ESRI Federal User Conference 2009

Proceedings

ESRI Federal User Conference Proceedings 2009

The 2009 ESRI Federal User Conference Proceedings is a compilation of professional abstracts and presentations delivered February 18–20, 2009, in Washington, D.C. ESRI users played a fundamental role in the conference by presenting information on a diverse collection of GIS applications.

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Application Development (APD)

GIS Applications for Resource Management

Natural Resources Conservation Service Map It Tool: —Kristie McKinely, USDA/NRCS

The Natural Resources Conservation Service is a natural resources agency committed to delivering conservation with private landowners nationally.

Advancement in tools such as ArcGIS Server have enabled us to deliver online and offline geospatial tools for our employees to manage our customers and track where the conservation is planned and applied on the ground.

This demonstration will show how we query data from our integrated data marts to complete online and offline geospatial analysis.
Integrating SRP Business Tools into Army Mapper: —Ashley Talley, U.S. Army Environmental Command

The Sustainable Range Program (SRP) is the Army’s overall approach for sustaining US Army ranges and training lands to ensure long-term viability and utility.

The initial development and utilization of the Army Mapper provides Trainers and Soldiers access to Army-wide geospatial data collected and maintained by headquarters and SRP installation GIS staffs that otherwise may not be easily accessible.

This presentation will discuss the current SRP development requirements for the Army Mapper Web Map Viewer—integrating SRP business tools including the Range Managers Toolkit (RMTK) on the ArcGIS Server platform—empowering users to easily, quickly, and seamlessly query and identify information which they require to perform training operations, range modernization and land management on Army installations and training sites.

GIS Applications for Installation and Facilities Management

IFC Mapping and Data Extraction Supporting Building Information Model: —Joanna Matusiak, CIT, ADWS Group Cork

We would like to present a fully functional IFC data extracting tool (IFC2X4) as the graphical user interface displaying a building geometry, HVAC, sensor, GIS and FM data in form of tree’s tables showing a hierarchy of entities, relationships and processed data in the world coordinate system ready to use for further applications as well as in the form of building IT architectures middleware component providing a data in character separated values files. We will present a technical aspects behind of the extraction process covering a complex data structures for transformations and data storage, local to global coordinates transformation of geometrical entities, EDM Model Server interfaces as well as further applications of IFC data extraction tool for sensor’s designers, civil and mechanical engineers etc.
Space Utilization Optimization View Presentation [PDF]: —William Ball, NASA LaRC

Langley Research Center (LaRC) is developing Space Optimization tools to support more objective planning and use of the center’s limited and extremely valuable office and technical space. The decision support capability leverages LaRC’s long term maintenance of building interior data (room level details) in GIS.

Recent accomplishments in development of the optimization capability and the path ahead will be addressed. Components of the tool include: constraints and metrics (such as organizational synergy), application of optimization algorithms (greedy, genetic, etc.), visualization tools for solution evaluation (dashboard concept), and Web based data maintenance and reporting tools. Lessons learned and future plans for this activity will be discussed.
Expeditionary Bed-Down and Aircraft Planning in GeoExPT Using ArcGIS View Presentation [PDF]: —Richard Pruitt, L-3 Communications

GeoExPT is a government-off-the-shelf application that provides the engineer with automated planning process tools to allow for the rapid development of base layout plans. GeoExPT includes templates, advanced placement and layout tools, constraints analysis, predefined units, sets, components, aircraft, and reports. GeoExPT uses US Air Force standards to automatically create flexible aircraft parking plans. GeoExPT has the ability to plot airfield damage to aid in the creation of determining Minimum Operating Strips for runways and automated generation of the Repair Quality Criteria Worksheets. GeoExPT was developed based on the ArcObjects API and Microsoft C# targeted to run with an ArcGIS Engine License. The presentation will give an overview of the application and some of the challenges with creating the tool with the ArcGIS API. The integration with the GeoExPT Collaboration Portal will also be discussed demonstrating how Web services are being employed to allow publishing of datasets to ArcGIS Server.

GIS Applications for Working with Geospatial Data

Data Stewardship via the Lightweight Desktop Editor View Presentation [PDF]: —Richard Olivieri, USAF HQ Air Combat Command

The United States Air Force’s Air Combat Command is the primary provider of air combat forces to America’s Unified Combatant Commands. ACC has a large footprint: 15 major bases in 15 states, plus dozens of deployed locations in the AFCENT (Middle East) and AFSOUTH (Central & South America) AORs.

ACC GeoBase (ACC/A7ZG) provides geospatial data, imagery, and Web mapping services for over 200 garrison and expeditionary locations via the Global Combat Support System—Air Force (GCSS-AF) portal. ACC GeoBase supports Civil Engineering and many other functional users with the creation, maintenance, display, and distribution of GIS data across the USAF enterprise. Many of these users require the ability to manage their spatial data layers without the high cost of software or GIS technicians.

