Webinar: TNGIC Conference Updates & ESRI: Working with Imagery and Drones in ArcGIS

Jesse Scopa and Thomas O. Sweet, Jr.
     Tuesday 3/18/2025
     10:00AM-11:00 AM, 11:00AM-12:00 PM ET

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The TNGIC Board and Conference Chair will give a brief update on the Spring TNGIC Conference, then, in this 45-minute presentation you will be introduced to the Journey of working with Imagery in the ArcGIS System of systems including additionally a specific emphasis on working with Drones in Site Scan for ArcGIS.  

Jesse Scopa works on the Customer Success Team as a Solution Engineer for the Imagery and Remote Sensing team at ESRI.  He supports users of the cloud-based drone mapping software, Site Scan.  The primary customer groups he engages with are state and local governments, nonprofits, natural resources, and AEC customers on how to best utilize ESRI technology to solve real-world problems.  He is passionate about displaying and leveraging the full capabilities of drone technology to change the typical geographic approach to global issues.

Thomas Sweet brings over 30 years of experience to the Esri Imagery and Remote Sensing team. He has received awards from various agencies, cabinet members, and Governors as well as the White House for his use of GIS to increase cost effectiveness in the Business of Governance. In one project he pioneered what he likes to call “distributed control” but ultimately became known nationally as the “locally independent regionally coordinated implementation,” produced what became the first state standard in multijurisdictional Imagery collection. This project resulted in overall savings of 68% while increasing capabilities and self-sufficiency of 9 counties by 100%, while also achieving a leveraging ratio of over 10:1 and was repeated in a 6-county area. He gave testimony on the use of GIS in State and local government before the U.S. House Committee for Government reform, by invitation, in the first committee hearing on Geospatial technologies. He led received the “Hammer Award” from the Vice President of the United States, for his continuing efforts to reinvent and make more cost-effective technology deployments. Mr. Sweet is a lifelong Firefighter and lead a team of independent yet collaborating partners to use technology allowing emergency services entities to manage flooding events dynamically in both local and regional context, that included the flooding of the EOC and PSAP recovering on the fly in near real time, with a distributed management strategy.