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Kentucky GIS Conference 2026
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Small Team, Big River: GIS for Access, Risk, and Community Engagement on the Green River
Thursday October 1, 2026 8:45am - 9:15am EDT
The Carriage Room
The Green River supports exceptional freshwater biodiversity and recreation across more than 300 miles of Kentucky mainstem, yet systematic spatial tools for waterway stewardship and public access planning have been limited. This presentation describes how the Kentucky Waterways Alliance and University of Louisville Center for Geographic Information Sciences collabotrated using geospatial tools (GEE, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro) to build an integrated suite of watershed-planning tools. We will walk through how we explored river access suitability from existing sites, modeled waste tire accumulation risk at the subwatershed scale, explored outputs with drone surveys, and designed community-facing reporting tools that turn public observations into actionable spatial data. The result is a practical workflow connecting geospatial processing, field verification, and public engagement, showing what a small GIS team can build using public data.
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avatar for Laura Krauser

Laura Krauser

Geospatial Research Associate, University of Louisville
Laura Egan Krauser is a geographer and Geospatial Research Associate at the University of Louisville's Center for Geographic Information Sciences. A Certified GIS Professional (GISP), she specializes in remote sensing, agriculture, and human-environment interactions, using geospatial... Read More →
Thursday October 1, 2026 8:45am - 9:15am EDT
The Carriage Room 1375 South Broadway, Lexington, KY, USA
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