ACC has fielded the GeoBase Desktop Toolkit (GDT), an ArcGIS Engine application that gives users most of the functionality of ArcGIS at a fraction of the cost. For the price of an ArcGIS Engine runtime license, data stewards can create and edit feature classes, create maps, connect to ArcSDE, and export data. The development history, user requirements, functions, and deployment of GDT version 2 will be covered in this presentation.
Extending Ant for GIS View Presentation [PDF]: —Robert Landrum, Northrop Grumman

Ant is a utility originally designed to build Java programs using scripts in XML format, but it can do so much more. Since it runs in Java and has a versatility of configuration, Ant can be used in a variety of environments. Discussion will center on how to extend the capabilities to include copying, moving, and deleting GIS datasets using ArcGIS Engine.
Army Geospatial Portable Document Format (GeoPDF) Project View Presentation [PDF]: —Ray Caputo, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

(No abstract)

GIS Applications for Defense

Marine Corps Intelligence Activity—Regional Expeditionary Intelligence Portable Resource (REIPR) Afghanistan

—Matthew Benden, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

The Marine Corps Intelligence Activity’s Geographic Analysis Division has been supporting the dissemination of intelligence products through Web and Geospatial Database applications since 2001. The Geographically Linked Information Dissemination Environment (GLIDE), MCIA Geodatabase and DGInet applications are currently supporting the operational forces in every clime and place. Many of these “mission specific” geospatial intelligence applications have evolved far beyond the Marine Corps’ original expectations. The latest release of a portable intelligence application dubbed REIPR, pronounced “Reaper”, which stands for Regional Expeditionary Intelligence Portable Resource is now answering the USMC demand for portable geographic intelligence in Afghanistan and Iraq. REIPR arrives at the battle field with geospatial intelligence data already loaded to support those first to fight.

Providing Shared Situational Awareness over Airborne Networks

—William Soknich, USAF ESC 653rd ELSW/EID

This presentation will describe airborne networking technology research being conducted for the US Air Force’s Electronic Systems Center (ESC) Command & Control (C2) community. Specifically, this presentation will focus on the Airborne Web Services (AWS) program which is significantly contributing to the further understanding of the role of airborne networking in C2 missions. AWS uses CJMTK to implement its powerful visualization capabilities which provides shared battlespace situational awareness (SA) for airborne E-8 Joint STARS & E-3 AWACS Air Battle Managers along with commanders and controllers on the ground in the Air Operations Center (AOC). AWS utilizes components from ESC’s Service Oriented Visualization Framework (SOVF) and has an IP-based architecture that follows DoD Net-Centric Enterprise Solutions for Interoperability (NESI) design guidelines. The CJMTK-based application also manages data and Web service subscriptions providing shared situational awareness (air-to-ground, ground-to-air, and ground-to-ground) through the access and display of a broad range of data sources including:

Air Tasking Orders (ATO)
Blue & Red Force Tracking
Air Tracks
Munitions
Ground Moving Target Indicators (GMTI)
Check-In, Imagery (SAR & NITF)
Weather
Navigation
Airspace Control Orders (ACO) that includes Killboxes, Coordination Lines such as Forward Line of Troops (FLOT), Fire Support Coordination Lines (FSCL) and Forward Edge of Battle Area (FEBA)
Electronic Surveillance Measures (ESM)

AWS was highlighted in the large-scale NGA-sponsored Empire Challenge 2008 as part of an AWACS LOS/BLOS demonstration of net-centric warfare using the Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT). AWS was also demonstrated at JEFX 2006 and several airborne networking live-fly risk reduction experiments on the Paul Revere 707 aircraft operated by MIT Lincoln Labs.

Enterprise Web GIS within Air Combat Command IGI&S (Air Combat Command USAF)

—Michael Cannon, USAF ACC GeoBase

The ACC IGI&S program enables 16 different ACC bases as well as hundreds of expeditionary locations (CENTAF & AFSOUTH) around the world to share geospatial data and information with the USAF and the DOD through a secure, centralized system. This environment offers a single, secure, and organized access point for the user by leveraging Web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) within a portal environment (GCSS-AF Portal). There are many challenges related to designing and implementing a system of this magnitude: network issues, very large Web map services, functionality requirements, etc. This discussion describes how ACC IGI&S utilizes different technologies (Flex API, Akamai, Air Force Portal) to accomplish our mission of an Enterprise Architecture in a limited environment.

Weather Software Toolkit for Operational Risk Management (WxSTORM)

—Robert Farrell, AFRL RISA

Weather significantly impacts a variety of Air Force operations such as global strike, intelligence collection, sensor performance, space operations, and UAV missions. Converting forecast “data” like winds, rain, ionospheric scintillations, and clouds into “information” like munitions lock-on range, fuel consumption, satellite communication outage, and sensor cloud-free line of sight is not trivial. For situational awareness displays to incorporate these impacts, Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) developers require toolkit functionality that can incorporate weather analysis and help with operational risk management. The Air Force Research Laboratory is developing a scalable, component-based, integration-ready, service-oriented, and government-owned toolkit solution that can be transitioned into C2ISR decision support programs having weather advice incorporation requirements. CJMTK will be used to support the visualization, analysis, and spatial data management functions. This presentation will provide an overview of weather and its impacts to military operations, followed by a review of the toolkit that is being developed and how it will provide an easy-to-incorporate solution for C2ISR developers.

