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   GIS Day 2008 Conference Attractions

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GIS Day Tenth Anniversary Cartographic Exhibition
Cartographic Exhibition featuring over one hundred and fifty beautiful NASA, NOAA, UNESCO, and USGS Satellite and Ocean Mapping Images and fantastically detailed Library of Congress, National Geographic Society, USGS, and US National Park Service Park Maps. Learn more here!


Ice Worlds Planetarium Show
A Planetarium show that takes the audience on a tour of the icy landscapes of our solar system - especially our home planet Earth. In Ice Worlds audiences explore the critical relationship between ice and life - a tale of friend and foe, enabling, challenging, supporting and adapting - that has developed over millions of years!


NASA 50th Anniversary Photo Exhibition
A fifteen panel 50th anniversary photographic exhibit portraying the birth, triumphs, and tragedies of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from its conception to the present with some glimpses into the future.


Car Simulator: Drive Through a Virtual Map
Come see the Project 54 full size driving simulator and see how researchers use this tool to simulate real driving environments within a virtually mapped world to study human interactions with real vehicles under a series of circumstances.


Geo-Spatial Science Map and Poster Sessions
Over twenty regional Geo-Spatial Science professionals will display maps and posters featuring their works from science, urban planning, emergency management, government, resource management, education and industry. Click here for a full listing of all invited Map and Poster Presenters.


Geo-Science University and College Fair
Students, the public and professionals alike will be hosted to this years GIS Day 2008 Geo-Science College Fair featuring reepresentatives and curricula from many regional college, university, and professional Geo-Science departments. Click here for a full listing of all invited Geo-Science College Fair Presenters.


Professional Vendor Hall
All guests to this year's GIS Day events will be hosted to a professional vendor hall exhibition which will feature representatives from many of the Geo-Spatial Science industry's leading hardware, software, consulting service, and data providers. Click here for a full listing of all invited Vendor & Data Providers.


Professional Vendor and Data Provider Showcases and Presentations
This year's GIS Day 2008 guests will be hosted to professional vendor showcases and presentations featuring national Geo-Spatial Science hardware and software providers, Geo-Spatial Science data providers, and Geo-Spatial Science consulting firms. Click here to see the full Agenda of Presentations.


New Hampshire ArcUsers Group Fall Meeting
This year's GIS Day Conference is hosting the New Hampshire ArcUsers Group Fall Meeting during its morning professional sessions. GIS Day Vendors will be presenting the latest technologies to the group in 30 minute presentations open to the pubic. See the GIS Day Agenda for a list of scheduled presenters.


Hands on GIS/RS Laboratory Technology Tours
This year's GIS Day 2008 events will feature hands on tours of Complex Systems Research Center's Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis where everyone will be given an opportunity to try their hand at GIS and digital mapping.


GIS Day Store
This year's GIS Day 2008 Store will feature Geo-merchandise products from many leading map, atlas, globe, compass, navigational software and GPS companies. Click here to see confirmed GIS Day Store Retailers.


Atlas Gift Give Away
All GIS Day 2008 registered visting high school students will receive a complimentary multiple page, full color, accuarate and up-to-date, World Atlas while supplies last.


3 1/2 Foot Diameter Satellite Image Globe of the World
This globe built at the University of New Hampshire Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis features beautiful NASA MODIS and NOAA AVHRR satellite imagery. This imagery is so clear that you can see individual glaciers in Antarctica and some reefs below the oceans.


9-Foot Satellite Image Map of the World
This true color NASA Blue Marble MODIS composite satellite image map of the world shows us a unique perspective of our world as never seen in previous decades. The construction of this high resolution, fine detail satellite map of the world was made possible only in recent years because of advances in satellite imaging technologies and advances in computer storage and processing power.


Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Exhibits.
These exhibits include the EOS Earth Systems Research exhibit and the EOS Solar Science exhibit. These exhibits contain maps, photos, satellite imagery, and dioramas which focus on earth systems science and environmental change from the depths of the oceans, to the heights of the continents, to the limits of space.





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