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FWS NATIONAL GIS WORKSHOP AGENDA
February 9 - 13, 2004
Theme: Working Towards a FWS Enterprise GIS

Monday February 9, 2004 : Concurrent Sessions – Optional Training
All Day Exploring the Geodatabase
Tosia Shall – ESRI
Introduction to Spatial Analyst
John, Patti, and Lled – Juniper
Migrating to ArcView 8.3
Charmel Menzel – ESRI

 

Tuesday, February 10 - Plenary Sessions
Morning Opening Remarks - Marcia
Keynote Addresses - Lead: Deb Green
Karen Siderelis – USGS GIO
Clint Brown - ESRI
  Enterprise GIS in USGS – Lead: Doug Vandegraft
Geospatial One Stop - Hank Garie
National Map - Mark Demulder
National Atlas - Jay Donnelly
Board on Geographic Names (GNIS) - Roger Payne
Geographic Analysis and Monitoring (Landcover ) - Doug Muchoney
Afternoon Enterprise GIS in other DOI Agencies
Enterprise GIS & ESRI Software Licensing ESRI – Clint Brown
NILS/BLM: Leslie Cone
NPS: Theresa Ely
BIA: Richard Moore
Recreation One Stop: Charlie Grymes
  Working Towards a FWS Enterprise GIS
GIS Promises team report - Gary Krauss
NWI Geodatabase demo - Tom Dahl
Refuge digital boundaries/ digital land status - Doug Vandegraft
USFWS participation in NSDI - Deb Green
WEB/GIS Community Interaction – Scott Eckert
Evening Evening social gathering in lounge – Paul Lang’s “A Journey of the Spirit” slide show
Poster session follows

 

Wednesday Feb 11 - Concurrent Sessions - Technology Breakouts
Morning

Vendor booths
Doctor’s office

Second ArcGIS morning session
8-10 AM ArcView/ArcGIS Fundamentals – Andres Abeyta/IGIS Technologies

GPS Demos/Workshops
Lead: Sutherland/Riester
(all sessions suitable for beginner & intermediate)
10:30-11:30 - ArcPad and ArcGIS Geodatabse:
A demonstration of using the ArcPad mobile mapping solution. (Sutherland/Riester)
ArcGIS/Demos/Workshops
Lead : Mary Balogh, Linda Shaffer (ESRI assist)

- ArcSDE – Jon Nystrom/ESRI
- Customizing ArcGIS with Arcscripts
- Dataset Tips and Tricks:
NHD – Mark Ely
NED – Mark Ely
NVCS – Scott Klopfer/VPI
GAP – Terrestrial & Aquatic – Chris Castiglione

Remote Sensing Demos/Workshops
Lead: Patrick Donnelly
8-10: Vegetation Mapping Overview (beginner & intermediate)
10:00-10:30 break
10:30-12 Image Ortho Rectification ; ERDAS OrthoBase (intermediate–Advanced)
ArcIMS
Leads: Dan Avery with Jaymee Fojtik and Mark Jacobsen
Morning show & tell/demos:
8:15-8:45 Tina Freeman - Interactive Critical Habitat and a Regional Directory
8:45-9:15 Todd Sutherland: NCTC IMS site 9:15-9:45 Jon French – Getting at the other guy’s data( remote IMS access)
9:45-10:15 Doug Newcomb: Minnesota Mapserver
10:15-10:45 Tim Kern - ArcIMS Deployment Options
10:45-11:15 Alan Davenport - NBII Bird Conservation Node, Bird Mapping Application
11:15-11:45 Deb Green, Bob Houston (et al) - Gulf of Maine Project
Afternoon

Vendor booths
Doctor’s office

GPS Demos/Workshops (cont)
1-1:30 GPS Equipment Options: What GPS Unit do I buy? (Riester)
1:30-1:50 NCTC Accuracy testing (Sutherland/Mullenax)
2-5 GPS Data Collection and Navigation: A hands on exercise in using three of the GPS configurations described in the “What GPS Unit do I buy” session. a) Garmin; b) CE device w/ArcPAD; c) CE device w/Terrasync (Todd Sutherland)
ArcGIS (cont)
Dataset Tips and Tricks:
- TIGER- Joseph Marinucci (Bureau of Census)
- Metadata with ArcCatalog + Metadata video
- Intro to Geodatabases – Tosia Shall/ESRI
- CCP maps with ArcGIS – Gabe DeAlessio
- Baseline Vegetation Monitoring/Rainwater Basin Wetlands – Andy Bishop
- FWS Metadata Editor, Mapbook DEV Sample – David Hines
Remote Sensing (cont)
1-2:30 Object Oriented Image Classification; using eCognition (advanced)

