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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Blaine, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">People should be able to access the meeting remotely via MS Lync. I have been told that people outside of the State of MN can connect through the Lync browser app, but I haven’t tested it. Of course, please keep
in mind that it is much more difficult to heckle via IM…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If anyone would like to connect remotely, please send me a direct email, and I will provide you with a link for Lync.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">David.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Blaine Hackett [mailto:Blaine.Hackett@respec.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 09, 2017 10:04 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Fawcett, David (MNIT) <david.fawcett@state.mn.us>; TCMUG <tcmug@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Lunchtime Presentation with Howard Butler<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks David,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Any way you could set up a web meeting for those who cannot attend it person?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#473A46">Blaine Hackett<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Tcmug [<a href="mailto:tcmug-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:tcmug-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fawcett, David (MNIT)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 09, 2017 9:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> TCMUG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [TCMUG] Lunchtime Presentation with Howard Butler<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Howard Butler will be in St. Paul in a few weeks to talk about LiDAR and his work on the PDAL, Entwine, and Greyhound projects. I thought that it would be good for people outside of the TCMUG group to get some exposure to this, so I booked
him for a “Lunch and Learn” session organized by the MnGeo Agency Collaboration group.
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<p class="MsoNormal">This session is open to all, and I am hoping that many of you will come to the presentation.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Monday, October 23<sup>rd</sup> at 12:00pm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Minnesota Pollution Control Agency <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">St. Paul Office<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">520 Lafayette Rd. N<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sign in at the front desk, and they will direct you to Room 100.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Free parking is available in the lot at the North end of the building.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please email me if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below is Howard’s presentation summary and bio:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">LiDAR is a Headache, Here is Some Aspirin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After your friendly data acquisition vendor drops a few terabytes of LiDAR on your desk with a thud, you might be left wondering what to do with it. The obvious things, like make a digital terrain or surface model for a little patch are
achievable in your favorite desktop monolith, but more nuanced stuff, like computing a vegetative height surface, or filtering noise from the point cloud are less obvious. Howard Butler will talk about how you can use the PDAL open source project to complete
these tasks, describe processing and data management techniques to corral an entire state's worth of LiDAR in the cloud, and describe the possibilities of getting your point clouds in the cloud with open source software. You can find out more about these softwares
at <a href="https://pdal.io"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://pdal.io</span></a> and <a href="https://entwine.io"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://entwine.io</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bio<br>
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Howard Butler is an open source software developer who leads the PDAL, Entwine, and Greyhound open source point cloud software projects. He is a GDAL and MapServer Project Steering Committee member, the maintainer of the Proj.4 coordinate system library, a
former OSGeo board member, a contributing author to the IETF GeoJSON standard, and an active participant in the ASPRS LAS committee. His company, Hobu, Inc., develops open source solutions for clients such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to manage and
operate point cloud data warehousing systems. <o:p></o:p></p>
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