Duane
Dippon IRICC Co-Chair (BLM)
Full agenda for the day with the goal to re-inventory agencies tasks,
interests, technology, user groups and build a network of partnerships and
support.
MOU for IRICC has full Regional Executive support both from Forest
Service and Bureau of Land Management.
IRICC is still part of our agency organization with an important role to
play. Here to identify how to help each
other accomplish today’s tasks. Identify
techniques and what corporate agency data is being maintained, and what data
agencies are looking for.
Terry
Hobbs (BLM)
Currently
moving to Citrix Server Farm, have pre-release of ARC9 with master sets of base
data housed on the new servers. By 2008,
Bureau to complete implementation from ARC Library/AML’s to SDE and ARC GIS
environment. Actively
involved in maintaining Hydro Clearing House (Dan Wickwire).
Base Data DEM, DRG’s, and DOQ’s seamless datasets for Oregon/Washington
with 1-degree coverage into Idaho/Nevada/California/Canada. Datasets are 10-meter resolution
with 90,000 x 85,000 pixels, very large files with feature level metadata. Working through ARC GIS
vertical integration between themes building seamless statewide data for all
themes. Interagency vegetation
mapping is online. Data Integration
workshops scheduled for March/April Hydro-Clearing House. ARC IMS Public site is functioning.
Kim
Rivard Co-Chair (FS-R6)
IRM
re-organization implementation began in May 2003, creating Customer Service Area’s
CSA’s with 3-5 National Forests per CSA.
IT/GIS/WEB/Geometronics support services provided through CSA’s. Data Assets & Geospatial Services Program
Group, with Kim as the manager, includes geometronic program areas, remote
sensing, aerial photography, cartography and the Data Standardization Group
with Ken Adee as the lead to coordinate standardization of FS corporate layers
and Debi Kroeger, as data administrator.
Nora Holmquist is the manager for Data Systems Program, including
Geospatial Tools Group and Oracle Group.
FS Natural Resource Information System (NRIS) has Oracle application
modules for Water, Terra, Fauna, Air, Geospatial Interface Tools, Human
Dimension all developing spatial components.
National Application INFRA contains Oracle and spatial components for
road/range data and ALP houses Oracle and spatial cadastral and property
information.
A-76
Competitive Sourcing IT-Services, Most Efficient Organization (MEO) bids were
due
Working on ARC GIS plan, testing ARC SDE loaded by CSA. Region 6 implementing SDE at CSA
level other FS Regions may be implementing at Forest Level. Business process re-engineering is being
conducted in other functional areas of the FS.
Bob
Mobley (FS-R5)
Northern/Southern Province Organization, working for Data Stewards in the
Regional Office under a functional organization, coordinating with Natural
Resource/GIS/IRM.
Goal to have National Applications up and working by the end of 2004,
preparing for challenges moving to ARC GIS/ARC SDE while waiting for the
National applications to complete migration to the new platform.
Not
centralized, work for the
8-10 years
ago tried province organization and it didn’t work. FACTS application, used for management of
ground disturbing activities information, includes fuels data, prescribed data,
needed for monitoring getting good data captured for where disturbance
occurs. NRIS-Water, 1:24,000 on FS lands
done in March, funding used to capture crenulated streams into water. Some work on 7th field
watersheds. NRIS Fauna installed on
Forests. Core Layer funding for
finalizing layers for use with FS scripts to move into SDE. Soil, Dev Rec Sites/Trails Heritage, ALP
finalized boundary, ownership. Vertically integrate existing spatial
covers. R5 Remote Sensing Lab-Sacramento
working on vegetation 1:50,000 updates. Survey & Manage Species using the Fauna(Wildlife) database rather than ISMS.
Dr.
Dave Hulse, (
EPA funded
effort affiliated with NWFP, joint Federal & University consortium, Pacific
NW Ecosystem Consortium. Four million
dollars over three years, set of layers available on website. Willamette River
Basin Planning Atlas, document published (Sold Out). ARC IMS tools at
Institute for Natural Resources, functional at state level like the
Natural Resource Council functions on the national level. Conducts
studies, scientist serve as neutral reviewers. Web based portal support for future
approximately six months away, serves as public access to data, with library
function, with little or no GIS software needed. Other efforts like Lane Council of
Governments, Metro 2040, regional efforts are taking on their own studies. Efforts of integrated partnerships are
producing results such as the Willamette Restoration Initiative and Oregon Plan
for Salmon.
