FGC3/CMC2 Meeting
Notes
June 6, 2008
Web site: http://fgc3.wr.usgs.gov/
Meeting: 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA - Room C1001-1002
Next Meeting: September 5th 9-Noon
Meeting Agenda
Announcements -
- Job openings coming out – BOR GIS Analyst (Fresno), FWS GIS Interdisciplinary GS-12 (Sacramento), BLM Application position (now open) GS-13,
- ASPRS Bay Area/Sacramento would like to start a new chapter – have contacted Robert, email Robert if you are interested.
- CA ‘More than a Map’ – see more below. June 19, 2008 - registration open
- CALGIS 2009 – beginning of April, more to come. Web site soon to be up. Contact Barbara Simpson (bsimpson@mp.usbr.gov) if you want to get involved! See more below!
- BIA is being RECONNECTED to Internet!! For more see: http://www.doi.gov/news/08_News_Releases/080523a.html and http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/cases/cobell/index.htm
Round Table – All
DOI Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) – Cheryl Hickham –
DOI U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) – Carol Ostregren
- NHD Workshops being scheduled.
- SCGIS pre-conference workshop will be included as long as a facility can be found.
- EditTool training – trying to schedule.
- USFS has had training and Carol is coordinating stewardship efforts.
- NED data being distributed for CA and OR.
- Imagery Working Group – more coming on what this group is doing.
- NAIP 2010 – USDA has decided to abandon the 2-m collection. Western US will move to 1-m collection every 3rd year starting in 2010.
- Funding issues – FSA is committed to agricultural lands for CLU efforts. Total cost calculation is 2.38 m about 1/3 covered by FSA, the other 2/3 are proposed from USFS, USGS, NRCS, looking for some state contribution.
- IR also being flown and will cost $360K. Need to discuss. Potential contributors out there. Carol will be coordinating this.
- Discussion on issues associated with accuracy and vendors used for this effort, especially outside of the flat lands in the Central Valley. NRCS AFO (http://www.fsa.usda.gov/) will handle the contract.
- Discussion on other imagery requirements, higher resolution, etc.
- Imagery for the Nation –
- 1 foot program – Vicki Lukas has taken this on as an FGDC effort. Many challenges exist when attempting to merge this with other county/city efforts.
- Urban program – Carol has many county-wide and regional images from NGA & DHS efforts. Some areas are more difficult to work with, but others are very successful. This will continue and funding sources are good.
- WBD – Watershed Boundary Delineation (see:
- Current status of this effort – 2 priority areas left to do
- All linework is being reviewed by expert in Utah – they have finished ½ of the priority areas so far.
- WBD CA Fact sheet – Lorri & Donna have one they will share with the group.
- Pre-certified DRAFT should be out in July 2008.
- Certification by the end of 2008 (calendar year)
- Integration with NHD - ??
CA Department of Food and Agriculture, Robert Yoha –
- GIS Executive Support Structure established.
- Bovine TB outbreak
- Research – medical health groups are not discussing geospatial usage. Lots of silos out there. Robert is volunteering to setup a track for CALGIS on this.
Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), Barbara Simpson –
- CALGIS 2009 in Sacramento (http://www.calgis.org/) – Barbara is the Conference Coordinating Chair. We are looking forward to the CalGIS conference in April 2009. Preparation are being made for the venue and we are developing the conference content. The success of this conference depends on our volunteers and we welcome participation. Anyone interested in volunteering can contact our volunteer chairperson/coordinator Ramona Navarrete rnavarrete@folsom.ca.us or myself bsimpson@mp.usbr.gov.
- Conference Date - Early April, we will be releasing the offical date in about a week.
- Early Bird Registration is going to be available in a sometime this June for a very reasonable rate. Keep checking the website. http://calgis.org/
- Current chair positions still open
- Focus Session Coordinator
- Outreach/Media Relations
- Poster
- Program
National Geodetic Survey (NGS), Marti Ikehara
- Height modernization projects include:
- Central Coast (150 bench marks) Big Sur to Mendo with 50 continuous GPS sites, post processing taking longer than expected.
- San Joaquin will be completed soon.
- Sacramento Valley – 350 stations funded by DWR Ground Water Branch.
- DWR Flood Management – LiDAR (1-ft elevation, along stream channels) flown for the entire central valley – northern portion of the valley can use the height mod data. San Joaquin is not as dense as desired. There are proposals for densification.
