Meeting: FGC3/CMC2 Coordination Meeting

When: December 2, 2005

Time: 9 to Noon

Where: 2800 Cottage Way, Cafeteria C-1001

 

Next Meeting: March 17, 2006 - 9 to Noon – C-1001

 

FGC3 Web Site: http://fgc3.wr.usgs.gov

 

Announcements –

 

USGS updates – Carol Ostergren – see presentation on FGC3 website for details. NGPO Funded Projects status – 1.5 M $ in projects funded in FY05 through the USGS. Comparison to other states pretty good

DEM progress – see presentation.

NHD progress – High resolution almost done!! Tulare basin is started and will be problematic – just starting discussions on maintenance issues and state steward for the database. See presentation!

Urban Area Imagery – See notes on presentation.

USGS Update – Consolidation process is on hold for now – more notes in the presentation.

 

Gary Darling – CA DWR –

Delta LIDAR due very soon! Distribution through CASIL. USGS assistance was super! GPS data was great.

State GIS Architecture – group assembled and writing document. Trying to generate a state of California effort including the state government initiatives. Report to be available in April 2006. Working to include separate initiatives that could carry over if the document is not fully accepted. See http://gio.ca.gov/ and the link to the State GIS Plan OR http://gio.ca.gov/docs/State_GIS_Strategic_Plan_v2a.pdf

 

BLM – GCDB & PLSS update (15 min) – Dave Granger (BLM) – Geographic Coordinates Data Base (GCDB). Status map presented to the group, not available for release to the FGC3 web site. NILS site is usually 6 months behind what the state of California has available. See the handout: FGC3-CMC2_20051202_CA_GCDB_Progress.jpg

 

Web sites of interest include: http://www.geocommunicator.gov/lsis_home/home/index.html

http://www.blm.gov.nils

 

PLSS databases provided by BLM – Fran Evanisko - map hand out provided to show status of the land ownership, text document on BLM California State offices geographic data sets related to PLSS. Automated systems setup to process these and related databases. The database generated locally is not part of the national system. See handout:

FGC3-CMC2_20051202_BLM_PLSS_p1-5.pdf and FGC3-CMC2_20051202_ImportedGCDBtwnshps.jpg

 

Action Item – Dave, Lorri, & Carol will work on setting up a meeting just to discuss the details of GCDB as a special presentation. See if you can add on information regarding the state requirements (see Paul V. about this). Include Marti I. as well! Rick Hanks (see Paul V also) California National Coastal Monument.

 

Land Ownership/Surface Management Update - Fran Evanisko – there is only one person maintaining this database. There is no consistent and coherent method by which these databases are integrated. This is only federal lands. The state and local lands have been done by the state through the PCTL effort, BLM cannot pick this up and maintain it. GCDB is the database we should all agree to standardize upon for alignment of political boundaries and boundary definitions. See handout:

FGC3-CMC2_20051202_BLM_PLSS_p1-5.pdf

 

Other databases are also available from the BLM – http://www.blm.gov/nstc/gis/GISsites.html

 

PCTL lands – BLM Resources Agency has no funding to continue updates this. Some minor problems have been found with some State Parks polygons (potential datum shift issues). The contractor will fix complete the corrections and deliver this in Jan. 2006. See additional notes below in State section.

 

BLM FTP Site – all of BLM was disconnected from internet for 6 months. Now back on line for the past 3 weeks. 2 days ago the FTP site came back on line – the site has changed. Redistribution of the databases is being evaluated and in a few weeks this should be back up and running.

 

Databases are also being distributed through the geocommunicator web site. The database here attributes were reduced from what the state of CA delivers.

 

Geodetic Publication increasing geodetic control – Marti Ikehara – see presentation provided titled FGC3-CMC2_20051202_NewControl_2005.ppt. Review and maps showing CALTRANS north Region Network, Glen County Height Modernization & baseline for water banking, National Readjustment (see more in the NGS section below on ITRF), Delta Subsidence, San Joaquin, Clovis, and the need to coordinate on the areas between. See the maps for more information and contact Marti if you have questions! See more at: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/

 

Marine Boundaries Workshop – Review – Paul V. – Great summary presentation – see: FGC3-CMC2_20051202_MarineBdysWkshpOverview.ppt There are no more workshops planned, all presentations were taped and are available – contact Paul. See also the web site for more information at: http://www.ccjdc.org and ftp://ftp.dfg.ca.gov/outgoing/itb/pveisze/CCJDC_Posting/

 

 

State Strategy & Updates –

GIS Data Framework Survey - available on line till the end of December. Please get your comments in!!! Here is where to go: http://gis.ca.gov/council/survey.epl

Public Conservation Trust Lands (PCTL) – the geodatabase version is now available through the California digital atlas. Several databases are served through this interface. See this here: http://atlas.resources.ca.gov/atlas/app.asp

 

GIS Council Meeting – Council Chair has moved to Department of Health & Human Services Agency – Kim Belshe For more on this see: http://gis.ca.gov/council/index.epl

 

State’s GIS Services & Software – call has been on the street now for a couple of months. 23 vendors sent letters of interest have applied. Final bids are due on Monday. Awards possible by the end of December and contracts could be done later on. The State of California, Department of General Services is issuing this RFP to establish a statewide Master Service Agreement (MSA) for Geographic Information System (GIS) commercial software and maintenance and/or Related Customized Software Services at defined in this RFP. Full document is available at:

http://www.cscr.dgs.ca.gov/cscr/contract_ads/display/contract_cat_index.asp?Err=5&GUID=

 

CASIL – migrating to a theme- based folder structure approach about the first of the year.