Data Publication (DAP)

Sharing and Maintaining Accurate Data and Metadata

Using Geospatial Models to Share Information across Classification Domains: —Rosemary Helton, JFCOM

Information sharing across classification domains involves creating copies of data and distributing metadata between two or more geodatabases. To keep the classified metadata intact and not compromise strategic information, a “Share-down and Share-back Model” was implemented in the experiment Noble Resolve 08. This paper discusses applications where various entities needed to distribute metadata with geospatial representations about critical infrastructure in crisis situations and introduces the options available.

This paper reviews the options available for building systems to distributed data with ArcGIS. Anyone who needs to distribute data with ArcGIS across different classification domains should read this paper.
A Cadastral Geodatabase for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service View Presentation [PDF]: —Douglas Vandegraft, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service “Cadastral Data Working Group,” comprised of Cartographers and GIS Specialists from all management Regions, has produced a state-of-the-art database that will store data for all interests in real property in the National Wildlife Refuge System. Upon completion, the Cadastral Geodatabase will become an integral component of the Refuge Lands Geographic Information System (RLGIS) by supplying boundary and parcel information to the biological geodatabases currently within the RLGIS data model.

Cadastral data describes the past, current, and future right, title and interest in real property, including the spatial information necessary to describe the geographic extent. The spatial information includes survey and description frameworks such as the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), as well as parcel surveys and boundary descriptions. The geodatabase is the common data storage for attribute tables, geographic features, satellite and aerial imagery, surface modeling data, and survey measurements. A consistent and accurate Cadastral Geodatabase that is common across the nation and can be shared between Regions will enable users to leverage the spatial data to its full potential. Once implemented, the Cadastral Geodatabase will be able to answer boundary and land status queries on a national scale.
Approaches to Spatial Data Sharing in Government: SDIs and More View Presentation [PDF]: —Don Murray, Safe Software, Inc.

With the increased importance on timely, accurate geospatial data and the growing demand for inter-agency cooperation, government agencies are seeking more efficient ways to share their spatial data. This presentation discusses how three government agencies are using spatial ETL (extract, transform, load) technology to power SDIs (Spatial Data Infrastructures) and other data sharing initiatives. First, we’ll discuss how the State of Arkansas is efficiently disseminating their spatial data to other agencies and the public through a data clearing house. Live demonstration will be used to illustrate how spatial ETL powers this system to provide an online data clip, zip and ship service to enable users to get data in the precise formats and projections they need for use with their GIS applications. Second, we’ll explore how the North Central Region addressed their schema mapping challenges to build an SDI that enables ten counties to upload their data and transform it into the required data model for self-service download. Lastly, we’ll discuss how the Indiana Department of Homeland Security (DHS) addressed the challenge of presenting timely data to first responders for situational awareness during emergencies through the dynamic transformation and consolidation of multiple data sets, formats and schemas into the federal DHS schema.

Emergency Management and Response (EMR)

DHS—Enhanced Agency Capabilities

Building a Common Operating Picture to Enable Disaster Response View Presentation [PDF]: —Roger Koelpin, Indiana Department of Homeland Security

Indiana’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has embarked on an ambitious challenge to develop a common inter-agency operating picture that will improve two-way communication and collaboration in the event of an emergency. This presentation focuses on how GIS at Indiana DHS is enabling real-time data sharing across jurisdictions through its new GIS Disaster Response system. We will explore how Indiana DHS integrated ESRI, Safe Software and ESi technology—including ArcSDE, ArcGIS Server and FME—into their web-enabled crisis management system (WebEOC) to create a two-way data stream between local, county, and stsate agencies. Key data interoperability requirements, such as consuming disparate data web services, restructuring data models and enabling tight security will also be highlighted. A summary of Indiana DHS’ next steps and opportunities for this project is also provided.
Multihazard HAZUS Maintenance Release View Presentation [PDF]: —Eric Berman, DHS HAZUS

Multihazard HAZUS Maintanence Release 3 (HAZUS-MH MR3) with Patch 2 is the most recent version of HAZUS, which was first released by FEMA in February 2004. HAZUS-MH MR3 contains state-of-the-art integrated earthquake, flood, and hurricane loss models and utilizes ArcGIS 9.2 SP5. HAZUS allows users to simulate the effects of these natural hazards on communities. Using estimates of potential damage and loss, users are able to better plan for natural disasters and more effectively respond to them. In addition, HAZUS has the ability to define hurricanes by downloading forecasts and weather advisory data directly from the Internet. New HAZUS developments and capabilities will be discussed during this session, particularly for HAZUS-MH MR3 Patch 3 that utilizes ArcGIS 9.3 and HAZUS-MH MR4.

