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| TRACK: Natural Resources/Environmental Protection |
| A Web-Based Geographic Markup Tool for Capturing Conservation Lands Data |
| Sam Merrill & Rich Sutton, Enivonmental Finance Center, USM |
| The New England Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the Muskie School of Public Service (University of Southern Maine) developed and deployed the Geographic Markup Tool (GMT), a web-based interface for distributed data capture of conservation lands in EPA Region 1 (New England). EFC worked with Applied Geographics in Boston to implement an application for compiling polygonal vector updates over an orthophoto basemap. This application utilizes multiple unrelated ArcIMS services and fuses them at the host location for serving to the web. The client side provides scalable vector graphics (SVG) editing capability over the orthophoto base, which allows features to be compiled to orthophoto accuracy and saved as individual sketches. These edited sketches can then be exported out locally as Shapefiles for integration with ESRI and other software environments. The GMT is designed to facilitate distributed spatial data capture among a segment of data providers with little or no existing GIS experience but with strong local conservation lands expertise and access to the Web. The project is currently providing orientation and training to field users in Maine and developing cost-benefit indicators for comparison with current state data collection procedures. |
| TRACK: Natural Resources/Environmental Protection |
| Advanced Spatial Analysis course in Sustainable Landuse Planning and ModelBuilder |
| Christopher Kroot & Gordon Longsworth, Maine Department of Environmental Protection |
| This presentation discusses a new course in ArcGIS ModelBuilder software and planning theory to support sustainable landuse planning. The course will challenge students to grasp concepts of sustainable landuse planning as outlined by Ian McHarg and to apply those concepts through data synthesis. The process involves starting with feature based thematic data layers, applying human values and summarizing these values to create sustainable landuse 'scenarios'. Scenarios are idealized landuse maps providing visions of various options for the future. The course is regional in nature though the methodology demonstrated applies at many scales and geographic regions. The course teaches students how the ModelBuilder has removed the technical barriers of past GIS modeling techniques that required lots of programming in AML or dozens of repetitive ArcMap Spatial Analysis tasks. ModelBuilder enables processes to be set-up in a short time, parameters changed and models re-run using changed parameters in a few minutes. |
| TRACK: Related and Supporting Technologies |
| Airborne Digital Cameras...why? |
| Jeremy Conner, 3001, Inc. |
| Digital cameras are here to stay. Now that they are, how can you use their data more efficiently? What are the benefits of a digital solution? The presentation will focus on the Z/I Imaging DMC and the Leica Geosystems ADS40. Examples of technology will include extreme imagery flown for the New York DOT (2" pixel resolution), an autocorrelated 3D model of the Grand Canyon, remotely sensed impervious and non-impervious surfaces and water features, and more. The presentation is designed to define the terms and technology as well as show real life application for GIS users and the public. |
| TRACK: Natural Resources/Environmental Protection - POSTER |
| Applying Economic and Ecological Principles to Identify Vernal Pool Conservation Reserves in the Pawcatuck River Watershed of Southern Rhode Island |
| Dennis E. Skidds, Yong Jiang, Dana M. Bauer, Peter W.C. Paton, Stephen K. S URI Environmental Data Center, Coastal Institute at Kingston |
| Wildlife managers are increasingly concerned with the impacts of forest fragmentation and habitat loss on vernal pool-breeding amphibians. Legal protection of these small, isolated wetlands and the upland linkages between them is often weak or nonexistent. For amphibian species which exist as metapopulations, losses of these habitats can mean localized extinctions. In this study, natural resource scientists and economists collaborated and developed strategies for identifying and prioritizing ecologically significant habitat patches for targeted conservation efforts on the watershed scale. In the preliminary phase of the study, models were developed for two species and used to estimate breeding effort at all known vernal pools within a watershed area. These data, combined with land cost estimates, were used to rank 1-ha parcels for conservation importance. The concluding phase of the project will take into account ecological processes and resulting spatial linkages that may influence the long-term sustainability of biological diversity in the conservation reserves. Amphibians, conservation, GIS modelling, environmental economics, vernal pools |
