FGDC3/CMC2 Coordination Meeting
August 27, 2004

Meeting: FGC3/CMC2 Coordination Meeting
When: August 27th
Time: Full Meeting 9-Noon
Where: 2800 Cottage Way, Cafeteria C-1001
FGDC3/CMC2 Coordination Meeting

Next Meeting: December 3, 2004  9 AM to Noon, Cottage Way.

FGC3 web site: http://fgc3.wr.usgs.gov

Announcements:

Landsat 5  available from roughly May-July covers the whole state. Copyright doesn’t exist – will be distributed through CASIL. Full resolution, all the bands, panchromatic.There are 2 sets of Landsat 7 from earlier dates also available on CASIL. See: http://gis.ca.gov/

 

Ray is now working part time for USGS in the state of CA.

 

LIDAR efforts in the Delta area – contact Joel Dudas jdudas@water.ca.gov

 

Training – Spatial Reference Systems being provided by UC Riverside Extension – Oct 20 & 21 - Wednesday & Thursday – roughtly $300 and CEU’s. See the UC Riverside web site for more information – brochure on line. See: http://www.unex.ucr.edu/sciences/gis/srss/default.html

 

Workshop on Projections and data in the future – contact Ray for more information!

 

Geodetic Control – completed in July geodetic network in San Joaquin valley – covers Grapevine up I-5, the aquaduct, 99 to San Luis Res. Data to be out early next year. Contact Marti for more information.

 

Federal Geographic Data Committee Subcommittee for Cadastral Data:   www.nationalcad.org 

 

Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) project – Chuck Johnson will provide web site for further information on this effort. See: http://pbo.unavco.org/

 

Conference CA/HI/NV/Guam ESRI RUG – January 25-27, 2005 See: http://www.cahinv.org/

 

 

USGS News –

 

Reorganization – National Map, etc – Carol Ostergren – Powerpoint presentation – should be available on the FGC3 web page. News release is also available on the USGS web site see http://www.usgs.gov for more.

 

General discussion – this is effective on September 1.

 

San Francisco Project – Homeland – BAR-GC Homeland Security Data Server – Testing system is targeted for December 2004. Question on how effective this effort is? Carol will report at the next meeting!

DHS – Department of Homeland Security

HAZUS – earthquake damage assessment See: http://www.fema.gov/hazus/

CATS? – Consequence Assessment ToolS - plume and atmospheric modeling See: http://www.saic.com/products/simulation/cats/cats.html

CAMEO (ALOHA) – EPA assessment tool See: http://www.epa.gov/ceppo/cameo/index.htm

 

NHD – High Resolution databases for California are well on their way. Goal is to have all of CA done or in work by the end of this year. Status graphic is available on the National Map web site. http://nationalmap.usgs.gov

 

Orthophotos – for the USA/Mexico border should be available soon, will be loaded.

Cottage Way sharing of drives for the 1 foot imagery needs to be streamlined – the local Federal coordinating group will look at this further.

1 meter orthophoto for the state (BW & CIR) available through CASIL. Will do distribution

ACTION:  Sub-committee to formalize distribution proposed and voted on positively.

ACTION:  Do we have a list somewhere of what is available and the spatial foot print?

 

NAIP (National Aerial Imagery Program) – Darla Irwin FSA – always used aerial photography. Old base imagery updates from existing Orthophoto – meeting on September 8 from 10 AM – Noon. Flights would be during leaf on.

 

CAP grant awards now posted on FGDC website – see http://www.fgdc.gov

 

 

 

State GIS Activities & Performance Review – John Ellison, Gary Darling, Ray McDowell

California Performance Review – commentary period is open. No GIS. Gary suggested to mobilize the GIS community to open a dialog. There are other opportunities to formulate the comments and getting these out the GIS community.

 

Go to: http://Cpr.ca.gov – recommendations for change – review this area.

Department of Infrastructure – CalTrans, Energy, etc here

Department of Public Safety –

 

Where do you put GIS within the state of California?

CGIA is only just aware of this – position is unknown.

It is important that GIS is recognized within the state.

 

ACTION: FGC3/CMC2  Steering Committee meeting to be coordinated by Robin Marose will meet in the next week or two to get a response formulated. Gary will contribute the on going ideas/recommendations.

 

Parcel data and state wide land information – Robin Marose – comparing the County data with the PCTL data. State owned lands pretty good. Federal lands are very confusing. The report is not public at this time.  Robin will check on the status of this to see if we can get it released. Would like a good incorporated city layer for the state, use tax rates for the state, but not working. CALTRANS has a responsibility to maintain city boundaries for the state of California – from Tom.  Census data is reliable in some areas, not so reliable in other areas. Tim says census hopes to have this update ability available through internet.

 

BIA (Federal Report) Boundary databases and requests for data – Beth Wentstrom. Databases that were released to the public were from USGS quad sheets. For the past year BIA has been developing reservation boundaries with BLM cadastral information. BIA with BLM is looking at a methodology for release of this information to the public. Data available by special request at this time. Announcement will

 

 

 

Federal Announcements -

 

Census – road data released San Diego – Tim showed maps that displayed the difference between the TIGER data and the new enhanced data. See the status map Tim provided under the file: FGC3_CMC2_20040827_PRODUCTION083004.pdf

Continuing to work on other counties. There are issues being encountered. Go to: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigermap.html

GPS utilization and integration

 

COE – will be working on having the Sacramento office attend these meetings.

 

NRCS Soil Surveys – several different versions available. Version 1 is being dropped for SSURGO 2.1 used with the soil data viewer. Working on an extension for ArcGIS. All surveys should be completed and on line for the state of California by the end of this year. Check for these on the Soil Data Mart. See the NRCS Soils information at: http://soils.usda.gov/

And the Soil Data Mart at: http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/&e=747

 

California rules available from the CA NRCS.

 

NGS – Marty – to retrieve the geodetic control is available through shapefile format.

Under data sheets - http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CheckOut/SpatialXRefer.nceXbroXF04-2.pdf

This URL allows people to retrieve shape files for geodetic control of various kinds:

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/datasheet.prl

 

NGS – Northern California – doing 900 stations in coordination with CALTRANS. To get precise horizontal NAVD88 control. There is no web site for this.

 

WBD – June meeting, need funding to get this moving ahead.

 

USGS BRD – getting data onto the BIOS web page. See: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/

 

BLM – NILS there are deliverables available now – link is at BLM NILS - http://www.blm.gov/nils/

Geospatial One Stop is now harvesting from the local BLM web site. Can use FTP

 

December 3 – 9 to Noon.

 

Attendees:

Lorri Peltz-Lewis, USBR

Donna Knifong, USGS

Ray McDowell, Resources

John Ellison, Resources

Carol Ostergren, USGS

Robin Marose, CDF

Alan Kilgore, OES, Alan_Kilgore@oes.ca.gov 916-845-8543

Victoria Smith, BLM, vcsmith@ca.blm.gov (916) 978-4428

Terryl Kocsis, NRCS, Terryl.Kocsis@ca.usda.gov

Darla Irwin, FSA, darla.irwin@ca.usda.gov 530-792-5531

Neil Nelson, USACE, neil.s.nelson@usace.army.mil 415-977-8055

Marti Ikehara, NGS

Bill Perry, USGS

Chuck Johnson, USBR

Bill Kaiser, USGS

Tim McMonagle, Census

Tom Lupo, CDFG

Bob Milton, BLM bmilton@blm.gov 916-978-4562

Beth Wentstrom, BIA

Cheryl Hickam, FWS