Attendees: Duane Dippon-BLM,
Kim Rivard-FS, Bill Bogue-EPA,
Dana Collins-BPA, Dale Guenther-FS,
Jeanne
Keyes-Titan Corp./BLM, Rich Kang-NOAA, Steve Lanigan-FS,
Jeff Nighbert-BLM, Ian Reid-USDA,
Doug Terra-OR-OWEB, Debra Kroeger-FS
2002/2003 Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service data has been processed and integrated in a report format with the 1998 through 2001 datasets for the OWEB Coho Coastal ESU data request. Currently working on completing the processing and integration of the BLM and FS data to complete the data collection for 2002/2003. Still waiting to receive some unit’s data. Working on completing a request from Dave Baker, Interagency Monitoring Team. Data will be posted on the IRDA web site as soon as it is complete for this processing period, expected by the end of May.
Rich Kang, NOAA expressed interest and concern that the IRDA data
remain available and posted to maintain interagency agreements. NOAA collects restoration data from 27
participants including IRDA in support of scientific monitoring &
evaluation efforts. IRDA data is a part
of their collaborative restoration database used to track restoration costs and
effectiveness.
Group discussion concerning the importance of who is collecting what, what data calls and collections are currently addressing restoration efforts, costs and scientific monitoring. Is the data being collected meeting the executive, scientific needs to address Congress and PNAMP and support of the NWFP? How is it fitting in agency/organization priorities? Can we make a concerted effort for validation of past data collection efforts by requesting units to check data submitted in previous years?
USDA, Farm
Services Agency (FSA) oversees this program and uses this imagery for
agricultural compliance checking. If 50%
of a county is agricultural, then the whole county is flown, if the
agricultural area is less then 50 %, then just the agricultural area is flown
not the whole county. The photography is
flown at 1:40,000. The imagery is flown in the summer with “leaf” on and less
than 10% cloud cover. FSA contacted the
Oregon Geographic Information Council and they have organized a consortium of
partners to try to acquire statewide coverage of NAIP photography at 1-meter
resolution for the 2005 season. The
group is looking to raise $1.5 million for statewide
coverage.
Group
discussion included agency updates from the FS and BLM. Rod Dawson (FS) has already acquired some 2003 NAIP imagery for the
Good
opportunity to establish local partnerships and make connections to share
costs. This is an opportunity for IRICC
members to get involved to help obtain statewide data.
Farm Service
Agency (FSA) State Office in Tualatin contact is Jim Baker.
Email address
is james.baker@or.usda Telephone
Number: (503) 692-3688 x 235
Randy Sounhein, OGIC Digital Ortho
Framework Lead, randy.sounhein @state.or.us
(503) 378-3805 x270
Additional
Information about the product can be found at:http://www.apfo.usda.gov in the “White
Papers” Tab
Jeff
Nighbert
(Bureau of Land Management) Serving Raster Data
The
IRICC membership convened in the BLM theater area for demonstration by Jeff,
the Senior GIS Technical Specialist. As
a lead beta-test site for Arc9, he has been working on implementation of BLM
Oregon State Office Enterprise GIS strategy, using Citrix Servers, ArcSDE and an ArcIMS portal. He has been generating seamless images and
datasets in Geographic NAD83 decimal degree projection. He ran up against disk space issues and has
additional disks ordered.
Address
of Oregon BLM State Office Data Library to download datasets:
Address
of
The
Bio Science Group, of the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, has available
$100,000 to support FGDC framework data development. The thoughts are that a Riparian Assessment
theme is one of the critical data sets that has not
been given enough attention. It is
important to the Oregon State Salmon Recovery Plan and the Oregon State
Department of Fish & Wildlife for the development of a Comprehensive
Conservation Strategy to receive federal USFWS grant funds. Doug provided a handout of the Ken Bierly’s “Review Draft Oregon Riparian Assessment
Framework”, a conceptual introduction to the project proposal of providing a
proof of concept work plan to document guidance for assessing riparian
conditions, functions, processes, management or project actions, and to track
changes in riparian characteristics over time.