| TRACK: Public Safety/Homeland Security |
| Applying Municipal GIS Datasets to Homeland Security |
| Gary Volta & Mary House, Woodard & Curran |
| There are countless opportunities to apply GIS technologies to homeland security issues. Well known areas include emergency preparedness, emergency response, modeling and risk assessment, however new application areas are constantly evolving. This presentation will discuss homeland security related applications focused at the municipal level that can be derived from a municipality's existing GIS data. This is a very viable scenario for municipalities to utilize homeland security funding to further their GIS efforts. As an example, multiple GIS technologies can be utilized to interpret and depict GIS data related to the vulnerability of critical City assets as related to business continuity, life safety, property protection and reputation management in the case of a catastrophic event. This type of application provides valuable information to planners and responders to understand the highest impact areas in an effort to effectively plan and manage resource deployment. |
| TRACK: Municipal |
| ArcGIS as a Gateway to Municipal Information System |
| Mohammed A. Hoque, Town of West Springfield, MA |
| Getting information quickly, efficiently and sharing them with other departments are very crucial for local government. Using ArcGIS as a gateway to information made that a reality in Town of West Springfield, Massachusetts. Spatial data are organized in Personal GeoDatabase and non-spatial data are maintained in department's own databases in Oracle, MySQL or MS-Access. ArcMap and ArcIMS, with customized interface and Java/VBA functions, connect databases such as Tax database, Permit database etc. using ActiveX Data Objects or JDBC, and help town officials find spatial and non-spatial information from a single platform. ArcMap is extensively customized to search parcels, plans, streets, engineering drawings etc., to open sale deeds, plans, drawings etc. in external applications or add them to map, and to generate reports or create mail merged letters for notification. Now town officials spend more time on decision-making and less for information searching.Keywords: ArcGIS, ArcIMS, Municipal Information, Assessor |
| TRACK: Public Safety/Homeland Security |
| Assisting the Flood Response in Burlington County, New Jersey |
| Merrilee Torres, Burlington County Department of Information Technology, GIS Section |
| In
July 2004, Burlington County, NJ experienced a rainfall event of 6-13 inches
over a 12-14 hour period that caused many dams to fail and numerous others
to be damaged. The resulting flooding occurred overnight hindering public
notification. Hundreds of individuals and families were evacuated or displaced
from their homes in an area that is not accustomed to such disaster. A presidential
declaration later deemed the area a federal disaster zone. Although the
GIS Section of Burlington County's Department of Information Technology
has been supporting the Emergency Management Office in varying capacities
for several years, this was the first time GIS support was called upon to
aid in disaster response and recovery. This presentation will recount the
GIS Section's experience in supporting the Emergency Operations Center and
various County departments in the days, weeks, and months following the
flood. Keywords: flood, emergency response, disaster recovery
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| TRACK: Municipal |
| Back to the Future: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Move to a Geodatabase |
| Bill Elliott, Sanborn |
| Since the early 1900s, The Sanborn Map Company has been creating and updating large scale fire insurance map book volumes for over 12,000 cities and towns across the United States. The Sanborn fire insurance map details include: o Building outlines and setbacks, construction materials, number of floors including basement levels.o Building name, function/use, location of doors, windows, stairwells, and internal walls.o Streets names and building addresses.o Right-of-way widths, house and block numbers. o Fire hydrants, property boundaries, railroads, pipelines, and wells.Even today, Sanborn maps are relied upon by planning, code enforcement, community development and public safety departments to complete essential work tasks. With the adoption of enterprise GIS by local government, the benefits of providing Sanborn map data to multiple departments in easily accessible electronic form are very persuasive. Sanborn map data can be even more useful when combined with other data layers as part of an integrated GIS. This presentation will examine the value of the data on the Sanborn fire insurance maps for enterprise use, and introduce a series of digital offerings that provide Sanborn map data in formats that can be integrated into any city or town's ESRI GIS for maximum benefit. KEY WORDS: Sanborn Maps, Fire Insurance Maps, Large Scale City Maps, Building Details, Address Points. |
