Name: GNIS Meets KentukyFromAbove Lidar
Start: 2026-10-01T12:15:00-0400
End: 2026-10-01T12:45:00-0400

Thursday October 1, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm EDT

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is the official and authoritative repository for U.S. place names and their geolocations, commonly used in topographic maps. Two feature classes are assigned to landforms which rise prominently above the surrounding landscape: pillars and summits (https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/gnis-domestic-names-feature-classes). By using the KentuckyFromAbove lidar data holdings, this presentation will examine evidence in support for the need to reassign geolocation and possibly re-classify some of these Kentucky features.

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Demetrio Zourarakis

GIS Specialist, Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals

Demetrio has three decades of GIS experience, which include working for different agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He has been a GISP since 2007, and re-certified multiple times. He is a Certified Mapping Scientist (GIS/LIS, Lidar, and Remote Sensing), re-certified multiple... Read More →

Thursday October 1, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm EDT
The Rockbridge Reserve 1375 South Broadway, Lexington, KY, USA

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