Doug brought the topic to the IRICC membership
for discussion and is soliciting ideas and partners to develop a work plan to
utilize available funds. Considering a
range of ideas including a proof of concept test –using an ad hoc process to
address content standard, assessment of riparian habitat in urban, agriculture
and forest landscapes, working with GEO Science to pull together a 1:100,000
scale map of best available data compiled into a product, or laying the ground
work to start data collections of 1:24,000 scale uniform set protocols. The
Oregon
Geographic Information Council is advocating use of Federal Standards. Providing a single point of focus to work with the many groups. Added to
Group
discussion suggested contacts with Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring PNAMP
and Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) effectiveness monitoring groups to move
forward with data content standard or data theme development in a collaborative
way. Consider the possibility of attaching riparian conditions to hydro or
integration with Oregon Fish & Wildlife Stream Survey.
The
NOAA/Northwest Fisheries Science Center has sponsored a collaborative web site
for IRICC members to communicate and track project status. The site is secure and has been initially
established for use by the current IRICC membership mailing list. Members will
need to obtain a userid and password to gain access
to the site. The site consists of a people contact tab with names, telephone
numbers and email addresses of the membership.
Demonstrating the functionality of the Oracle database user-end tool,
Rich navigated through the IRICC meeting notes and other related regional
informational documents posted in the Documents section of the site. Key to collaboration is the sites
functionality of organizing and tracking project status. Projects can be established with members
assigned to them organized to track and document discussion, decisions and host
end product deliverables. The site provides a technical interoperability
between agencies providing a communication and tracking tool for partnerships
with a focus on issues relevant to our region and increase visibility of what
each of the membership agencies/organizations are currently working on. The site also provides links to IRICC
agency/organization web sites. It
provides a forum for communication between meetings and can track issues and
agreements of IRICC priority projects for accountability and status.
Steve Lanigan (USFS) PNAMP
Steve
provided status overview on what PNAMP and NED (Stewart Toshach)
groups are working together on. PNAMP is
working to standardize attributes, protocols and GIS layers used for watershed
monitoring, fish population monitoring and effectiveness monitoring. They are providing a forum for existing
efforts, coordination between
Stewart
leads the data management work group and is engaged in development of a work
plan(s) to ensure that the data structure and operability is in place to manage
and utilize the data between monitoring groups.
PNAMP
group would like to work with 1:24,000 stream data and concerned with
transportation inconsistencies.
A
general meeting of PNAMP for providing status updates from each module is
scheduled for
Group
discussion began with questions of parallel efforts of PNAMP and IRICC. Both groups are supporting coordination
efforts. The focus of PNAMP is
identifying data collection, use and needs of the scientific monitoring
community. IRICC creates the links on
specific project or theme development, with scope, priority, technical,
operational and delivery assistance.
PNAMP
has a need for the IRICC sponsored hydro project to be regionally functional,
providing an opportunity for them to advocate priority and funding from
partners to generate resources and accelerate completion and delivery of hydro
to meet their needs.
Duane Dippon & Kim Rivard (BLM/FS)
Action Items and Proposed Items for next meeting agenda
Membership Action Item: Begin pilot use of the NOAA/NWFSC sponsored website. Evaluation and assessment of the site will be addressed by the membership as an agenda item for the August 5th IRICC meeting.
Members can contact Debi Kroeger at dkroeger@fs.fed.us (541)471-6616 or Chantrelle Nielsen at chantrelle.Nielsen@noaa.gov (206)860-3435 for instruction on how to
obtain their initial userid/password. Chantrelle and Debi will co-manage the site. Posted on the site is a document entitled
“How to Use the Website” that provides instruction and guidance on use of this
collaborative tool. Members can contact Debi Kroeger or Rich Kang with
your suggestions or comments on about the site.
Proposal
for next IRICC Meeting Agenda:
Establish who is collecting what, where the data is stored and how to
develop interagency strategic organization and set priorities. Develop IRICC strategy, priorities and
deliverables. Revisit current work plan
and adjust to align with membership organizations current focus.
Next scheduled IRICC 2004 Meetings
Dates: August 5 and
November 2.