Webinar Date: July 27, 2015
Webinar Time: 11AM to 12PM
Registration Link: https://nysgisa.clickwebinar.com/uavs-legal-and-policy-framework
Presenter Bio:
Mr. Pomfret is the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy, a non-profit organization with a mission to educate the geospatial community on the policy and legal issues that impact the collection, use, storage and distribution of location and other types of geospatial information. He is also a Partner at the Williams Mullen law firm where he advises business and governments on regulatory matters, licensing, privacy and data protection, information security and corporate transactions. Mr. Pomfret has given talks around the world on matters of spatial law and policy and writes regularly on issues of privacy, licensing, national security and liability issues and the use of geospatial technology in the courtroom and is the principal author of chapter on location privacy in the United States in Geographic Data and the Law: Defining New Challenges. Mr. Pomfret has been involved in geospatial technology for over 25 years, beginning his career as a satellite imagery analyst where he helped to develop imagery collection strategies to monitor arms control treaties and identify requirements for future collection systems. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and was appointed to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC).
Synopsis
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones, offer tremendous potential to collect geospatial information in ways that will be supplement and replace existing collection capabilities. Unfortunately, integrating broad commercial use of UAS into the existing legal and policy framework is proving to be a significant challenge. These issues go beyond getting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to fly a UAS for commercial purposes, and include privacy, liability, insurance and data licensing. This webinar will identify the major legal and policy issues that must be addressed and the measures that are currently being taken at the federal, state and local levels.