Geospatial Modeling to Improve Planning and Decision-Making Capabilities

Inundation Mapping Using Steady and Unsteady Hydraulic Models and GIS View Presentation [PDF]: —Ceclie Aschwanden, NOAA-NWS-OHD

We used the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) and the HEC-GeoRAS pre- and post-processor to compare maps created with steady and unsteady hydraulic models. A calibrated HEC-RAS model was geo-referenced and used to generate steady and unsteady scenarios. We used LIDAR data to generate flood maps. We analyzed differences between the steady and unsteady maps and assessed the overall accuracy of both approaches using multiple verification data sets. Verification focused on flooding associated with Hurricane Floyd using high water marks, aerial photography, and FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL). Results were also compared with the AHPS (Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service) static map libraries, which were produced using a different steady model and different calibration procedures. We also studied model differences as a function of the distance from a forecast point, which can help determine the appropriate mapping scale for presenting static results.
Utilizing GIS to Make Better and Quicker Decisions: —Tim Hickerson, Y-12 National Security Complex

The timeliness and quality of decisions, or the lack thereof, made in the initial moments of an emergency response can greatly affect the safety of the public, a facility’s workforce, and emergency responders as well as the protection of the environment. The decision to implement protective actions must often be made quickly under stressful circumstances. The timing and correctness of decisions to implement protective actions and to release populations from these protective actions are vital in maintaining the safety and trust of the public. At the Y-12 National Security Complex, deployment of GIS technologies to replace paper methodologies has improved both the front-end response and the back-end recovery processes of the Emergency Management Program. Through an easy-to-use Web interface, emergency planners, responders, and managers have tools which can quickly suggest initial protective actions, provide links to facility-specific documentation, and paint a common operation picture of the hazard and response.
The Chronology of Geospatial Information Sources for Disaster Response: —Nate Smith, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance

While it is well established that geospatial information is critical for disaster response, the timing and appropriate role of each geospatial capability is not as clearly established. Models, overhead imagery, in-situ sensors and direct field observations provide geospatial information for disaster management and this paper aims to highlight the appropriate roles and timing of each within the early warning and response phases of disaster management. Through the use of a hurricane scenario, a framework for assessment will be proposed that utilizes all sources of geospatial information and aims to inform the efforts to develop data models and spatial data infrastructures for emergency managers.

Energy Management (ENM)

Using GIS for Optimizing Energy Efficiency

Expanding Alternative Fuel Use in Federal Fleets: —Johanna Levene, NREL

Section 701 of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005 requires that federal fleets use alternative fuel in their dual-fuel vehicles. An exception is granted if the alternative fuel is not reasonably available, defined as farther than 5 miles away, or over a 15 minute drive time. Because of this spatial requirement, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) personnel used GIS to compute distances between federal fleet garaged locations and alternative fuel stations.

NREL then identified locations for infrastructure deployment with large numbers of alternative fuel fleet vehicles but no fueling infrastructure. This analysis provided government and industry leaders with clear illustrations of alternative fuel infrastructure construction opportunities. NREL also provided maps of specific alternative fuel infrastructure deployment locations, identifying the nearby federal fleet concentration.

NREL analysis results have been briefed at numerous venues, resulting in efforts to establish alternative fuel infrastructure at dozens of sites throughout the United States.
Keeping Large Energy Projects in Compliance with NEPA Using GIS View Presentation [PDF]: —Brian Cantwell, Argonne National Laboratory

Since the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) federal agencies have been implementing various programs to enhance energy production and delivery. Whether designating new energy corridors in the western states, evaluating new offshore drilling areas, or determining lands available for lease to solar or wind power plants, these projects present unique siting and environmental challenges for federal agencies. Congressional mandates found in EPAct often involve multiple agencies, each with its own mission and management requirements and its own methods of data collection and dissemination. In addition, while stakeholders have varied agendas, all stakeholders and agency officials require clear and concise data, including spatial data, on which to base decisions. This paper focuses on using GIS and Web technologies to address these challenges in a way that allows decisions of national importance to be informed by local knowledge.
Using GeoCommunicator to Display Energy-Related Cases Issued by the BLM: —Leslie Cone, Bureau of Land Management

This presentation will discuss recent developments within the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) National Integrated Land System (NILS) project including the spatially-enabled GeoCommunicator, and how these developments pertain to energy-related activities. A GeoCommunicator demonstration will highlight the Website’s new energy map viewer, new tools, how to link directly to LR2000 Serial Register pages, and how to use the map services available within the Website. Users will be exposed to GeoCommunicator’s capabilities for searching, locating, accessing, and dynamically displaying oil and gas (leases and lease sales), coal, geothermal, oil shale, wind, and solar power and other rights-of-way that occur on public lands in one map view within the United States. Also shown will be ways that users are able to obtain Public Land Survey System (PLSS), other survey-based data, and the federal surface management agency boundaries; all of which can be used as a basis to improve mapping accuracy.

