Meeting: FGC3/CMC2 Coordination Meeting

When: June 16, 2006

Time: 9 to Noon

Where: 2800 Cottage Way, Cafeteria C-1001

 

Next Meeting: September 15, 2006 - 9 to Noon – C-1001

Federal E-2702A Trinity Room, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA

You must pass through security to get to this room. The cafeteria rooms are not available. Those folks without a Federal ID badge must be escorted in the building and should plan on arriving a minimum of 30 minutes early to get to the meeting room

 

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

 

Announcements -

 

USGS Activities Presentation - Carol Ostergren, USGS CA

Imagery for the Nation – PPT Presentation - sponsored by NISGIC – everyone uses and needs imagery – this is targeted at fixing the problems with this type of data. See presentation Carol provided on the FGC3 web site. National Digital Orthophotography Program (NDOP) is reviewing the program design. Different Programs – 1- meter, 1- foot, 6-inch – come from various existing programs. The initiative is not a new appropriation, but it is taking funding programs already in place and redirecting these funds to this program.

 

See also:

http://www.nsgic.org/ - Survey available on line – send your comments to Carol O. as well!

http://www.nsgic.org/events/2006_midyear_presentations/monday/imagery-for-the-nation.ppt

http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring06articles/imagery-for-the-nation.html

http://www.fgdc.gov/participation/steering-committee/meeting-minutes/october-2005/Imagery%20for%20the%20Nation.pdf/view

 

For imagery workgroup notes, see:

ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/wr/ca/menlo.park/costergren/

 

 

 

NHD Update – stewardship efforts moving ahead, “sub-stewards” (or regional stewards) have been identivfied for some areas; Carol is working to put MOUs in place; and September training coming up!

 

Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) – Lorri – current status. Draft certified review of the first priority area has come in, reviews will be limited to Federal partners for the first round. Review training and implementation is being planned for September. Reviewers are being asked to contact Lorri Peltz-Lewis.

 

USGS virtual Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge (CLICK) – data repository. Incorporation into a 3-meter NED done with all data received. Having a nation wide seamless 3-meter may happen – someday!!! 2020? Effort is to reduce over spending and redundancy. Interactive viewer available, reference library, etc. See web site and Carol’s presentation on the FGC3 web site! What about other imagery such as Radar.

See:

http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/

 

LIDAR data coming in for some Urban areas in California – CLICK will have this funneled to them to create seamless 3-meter datasets for these areas.

 

Enterprise Geographic Information Management (EGIM) – Lorri

Geospatial Line of Business – DOI also requested

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-6-8-glob.html

NSGIC Response at: http://www.nsgic.org/

Geospatial Cost Estimate request from OMB

Geospatial Blue Print

 

Geographic Coordinates DataBase (GCDB) Workshop – Dave Hansen – reviewed what this database is and the workshop. Attendance was spread out well among organizations, but wish we had more. Constructive feedback coming in and routing to instructors. Possibly next workshop could be done in Bakersfield.

 

See:

http://www.blm.gov/gcdb/

http://www.geocommunicator.gov/GeoComm/index.shtm

http://www.blm.gov/nils/geo-comm/index.htm

 

LIDAR – additional discussions regarding Randy’s presentation? What do we want to do with this effort? Tabled for next meeting. ACTION

State Activities Presentation – John Ellison & Ray McDowell

Web site: http://gis.ca.gov & http://gio.ca.gov/

 

Framework Data Efforts – FGDC Grant – framework dataset work – RFQ went out – only responder at this time was Michael Baker. Workshops conducted to date – Bakersfield, Sac, CALGIS. Workshops still pending – Redding, Oakland, and Los Angeles.

Top datasets - Orthoimagery, Cadastral, Land Ownership?

Other datasets - Utilities, Cultural, Addressing, Infrastructure,

Discussion regarding concerns about missing datasets – Geology, Vegetation, etc.

 

Early Sept the draft is due from these workshops.

 

Potential Federal Needs in a California Geospatial Data (State Gov't.) Multiple Services Award (MSA) – GIS Data – the State government is looking at preparing a MSA to access geospatial data providers. This could remove some of the problems with contracting that have been encountered. Would federal agencies be interested in getting access to data providers? Please contact Robert Yoha

 

A Draft list of MSA GIS Services providers (this is for GIS services and COTS software only; it does not include data) is due out soon and a final decision should be in July/August.

 

NAIP Update – Full release was due in June, but now is anticipated in the fall. CERES will be hosting this data via an imagery service. But there are questionx about performance via the Internet. Compressed imagery is available on CaSIL (http://new.casil.ucdavis.edu/casil/remote_sensing/naip_2005/) will be on the National Map, Google Earth in the future, Microsoft also has a copy of this, but not sure if this will be on TerraServer. Uncompressed version will be near 2TB in size and there are problems with processing this out into that format.

 

NAIP Color IR – about $0.5 Million would cover the state, but, to date, there is a lack of interest for other than urban areas.

