The
Spatial Data Management Group Meeting
Cookies-Kelly Christiansen
Notetaker-Jennifer Swenson
People: Sharon, Ray, Sean Gorden,
Matt Gregory, Mark Klopsch, Terralyn V., Jonathon B., Ken V-B., Andrea L.,
Theresa V., Dave Hood, Kelly C., Jennifer S., Marti C., and Dave Conklin (new
w/ Nielson’s group)
Awards: there were probably some
awards given out but the notetaker was late.
There have been
no entries in the Access spatial info database since September. Please anybody/everybody input metadata
about your data so we can know what’s out there (and you’ll get chocolate!).
Is anyone
interested in getting an Ortho-base Pro and Stero-analyist module for Imagine?
The set would cost $1000. Mark Klopsch is coordinating the possible
purchase—let him know if you are interested in using or purchasing. The Imagine
user group is expanding across campus as time goes on. Imagine 8.5 (NT) is available, Mark Klopsch
is thinking of trying to have both 8.4 and 8.5 available for people to have a
choice.
Fall seminar series
Becky Gravenmier, from
ICBEMP, was our last speaker of the seminar. She left materials from her talk,
beautiful color maps of the study area, and CD’s of publications and a
publication list from the project. See Jennifer Swenson to get extra copies
(maps are gone already, sorry!)
A future seminar
series?? We are thinking of having
another spatial analysis seminar, perhaps informal for our group only (not
official College of Forestry Seminar). We discussed possible candidates. ASPRS
group is interested too (Andrea Laliberte. is the president). Possibly a
brown-bag weekly meeting co-sponsored by the ASPRS group and the SDMG. Perhaps
at a regular time during the next quarter. Sharon Clarke, Theresa V., and
Andrea will develop this. Ken
Vance-Borland will try and contact Charles Convis to see if he will be in the
area and we can work around his schedule.
Jennifer will contact Rick Jones-Pacific Meridian.
New plotter (hp5000, the
big hunken’ 60in width, fade-free colors)—Theresa V needs $$$ for plotter
supplies. We discussed emailing people other than GIS people, since the
majority of users seems to be poster printers lately, and the GIS folks aren’t
usually the $$ managers.
Bottom line is: Green or
orange money?
Misc: Old plotter is still
there (HP 650 C) and will eventually be moved to FSL 217. FSL 345 will be
re-keyed soon, they are still discussing exactly how this will be done.
Theresa V. wants to do an
ArcIMS workshop in January. The 3 hour class would be about getting a website
up and running. Theresa V. will propose a couple of dates to the forgis
list. You must put your data on the
Unix side on Castanea. Theresa Valentine guarantees that you will have a
web site up and running after 3 hours (as long as your data are in order).Data
needs to be in shapefile or image format in the same projection need to be put
on Castanea.
Misc: Discussion
of access to ArcIMS w/ Terralyn, Xwin..?
Preferably you want ArcIMS to be running on the server. T. Valentine runs
Unix on her pc to do this. The biggest headache in this is to get everything
set up and connected, once you have that, then the web setup is fairly
straightforward.
Schedule for Tips &
Tricks in January/February:
(Tips & Tricks
are technical get-togethers where one person or a team shares what they know
about some aspect of spatial data analysis with others. This is not meant to be
a course, but more of a knowledge-sharing discussion. They are open to all).
Graphic output. Early January (Theresa will email us).
Kelly and Jonathan(plotters, different color schemes on different plotters,
etc.) will work with Angela Haney
Tabular data. (Ken VB) late January
Also Doug Oetter’s intro to
Imagine Image Processing Software, back by popular demand:
http://www.cof.orst.edu/net/helpdesk/help/seminars/
Instructor: Doug Oetter
Schedule: Tuesday, January 22 [1:30-3:30pm]
Location: RH 203
Details: Introduction to remote sensing data and sources,
using ERDAS Imagine8.4 to view and
interpret data and generate output.
Instructor: Doug Oetter
Schedule: Thursday, January 24 [1:30-3:30pm]
Location: RH 203
Details: Advanced topics in ERDAS Imagine8.4, including
geo-registration, image
interpretation, supervised classification, and
accuracy assessment.
Doug is thinking about
doing a follow-up Tips & Tricks after these two mini courses that would be
question/answer discussion based.
David Hood: GIS computers
are here (45). M41s 1.8 Gghzs Pentium 4, 60 gig drive 500mhz ram. Arc 8.1,
Arcview, Oracle, etc., but not SDE.
They are still working out the kinks of networking the machines, mapping
drives, semi-permeable (unidirectional, OSU side can’t access FS data) access
between FS and OSU, but most things are working. The USFS new backup system uses 100 gig tapes, can back up 700
gigs. The 60 gigs of harddrive space on each machine is essentially “scratch
space” (a total of 2700 gigs) because there is not system to back it up
currently. You may install non standard software on the machines. Tivoli is the
automated update program for ‘standard’ software. Matt raised a question
regarding automated updates and how that may disable non-standard software
‘.dll’ files. Mark Klopsch says this probably won’t be a problem.
A DEM Users Manual will be
put in FSL 269 for perusal
Yang and Theresa are
discussing the possibilities.
Next meeting-1/17/02 @
10:00
Cookies-Sharon Clarke
Notetaker: Theresa
Valentine
Rich 313
At next meeting Don Henshaw
would like to talk about Sequel Server Server (sic).