FGC3/CMC2 Coordination Meeting Notes

Next Meeting: September 7, 2007

Time: 9-Noon

Where: Federal Center Cafeteria C1001-C1002, Cottage Way

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

Meeting Presentations

Meeting Notes

Announcements:
Dave – CGIA awards still taking nominations, NorCal URISA workshop on public policy – attorney copyright cannot copyright fact but can copyright art/map, would be worthwhile to run again, materials not available. Seminars might be worthwhile on enterprise issues.
Lori – AWRA (Angela Carmi), trying to start up a chapter meeting next week at the federal center. GIS in Water Resources V, march 2008.

From Carol via Lorri:
ACM – November in Seattle

Landsat available online

100 10m DEM finished, all other 10m DEM’s in work and should be done in October. Robert Yoha may have money to purchase 10m for state. 10m EDNA.

Intermap data terminology problem holding up getting data

StreamStats – USGS starting movement, SoCal coming first, 1-2 years out

Google Earth enterprise license agreements

Parcel – Santa Clara lost suit – selling parcel data – attorney general opinion and case law for only cost recovery. On the web somewhere. State trying to assemble pieces together for one dataset.

Robert Yoha – 1-m imagery, fully functional stereo set – step 1 rectified in the camera, not fully ground rectified,

Veizse – GIS 1 job open

USGS activities: Lorri updates:
See presentation: fgc3-cmc2_nhd-wbd_stew_lpl_2007_0601.ppt
NHD conference in Denver, presentations on web page, almost all states represented. SEFI and DWR reps present. 120-140 attendees
Day 1: Maintenance, problems …
Photo based revisions
State activities
Day2: Editing, processing
Day3: NHD Plus, event migration, streamStats, future database, tool development

BLM presentation: use of NHD in their various offices. Lorri has full presentation,
Results—looks like most BLM offices using it
Concerns—coordination between state stewards, not all tools compliant with Arc9.2, funding, support from USGS,

ESRI –agenda for NHD related activities at ESRI conference.

NHD/WBD update –
WBD--80% in progress, 3 basins now funded through SWRCB( fund coming in FY2008), may have a certified dataset in 2008

USFS (Chris Fisher):
Stewardship, NHD – interested in role, Barry Hill new Brian Staub,
Fall training
WBD – consistant to 6 some down to 7 and 8.

State Activities: John Ellison, Ray McDowell

Gary Darling:
California Arcitecture – IT projects, combining systems into enterprise systems, finding it easier to pull GIS into these projects for funding, Health arena, NHD may work into DWR, Greg Smith interested in the stewardship, Gary concerned that GIS maybe going into the IT realm,
Veisze – What can or will we do with the Tracy Pumps being shut down on water resources and will this help push NHD stewardship. Sales potential???? Probably will just freak.

Ellison – Connecting the silos (talk from CalGIS):
History of CERES – see presentation!
See presentation: CalGIS 2007.ppt

McDowell – Status of CaSIL – see presentation
History of CaSIL – 2001 on….
Data types & storage,
See presentation: CaSIL Update_May07.ppt

Round Table
Paul – OES
National Acadamy of Sciences – Successful Responses start with a map – by the National Research Council – great book.
OES has positions open.
FEMA HAZUS Modeling conference at ESRI.

Mark – CALTRANS – changes with Roger leaving.
Marti – NGA – NOAA offices in the bay area did press conference on Climate Change – very good meeting.
Central Coast Height mod continuing.
Continuous GPS stations being installed for PBO.

Robert – Stereo Data Set data – companies are all working together making stereo available to the desktop – need ArcGIS 9.2. This creates its own DEM internally.

Cheryl – ECOS intra- and internet-web site for databases, tools, decisions, etc. Cheryl offered a presentation on this effort. Critical Habitat is available through this now.
Very robust GIS in the local regional office.

Ray – PCTL data set – proposing to do another iteration without funding or commitment to take the trust out of this database. Future PCL database working with TNC & Green Info Network on this effort. $100,000 needed for this effort.

Linda Akers – Census –
MTAIP program – Improving and realigning the local roads. 13 counties are in the realignment process, 11 are in QA, 34 counties completed. All counties will be done by April 2008. Available from the census web site. Moving all of the files to shapefile format in the future.

Census Address updates – state, local, tribes being allowed to review the address database before the census goes out. Did 37 workshops throughout the state regarding the program and preparing for the collaboration effort. Additional technical training will be conducted in the fall. Local Update of Census Address (LUCA) databases program and coordination with them as well.

Chris – USFS – continuing project to centralize all databases at the FSNITC. Natural resources databases have been centralized. Bandwidth not too much of a problem. Citrix being used to send small packets. Local servers in the FS offices. Funding issues are always issues….