| TRACK: Municipal |
| Base Mapping Quality Control and Quality Assurance Process Overview |
| Mike Doyle, Chas. H. Sells Inc. |
| The presentation will give an overview of quality control and assurance in the process of collecting GIS base map data in a photogrammetric environment. There will be an overview of softcopy photogrammetry and the tools and process involved in collecting planimetric data in an accurate way. The process involved in transforming this line work into a fully topological GIS data set and the process both automatic and manual for data quality control and assurance.The presentation will include recommendations for end user quality control review procedures and recommendations for use of ArcGIS 9 tools for checking data integrity. |
| TRACK: Natural Resources/Environmental Protection |
| Beginning With Habitat - a Map-Based Approach to Conserving Maine's Natural Landscape for Plants, Animals, and People |
| Don Katnik & Colleen Ryan, Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife |
| Beginning with Habitat is a collaborative, public-private program whose goal is to maintain habitat that supports healthy populations of Maine's native plants and wildlife. The program provides local and regional planners with a set of 8 GIS maps that integrates information from many sources to show the locations of important habitats in each Maine town. This landscape-level information helps local decision-makers accommodate both growth and resource conservation. Since 2000, 167 towns have been mapped. Creating hundreds of town-specific map sets presents many technical challenges. Towns differ in size and shape, requiring different page sizes. The map sets previously were created as individual ArcView projects with a View and Layout for each map. Labels for base layers (roads, hydrography, towns) were "lost" in these town-specific files. We recently migrated to ArcMap to leverage its ability to access SDE, export to PDF, and recycle labels as external annotation. However, ArcMap's single-layout limitation has presented new challenges. Some elements (logos, text, and scale bars) and base layers occur on all maps, whereas others are map-specific. We have developed an ArcMap template able to rapidly produce all 8 maps, retrieve town-specific settings, and automatically adjust map elements to fit any page size without saving individual MXD files. |
| TRACK: Related and Supporting Technologies |
| Beyond GPS Technology: Lessons Learned Training Novices, Technophobes and Office Workers to Use GPS |
| David Kimball & Nathanael Lloyd, MA Department of Conservation and Recreation |
| Security concerns during the Democratic National Convention (DNC), forced the closure of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation's main office. Needing to find other work options for its employees during the week of the DNC the GIS Section was asked to train dozens of employees to use GPS and lead them into the parks to map trails. There were difficulties with learning to use the technology (Trimble GeoExplorer XM, with ArcPad software) but the problem of training individuals unaccustomed to fieldwork to be productive for an entire week in the woods was much more significant. The week was successful and prompted more requests for training by various groups, each with their own unique challenges. In an agency with 1,000 employees doing forestry, recreation management, fire control, land protection planning, construction projects, and public road maintenance there have been many different GPS technologies, data, and training needs. These needs illuminate the complexity of administering GPS in a diverse governmental agency.GPS, Training, Trails, ArcPad |
| TRACK: Municipal |
| Building a Web-Based GIS Viewer to Reduce Operating Costs |
| John Przybyla, Woolpert, Inc. |
| As more users get introduced to GIS technology, additional expenses like software, maintenance/support, and licensing costs are inevitable. Organizations with 50+ or more employees that actively utilize GIS technology face a significant financial and operational struggle supporting desktop GIS software installation and maintenance. Typically, organizations deploy ESRI's ArcView desktop GIS technology to large numbers of users, because ArcIMS does not provide the sophisticated tools that experienced users want. Although most organizations are aware that web-based GIS technology can reduce these costs, they are unable to accept the tradeoffs in capabilities that such web GIS products typically require.This presentation will discuss a case study on how a web-based GIS data viewer using ESRI's MapObjects Java technology was built to replicate ArcView desktop GIS functionality for 100+ casual users at a large metropolitan government agency, thus providing an easily maintainable solution and reducing support costs. |
