Spatial Data Management Group Meeting Notes For October 30, 2008

Treats: Keith

Notes: Theresa

Facilitator: Matt

Attendees: Terralyn, Matt G., Keith O., Heather M, Kelly C, Bill Diehl,Jerry Mohr, Patti H., Mar Weber, Yuni, Harold Zald, Rob Pabst, Mark Nay, and Theresa

Speaker/Topic: LiDAR

LiDAR: Dave Hockman-Wert demonstrated some of the different LiDAR software applications he has been testing. We had a good discussion on options for LiDAR. powerpoint slide show and software report (word document) Questions: what do you get back from the vendor? Intensity (each return has intensity, 1st return has the most accuracy, some are looking at other returns for classification of species (Object-based land cover classification using airborne LiDAR) Watershed sciences uses Microstation Version 8 with TerraSolid Products V008.001 (TerraScan and TerraModeler) running with (on top of?) the Microstation. How do you get imagery to match LiDAR? 2005 pretty close, may need to move things around a bit. Cost vs Free: easier to use out of box, QT modeler for viewing..(he likes the best of the free for viewing) cater to usergroups, so how to deal with multiple uses (forestry/hydrography/engineering) Mark uses Fusion, command line functions add functionality. Mark is looking at fire intensity, near infrared… higher value live, lower value dead…watershed sciences working on way to standardize intensity over an area. Harold Z will be keeper of the LiDAR list (theresa to provide him a copy of the names of attendees)

Agenda:

Upcoming Meetings:

A. Willamette Valley GIS Users Meeting, at OSU Valley Library, Willamette Seminar Room (Room 3622), on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, from 1 to 4 p.m.: Library talked about their application and used JavaScripting tools: Dojo, CorvallisMaps.com in a very limited but focused application where you type in an address and you get a map with no pan/zoom.

NW GIS User Conference Sun Valley Idaho (Oct 20-24): Keith and Kelly attended. Web based stuff, Serving the World, user presentations were good, day one technical sides. Jim Geringer, former governor of Wyoming that works for ESRI, good keynote. Other keynote from ESRI, front on guy for web based stuff. Lightly attended, around 100 attended.. Wide variety of people (vineyards)..SunRiver next year. Keith went to sessions on ArcServer.

. Matt went to FIA meeting in Park City Utah. He reported that he was in meetings all day long

GIS Day November 19th. 1. Keynote in Richardson 313 @ 3:00

Dr. Mike Bailey: "Not Your Father's Computer Graphics

He specializes in scientific visualization, 3D interactive computer graphics, GPU . .. programming, stereographics, and computer aided geometric design 2. Need help with GPS hike again 3. Keynote to the kids: Matt Gregory: Seeing data with GIS: From paper maps to immersive visualizations (La Sells Stewart Center Auditorium 11:30am)

Training needs:

What's new in ArcGIS 9.3 Theresa and Kelly to do a training in late fall

Kelly to lead a training in adobe illustrator in lab..(when?)

Software:

Theresa has disks for 9.3 on Forest Service Side. Needs dongle to run.
Dave told us about an Integrated Data Viewer from the Unidata website
Image server running (matt really excited about it) 10 meter DEM would be nice to put in there
Portal toolkit (scares terralyn)., not plug and play…theresa to send out link

Data:

USGS has agreement with NGA for recent satellite imagery. Quickbird 2, worldview 1, GOI, anyone would like to look at, see Patti (put under index in data/fordata for area coverage)

Resource center on ESRI has cool stuff…(some stuff is on premium service)

Round table:

Heather: processing landsat data (review before process …lesson learned)

Mar Weber, EPA: NHD+ watersheds: evaluating HUCs to see it they are watersheds (composite watersheds)

Theresa: SDE Training: understanding versions and managing data. USFS folks prefer file geodatabases over personal. Are there sharing problems? What’s the distribution? Any …version problems? (upgrade geodatabases in 9.3?)
Projections: set transformations in data frame and can project on-the-fly for analysis. Kelly saw a graphic on transformations, Kelly to see if he can get copy of it.

Kelly; cartographic: Portland maps for trails: Textual (textured pixal), puts stuff in Photoshop brings it back to arcmap and adds layers under it.

Patti: export map as pdf, geopdf toolbar, use in adobe reader (version 9) (geo pdf)