The next Executive Committee (EXCOM) Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 5:30pm.
Refreshments will be served. Come along to introduce yourself and get to know us.
Everyone is welcome to attend, but please make a reservation.

Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm
Location: Tampa Electric Co.
702 N. Franklin Street
Tampa, FL 33608.

Speaker: Robert F. Austin, Ph.D., GISP – Manager of Enterprise Applications Integration at the City of Tampa
Date:Thursday 4, March 2010
Location: Urban Center One, 4830 W. Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL
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ABSTRACT: A team in the City of Tampa recently finished deployment of an innovative wireless communications project on behalf of the Tampa Police Department. The project enables automated wireless transfers of data captured by digital video cameras from police vehicles to police station-based reception and processing centers. The project is a result of a requirement by the Police Department of the City of Tampa, Florida to upgrade the video surveillance camera systems installed in multiple police cars. The department selected digital cameras and identified numerous benefits to deploying an automated system for wireless data transfers between the digital camera systems and police districts. These data transfers require secure transmission with automated connection, minimal human intervention, automated bookmarking and “chain-of-custody” data controls.
Speaker Biography: Robert F. Austin, Ph.D., GISP, is the Manager of Enterprise Applications Integration at the City of Tampa, where he directs the City’s GIS, Web Development, Web Contents and RDBMS teams. Before joining the City of Tampa, Dr. Austin worked in the private sector as a GIS consultant and project manager for 23 years. Prior to that time, Dr. Austin was a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Oxford Polytechnic. He is the author of more than 60 published professional papers, monographs, books and book chapters. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the Board of Directors of the GIS Certification Institute and the President-Elect of the Geospatial Information and Technology Association.
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