| TRACK: Municipal |
| Build-out Analysis: A Tool for Municipal & Public Sewer Planning in Vermont |
| Karyl Fuller, Lamoille County Planning Commission |
| Build-out analysis provides towns with a visual representation of their town's future. In particular, this tool illustrates the consequences of current zoning. Often, this information is used to inform a discussion on amendments to the zoning regulations. But this information can also be useful in other areas. This presentation will present two case studies in Vermont, Morrisville and Wolcott, where discussions on public sewer systems were informed by build-out analyses. Wolcott was considering amending their zoning by-laws and a build-out analysis was done to provide assessments of the current and proposed zoning changes. During this time, Wolcott was also studying the possibility of adding public sewer to its two villages. Both of these processes were highly iterative, which ultimately lead to changes to the proposed zoning by-laws. Morrisville wanted to study the possibility of extending some sewer capacity to the town of Morristown, and a build-out analysis was needed, to provide information on the village's future sewer needs. This analysis was also able to provide spatial information on the current customers of the public sewer system, as well as, providing the somewhat surprising result, that most of the future sewer needs were not commercial but residential under current zoning. build-out municipal planning sewer analysis Vermont. |
| TRACK: Municipal |
| Building a 3D Database for the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts |
| Feng Yang & Gary Smith, Town of Brookline |
| Building a 3D Database for the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts- A Pilot StudyFeng Yang, GIS Manager, Town of Brookline, MassachusettsGary Smith, GreenMountain Geographics LLCTen years after Brookline's initial implementation of GIS, a rich 2-D database has been constructed, updated and stored in an ArcSDE/SQL Server database to serve all internal departments and the general public through the town's enterprise-wide GIS system. Brookline GIS group has been able to keep up with vast amount of GIS requests by departments and the public in a timely fashion, partially due to this readily available and updated database since data development is usually very time consuming. Without a library of 3D objects, creating a somewhat realistic 3D view of a desired area in Town is still a challenge and very time consuming. Through this pilot study of an area identified by the 2005 Brookline Comprehensive Plan, we are exploring ways to begin building a 3D database for Brookline so that in the future, we not only have a rich 2-D database but also will have a rich 3-D database to meet the increasing needs for geospatial visualization and analysis. In this pilot study, Sketchup, ArcGIS 3D analyst and other related technologies are used to fully render the study area. Buildings are built using Sketchup to allow their addition to the 3D landscape as multipatch features. Trees and many landscape features are taken from existing 3D symbols. New symbols are created using Sketchup, ModelBuilder 3D and others when needed. General construction of a multipatch building starts with the selection of a building footprint from the existing 2-D building footprint layer. This process establishes the X&Y coordinate base for the building. Cleanup of the building footprint is necessary to establish straight-line edges and clean outlines. The structure is then completed in Sketchup. Detailed facades are created using textures of the building taken from digital photographs of the structure and other sources. A simplified TIN is created for better graphic performance. A landcover layer is created to depict the streets, parking lots, grass covered areas, sidewalks, and bare earth.This presentation will demonstrate the creation and use of aforementioned technologies, discuss advantages and disadvantages of the technologies use, and recommend strategies for building a 3-D database for the rest of the town. |
| TRACK: Internet Mapping |
| Building Partnerships for an Internet GIS |
| Mark Wheeler, Applied GIS Inc. |
| Applied GIS, Inc. This presentation will examine the work done by the Schenectady County Department of Planning to provide GIS services to municipal governments and economic development agencies in county using Internet GIS technology. In 2000, the County began promoting the idea of deploying GIS over the web for its departments and select partner agencies. By 2002, the idea was firmly established as the Schenectady Internet Mapping System (SIMS), a membership based service for all county departments, 6 municipalities, 4 economic development agencies, and the local community college. This presentation will include details on the methods used to deploy the system, address the functional requirements of individual partners, enlist new partners, and how a pricing structure for membership was instituted. |