Next Meeting: Sept 7, 2007

Attendees:
Rich Spradling             USFS
Dave Hansen               BOR
Chris Fischer               USFS
John Ellison                 CA Resources
Ray McDowell             CA Resources
Lorri Peltz-Lewis          BOR
Donna Knifong             USGS
Linda Akers                  US Census
Gary Darling                  CEAP
Robert Yoha                   CA DOC
Marti Ikehara                  NGS, NOAA
Mark Solem                    CALTRANS
Paul Veisze                    CA OES
Cheryl Hickam               FWS

Announcements:

CalGIS 2007 - http://www.calgis.org/
CGIA Awards Nominations - http://www.cgia.org/
Nevada GIS Conference - http://www.ngis.org/portal/
Geodatabase Design . URISA Southern California Workshop -
http://www.socalurisa.org/
Public Records - URISA Northern California - http://www.norcalurisa.org/
NHD Stewardship - April . more in http://nhd.usgs.gov/newsletter_list.html
Sac State Spring Colloquium -

USGS Activities, Carol Ostergren, USGS. see presentation

FY06 imagery
DEM status

USGS National LIDAR meeting

USGS lidar workshop was held in Feb. 14-16, 2007 in Reston, VA
Good spectrum of attendees
http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/presentations.php
Some discussion on what comes first, IFTN or EFTN?
Recent National Academy report recognizes need for a national elevation program to build higher resolution data
Report can be found at: http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/floodplain_mapping_final.pdf
"Elevation for the Nation" concept endorsed, but needs substantial federal funding
Similar model to IFTN
USGS perhaps should be the program manager
4-5 states have programs and funding in place for state-wide collection (OH, PA, IA)
Some meet FEMA specs, some better, some not (waste of $$)
Various deliverables
Federal expenditures: FEMA, CoE, Forest Service

CAP Grants for FY07

November 22: Announcement posted on-line at Grants.gov
January 26: Announcement closes
February: Proposal reviews directed by CAP category leads
Late February: Selection approval by FGDC Director
**First week in March: Announcement of selected proposals - Awardees are notified their award is pending
Early March: Award grants processed by Grants Office. Performance period will be March 2007 to March 2008
March 25 . 29: Kick-off at NSGIC Midyear Conference in Annapolis, Maryland
Categories:
Standards Implementation and Outreach
Framework client development
50 States (10 projects): CA Council strategic planning
Geo-Enabled Federal Business Initiative
Geographic information integration and analysis: 2 CA proposals

Other announcements:

4 NHD training sessions held in San Diego and Redlands in January
"Mapping California" submissions still need to come in from Federal Agencies--
send to Gary Darling. Will be a living thing and can be customized depending on need
New Orleans Flood: The Intersection of a Metropolis, Infrastructure, and a Natural Hazard. Can it happen in Sacramento? March 6, 4pm, location tbd
The Geospatial Line of Business Joint Business Case (JBC) and Common
Solution/Target Architecture (CSTA) documents are available online on page 44.
These documents lay out a six year plan for the Geo LoB. To access these documents, please visit the DOI OCIO website at:
http://www.doi.gov/foia/2007/by08_it_portfolio.pdf.
NHD stewardship conference coming up
NSGIC midyear meeting end of March
CalGIS conference April 4-6, Oakland
CA GIS Council meeting April 3, Oakland, 1-4 pm, location tbd

Lorri Peltz-Lewis, USBR CA

Enterprise Geospatial Information Management, Geospatial Blue Print & Geospatial Lines of Business --see presentation

EGIM started in 2000,
Roles and functions

Communications
Strategic planning
Advisory
Education and training
Integration
Future collaboration
Data management
GIS technical support
Application development
Special issues
Blueprint.interior enterprise architecture

Lorri on the web services working group

Who is EGIM .BIA, NPS,BOR,OSM,FWS, USGS, MMS, BLM .report to the DIO
computer information officers, Information technology management council, Core
Modernization Blueprint Team

EGIM Recommended Governance.major issue, GIS always been subservient to IT,
now have new GIS office in DOI, separate from IT, only USGS has a bureau level GIO,
perhaps other DOI agencies to follow suit. Governance architecture diagram not available
but perhaps in a few months, after reviews. See the EGIM webpage for more information. 

Value Measurement Methodology.VMM, out of Harvard business school, balances risk
and investment, calculates value lost for not preserving, sustaining, investing, etc. Focus
on need as opposed to technology. DOI really likes what is happening.

EGIM major tasks:
	OMB data call
	Geospatial blueprint
	Authoritative data source

Doud Santosa, look for his presentations (fixed IBM, might be able to fix DOI)

Bill Perry, USGS CA Biologic Western Region Ecological Research Center

	Bird Migration with Google Earth & NASA World Wind (15 min)	See Bill.s presentation and go to the werc satellite tracking website.