Cy
Smith (Oregon-Geospatial
Oregon
Spatial Data Clearing House moving to ARC9, datasets moved into Oracle with
SDE.
Using ARC IMS
to provide data access with simple applications. Utilizing
ARC Metadata Server.
OSU Virtual
Oregon group, incorporated metadata, framework data with Geospatial One-stop
link. FGDC clearinghouse node through
Geospatial One-stop state link is now functional.
ESRI is
software of choice, working to get state license that would allow local
Thirteen
defined layers with hazards being the newest layer added to the framework.
Transportation
committee built the data model in coordination with 330 road authorities. Part of participation in developing the model
was to identify the funding mechanism.
Public safety, emergency call answering points, is contracting to have
the centerlines input into GIS. Find
ways to work smarter not harder, funding mechanism is key. Working with USGS, FEMA,
and other federal government agencies to coordinate. OGIC establishing access
policy, working on model
Doug
Terra (Oregon-Watershed Enhancement Board)
Working in
collaboration with the Natural Resource Institute, OWEB-board members, citizens
and federal partners, the Oregon Plan focus is on bringing folks together
without bureaucracy. Constant inclusive
communication focused on what the needs are, what common questions are, what
decision making process is required.
Local restoration groups working on the ground, 5-10 years. Endorsed by OGIC and OWEB board approved
strategy. Generating a
virtual library, the Willamette Basin Study now into portal, through the Basin
Explorer models natural resources, economic development and public safety. Collaboration fosters understanding of users
needs and partners people with questions together with knowledge management
system (contact info), information management system (tools) and data
management system (clearinghouse/standards).
Oregon Plan basin level collaboration/communication Request For Information (RFI) is on Oregon Watershed Enhancement
Board website, response generates understanding of user needs, what people have
what questions, facilitates partnership to bring clarity to the
Dave
Wischer (Washington
Department of Natural Resources, DNR)
Lost eight
positions, Carrie Wolfe is now working with internal data stewards bringing
standards in.
GIS Manager
struggling with funding cuts the primary focus is on DNR not external
associations.
Still
committed to data conversion from hydro to framework, western watersheds done
and eastern watersheds should be done by June.
Some work continues on data integration between state and federal
agencies. Transportation work has been
deferred while work on hydro is being completed.
Adopting framework model for cadastral, shared effort in the state.
The Citrix
server farm is currently running in test mode.
Core data sets are centrally located from migration to ARC 8.3
software. Developing
migration plan for SDE/Oracle.
Working through the issue of how users will edit data in SDE issues with
topology rules, feature datasets and challenges of vertical integration between
themes. Five ARC IMS sites, two on the
internet and three internally. Working on problem with Client server/web form, Oracle not
supporting the client environment.
.Net was adopted for development, it is quick to learn and easy to use
to develop simple applications. Using ARC Server/Arc Engine with Moxie Media software. Support User Group approach
to the business changes, finding a common ground and providing a forum for
discussion or software issues.
Dale
Guenther (FS R6 Fire & Aviation, State & Private DADA)
Putting together the Engine/Tender Contracts, working through the issue
of how to manage the Sensitive Information OMB Certification on the WEB.
Preparing GIS Fire Contracts, to provide support to incident management,
would like agreements in place before fire season, using FedBizOpps. Have a vacancy announcement out for
Interagency GIS position, will be coordinating and gathering data sets,
providing data coordination and warehousing function. Position is located out at the airport. Working with the PNCG, director level interagency
group, in support of fire, with a chartered subgroup to provide seamless data
sets and develop standards. Planning on
having hard drives preloaded with incident data to provide to GIS support
personnel when arriving at incidents. Developing a single source fire boundaries data set.
Data
Administration representative for State/Private, Fire, Aviation, Ecology
participated in a national level Data Management Conference. This effort was initiated through Nancy
Graybeal, presenting the need for our national applications to establish and
use corporate tables for standard data.
State codes, organizational code this type of standard data needs to be
warehouse managed with assigned data stewards.
