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Alaska Geographic Data Committee Introductions Mark Shasby, USGS, welcomed the meeting attendees and invited speakers from the Alaska SAR Facility, Geophysical Institute, in Fairbanks. Due to phone bridge problems, there was no teleconference participation. Special Presentations Dr. Verne Kaupp, Director, Alaska SAR Facility, along with Rick Guritz, gave a presentation on Alaska Mapping Research, more specifically, the Alaska DEM Project. Please contact Rick at 474-7886, rguritz@asf.alaska.edu; or Dr. Kaupp at 474-7263, vkaupp@asf.alaska.edu for more information. Jeff Denton, Wildlife Biologist, and Linda Ricketts, State Data Administrator, BLM Alaska State Office, gave a presentation on the Wildlife Observation System (WOS). WOS is a GIS system used to collect, standardize, manage and protect information gathered by the wildlife biologists. WOS has a data collection component that stores the information in an Informix relational data base utilizing ESRI's ArcView as a query and analysis tool. Please contact Jeff at 267-1233, jdenton@ak.blm.gov; or Linda at 271-4645, lrickett@ak.blm.gov for more information. Subcommittee and Working Group Reports Digital Orthophotoquad (DOQ) Shasby gave a short briefing on the Alaska Digital Orthoimagery Initiative. This Initiative seeks funding to acquire digital orthoimagery and elevation data for the State of Alaska and have these data available on the Internet via the Alaska Geospatial Clearinghouse for use by Alaska agencies, Native organizations, the private sector, and the public. This orthoimagery will be at 5-meter resolution over remote areas of the State and at 1-meter resolution over urban area, villages, transportation corridors, port facilities, and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Bathymetry LT Doug Baird, NOAA/NOS, Coast Survey, announced that there will be an AGDC Bathymetry Subcommittee meeting on Thursday, November 2 at USGS. Baird serves as the Navigation Advisor for Alaska. Topics to be discussed include determination of the 3-mile limit; recent hydrographic survey coverages; format and accessibility of currently available hydrographic survey data; and hydrographic survey plans for the next two years. In addition, discussion will focus on how these plans and products can compliment the efforts of the AGDC Hydrography Subcommittee. If you have any further questions, please contact Doug at 786-7004, Doug.Baird@noaa.gov, or A.C. Brown at 786-7002, acbrown2@usgs.gov. Hydrography Dennis Tol, BLM Alaska Office, gave an update on the activities of the hydrography group. He stated that their mission is expanding by facilitating discussions and working groups of watershed/subwatershed delineation in Alaska. The number of fourth level hydrography units is 133, but when you expand the sixth level hydrography units, which are the subwatersheds, this number grows to approximately 2,100. Tol said that Alaska is fortunate to be receiving the most current revised hydrography data in the country through the DOI High-Priority Digital Data Program. The production plan for FY 2001 calls for the completion of up to 60 catalog units (CU). Transportation Michele Gorham, AKDNR, reported that there has been progress on cleaning up the GPS centerline data that has been acquired over the past several summers. The data that has been cleaned is now available as shape files through either the AGDC Clearinghouse, the ASGDC Clearinghouse, or through AKDOT/PF. Gorham is planning to convene an AGDC Transportation Subcommittee meeting later this year. An announcement will be sent via email through the AGDC mail list server. PLSS/Cadastral Rich McMahon, AKDNR, announced that the Western Governor's Group is seeking funding along with BLM to try and determine what 18 western states may have in common with dealing with cadastral issues. These efforts are at the national level. Clearinghouse Emily Binnian, USGS, EROS Field Office, stressed that the activities of the AGDC Clearinghouse Working Group cuts across all of the AGDC themes. Binnian briefly touched on the various FGDC/NSDI grants that have been awarded in the State. The Municipality of Anchorage received limited funding to link their 39 data themes through the AGDC Clearinghouse. The North Slope Borough received some funds to use towards subsistence issues, and the State of Alaska received some funding for the production of their popular map data sets. The USGS Alaska Office has received a FGDC grant for the Web Mapping Testbed Project, one of only 4 granted nationwide. Kelly Zeiner, AKDNR, gave an update on the activities of the Cook Inlet Information Management System (CIIMS). The CIIMS project is nearing the end of its second year. It provides for data access and discovery for the Cook Inlet area. New information concerning the CIMMS website should be released within the next month. Earth Cover/Vegetation Mark Shasby gave an update on the activities of this subcommittee. Shasby noted that the Multi-Resolution Land Characterization Program (MRLC) group has met twice. This group is composed of representatives from the various land management agencies that are addressing the need for vegetation mapping. Resources are needed to get work completed in Alaska. The Program is planning on a 5-year cycle in order to compare vegetation trends over the years. AGDC Future Directions Dorothy Mortenson, AKDNR, led off the discussion. She asked how can we package and/or repackage data by theme in the future and what kind of tools would we require. She is looking for more consistency throughout the differing subcommittees, working groups, and entities such as the Geophysical Institute and the Alaska SAR Facility in Fairbanks. After additional discussion, it was agreed that this will be a major topic at the next general membership meeting of the AGDC. Special Projects/Announcements Chase Dense, Coastal District Coordinator, Alaska Coastal Management Program, announced that his office is working on a project to develop GIS protocols for local governments and state agencies that receive funding from their program. There will be an Arctic GIS Workshop sponsored by ARCUS and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) during the third week of January, 2001. This workshop intends to bring together the Arctic research community of the United States. Following the workshop, a call for proposals for projects will be broadcast. More information on the workshop will be forthcoming. A meeting between interested parties involved in developing the Alaska Digital Orthoimagery Initiative and staff from the Alaska SAR Facility, Geophysical Institute plan on meeting during the month of December. More details on this meeting will be distributed in the near future. Next Meeting The next general membership meeting of the AGDC will take place during the annual Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference in February, 2001. Date, time, and location will be announced after the first of the year. |
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