Progress monitor allows google earth use to see server access in real time.

.scientific. google, see January Geotimes, also a harvesting site for scientific searching to be available from google

State Activities:
John Ellison Ray McDowell

	Updates for California
1.	CAP grant for strategic planning 50k 
2.	Lowest attended council meeting in January, Cy Smith gave a good presentation on Oregon governance, data standards for 17 data themes
3.	Lawsuit MAPPS versus federal government, NSGIC role, various states. roles (Oregon is requiring GIS certification to download data!)
4.	Western governors drafting letter of endorsement for imagery for the nation; want some equity for western states in terms of coverage
5.	GIS Council meeting, arrive early so you can attend.
6.	Master services agreement for GIS services in place for CA agencies, please use it.
7.	Governor.s budget, Department of Conservation, reference to sustainable
 communities and green cities initiative to update local plans, 10M per year, toward

 vegetation mapping, resources agency and DFG standard, push for embracing for all
 state agencies for all vegetation mapping. Revive the MOU for veg mapping. July
 start. 
8.	Governor issued an executive order directing state agencies to be more accountable:
 will build a geospatial warehouse to capture data and other resources, provide web
 services to serve that data out to all agencies
9.	Department of conservation needs to develop service to locate reclycing centers,
 where to drop your junk off, being developed by resources. Type in your address and
 get a list of facilities. 
10.	NAIP all on line, nearly mirrored on CalEPA server, open layers map service for quick
 views of NAIP, will have grid, similar to older data on mapsurfer; working on
 compressed mosaicked versions of the NAIP; will take contributions of other
 mosaicked areas. Still no final price for CIR processing of the NAIP for state, 
exploring limited licensing.
11.	County Boundaries update . Nothing to report today
12.	Public & Conservation lands Workgroup "Heads Up"--Ray putting together (re
-animating) a small group formerly known as PCTL, meeting greeninfo network group,
 upgrade quality of open spaces land, central coast high quality, need to agree on
 database schema, define what is needed for statewide attribute scheme for public
 lands; easements/fee lands complicated, outstanding issues regarding NGOs, FWS, 
DFG public availability of information (public access), steward: not determined yet,
 would require support $$, CDF would integrate data,. How these boundaries interplay
 with local surveyed parcels and the legal boundaries and the squished parcel
 statewide fabric (developed by vendors) and larger issues is different from the 
business drivers of resources agency for biodiversity and environmental monitoring.
 Counties still rely on the written legal description as opposed to the map/cartographic
 representation
13.	DLRI: Oscar Jarquin has let a contract with Farallon Geographics for parcel strategic planning.

Round Table:

Dave Hansen: Delta vision.first meeting yesterday, status and trends report out in draft, San Joaquin river restoration website DFG

Robert Yoha: stereo mapping digitizing landslides, on a continuous strip of 1-m NAIP from Tijuana to Orange County (pilot), in Arc stereo analyst, need special glasses, still in discussion on purchase of stereo pairs.

Tim McGonagle: refer to graphic for TIGER improvement; LA county and Tulare promised be processed in next update cycle; June will be last TIGER update. LUCA program local update of census addresses, come to workshop to learn how to participate in the program, local governments can review and correct address list, anyone who participates must sign agreement to not use except to review for census, 100+ workshops in the next several months in CA. Hiring for 2010 census, test census going on in Stockton to test handheld units.

Get links from Tim.

Lorri: engaging with USGS on 3-d lithologic map (earthvision) entire central valley.

Paul: cooperative study with FEMA for loss avoidance, parcel-based, analyze performance of investments, will include fire management group, for fire-prone areas.

Dave Guillano: WBD EPA funding looking very good for completion of WBD this year, then NRCS certification by end of 2008, 6th level according to USGS, 12 digit, also state partner; another coordination meeting coming up stay tuned.

Marti Ikehara: remind public resources code changes effective Jan 1, 2007 hpgn new csrn designation, so when writing contracts for aerial photography, need to incorporate new terminology section 8801-8819. NGS published new coordinates for GPSed control stations to coincide with 210 anniversary, cannot get from data sheets, few months away; go to national readjustment, pick state, get askii flat file, 2007.0 for CA.

Rich Spradling: corporate servers will be removed from regions and forests, imagery moving to Salt Lake, moving to enterprise network. Applications might drive some funding for elevation data.

Gary Darling: funds for state GIO, rumor that IT governance will be in CIO office; still moving on NHD/WBD stewardship.

Next meeting: June 1, 2007.room C1001-C1002
Time: 9-Noon
Where: C-1001&2, 2800 Cottage Way, Federal Center, Sacramento, CA

Attendance:

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