| TRACK: Natural Resources/Environmental Protection - POSTER |
| Concord Roadside Invasive Plants Inventory |
| Matthew Barrett, Town of Concord |
| In the fall of 2003 the Town of Concord conducted a roadside inventory of invasive plant species. Observed species were noted on paper maps in the field, and these data were later transferred to a personal geodatabase. A WebGIS Internet site was later created to share this information with the public in an effort to help educate residents about the plants in front of their homes. The site includes pictures of each species along with a brief description of the plant. Before the user get to the mapping page there is also a list of links to other sources of useful information on invasive plants. |
| TRACK: Related and Supporting Technologies |
| Creating Animations in ArcScene & ArcGlobe |
| Josh Friedman, Green Mountain GeoGraphics, Ltd. |
| It
has always been important to present GIS data in a way that is both effective
and aesthetically pleasing. Often this means making good cartographic choices
relating to color scheme or the placement of a legend. As the tools for
working with GIS evolve, we must begin to explore alternative methods of
communicating with our audience. The animation tools available with ArcScene
and ArcGlobe provide some great options for developing different means of
delivering data and ideas. This presentation will review the basics of creating
different types of animations and offer tips on how to get the most out
of these tools. The user can create a simple flyover of a 3D scene or produce
a more polished movie with a changing sun angle and moving features such
as cars. Animations can also be used to produce time-lapse presentations
of two-dimensional GIS data. The ability to save and export movie files
or capture still images of a 3D scene allows for the distribution of information
to non-GIS users and also provides some easy options for developing 'canned'
demos to run at meetings or presentations. Keywords: Animations, 3D, AVIs,
ArcScene, ArcGlobe{30 minute presentation)
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| TRACK: Education |
| Creating customized training for GIS |
| Michael Smith, Christopher Kroot, Gordon Longsworth; Maine DEP GIS Unit |
| This panel will discuss different approaches to creating customized GIS training for end-users, with the purpose of showing attendees how to create their own GIS training. Approaches presented will include web-based training and classroom training, and will be based on experiences in Maine state government and Maine universities. |
| TRACK: Municipal |
| Creating & Editing Tips and Tricks |
| Susan Scanlon, Fuss & O'Neill |
| Creating & Editing Geodatabase Data - Tips and TricksLearn tips and tricks for creating geodatabase data, including setting the spatial reference with the help of a developer sample. Once the data has been created, you'll learn how to best prepare the editing environment, setup snapping options, and work with edit context menus most effectively. You'll also discover great data creation and adjustment tools from the editing, advanced editing, and topology toolbars. |
| TRACK: Natural Resources/Environmental Protection - POSTER |
| Custom Atlas Helps Rangers Patrol to Better Protect Resources |
| Karen B. Anderson, National Park Service |
| At Acadia National Park, two operational divisions, Resource Management (RM) and Law Enforcement/Visitor Protection (LEVP), were looking for ways to assist each other to get work done efficiently. One difficulty LEVP has is rapidly orienting seasonal staff members (who are often new to the park) and easily alerting them to spots to keep an eye on in the backcountry. RM's GIS Specialist designed a custom map atlas to assist. The atlas is about the size of a field guide; it is printed on "Rite in the Rain" paper using a color laser, resulting in waterproof maps. Each map sheet contains patrol zones, UTM graticule, topography, hydrography, transportation, place names, boundaries, and mapped locations of enforcement or resource protection concern. We print these in-house, which is labor intensive, but gives us the ability to update select pages quickly if needed. Map atlases were issued to backcountry rangers in 2004 and a few more will be printed in 2005 for patrol cars. We hope to secure funding to convert this to a digital atlas that will operate on a handheld; this would allow the atlas to quickly reflect updates to the data layers.law enforcement; atlas; resource protection; DS Map Book |
| TRACK: Municipal |
| Creating and Presenting Interactive Decision Support Systems |
| Pete Young, Community Oriented Geography & Judy Colby-George, Spatial Alternatives Spatial Alternatives |
