A Southern Geospatial Technology Retrospective: Grits, Tics and Pics

J. L. Smith

JL Smith Geosolutions, Jacksonville, FL

My nearly 25 year involvement in geospatial technology (primarily in the South) is filled with a gaggle of interesting personalities, more than my share of serious and hilarous blunders, and a few fortunate successes. From each, I see analogous situations that impacted our professions’s progress up the mountain of geospatial implementation, sometimes giving us a boost, and sometimes slowing us down. Our history provides important insights into how to do even better in the future. Using anecdotes from the past 25 years, I will talk about the future of geospatial technology in southern natural resource management.

Keywords: history, geospatial technology, resource management

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