FGC3/CMC2 Meeting
Notes
December 5, 2008
Web site: http://fgc3.wr.usgs.gov/
Next Meeting: March 6th 2009, @ 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA - Room C1003, 9-Noon
Introductions
Announcements –
- CALGIS – April 6-9, 2009, Sacramento, CA http://www.calgis.org/
- Volunteer for Focus Sessions needed
- Email – calgischair@surewest.net
- ASPRS will have a session
- Contact Barb for details
- BIOS training session
- ESRI training will be available
- ASPRS (American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) will have a meeting in downtown Sacramento December 17 - as start to quarterly meetings for Sacramento chapter, contact Robert Yoha for details.
- ESRI RUG – CA/HI/NV/Guam – Feb 3-5, 2009, Sacramento, CA , Doubletree
- http://www.esri.com/events/cahinvrug/index.html Early bird regist5ration cutws off
- Fed ESRI uc in /washington DDC
- 2009 CAP Grant Categories –proposals by Jan 6 – For more information contact: http://www.fgdc.gov/grants/2009NSDICAP/2009CAPschedule
GIS Council meeting - contact Mike Byrne for more information January 14, 2009 http://gis.ca.gov/council/index.epl
- BLM/USFS GIS – April 27th – May 1st, 2009
State Activities –
- Updates – John Ellison
- Flex viewer—stood up for Golden Guardian/Shakeout. More as a technology showcase, good positive feedback, only half of the CALTRANS traffic cam services were working , mobile devices were uploading data down in southern ca. CERES will be re-branded as California Atlas (Cal-Atlas) in support of the Office of the State CIO’s enterprise GIS initiative. Need to do by end of December so that it may be mentioned in the Governor’s state of the state address. Cal-Atlas will serve the broader ca community beyond the original CERES natural resources/environmental mission. It will contain the core CERES services (e.g., catalog, library, discovery, contribute, & view). It will serve 2 instances of viewer—one secure for Common Operating Picture and one public facing on natural hazards. John hired Monica Markle from OSHPD, enterprise GIS data coordinator to replace Ray McDowell. Revising the IT strategic plan—one area information as a tool. Agency data is public data, needs stewarding, conduct a review of data holding in light of public records act, and make available as appropriate and required. Thanks to John for keeping the downloadable function! Better interface for finding data. Who to contact for upload issues—Cal-Atlas will make this information more readily available.
- Terry Takai—job announcement for GIO closes today (12/5/2008)
- GIO operations will be stood up with homeland security grant dollars. What strings come with that money? Critical infrastructure, service development, other high security things, framework data big player. Task force future actions are unclear, stay tuned, task force not best body for setting technical requirements. The team will examine the task order, help OCIO develop implementation plan, OHS and CERES working on a grant opportunity 2.5-3M for inundation mapping around state water facilities, state infrastructure at risk, related data efforts like parcels. Working to get the most out of both grant $$.
- NGAC & Task Force Update – Mike Byrne – see Overview presentation on the NGAC site at: http://www.fgdc.gov/ngac recommendations for a GIO completed. Governor’s Office Action Request (GOAR) went to governors office in November, and not sure of action—one action—GIO announcement. Other positions may grow.
http://www.fgdc.gov/ngac
- Common land units (CLU)—some privacy issues – not available at this time unless you have a MOU/MOA with FSA
- see copies provided by Mike, GeoLOB, IFTN,
- Transition Paper
- Changing Landscape white paper
- National Land Parcel study
- Imagery for the Nation – next steps
- Development of a National Geospatial Strategy
- Next meeting will be February 3-4
- NGAC needs clarity on what the national map is and how is fits into a-16, etc. Mike has one more year on his term, and there may be opportunity to renew, discretion of chair, see the website.
- Asian citrus psyllids – Robert Y. - Wind data is indicating that this is moving from the south. In Tecate and moving north. Similar pests have similar distribution patterns more on Asian citrus psyllids see: http://westernfarmpress.com/citrus/citrus-pest-0905/. Looking for high resolution imagery to find these. Western Region Climate Data Center has a lot of climate data available on line see: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/ .