 

DOQQs – A single strip of DOQQs South of the border is now available. This will be distributed though USGS; contact Carol Ostergren.

 

NRCS – FY 2006 2-meter – what is the status of this – Action Item for Lorri & Carol O.

 

GIS Council Activities – Strategic Planning Process – first couple of meetings done. Using NISGIC template for this effort. Working on a Vision for the Council. Need to get some goals/initatives in place – DLRI came up as one possibility. CALTRANS will be helping fund development of the draft Business Plan. Imagery and Cadastral are also then of interest to pursue. Sept 20 is the next GIS Council meeting in Sacramento at USGS Modoc Hall. Contact John E. for more information.

 

Office of Emergency Services – Paul – Paul V. - mandate for OES to work with all emergency managers. GEOEC – Governor’s Emergency Operation Executive Council – meeting is a possible location for the GIS Council to integrate. Grants and funding requests to support new technology. HAZUS integration and utilization running in OES now.

 

Creation of a Hazard Mitigation Portal – OES & CERES is creating a web portal for identification and response to manmade emergencies.

 

California Department of Forestry (CDF) – Robin Marose – hazards mapping efforts with relationship to fire. Firescope did some awesome work efforts, but since it was disbanded much of this work has stopped.

 

 

Round Table Discussion -

 

National Geodetic Survey (NGS) - Marty I. – Coordination between NGS and BLM to include PLSS data – can look to Arizona. Datasheets within NGS now allowing for GPS data to be included from all contributors, but QA flag are on these.

 

NGS - Height modernization project – south delta extent through Modesto, Chowchilla, to Gilroy, and Highway 49. Stations every 4 km.

 

California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) – Marty I. – elevation data being distributed through this site. Only NAVD88 will be shown.

See: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/

 

Stable Monuments – Marty I. – compared recent data in the Delta to older data and found that the monuments are stable, but there has been some subsidence – how much needs to be assessed. Marty has a paper into the CalFed Science Conference

See: http://science.calwater.ca.gov/conferences/conferences.shtml

 

FEMA Map Modernization – Marty I. – NGVD29 conversions discussed with contractor.

 

Conservation – Robert Yoha – budgets very tight – nothing to report. Stereographic NAIP data – desktop solution for geologist for viewing stereographic dataset for the entire state. Accuracy to 3 meters and no additional rectification – $115K for the entire state. Data collected by the ADS40 – in 2GB strips, ERDAS Leica Photogrammetry software also needed. Thinking about creating an Earthquake Data Clearinghouse (EDC). Data not purchased yet, but maybe in the future and delivered through the EDC.

EPA – Dave G. – WBD efforts. Dave is in the monitoring and assessment group. Dave’s involvement is directly related to WBD and NHD. Improving the current centralized data systems – improvements on Storet.

 

Census – Tim M. – TIGER Realignment – MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Projection – status of completed and planned information as of June 12, 2006 maps passed out.

See:

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html

http://www.census.gov/geo/mod/maftiger.html

http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/mtaip_status/

 

AWRA GIS Specialty Conference – Lorri P-L

 

OES – Paul V. – Tsunami discussions and events possible in California paper put into California and the World’s Oceans Conference See: http://resources.ca.gov/ocean/cwo06/

 

BIA – Bill Silva – being asked to participate in NILS pilot project.

 

USFS – Rich – boldly moving to NAD83. Trying to get all of the coverages moved over. NAIP data coming from NRCS and not the local office. Kudos to NRCS!!! USFS National Geospatial Conference next week. WBD coming in is very exciting!! Von Smith – Data and Resource Information Office – working with data architect, it infrastructure, database stewardship, integrating corporate and business systems, etc. Strategy document redone for the region – will be available on the web.

 

 

Chris Fischer	USFS	707-562-8943	cfischer@fs.fed.us
David Guiliano	US EPA	415-947-4133	guiliano.dave@epa.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
Joni Mitchell	USFWS	916-414-6499	Joni_mitchell@fws.gov
Carol Ostergren	USGS - Mapping	916-278-9510	costergren@usgs.gov
Lorri Peltz-Lewis	USBR	916-978-5271	lpeltzlewis@mp.usbr.gov
Bill Silvas	US BIA	916-978-6073	bsilvagis@hotmail.com
Barbara Simpson	USBR	916-978-5031	bsimpson@mp.usbr.gov
Rich Spradling	FS Region 5	707-562-8883	rspradling@fs.fed.us
John Ellison	Resources Agency	916-653-2238	john.ellison@resources.ca.gov
Ray McDowell	Resources Agency	916-653-7142	ray.mcdowell@ceres.ca.gov
Robin Marose	CDF	916-324-1646	robin.marose@fire.ca.gov
Jim Perrine	EPA/DTSC	916-324-9826	jperrine@dtsc.ca/gov
Paul Veisze	CA OES	916-845-8542	paul.veisze@oes.ca.gov
Robert Yoha	DOC	916-322-9307	ryoha@consrv.ca.gov