Dawn talked about plans for an ESRI Development Center for OSU. The ESRI Development Center (EDC) program provides recognition and special status to university departments that have exemplary programs focused on educating students to design and develop GIS applications using ESRI's ArcGIS desktop or server technology. This can include programs that help students advance and extend ESRI's ArcGIS software or provide training in system integration and application development within a particular domain. Students enrolled in EDC programs will be given special access to ESRI software and have opportunities to be recognized for their accomplishments.
Open source geospatial consortium at OSU– If you are interested, contact Dawn to get a password to gain access.
Key codes for ESRI product site license will be updated on June 8th.
New ESRI sales contact for OSU – Erin Rice
Working on a proposal to fund industry/university coop research program to organize and centralize GIS data and integration techniques for the state of Oregon.
Decision support paper by Johnson et. al. (Guide to Decison Support Systems for Forest Biodiversity)(link to booklet).
Dawn on sabbatical until January 09.
LiDAR lunch meeting was held to canvas users of data and network. No future meetings scheduled at this time. Most LiDAR is being done in Warren’s group, but Bernard Bormann and Mark Ney are also working with LiDAR in the Biscuit Fire area. Keith and Tom Spies hope to do some work in the Andrews this year.
Geoprocessing group: Patti and Theresa to look at new options for using Python (outside of arc applications)