- INSAR data is being integrated in – working with Gerald Bawden.
- California Geodetic Advisor web site – developing this web site. Please let Marti know if you have ideas on content for this effort she has a student working on this for the next couple of months.
California Activites – John Ellison & Ray McDowell
- California Geospatial Executive Forum - ‘More than a Map’ – http://www.pspinfo.us/forums/Geospatial/index.asp - register if you are interested and with government. The program is on line – see web site for more details! If you have items to add to the booth contact Ray.
- Virtual Alabama - Discussed briefly - see also: http://www.dhs.alabama.gov/virtual_alabama/home.aspx
- Agency GIO site (http://gio.ca.gov/) – repackaged the services, working up content for the More than a Map efforts, CERES has a new fresh face! Go see it!
- GeoCaching incident – do not place unknown boxes near infrastructure – they could be destroyed. (http://www.geocaching.com/)
- My Hazards – site where the public can go to determine what kind of hazards may be in your area of interest. Includes just natural hazards - earthquakes, floods, etc. Not up and running yet – could be other issues that hold this up.
- CASIL (http://gis.ca.gov/) – site fixes and updates – zipping up many datasets to help novice users. This should also help with the metadata harvesting efforts by GOS. Making data easier to find. Coming soon – keep an eye out for this!
- Maps.CA.Gov – Ray is trying to set this up to provide access to the interactive web sites, completed maps, etc. This would go across agency boundaries and levels of government. Discussion on creating PDFs using GeoPDF to provide these to the public.
- California Public Conservation (not trust) Lands (PCL) – partial replacement of the past PCTL lands. No DOD lands. The accuracy is better (using parcel maps) than it was. Six month lag still associated with this effort. But, with that pretty comprehensive and trying to keep funding in place for the operations and maintenance efforts. Licensing? Open, but cannot resell it. Need to work with GreenInfo Network (http://www.greeninfo.org/) on this.
- Coastal LiDAR – trying to get a coastline and bays LiDAR database. Specifications available from Ray if interested. Concerns on funding are on going. Summer 2009 topo-bathymetric data potentially available as well. Many questions on funding and association with COE. Contact Ray to discuss more, especially if you have $$$.
DOI, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) – Donna Knifong
- StreamStats (http://water.usgs.gov/osw/streamstats/) – not up yet, but soon. Just basin characteristics first and then detailed funding for smaller area in the south state. Looking for funding to generate the statistics for other areas in the state of California.
- NHDPlus Data (http://www.horizon-systems.com/nhdplus/) – caution there is an exclusion polygon that is causing problems. This will be fixed by the end of the fiscal year.
CA DWR, Melody Baldwin –
- Looking for data, assigned on the meet & greet to work with other GIS specialists.
- Worked for OES previously.
Census, Tim McMonagle –
FSA, Ken Ogden -
DOI Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), Dave Hansen –
DOI Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bob Milton –
- BLM GIS Strategic Plan – released recently.- Bob checking into if this can be released.
- Web site – working on using Zip format for sharing data from the BLM CA web site.
- Streaming Services – cannot provide at this time.
CA State CIO – Gary Darling
- GIS Federated Plan is done and will be out to the public soon. Web site coming soon! Following federal standards where available, security issues, authentication, permissions, etc. Looking at business requirements and linking geospatial interfaces integrated with other work in the state, between federal agencies, etc.
- 2011 Satellite being sent up
- Jim Gray discussion & tribute – more see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist)
DOI, Lorri Peltz-Lewis
- Geospatial Lines of Business (GeoLoB)
- Lifecycle Group – revisiting the A-16 and associated elements on this. The group is working to report back to OMB with recommendations and guidance to meet the GeoLoB efforts for lifecycle efforts.
- Grants & Contract – assembling all of the existing standards and recommendations for grants and contracting. Discussions on thresholds & use of GOS, etc.
Attendees: Cheryl H. (FWS), Carol O. (USGS), Robert Y., John E., Ray M., Lorri P-L. (BOR/DOI), Donna K., Melody ?., Ken (FSA), Dave H. (BOR), Marti I. (NGS), Gary D., Bob M. (BLM), Barbara S. (BOR)
Next Meeting: September 5th - 9-Noon.
