey · Compagno
OR
Ask the Map: Natural-Language Q&A for Disaster Response - Athena Liu - Carr
1:30–1:55
SEA-LWE: A Regional Dataset for Lake Surface Water Extent · Pratyush Kumar Das · Compagno
2:00–2:25
Terrain Analysis of Large Datasets: Applications from the National Map · Ryan Gillespie · Compagno
2:30–2:55
Where to Cut? Partitioning Branching Shapes in River Floodplains · avkoehl · Compagno
3:30–3:55
Building SWIFFT: Open Geospatial Flood Intelligence for Transportation Decision Support · Seth Lawler · Compagno
4:00–4:25
Modeling SGMA Undesirable Result #6 Using Open-Source CVHM2 Workflows · Behrooz Etebari · Compagno
WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 4 - CONFERENCE TALKS
10:30–10:55
Civic GeoShell for Emergency Map Sprawl · Bernardo Salazar · Compagno
11:00–11:25
Sparse Data, Stronger Maps · Bernardo Salazar · Compagno
11:30–11:55
Validating and Prioritizing Crowdsourced Disaster Reports with Open Geospatial Methods · Mohammed Bilal Ahmed · Compagno
1:00–1:25
Getting Crisis Imagery to Responders: Rebuilding OpenAerialMap · Cristiano Giovando · Beavis
1:30–1:55
Open Source Low-Power Environment Monitoring with Meshtastic · Paul Walko · Beavis
3:00–3:25
Detecting, Mapping, and Taxonomically Classifying Trees Using RGB Drone Imagery · Derek Young & Amritha Pallavoor · Beavis
3:30–3:55 Leveraging STAC to Support CONUS-scale Wildfire Modeling · Kirk Davis · Carr