NAIP CIR 2005—Tom Lupo - has been received in DFG, significant reduction in price, very preliminary assessment is good, USGS, DWR will do QA assessment, and then it will go public!
NAIP 2010 - Rich Spradling—we have an opportunity to plan buy up for ½ m for the 2010 NAIP collection. Will research this further and get more out at the next meeting. There may be interested for the rural counties. Asian citrus psyllids research could also use this information.
Federal Activities –
- USGS – Alan Mikuni, Strategic science directions – See presentation on FGC3 web site.
- Lorri shared a video that was recommended by Dr. Cowen – YouTube – Did you Know 3.0? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8 interesting commentary on current events and the future.
- DOI – Lorri –
- Enterprise Geographic Information Management (EGIM) – meeting held last week, busy with transition, August ESRI Conference had numerous DOI politicos available, Karen Sideralis appointed GIO for DOI, working with her to define needs and provide support.
- Watershed Boundary Delineation (WBD) dataset – waiting on certification letter. Meeting on this will be held in Davis, CA on 12/10/2008. Discussed meeting in South Carolina regarding coastal issues. More will be discussed at the meeting in Davis.
- USFS – Rich S. – GIO will be under the engineering group. Chris F. no longer attending – in the Foresthill office as the District Ranger – stop by and say hello if your in Foresthill!
- NOAA – NGS – Marti I. – *Real time – CA Spatial Reference center (equivalent of NGS) – enacting a GPS real time system, southern CA now operating, data accessible through CSRC: http://crsc.ucsd.edu. The number of commercial operators in urban areas is high and there is a lot of overlap. CSRC & NGS working with the operators and tapping into the National Spatial Reference System – no requirements to do so, optional, but good way to support.
- Height Modernization projects:
- Sacramento Valley – accomplished this summer! DWR Groundwater funded this effort. Folsom through Shasta is monumented at 7km (average) spacing.
- San Joaquin Valley - DWR Flood Management working on this area (and its tributaries) – GPS fieldwork is done, doing post-processing. Geodetic control needed to support the LiDAR data that has been flown (last March).
- Central Coast - nearly done, results should be in soon.
- That would complete all of northern California except for *Hwy 395* corridor. Since NAVD88 leveling was run there, having Ht Mod stations (horizontal and vertical together) is not critical.
- BOR Habitat Monitoring – Barbara Simpson – 1993, 2000, completed, 2005 being worked on. Will be delivered to CASIL when done, most likely in early next year. Comparisons between 2000 and 2005 will be easy to do with the new database structure.
- USFWS – Cheryl H. – Chris Lett new national GIS coordinator, there is also a new regional director for CA/NV Randy Lowenhoffer. Waiting to see what comes with the new administration.
- BLM – Bob M. – Need more clarification on what the EGIM, GeoTeam, SAOGI, etc are. Lorri will get some graphics and definitions on these out to the group.
- USFS – Rich S. – NAIP imagery – where would we get the interest going for ½ meter imagery. Sherry ? OR is going for the ½ meter. We can be fairly certain that the 1 meter will be covered. OR & CA being flown in 2010. OR is purchasing this through a state agency assessment. Both ½ meter and CIR. Cost for California not available. Could use the state GIO in CA or Monica could help out with this. USDA APHIS (web link) project needs ½ meter or better Roxanne Broadway.
Attendees: Dave Hansen, Barb Simpson, Donna, Lorri Peltz-Lewis, Carol O., Jamie S., Robert Yoha, John Ellison, Tom Lupo, Chuck Johnson, Mike Byrne, Marti, Rich Spradling, Sheri Schneider (Oregon), Donna Knifong, Joe Concannon, Bob Milton, Alan Mikuni, Marti Ikehara, Cheryl Hickham,
Next Meeting: March 6th, 2009
