Spatial Data Management Group Meeting Notes for May 19, 2005

In Attendance:

Terralyn Vandetta, Dave Hockman-Wert, Keith Olsen, Theresa Valentine, Ken Vance-Borland, Kelly Christiansen, Matt Gregory, Ray Drapek, Kathryn Ronnenberg

Treats: Terralyn

Notes: Dave

Speaker:

Kathryn Ronnenberg gave a presentation on Graphic Design Considerations for Cartography.

Meeting Agenda:

Meetings:

Python Group Meeting May 18th: No report. Next meeting June 22.

Forest Service/BLM GIS Meeting: April 18-22 in Phoenix - (report): Theresa attended this meeting. It was pretty good. The highlight was a good talk by Jeff Nighbert from the BLM who uses World Construction Set and Visual Nature Studio, visualization applications from 3D Nature.

Mid Willamette Valley GIS Users Group, Thursday, May 26, 2005 from 1-4PM, Lane Council of Governments in Eugene. One talk will be on Geoprocessing with Model Builder and Python.

Geoprocessing and Scripting class in Salem on May 31, 2005. Keith Olson and George Mueller-Warrant will be attending.

Oregon GIS Standards meeting in The Dalles on June 30. They'll be discussing Land Use/Land Cover classification, among other topics.

SCGIS Meeting: July 31-August 2 in Monterey, CA - As of yet, nobody is planning on attending

ESRI Users Conference: July 25-29 in San Diego, CA - Theresa may be attending.

Ken will be attending a Society for Conservation Biology meeting in Brazil this summer

ArcGIS Server training in September: Matt, Terralyn, and Sean will be attending.

Upcoming training:

plotter...after July (theresa)

sensitivity analysis using SimLab (ken)

Imagine class in PDX on rectifying photos, (Theresa attending)

Intro to ArcGIS version 9...(theresa now has materials to teach this 3 day class)

Updating the GIS HelpDesk:

The CFSL GIS/RS HelpDesk web page needs to be updated, particularly the list of contact people. Those of us attending these meetings who are willing to be on that list should send our contact info, areas of expertise, etc. to Theresa.
The Intro to GIS/Remote Sensing in Forest Science Research Network page also needs to be updated, web links checked, etc. Kelly C. will do this.

Data Storage Issues: nothing to report

Set up for ArcServer and ArcIMS update:

Terralyn is moving all of ArcIMS over to the PC side. She is looking for a name for the new ArcIMS/ArcGIS Server machine.

GIS Day 2005 Planning Update: (theresa)

LTER got some grant money to do supplemental education. They will put this towards GIS Day. The $2000 will help rent LaSells Stewart Center. Students will meet there, have an intro, do the GPS walk and live demos, and a "kids' keynote" at 11:30-ish before heading back to school. Matt will be in the process of handing off the GPS walk duties to Mark Meyers (Geosciences). Students will be able to do hands-on GIS stuff in Saturday Academy the Saturday after GIS Day. This program is an ongoing supplemental education program offered by OSU for Corvallis kids.
We'll want to have some big maps for the LaSells Stewart Center lobby.
We will still have a poster session in Richardson as usual, a keynote in Richardson or FSL, and perhaps hands-on demos for adult attendees.

Upcoming speakers (possibilities):

Jeff McDonnell, OSU Forest Engineering -- Hydrologic Observatory

Jeff Nighbert on using Visual Nature Studio (perhaps a special longer training/seminar?)

Visualization tag team: ArcGlobe (Theresa) and Visual Nature Studio (Keith)

Remote Sensing topic? Jonathan Thompson

Round Table:

Ethics in GIS class at OSU Geosciences in Fall 2005

Kelly and Luca got to go to Alaska for a week to see brown bears and squeeze fish.

Matt & co. got a grant to play video games, er, to do forest visualization using a game engine. Tim Holt, prior illustrious presenter, will be heading up this effort.