 

CaSIL & National Hydrologic Database (NHD) High Resolution – CaSIL currently serving the 100K medium resolution data set. Cartographic set of NHD needed and USGS may have that already available for CASIL to serve. Users will be referred to the USGS download site for High Res. NHD.

 

Digital Land Records Information Workshop – see all of the notes, presentations, and discussions on the issues for a seamless DLR for the state of California. For more on this see the document: http://gio.ca.gov/docs/CGC_Issue_Paper_-_DLRI_Final.pdf

 

Announcement - Shawn Savings is leaving for the Kansas Geological Survey in middle of January 2006.

 

National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) progress – Some compressed county mosaics have come in and there are a few problems with the color displays. this is still processing and the conversion from SID to another acceptable format. Still talking about this spring/summer having all the full resolution DOQQs these being available. Some have come in and there are problems with the color displays. CERES will likely provide compressed DOQ mosaics via CaSIL.

 

Suggestion – provide these large image databases in reduced resolution format?

 

 

Round Table – All

USFS – Rich S. – moving to NAD 83 for all databases. Transition is now happening. Regionally we are moving to Albers. The 10 meter DEMs are done in San Diego, CA and the national center is proceeding on the A-76 study.

 

BLM – Bob Milton – Citrix GIS environment cut over happening by the end of this month. All data will be housed in Sacramento.

 

USFWS – Joni Mitchell – protected lands database and issues require more detailed information from the BLM.

 

National Geodetic Survey – Marti I. – make sure your NAD 83 coordinates with International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) the national adjustment will be done to include ITRF! For more see: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/ OR http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/itrf1fcr.shtml OR http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CORS/metadata1/

 

CA DFG – Paul V. – agree with the USFWS comments. GNIS is working toward integrating a location for the geographic coordinates. XML links to the National Gazetter.

 

Census – Tim M. – TIGER Line 2005 files are supposed to be released either today or very soon. Refer to the previous status sheets for this. Met with the State Legislature regarding the Redistricting efforts – Legislative Districts will be included in TIGER now. Will retabulate the data to these districts. Next phase of the redistricting program is the block and voting boundaries. The guidance comes from the state – in the past this was passed from the state to the county. For more see: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/

 

USBR – Barbara Simpson – Central Valley Land Cover 2005 is started. The 1993 & 2000 is available through CASIL after the change.

 

OES – Alan – Job announcement for Research Manager for GIS Group.

 

URISA Northern California Chapter – Open Nominations. For more see: http://www.norcalurisa.org/

 

 

 

NEXT MEETING – March 17^th 9-Noon

Attendance: -

 

Fran Evanisko	US BLM		fevanisk@ca.blm.gov
David Grainger	US BLM		dgrainger@ca.blm.gov
Dave Hansen	US BOR	916-978-5268	dhansen@mp.usbr.gov
Marti Ikehara	NGS	916-227-7325	Marti.Ikehara@noaa.gov
Donna Knifong	USGS - Water	916-278-3081	dknifong@usgs.gov
Tim McMonagle	Census Bureau	818-904-6418	timothy.william.mcmonagle@census.gov
Bob Milton	US BLM	916-978-4562	bmilton@blm.gov
Joni Mitchell	USFWS	916-414-6499	Joni_mitchell@fws.gov
Carol Ostergren	USGS - Mapping	916-278-9510	costergren@usgs.gov
Jeff Owyang	US BLM		jowyang@blm.gov
Lorri Peltz-Lewis	USBR	916-978-5271	lpeltzlewis@mp.usbr.gov
Barbara Simpson	USBR	916-978-5031	bsimpson@mp.usbr.gov
Rich Spradling	FS Region 5	707-562-8883	rspradling@fs.fed.us
Bill Twenhofel	US BLM		btwenhof@ca.blm.gov
John Ellison	Resources Agency	916-653-2238	john.ellison@resources.ca.gov
Ray McDowell	Resources Agency	916-653-7142	ray.mcdowell@ceres.ca.gov
Mike Byrne	CA OSHPD		mbyrne@oshpd.ca.gov
Gary Darling	DWR	916-653-5601	gdarling@water.ca.gov
Harold Feinberg	DOC	916-445-0646	hfeinberg@consrv.ca.gov
Alan Kilgore	OES	916-845-8542	Alan_Kilgore@oes.ca.gov
Paul Veisze	DFG	916-323-1667	pveisze@dfg.ca.gov