FGC3/CMC2 Meeting Notes

December 7, 2007

Next meeting:

March 7, 2008

Time: 9 - Noon

C1003, Federal Center, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento CA

Web site: http://fgc3.wr.usgs.gov/

 

Attendees: Ray M., Dave H., Donna K., Carol O., Drew, Lorri P-L, John E., Paul V., Tony L. (ESRI), Joel D., Tom Lupo., Linda A. (Census), Terryl K., Barbara S., Beth W., Robert Lugo (USGS), Clemens A., Scott Gregory (ESRI), Gary D., Bob M., Craig Skalet, Brenda Jones, Robin M., Mike O. (OSHPD)

 

Delta LIDAR - Joel Dudas

CA Department of Water Resources just received new LiDAR data covering the Sacramento Delta region on two hard drives.  The data cover approximately 1,000,000 acres (1,600 square miles).  Data are in several different formats (*.LAS etc).  DWR is holding two data seminars next week – Wednesday and Friday.  Contact Joel if interested; he can also set up additional workshops if needed.   

Brenda Jones at EROS asked for a copy of the data.

 

 

Fire USGS - Carol Ostergren - see PowerPoint presentation

  Tasked International Satellite Charter - difficulties with access rights

  Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) - made available

     http://www.fs.fed.us/eng/rsac/baer/barc.html

  NOTE: Soil Burn Severity - how this differs from BARC see more at:

     http://fire.r9.fws.gov/ifcc/esr/Remote%20Sensing/soil_burnsev_summary_guide042203.pdf

  24/7 Data processing and loading

  Debris flows early warning systems - web page available

     http://ca.water.usgs.gov/webcams/

  Debris flow hazard maps - Sue Cannon

  Debris flow maps coming out soon - Available today! Carol will load to CASIL & other sites

     http://landslides.usgs.gov/research/wildfire/07sca/

  Ash advisories -

  Chief Scientist - Lucy Jones - active in this group

 

  GeoMac and RDDS - USGS RMGSC

     http://geomac.usgs.gov/

  Imagery Quickly Viewer - post fire will be here as well. No download available here.

     http://iq.usgs.gov/mapbuilder/viewer/erweb/index.html

  HDDS - has FTP site and metadata available.

      http://hdds.usgs.gov/EO/

 

7.5-minute GEO-pdfs - NAIP base, will be available through the CASIL web site and through the USGS store. Geomark - questions

   GeoPDF - soon to be used for the USGS mapping distribution & The National Map

     http://www.terragotech.com/solutions/pdfs/Map2PDF_Bundle.pdf

     GeoMark provides tools for commenting, sharing data and updates into GIS databases via

        shapefiles.

 

USGS post-burn data collection - data will be available to the public. Data collected last week.

   Gerald Bawdin collected ground based LIDAR for the area

   Aerial lidar acquisition for (part of ) 2005 Day fire (which includes part of the 2007 Ranch fire) and the Canyon fire currently in processing

   Hyperspectral (HyMap) for Witch, Harris, and Poomacha - will be available for free.

 

Post fire meetings - would like to find out more about. If you know of meetings going on please share.

   NASA-JPL

      http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/socal_wildfires_oct07.html

   HIFLD - DHS in January

      http://www.hifldwg.org/

   DOI BAER Team meeting - March or April 2008.

      http://fire.r9.fws.gov/ifcc/esr/BAER/BAER%20Team%20Management/BAERteams.htm

 

Discussion:

   Parcel data request from FGDC Cadastral - see:

      http://wvgis.wvu.edu/stateactivities/standardsandguidelines/tax/  

          ~docs/3StateManageProgOnePager.pdf

   Parcel data effort State of California

    http://gis.ca.gov/council/docs/DLRI_Report_Final.pdf

  Parcel data effort State of California

 

 

CALFIRE - Robin Marose - Mark Rosenberg was involved in the fire effort.

   FireScope - http://www.firescope.org/

     See list of meeting here!

   State Fire Marshall requested that Ray and Robin look at fire research needs.

     http://osfm.fire.ca.gov/

 

FRAP - legislation in place to map State Responsibility Areas - wildlands that are not incorporated and not federal lands.

    http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/index.htm

 

Discussion:

  Post fire mapping response to FEMA should be coordinated within the state.

  Local requests - how many came in, how did they get to federal coordinators?

  Training should be provided for post-fire response as well, beyond response & suppression activities.

  When the call came in to provide aid, several agencies stepped up including Dept. of Conservation, Dept. of Water Resources, Dept. of Parks & Recreation, CERES Program, and Dept. of Fish & Game.  Folks from F&G stepped up; 1/2 FTE was provided.People support system works because folks converge and get to work.

 

 

 

BAER Team Presentation - Lorri - see PPT.

  Problems –  

     Software updates (Lorri working on this with DOI)

     Need for current imagery and transportation data – these were critical.

 

Joint Field Office - Scott Gregory (ESRI)

Collecting imagery, data crunching, preparation, etc. Cataloging, metadata, data portal, FTP site, etc.

 

 

Fire Resources & Web Links -

NIFC - National Interagency Fire Center - http://www.nifc.gov/index.html

GACC - Geographic Area Coordination Center - http://gacc.nifc.gov/

    Fire Resources available at:

      ftp.nifc.gov/Incident_Specific_Data - these are organized and supported by the GACC

       These may be password protected to just support the fire staff – contact the GACC!

GeoMAC - Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination - http://geomac.usgs.gov/