Enterprise Facilities Management (FAC)

Facilities Management in Federal Government I

Building Information Management at the Smithsonian Institution View Presentation [PDF] View Paper [PDF]: —Sylvia Kendra, Program Manager, Smithsonian Institution, Office of Engineering, Design and Construction

The Geospatial Engineering Division, Office of Engineering, Design and Construction, is responsible for developing and maintaining as-built floor plans and related space data for the Smithsonian Institution. Currently, we use 2D AutoCAD files and a separate facilities database for daily operations in managing 12 million square feet of space within 700 buildings. We have posted drawings and related data on our internal Website, but the effort in maintenance is cumbersome. Our goal is to move towards an integrated building information environment, where building structures and information coalesce into a seamless stream of information. We recently conducted a pilot project designed to show the functionality of ESRI software for a campus located at one of our facilities in Panama. We posed the challenge to the developers: Using standard floor plans and space data, create an ESRI Power User environment to demonstrate edit and analysis capabilities in 2D and 3D environments.
GIS and Maximo Integration for Infrastructure and Facility Asset Management: An NPS and BIA Collaborative Effort View Presentation [PDF]: —Assad Reichdan and Shara Hollis, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Brian Diethorn, National Park Service

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and National Park Service (NPS) are currently using GIS to enhance the infrastructure and facility asset management architecture in different ways. NPS is using spatial data by relating it to Maximo as well as to an image database to enhance asset visualization and situational awareness using the latest ESRI server technology. BIA is using GIS to seamlessly integrate spatial data and related infrastructure asset and work management data stored in Maximo and other systems. NPS and BIA are currently engaged in a collaborative effort to research common GIS applications for infrastructure and facility asset management. Specifically, they are working to leverage the progress that NPS has made implementing GIS technology and the progress that BIA has made integrating GIS with external systems.
Enterprise GIS Spreads Its Wings at BWI Airport View Presentation [PDF]: —Marcus Rouhani, Maryland Aviation Administration

In 2007, the Maryland Aviation Administration deployed an enterprise GIS to provide its managers, staff and consultants with the information they need to design, build, operate and maintain BWI and Martin State airports. With its roots in the engineering division, the GIS has now grown to support planning, environmental compliance, operations, security, finance, property management and maintenance needs. It is also one of the first airports to extend the capabilities of its internal GIS to consultants and contractors via the internet. This growth has been fueled by the realization that the data in the GIS is a well organized and comprehensive reflection of the organization’s facilities, assets and properties. This presentation will discuss the evolution of MAA’s enterprise GIS and the lessons learned along the way. It will cover the applications that have been deployed which include document, property, interior space and utilities management. Underlying software and hardware technologies, including the use of virtual servers, will also be covered. Technical approaches to providing access to the data beyond MAA’s firewall as well as organizational policies that have been put in place to protect sensitive information will also be covered. The presentation will conclude with a summary of the benefits and the costs of developing and maintaining this GIS.

Facilities Management in Federal Government II

AMMO-FM View Presentation [PDF]: —James Shute, Geographic Information Services

With increased demands on Federal Operations and Maintenance (O&M) budgets, Real Property managers are under pressure to provide their clients additional space while receiving minimal funding. Furthermore, this fundamental conflict affects not only the space allocated to users, but is also directly related to the amount of O&M dollars an installation receives for the upkeep of its facilities. To address the allocation of space, the validation of assets, and verification of organizations and related personnel, the U.S. Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, is using ArcGIS Server to track and update facility floor plans and related utilization data. Implemented in tandem with a series of policies and business process improvements, the Corps is able to track facilities and unit assignments in an SDSFIE-compliant (Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure and Environment) database which is implemented at each installation and replicated to the USACE, Fort Worth office for reporting purposes.
Space Utilization Optimization View Presentation [PDF]: —William Ball, NASA Langley Research Center

Langley Research Center (LaRC) is developing Space Optimization tools to support more objective planning and use of the center’s limited and extremely valuable office and technical space. The decision support capability leverages LaRC’s long term maintenance of building interior data (room level details) in GIS. Recent accomplishments in development of the optimization capability and the path ahead will be addressed. Components of the tool include: constraints and metrics (such as organizational synergy), application of optimization algorithms (greedy, genetic, etc.), visualization tools for solution evaluation (dashboard concept), and Web based data maintenance and reporting tools. Lessons learned and future plans for this activity will be discussed.
Enabling Installation Asset Management Data: —James Hinson and Tim Saldana, Parsons

The mission of an effective Asset Management (AM) Program is to provide effective, efficient, and agile installation asset lifecycle management and accountability. Fundamentally, AM consists of people, processes and technology working toward the objective of maximizing asset performance and reducing asset lifecycle cost. Integrating Installation Geospatial Information System (IGI&S) as part of the overall AM technology solution is a key to the success of managing assets.

Visualization of assets at a facility and installation perspective, and the ability to fuse natural asset data (typically GIS based) and facility asset information (typically CAD based).

