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FGC3/CMC2 - Joint Quarterly Meeting notes
March 11, 2005

9AM-12 Noon
2800 Cottage Way
Sacramento

Here is the link to the powerpoint shown at the March 2005 meeting


USGS updates—DEMs going into production for Sacramento area; New urban area imagery for Riverside SB available; Project Homeland wrapping up phase 1 and moving into phase 2; reorganization still in transition period.

NAIP—contracting hurdles may or may not be resolved on Monday; NAIP cannot take private sector money. Project still pending; footprint may need to be scaled back, at this point uncertain. Fed folks may need to trim off border, islands, etc. Uncertain on digital or analog, state involvement in quality assessment, CIR band?

State updates:

Ray McDowell: CA GIS council meeting next Wednesday at CalGIS 1-5. Quorum of agencies has indicated will be present. Carol—send out agenda to the fgc3. Draft strategic information plan has not yet been endorsed by the governor; not executive order yet for office of geospatial information with director. Would be direct governor’s office appointment; authority uncertain and programs underneath it are uncertain at this time. State priorities: reorganize corrections, CalEPA/Resources was postponed, governor withdrew many CPR pieces. Eric Hoffman now employee of CERES (from DFG) for IMS and other application programming. OES/resources joint natural hazards portal not certain.

Resources/CalEPA building integrated IMS, password protected, semi-secure, for example, state water board can share sensitive water rights information with DFG, DFG can share licensed data. Not open to federal agencies in the short term. Target: 1-2 months operational.

State CIO has applied for a Homeland Security GIS grant. Build on the Project Homeland BAR-GC model to build state node. Uncertain outcome.

Paul Veisze and Marti Ikehara putting together a workshop in April on coastline delineation. Neither at meeting but contact Paul or Marti for information.

Gary Darling working on the DWR delta LIDAR project and contract status uncertain but moving forward we think (flight most likely April). Most of the (urban area) imagery has moved forward to the contractor.

Paul V. submitted proposal to NOAA for data acquisition—may be part of national coastline mapping. Includes Coast ranges and good portion of coastal areas.

Round table:

Dave Hansen: BoR sponsored remote sensing and evap transpiration/carbon flux workshop in February—report out in next few months. More work planned for lower Colorado R.

Field boundary project—common set of field borders for ag commissioners, mixture of sources, correspond to common land units, uncertain how many are available. Dept of Pesticide regulation driven.

Coordinating with DWR on water districts with intention to expand GIS use and get updated boundary and other data layers needed for operations.

Accuracy assessment of habitat monitoring for 2000 CVPIA

Robyn Myers: CalWater—end of year decided to look at MOU signatories; 100% turnover, new people needed to be updated on status NWDB, New tactic for funding: CalWater will apply to CalFED program to make watersheds accurate for the state; needs last little bit of money. 200-300k for linework delineation by contractor; $$ another round of review by local process. Paul V. cleaning up CalWATER 2.2. Watershed boundaries on State list of priorities.

Tim McMonagle: new status graphics, 20 of 58 counties through the process. SD and Butte now there (legal problems resolved), progress nationwide. LA, Kern, Merced SLO, SB, partial (city) should meet accuracy requirements, so only partials will be used. Imagery of field collection for the remainder. Rural counties most likely done with imagery, field collection or purchased. TIGER release 2 times per year, running a bit late.

Still hoping to use handhelds for 2010.

BIA has lost 2 GIS analysts and these positions will be announced shortly

Bill Perry: WERC collaborating with DFG BIOS project—data catalog and warehousing and ArcIMS. BRD funding 2 positions with DFG for moving soCA data in.

Terryl Kocsis: soil survey converted and served off soil datamart now. Soon should be able to create soils maps online http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/

Common Land Units (farmers participating in programs)—done for whole state is available but restricted until certified.

Cheryl Hickam: critical habitat, court issue on salamander required 180 maps. Caltrans/GDT data—how do we form partnerships to get the data? So much staff time spent of acquiring road information from various sources.

Rich Spradling: New USBGN docketed proposal to change the name of Mount Diablo to Mount Kawukum.

No Region 5 GIS coordinator yet, planning to re-advertise. FS is studying creating a Resource Information staff. Reduced but continuing use of paper maps and have created nice page-size, spiral bound atlases for 9 forests - also for sale to public. The first in a series of 10 Pacific Crest trail maps has been released (southernmost), printed on plastic. Inventoried all unclassified roads and OHV trails, GPS, part of MOU with State, public can review inventory on www. North Coast Wilderness Bill (S.738, part of Boxer Bill) incorporates USFS & BLM GIS data.

Next meeting June 10, 9-12 Cottage Way.


Attendees:

FEDERAL:
Dave Hansen BOR 916-978-5268 dhansen@mp.usbr.gov
Cheryl Hickam USFWS 916-414-6708 cheryl_hickam@fws.gov
Bill Kaiser USGS - Mapping 916-278-9511 wpkaiser@usgs.gov
Donna Knifong USGS - Water 916-278-3081 dknifong@usgs.gov
Terryl Kocsis NRCS Terryl.Kocsis@ca.usda.gov
Tim McMonagle Census Bureau 818-904-6418 timothy.william.mcmonagle@census.gov
Robyn Myers NRCS 530-792-5669 robyn.myers@ca.usda.gov
Carol Ostergren USGS - Mapping 916-278-9510 costergren@usgs.gov
Bill Perry USGS - Biology 707-678-0682 x619 william_perry@usgs.gov
Barbara Simpson USBR 916-978-5031 bsimpson@mp.usbr.gov
Rich Spradling FS Region 5 707-562-8883 rspradling@fs.fed.us
Dan Specht USACE 415-977-8591 dan.specht@usace.army.mil


STATE:
Ray McDowell DWR 916-653-7142 ray.mcdowell@ceres.ca.gov
Rupert Grauberger DWR 916-653-2698 ruppert@water.ca.gov


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