| Judy Colby George of Spatial Alternatives (Yarmouth, ME) and Peter Young of Community Oriented Geography (Burlington, VT) will demonstrate several examples of custom interactive decision support systems that they have created with ArcGIS tools. Crafting interactive decision support systems involves modeling issues and also making it easy to change modeling parameters on the fly as people view and respond to map and chart outputs. This is possible for basic applications with entry-level ArcGIS tools and for complex applications with higher-level ArcGIS tools and/or with ArcGIS extensions like CommunityViz. Creating a good analytical model is part of the challenge. Streamlining a model to run smoothly as an interactive decision support system is also important. What matters most, however, is designing a model and its interactive elements so that decision makers intuitively understand and trust the model outputs and can thereby gain effective decision support. There's no one recipe for developing effective interactive decision support systems. Ms. Colby George and Mr. Young will present examples relating to a variety of community planning, natural resource planning, and public health planning issues. |
| TRACK: Related and Supporting Technologies |
| Database Concepts for GIS Professionals |
| Girk Cakmak & Rich Annitto, Bowne Management Systems, Inc. |
| Summary: Enterprise Geographic Information Systems provide broad access to geospatial data while reducing data redundancy, improving integrity and efficiency, and reducing overall GIS maintenance costs. Databases live at the core of the enterprise geographic information systems. Therefore we think that developing theoretical knowledge and practical skills in designing, administrating, manipulating, and analyzing databases and more importantly, spatial databases is crucial to any GIS practitioner. Many state and local government agencies in New York State have started pursuing such systems.Our presentation will provide the audience with this knowledge and practical skills necessary for such successful enterprise geographic information system back-end. The following topics will be covered in the presentation:o Understanding relational database conceptso Database design and architectureo Databases integrity, reliability, security, and efficiencyo Advantages of using relational databaseso Structured Query Languageo Geospatial database conceptso Both attribute and geographic datao Indexingo Securityo Critical success factorsAudience level: Beginner - Intermediate - AdvancedThe presentation will require a minimum level of understanding about GIS. Prior familiarity with database concepts will be helpful. |
| TRACK: Public Safety/Homeland Security |
| Deploying and Maintaining GIS for Statewide E9-1-1 |
| Bob White, ENP State of Maine, Office of GIS |
| The State of Maine is in the process of implementing a GIS bassed application that can be used in the E9-1-1 PSAP's to locate a call, find directions, or to locate a wireless E9-1-1 call. The process to get us to this point has been long and difficult. Learn from Maine's experience of what it takes to deploy a statewide data set that supports geocoding, and routing. Discussions will cover hardware configurations, database tricks to improve performance, update procedures and a demo of the end result. |
| TRACK: Public Safety/Homeland Security |
| Delivering GIS Data to Non-GIS Users: Introducing the GEOBOOK |
| Bill Elliott, Sanborn |
| The GEOBOOK is an excellent medium for digitally distributing community plans, emergency response procedures and project reports with imbedded ESRI GIS data to non-GIS users and to the public. The GEOBOOK uses a digital book concept to give non-GIS users fast, easy and intuitive access to complex GIS information. The application presents data on a computer screen in book form, allowing users to quickly access descriptive information and to interact with map data using embedded GIS tools. The GEOBOOK makes use of ESRI's MapObjects and custom controls for its look-and-feel. A GEOBOOK Author Toolkit is used to develop and customize each GEOBOOK, but is not required to operate the final product or to update pages in a published GEOBOOK. This presentation will describe the GEOBOOK, describe how books are created using the Author Toolkit, and provide GEOBOOK examples from various user organization. The GEOBOOK is well suited to support Public Safety operations. |
| TRACK: Utilities |
| Developing a GIS-Based Utility Management Program |
| Sean Myers, James Carolan, & Elisa Lockhart, CDM |
| This
workshop is intended for those organizations that have already built utility
GIS databases or are thinking about doing so. The workshop will discuss
all aspects of a utility GIS program including program planning, GIS database
development techniques, field-based applications, and integration with related
computer systems (e.g. customer billing and maintenance management systems).