This paper describes how IGIS plays a role within the overall AM technology solution. The paper also discusses AM technology integration strategies including IWMS/GIS integration, CAD/GIS interoperability issues and AM content sustainability.
Using GIS to Effectively Manage the Navy’s Facilities and Installations: —David R. Poynter, Jr., NAVFAC

GIS analysis capabilities provide powerful support to the Department of Defense Installations and Environment community in managing its facilities and installations and performing strategic planning. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command extensively uses GIS to make strategic decisions on the management and operation of its space, facilities, and installations. Using this technology allows the Engineers, Facility Managers, and Facility Planners to more effectively allocate limited resources.

Environmental Management and Climate Change (ENV)

Miscellaneous Environmental Studies

Naval Installation Restoration Information Solution View Presentation [PDF]: —Mark Barnes, NAVFAC Midlant

Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Environmental Business Line has deployed a Web-based centralized GIS database for their multi-million dollar Environmental Restoration Program (ERP). NIRIS (Naval Installation Restoration Information Solution) is implemented at all NAVFAC offices to help Navy and our contractors manage, evaluate, and visualize data, documents and records for Navy and Marine Corps ERP sites at both BRAC and active installations. NIRIS manages all ERP analytical and spatial data, which includes the Munitions Response and Installation Restoration Program (Navy’s Superfund/CERCLA program) data, ensuring institutional memory is preserved, land use controls are maintained, and remedial actions are effective. This presentation will provide an overview focusing on discussion and demonstrations of: 1) ArcIMS custom tools, 2) ArcGIS via Citrix with custom tools and 3) Land Use Control tool for managing institutional controls.
The Tigris-Euphrates Basin Water Monitor: Tracking Water Supplies with MODIS: —Jennifer Veilleux, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Syria and Turkey lack a trilateral agreement for water sharing of the Tigris and Euphrates Basin. Iraq depends on this water source for agriculture, hydropower, and industrial and municipal purposes. The lack of official policy has recently emerged as an issue of greater concern due to regional conflict. A series of droughts has further influenced available water resources and regional policy efforts. For several years NGA has been monitoring key reservoirs in this system using data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Relative water levels are used to assess volume and available storage in the reservoirs, year-to-year water level comparisons, and the seasonal timing of peak water levels. The data are checked against radar altimetry and field water-level measurements. These results are used to assess the effects of drought on the health of Iraqi agriculture. This analytical method can be applied to other regions of the world.

Environmental Management and Analysis Tools

Spatially Enabling Chesapeake Bay Environmental Indicators: —Jerry Johnston, U.S. EPA

Geospatial technology can be used to develop better, more compelling and understandable environmental indicator reports. The Chesapeake Action Plan contains numerous performance indicators and metrics that describe our progress in restoring the Bay in explicit detail. Members of Congress, state and local decision makers and the public in general will soon be able to see how the power of these indicators can be greatly enhanced through the use of spatially enabled electronic dashboards. This session will provide a review of a collaboration to develop these tools between EPA, ESRI and the Chesapeake Bay Program.
Chesapeake Bay Program Management Tools Demonstration: —Darren Baird, ESRI

(No abstract)
3D Visualizations and Animations of Chesapeake Bay Using ArcScene and EVS Pro: —Lindsay Chakot, NOAA

Data collected by ship sampling and obtained from the USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program is displayed 3- and 4-dimensionally using ArcScene and EVS-Pro. A custom-made interpolation tool for the Chesapeake Bay interpolates data horizontally and vertically throughout the bay. Data displayed with ArcScene visualizes the habitat squeeze that striped bass may be subjected to during July due to low dissolved oxygen (DO) in deeper water and high temperature at the surface. Animations created by EVS Pro show the advance and retreat of the plume of water exhibiting DO < 5mg/l in summer. Visualizing these data in 3- and 4-D can demonstrate to the public and managers the magnitude of effects from habitat squeeze. Further projects are intended to connect these visualizations and animations to changes in land use.

Climate Change and the Environment—Federal Initiatives Panel Discussion

Report on Initiatives of the Climate Change program: —NOAA Speaker

(No abstract)

NOAA Climate Change Program and Activities

The NOAA Climate Prediction Center GIS Project: —Viviane Silva, NOAA Climate Prediction Center

The climate information products developed and issued by the NOAA/NWS/NCEP/ Climate Prediction Center (CPC) are widely used across NOAA, other mission agencies, the private sector, the academic community and other organizations both in this country and abroad. CPC products have been used for the mitigation of weather-related natural disasters and used for social and economic interests in agriculture, energy, transportation, water resources, health and other sectors of the economy. In order to respond to customer demands for improved climate information, CPC is transforming its suite of climate monitoring, assessment, and forecast products into GIS format. An interactive, Web-based system is under development that will allow the public to manipulate and display CPC data and derived products together with geographical information such as topography, natural features, human settlement, infrastructure, and demography.