3-5 Remote Sensing Sample Design; sample and geodatabase design for veg mapping
(intermediate)

ArcIMS (cont)
Technical ideas and discussion of possible IMS standards:
1-2 Tom Snoich: IMS Security Configuration issues
Tony Lavoi, Jason Marshall - NOAA Enterprise IMS efforts
2:30-3 Scott Eckert – IMS, Web Council, policies
3-4 Open discussion on whether there should there be rules for the implementation of IMS (scales, standards, security, number/location of sites, etc)
Possible required Map elements (standard) - Tina Freeman
4-5 Any other technical discussions
Evening GIS Steering Committee meeting

 

Thursday, February 12, 2004 - Concurrent Sessions - Programmatic Breakouts
Morning Refuges GIS Issues/Papers
Leads: Drescher/Vandegraft/Loesch
8:00 – 12:00 Regional Reports
This session will examine activities initiated in the Regions that promote consistency in the collection, management, storage, delivery and analysis of spatial and non-spatial data in support of the NWRS. The focus will be on the various processes used in each Region with a goal of identifying common methods and sharing of "best practices." Representatives from each Region will share their efforts in managing spatial and non-spatial data for land management. Next, a panel composed of those representatives will address several prepared questions followed by questions from the audience
1:00 – 2:15 Presentations: Using the Data
Dan Craver – Water Rights Mapping and Geodatabase Integration
Michael Artman – Geocoding: An application for Refuge Public Use Programs
Patrick Crist (NatureServe) – Spatial Decision Support Systems
Fire GIS
Lead: Ken Bottle
8:00 - 8:30 Geospatial Task Group (National Wildfire Coordination Group) (Ken Bottle, FWS)
8:30 - 9:00 LANDFIRE (Dr. Zhi-Liang Zhu (Dr. Z), USGS)
9:00 - 10:00 Fire-GIS at Alligator River NWR (Brian Van Druten, FWS)
10:00 - 10:10 BREAK
10:10 - 11:00 Veg Mapping Lite (Dr. Karl Brown, USGS)
11:00 - 12:00 Crosswalking Veg Data to Fuels Information (Dr. Karl Brown, USGS)

1:00 - 1:30 GeoMAC ArcIMS Application (Jeff Sloan, USGS)
1:30 - 2:00 Open Discussion

Ecological Services & Fisheries GIS Issues/Papers
Leads: Robert Houston, Andrew MacLachlan
Draft:
8-8:25 - National standards for Critical Habitat Designations & the Critical Habitat module of Geospatial One-Stop: Mark Jacobsen
8:25-8:50 - California Critical Habitat IMS: Dan Avery & Tina Freeman
8:50-9:15 - SDE Case Study: Enterprise Critical Habitat Application : Tim Kern & Jon French
9:15-9:40 - GIS and the Administrative Record: Mark Jacobsen
9:55-10:20 - Tracking and Integrated Logging System (TAILS): Mark Jacobsen & Jason Duke
10:20-10:45 - NW Florida Coastal Counties Network: Paul Lang
10:45-11:10 - Historical wetland analysis of the Nanticoke watershed: Herb Bergquist
11:10-11:35 - Fish Barriers and the Fish Passage Decision Support System: Chris Lowie, Jon French (alt - Carol Pollio, Tom Busiahn)
11:35-12 - Obtaining and Using Results from Large Scale Bird Monitoring Surveys over the Web : Mark Wimer
Early Afternoon Programmatic breakouts –summarize any results for a report to the town meeting
Afternoon Town Meeting : Marci Caplis – facilitator :Leads: Marcia McNiff, Linda Shaffer
Evening NCTC Dinner/Social

 

Friday, February 13, 2004
Morning Steering Committee Meeting, other special interest group meetings

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