December 3, 2025
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Time: 17:30
Topic: GIS Initiatives at the Port of Vancouver
Speaker: Sean Smith, Senior Asset Management Specialist at Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Abstract: An overview of some GIS innovations developed at the Port of Vancouver, to enhance the GIS experience for all employees, including historical imagery, roadway and shoreline imaging tools, an aerial photo viewer, and more. Plus, what is a "Port Authority" anyway?
Bio: Sean Smith is the Senior Asset Management Specialist at the Port of Vancouver, and has worked in Infrastructure Asset Management within the Engineering Department since 2013. With GIS as the primary tool for visualizing and storing data about infrastructure assets, Sean has helped develop several tools and refined processes over this time.
Prior to working at the Port, he worked in a similar role as GIS specialist and Asset Management technician with EBA Engineering (now TetraTech) for seven years. Before that worked for several local mapping companies since 1995, including Triathlon Mapping, Offshore Systems International (OSI) and Mapcon Mapping (now Aeroquest Mapcon), where he specialized in digital orthophotos, editing digital elevation models derived from photogrammetric mapping, writing mapping proposals and planning aerial photography missions.
Sean holds a BA (English) from University of Kings College (Halifax NS, 1990), a Diploma in Cartography from the College of Geographic Sciences (COGS, Nova Scotia, 1992), Certificate in Asset Management from the Institute for Asset Management (IAM, 2017), and is a registered BC Applied Scientific Technologist (AScT) since 2013.
Outside of work, he is also an avid sailor, with a 26 foot sailboat he has owned since 2001, and holds a Private Pilot license (with Night Rating) since 2013, with over 750 hours logged at this time.
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