CPC is working closely with the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) team to ensure the successful implementation of the integrated national drought monitoring and forecasting system. Many CPC GIS products will be used in the creation of the drought “early warning system” which will be capable of providing accurate, timely and integrated information on drought conditions at the relevant spatial scale to facilitate proactive decision making aimed at minimizing losses associated with drought. In addition, CPC has the lead in developing the “Weekly Weather Hazards Impact Analysis” for Africa, Central America, Hispaniola and Afghanistan. This product is generated in GIS format. CPC’s users can import CPC’s GIS data into their systems to better identify areas in need of humanitarian aid.
Monitoring Polar Ice View Presentation [PDF]: —Semeon Sertsu, National Ice Center/Naval Ice Center

Consolidating different image analysis and GIS software and replacing them with ArcGIS to streamline product deployment optimize performance enhancement and cutting costs in monitoring Polar Ice.
NOAA Climate Services Portal: A National Climatic Data Center Perspective View Presentation [PDF]: —Rich Baldwin, NOAA/NCDC

The public need for relevant climate data and services continues to increase. Organizations within NOAA address these needs from diverse perspectives. Engaging these customers by providing access to climate data through a federated system is our primary goal. As the world’s large climate data archive, one role of the National Climatic Data Centers is to provide standards base Web services and access portlets that can be obtained by customers and partners throughout the world. This presentation will highlight technologies used to date to accomplish the goal of engaging commerce sectors.

Geoportal Toolkit 9.3 (GPT) provides Catalogue Services for the Web (CSW) and GeoRSS feed capabilities which have been integrated within portlets and deployed into a BEA portal container. These services provide search capability to harvested metadata records provided from the NOAA climate services community. These metadata provide access to products and services in the form of OGC services (WMS, WFS, WCS, and WMS-T), SOAP and REST Web services through open source and COTS client tools.

Some of the resources available through the portal include drought impact analysis and indices, 30-year climate normals, snowfall impact and indices, climate extremes and summaries, and hurricane impact and analysis.
International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS): —Ethan Gibney, NOAA National Climate Data Center

Developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) compiles tropical cyclone best track data from 11 forecast centers spanning the globe from Australia to Japan to the United States, producing a unified global tropical cyclone best track dataset. Best track data include the position, maximum sustained winds, and minimum central pressure of a tropical cyclone at six hour intervals. Prior to the development of IBTrACS, there was no central repository for global tropical cyclone data despite their significant impact on society and natural systems.

To satisfy the needs of its users, NCDC provides the IBTrACS dataset in a variety of traditional formats including netCDF, NOAA Tape Format (i.e., HURDAT format) and Automatic Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF). Additionally, IBTrACS will soon be available through Web Map Services (WMS) and as shapefiles to facilitate Geographic Information System (GIS) analyses. Through GIS and WMS, conditional queries can be constructed to highlight storms, regions, or situations given specified criteria. It is expected that providing IBTrACS data in many formats will expand the user base and allow applications of the IBTrACS dataset to be shared by those studying tropical cyclones, including re-insurance companies, emergency managers, universities and climate change researchers.

Exercise, Training, and Simulation (ETS)

Range and Training Area Management

U.S. Army Sustainable Range Program (SRP) GIS Overview: —Jason Walters, ATSC, TCM Live

The Sustainable Range Program (SRP) GIS Program provides geospatial information capabilities at all echelons of the SRP and supports Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM), Range Operations, Range Modernization, and their components. These programs, in turn, directly support the Soldiers that train on U.S. Army ranges and training lands.

The SRP GIS Mission is to create, analyze, manage, and distribute authoritative standardized geospatial information, products, and services for the execution of training strategies and missions on U.S. Army ranges and training lands. Supported by SRP GIS Professionals trained in the most current releases of GIS software, the SRP GIS Program strives to provide the SRP Community, Trainers, and Soldiers with the ability to leverage accurate and complete datasets through easily accessible and user-friendly products and applications.

This presentation will provide an overview of the SRP GIS Program and will highlight program goals and objectives.
U.S. Army Military Installation Map (MIM) Production Strategy: —Jason Walters, ATSC, TCM Live

The U.S. Army Sustainable Range Program (SRP), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the Department of the Army G-2 (Intelligence) have collaborated on the production of Military Installation Maps (MIMs). A MIM is essentially a Topographic Line Map (TLM) with an installation specific military overprint that provides information relevant to training and testing functions. Within the MIM collaboration effort, the SRP GIS Regional Support Center (RSC) is responsible for developing draft MIMs, performing Quality Assurance and Quality Control, and exporting the MIMs for production by NGA using the ESRI ArcGIS suite of software. The SRP GIS Program has worked closely with NGA and G-2 to standardize symbology and graphics commonly seen on a MIM. The result is a standardized product that provides a “common picture” for Warriors training on Army installations. Printing and stocking of MIMs is managed through the NGA Arnold Map Facility and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Mapping Facility. This presentation will provide an overview of the MIM collaboration effort and the process by which MIMs are produced, exported, and stocked.
Naval District Washington GIS Development and Update: —John Merritt, 3001

From early 2008 through 2009, 3001, Eagan McAllister and The Naval District Washington (NDW) Region of the US Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) undertook a comprehensive and pragmatic effort to validate, collect and update data to close gaps in geospatial layers identified as critical for geospatial decision support of force protection efforts for shore installations and facilities. The data considered critical included layers that depict potential threat targets, or features that impact decisions or ability to protect shore facilities. Once the data was collected and updated, it was integrated with existing NDW geospatial data housed in the NAVFAC Headquarters’ Maintenance and Analysis (M&A) environment and published to existing or new maps as needed to provide improved geospatial decision support.

