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February 10-12, 2025  |  Colorado Convention Center   |  Denver, CO, USA

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DFW Airport’s Digital Evolution:
3D, AI/ML, and Event-Driven Architecture in Action

Monday, February 10, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Photo Credit: DFW Airport

DFW Airport is a fast-paced, complex environment that requires informed decision-making. The Airport is larger than Manhattan, NY (3rd largest airport globally), with two major terminal construction projects, a new electric plant project, and aging utility improvement projects. DFW is also experiencing massive growth in passenger volumes, which requires operational improvements and increased efficiencies. The airport also deals with ongoing threats that require real-time information flow for decision process and collaboration. These challenges present excellent opportunities to leverage 3D visualization, AI/ML, and event-driven architecture to solve critical use cases supporting Utility Management, Terminal Operations, and Emergency Management.

In this keynote, a trio of presentations will touch on key areas of the project:

  1. Utility Management: Exploring how DFW Airport enhances utility management by combining GIS mapping with digital twin and predictive insights.
  2. Terminal Operations: Showcasing how DFW Airport is using customized geospatial solutions and digital twins to improve emergency management.
  3. Customized Airport Solutions: Demonstrating how DFW Airport integrates pre-incident planning maps with reality capture and dispatch systems, enhancing response readiness.

This high-level keynote will include discussion of GIS, digital twins, real-time event monitoring, vehicle sensors, GeoAI, deep learning models, 3D mapping, meshing imagery and more. Paired with a “deep dive” session in the Geo Week conference program, this keynote is a must-attend.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

In the early morning hours of March 26, 2024 the MV Dali, a 984-foot container ship bound for Sri Lanka, experienced a sudden loss of power while navigating outbound along the Patapsco River from the Port of Baltimore. The ship struck a main truss of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the immediate collapse of approximately half a mile of the bridge structure. The Port of Baltimore, one of the nation’s largest ports, generates over $2.6 billion in annual business revenue and has only one deep-draft channel providing access to its facilities.

This keynote presentation will discuss the heroic rescue and recovery operations through the eyes of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Army Geospatial Center. We’ll explore how numerous teams mobilized quickly, leveraging a vast array of geospatial data inputs and advanced analytics to create a groundbreaking common operating picture. This enabled unparalleled collaboration across federal, state, and local levels to address a disaster of this magnitude.

Keynote: USGS and 3DEP Updates

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 – 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM

The Past, Present and Future of the 3D Elevation Program
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 – 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM
The goal of 3DEP is to complete acquisition of nationwide lidar (IfSAR in AK) to provide the first-ever national baseline of consistent high-resolution topographic elevation data – as both bare earth DEMs and 3D point clouds. With 3DEP-quality data available or in progress for about 84 percent of the Nation as of the end of Fiscal Year 2021, we are looking towards our future vision for topographic mapping and science at the USGS. USGS is developing something called the 3D National Topography Model (3DNTM)- the terrestrial component of the 3D Nation vision that we share with NOAA. The 3DNTM includes developments of the next generation of the 3D Elevation Program and National Hydrography Datasets including inland bathymetry, hydrography derived from lidar, and connections to groundwater and engineered hydrologic systems.

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