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| TRACK: Related and Supporting Technologies |
| Developing collaborative landcover data in Maine - perspectives from NOAA, USGS, State of Maine, and Sanborn |
| Andrew Brenner, Nate Herold, Collin Homer, Michael Palmer, Michael Smith, Maine DEP GIS Unit |
| In the decade since remotely-sensed landcover data were lastcreated for Maine, there has been tremendous development in the methods and accuracies available for such work. NOAA, USGS, the State of Maine, and Sanborn Solutions partnered to develop an integrated landcover dataset for Maine. This presentation will outline the new NOAA Coastal Change Assessment Program (CCAP 2001), the new USGS National Landcover Dataset (NLCD 2001), and the new Maine Landcover Dataset (MELCD 2004). Speakers from each group will outline the new products and methods of each project and how the integration between them was achieved. Examples of the various products will be displayed, and there will be open discussion for those in other northeastern states wishing to develop similar integrated efforts. |
| TRACK: Transportation |
| Development and Maintenance of New Jersey's Statewide GIS Road Layer |
| Jennifer Wolfram, Michael Baker Jr., Inc. |
| NJDOT recently adopted a new data model for their transportation network that will incorporate existing data with more recent spatial and roadway inventory data. These data will encompass the NJDOT statewide road network as well as public roads that fall outside of the NJDOT's jurisdiction. NJDOT and Michael Baker Jr., Inc. have been implementing the new model by incorporating data from sources that have varying attributes and degrees of precision. These data were developed over the course of several years for multiple projects. In some instances these projects were being developed simultaneously, which presented further issues of how to sync the data together. The varying time periods and purposes of these projects led to many issues, some unforeseen. Some specific issues that were faced include transitioning from a single to a dual centerline representation and incorporating varying road types, such as mainline and ramps, while ensuring network connectivity. The focus of this presentation will be on the specific challenges faced during development of this Statewide dataset, as well as lessons learned. A further challenge will be ongoing maintenance of the data. |
| TRACK: Natural Resources/Environmental Protection |
| Emerging Species of Concern in the Perimeters Of Military Installations Due to Urbanization Encroachment by 2020 |
| Dan MacDonald, USACE CRREL |
| Using data from a DoD Species of Concern (SOC) report, habitat data was developed using 30 meter resolution NLCD "National Land Cover Data" data by using raster spatial analysis techniques. The habitat data was then overlaid with recent evaluations of urbanization encroachment trends near military installations developed using a simple eight-corner neighborhood analysis using 4 meter resolution Ikonos imagery; a prediction of the effect of that urbanization to 2020 on the SOC was made by calculating the percent habitat loss. The NLCD data and the Ikonos data had to be normalized for resolution and temporal differences before the analysis was completed. This was a first-tier analysis of the likelihood that an animal SOC would be adversely affected by urban encroachment in the next 15 years and might seek refuge on the nearby installation. If so, this SOC would become a potentially important species to the Army by requiring increased management and resources.Key terms for this study are: Urban encroachment, Species of concern, Threatened and Endangered Species, military installations, Habitat loss. |
| TRACK: Natural Resources/Environmental Protection |
| Engaging the Collaborative Use of GIS for Private Woodland Management |
| Dr. Kirk D. Sinclair, Housatonic Valley Association |
| This was the third of three studies done for a dissertation titled "Geographic Data Intervention to Support Private Woodland Management." The dissertation was prompted by a claim once made by the Forest Service that ecosystem management was made possible because of GIS. Forests of the Northeast are owned primarily by private forest landowners, not the Forest Service. GIS may be a necessary component for the management of National Forests and Grasslands, but can it be a practical component for private woodland management in the Northeast? This third study evaluated whether information-based intervention, in the form of a role-playing simulation during a forest management workshop, could empower PFLs to use GIS collaboratively. The results from post-workshop interviews indicated that intervention promoting the collaborative use of GIS should be able to overcome the obstacles PFLs face in using GIS, but the motivation of PFLs to learn about GIS and overcoming the obstacles to collaboration remain important issues to address. While top-down intervention may address some obstacles to the use of geographic data for private woodland management, these issues of motivation and collaboration may be more amenable to grassroots intervention. |
| TRACK: Municipal |
| Enterprise GIS for Small Communities |
| David W. Pollock, Woodard & Curran |
| The development of a GIS program for any community can be a challenging, even daunting task. For smaller communities this task becomes even harder, with smaller budgets and staffs, but the same demand for information and services. Because of this, many smaller communities have not implemented their own GIS programs and have fallen behind in both utilizing and providing this service. Early adoption by larger communities has led to the maturation of software and expertise, allowing smaller communities to invest in GIS at lower risk and cost. One of the biggest lessons learned was to develop the GIS across the entire enterprise, rather than focusing on one or two departments. Enterprise GIS allows all geospatial data and applications to be shared across the entire organization, including the public. This level of sharing enables department, staff, and citizens to benefit from the GIS program and make better, more informed decisions. This presentation will focus on Enterprise GIS - defining it, how new technology has made it possible for everyone, and how smaller communities can now implement their own programs using it.Key words: Enterprise GIS, Small Communities, Municipalities |
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