Tactical subgroup outlined draft reference data to standardize. Strategy subgroup worked on strategy to
present to the national Information Resources Board. Spring workshop scheduled to work out
tactical implementation and layout policy.
Kansas City
Computer Center NITC website (located in KC with hub in
Department of
Agriculture has working agreement to facilitate web access.
Randy
McIntosh (NWIFC-Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission)
Worked on the Salmon & Steelhead Habitat Inventory and Assessment
Project (SSHIAP) for the WA Dept of Fish & Wildlife currently assigned to
work with the NWIFC.
The Tribes are an integral part of cooperative management of natural
resources, to network, coordinate and collaborate with. They have a functional data portal. SWIM, is the Salmon Watershed Improvement
Management system. Working
with the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife on cleaning and routing
salmon distribution working through the framework process to get their changes
into DNR. Monitoring
strategy for
Dana
Collins (BPA Bonneville Power Authority)
Currently going through IT reorganization, uncertain where GIS will fit
into the organization.
Working on transmission lines for the state of
Roberto
Morganti (
Inter-agency effectiveness monitoring
works in partnership to monitor the implementation of the NWFP. Monitoring Aquatic
Riparian/Watershed health, Old Growth Vegetation, Northern Spotted Owl, Marbled
Murrelet, Social and Economic components within
Steve
Lanigan (AREMP Aquatic and Riparian Effectiveness Monitoring Program)
Multi Federal
agency funded to increase effectiveness of monitoring efforts. Using random sample of 250
watersheds, sampling 50 watersheds per year with a rotation of five years (6th
Field HUC). Watersheds
chosen using random distribution, mostly on Federal lands. GIS data collection includes IVMP for OR/WA
vegetation and CalVeg for CA, Roads utilizing best available data and streams
reach scale, random site selection.
Using decision support model to evaluate what condition the watershed is
in. The watershed condition score is
determined, evaluation of condition distribution analyzed to determine
maintaining or improving conditions of the watershed. Migrate monitoring
results to NRIS (FS)/ARAIMS (BLM) or Oracle Data Base. Develop agency crosswalks for protocols,
funding and coordination.
The
following GIS layers are critical to this program (AREMP)
6th Field Watershed Landslides
Vegetation (IVMP) Fire History
Roads layer w/ attributes
Jennifer
Bayer (PNAMP Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership)
Provide
a forum for coordination of interagency Watershed and Salmon Monitoring
Programs in the
Expand
beyond NW Forest plan to more broad geographic scales. www.cbfwa.org/rme.htm
Stewart
Toshach (CBCIS Regional Project Team)
Regional Information System challenge accountability for project
performance, ability to answer scientific questions, need for an up-to-date
consistent regional data network.
NPPC/NOAA
Fisheries initiated development of a Cooperative Information System for the
Findings
included lack of authority of mechanism to fix the problem of inconsistent
datasets, no leadership to take on the problem of disperse data sets, need to
develop common protocols, inventory data and consolidate of information. Need a Regional network strategy, building on
existing data management efforts, target area to focus for advancement, develop
a regional administrative data stewardship framework with a focus on sharing
and locating data.
Need to develop data network for standards and protocols including
project performance, data collection, data reporting and sharing, quality
assurance, metadata, and document the deliverables, location data, map
coordinate projection, sampling stations, calendar date and data dictionary all
should be included.
PNAMP user group (biologists/scientists/others) define the aquatic monitoring
program. Then translate aquatic monitoring into data management needs, define
data management, coordination and administration needs. Developing
the potential data network of coordinated regional aquatic monitoring through
data collection methods, statistical sampling ‘frame’, data qa/qc triggers,
metadata templates and data sharing specifications, rules and tools.
Rich
Kang (Northwest Fisheries Science Center-Seattle)
Engaged in tactical data management issues, providing tools, mechanism to
share data.
Rather than email and static web pages engaging in all
encompassing project tracking system and collaborative website. A one-stop project archive
providing forum for discussion with capacity for documenting what members have
discussed. Utilizing oracle to
add and track more than just GIS project related plan and products ability to
include member contributions, their write-ups and discussions. In business collaboration with Pacific Coast
Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) created database to query and share through oracle
forms in oracle database. Building tools
for their scientist’s and collaborators, working with a number of agencies,
pilot studies providing this service.
http://webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/index.asp
Bill
Bogue (USEPA-Seattle Regional Office)
Very excited
about and interested in presentation at CBCIS Regional Project Team meeting
this morning, demonstrating efforts of the Pacific NW Water Quality Data
Exchange Project. Connecting databases
via pre-established data exchange templates.
Will arrange
for demonstration of EPA sponsored National Environmental Information Exchange
Network, approach for exchanging environmental data between federal EPA, states
and other partners. Demonstrates
success for exchange of water quality and facilities information.
Have
established a working model to automatically/semi-automatically accomplish data
set updates.
EPA technical
innovation dollars are available to tribes to collect data.
Has a high
interest in interagency collaboration and coordination.
Dan
Avery, (USFWS
R1+
The national agency will most likely join in the efforts with Department
of Interior, draft regional strategy for GIS, should be out mid/late summer. GIS functions within programs. Current effort is underway to index data and
input into the spatial data contract database, to increase communication and
accountability of data purchases. Using
ARC 8.3, have a team working on what it means to move to ARC9. Concerned that they still
be able to serve data to the public during the transition. SDE/SQL server and IMS site to provide data
to the public, also secure IMS sites working with USGS Fort Collins connecting
to test use. Interested
in data exchange between agencies.
Have Critical Habitat and Refuge Boundaries available. National effort is underway to define a
critical habitat standard.
Stan
Allen (Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission)
Sponsor of
Stream Net, Bruce Schmidt is the Program Manager, now spending 80% of his time
in
CalFish cooperative public website www.calfish.org. Working on
restoration project data, database system development and template for other
restoration data. Working on Fish Tagging Recovery (Adult Salmon Monitoring) workshop
in
Ian
Reid (NRCS
Agencies
national priority is conservation planning, working with the private sector to
develop plans to conserve soil. Provide
Customer Service Tool Kit with a spatial component. Modernizing, using ESRI
software, plan to migrate field office applications to ARC GIS9. County level database is aggregated to
national level, checked out to
Group
Discussion facilitated by Duane Dippon (IRICC Co-Chair (BLM))
Rich Kang is
willing to collaborate with IRICC and provide resources and put together
database in support of inventory of what data is available, who the data
steward or point of contact is. Long term, mid term, and short term process, verifiable, traceable,
data management, potential for collaboration.
IRICC group
has not previously sponsored web access for showing what layers are being
developed regionally. Initiatives are
developing inter-organizational to agree upon protocols, standards and
stewardship. Data Quality Act, when
making management decisions, need to look at whether the data is the right data
to use. Goal is to build maintainable
datasets, not just a snapshot in time.
IRICC
membership expressed consensus to build an inventory of the business data that
is maintained by each agency. Send list
of what data agency has with FGDC standard metadata and what projects agency is
working on to dkroeger@fs.fed.us for
inventory posting. Setup infrastructure
to assist folks in getting there jobs done.
Squeeze value out of existing datasets.
Inform members of agency efforts, like Fish & Wildlife Service
critical habitat on national level.
Interest
expressed to provide a forum for sharing of technical experience and
functionality of GIS Software Versions, Geodatabase, WEB Services, a technical user group to communicate with.
Future
meetings strategy discussion identifying topics for consideration such as IRICC
website, models of successful collaboration, how to assist with coordination
and integration of data, identifying opportunities to further support and
providing a deliverable product to address common issues like Presidents Forest
Health Initiative, State Framework Efforts, Salmon Recovery, Monitoring etc.
CBCIS Team
asked for representative from Forest Service to replace Dale and representative
from IRICC. Duane Dippon will represent
IRICC and Debra Kroeger will represent FS R6 Data Administration.
Scheduled IRICC 2004 meetings dates, April 29, August 5 and November 2.
Attendees:
Duane Dippon Kim Rivard
Dan Avery Jennifer Bayer
Bill Bogue Dana Collins
Dale Guenther Terry Hobbs
Dr. Dave Hulse Rich Kang
Steve Lanigan Randy McIntosh
Bob Mobley Roberto Morganti
Ian Reid Cy
Smith
Stan Allen Doug Terra
Stewart
Toshach Steve Waste
Dave Wischer Debra Kroeger