Geodatabase Design Management (GDB)

Geodatabase Design

Integrated Database Management at Wolf Creek Dam View Presentation [PDF]: —Laura Benneyworth, AMEC

AMEC and the USACE, Nashville District have used some of the latest data technologies to provide an integrated project database to assist the USACE in analyzing the vast amount of historical and current data associated with design, construction, investigations and rehabilitation of the dam. AMEC developed a GIS personal geodatabase that includes links to spatial features, CADD drawings, image files, data reports, hand-written boring logs, spreadsheets and historical photos. The resulting information is made available through an ArcGIS Server software-based search engine and interactive map viewer, and well as in a 3D site model. The end result provides USACE with ready access to integrated data, in a comprehensive, easy to understand, visual format. This integrated database management system provides ‘real time’ access to data to an unlimited number of users, with no special software or expertise required. The tools developed for the project will provide the USACE a means to quickly evaluate site data, effectively perform analyses, and communicate results.
Improvements in Quality Control of Versioned Editing: —Shane Wolf, NASA LaRC

With the release of ArcGIS 9.3, ESRI has developed a method in which to view changes made within versions. This utility, called Version Changes, was a step forward for versioning QA/QC, however some issues persist.

The comparison made by the ESRI product is based on map layers. Therefore, the tool does not report changes made on edited layers not represented in the map.

Additionally, if an edit is decidedly incorrect, the tool does not allow for reverting the change back to the parent version. This results in double effort due to the mistake.

A tool was developed to address these concerns. The comparison is user defined; edits to layers not in the map can still be found. Additionally, edits can be reverted back to the parent allowing mistakes to be corrected without redoing the work.

QA/QC should be about fixing mistakes, not finding them and starting over.
Replicating Geospatial Data across Segregated Networks: —Christopher Schmuck, AECOME/EARTHTECH

This paper investigates a solution for replicating, synchronizing, and migrating geospatial data in a disconnected environment. Disconnected replication occurs when the replica geodatabases are not connected by a computer network. The solution under investigation is the ESRI database replication tools and various data migration techniques. In this instance the relative database has no communication or way of sending an acknowledgement stating that the child database has successfully received the data change message from the parent. This one way disconnected replication method is necessary when migrating data to a secure network. The testing of this method has brought to light many issues concerning disconnected replication in an enterprise environment.

Governance and Compliance (GOV)

Geospatial Line of Business Program Activities

Geospatial Line of Business—Geospatial SmartBUY: —Lewis Sanford, Federal Geographic Data Committee

The Geospatial Line of Business (LoB) is working with the General Services Administration (GSA) SmartBUY Team to implement a multi-vendor Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)—potentially the largest in history—that will provide small, medium, and large government users a common portfolio of geospatial technology options. The current scope of the BPA include computer aided design, Web-based visualization, imagery analysis, geocoding, national and international road networks, and geospatial analytics and modeling.

Federal agencies use many of the same commercial products to perform geospatial operations, however they use very different contractual vehicles. This practice hinders agency savings and forces commercial vendors to invest disproportionately in coordinating a large number of separate accounts within agencies.

The Geospatial SmartBUY BPA will help reduce costs and streamline administration. It will improve access to high quality commercial geospatial software, data, and other products and will make geospatial technology more accessible and transparent to the purchasing process.
Geospatial Line of Business—Optimizing Geospatial Information and Technology: —Ivan DeLoatch, Federal Geographic Data Committee

The Geospatial Line of Business (LoB) set forth ambitious and transformational goals to better serve the Nation’s interests. Building on the policy foundation of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-16 (“Coordination of Geographic Information and Related Spatial Data Activities”) and the President’s Management Agenda, the Geospatial LoB is establishing a citizen-centric collaborative model for geospatial-related activities and investments that will create a more coordinated and leveraged approach to producing, maintaining, and using geospatial data and services.
A View from 1:1,200 Scale—The State Coordinators: —Learon Dalby, National States Geographic Information Council

The National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) is an organization committed to efficient and effective government through the prudent adoption of geospatial information technologies (GIT). Members of NSGIC include senior state geographic information system (GIS) managers and coordinators. Other members include representatives from federal agencies, local government, the private sector, academia and other professional organizations. A rich and diverse group, the NSGIC membership includes nationally and internationally recognized experts in geospatial information technologies, data creation and management as well as information technology policy. This presentation will focus on the unique position of a state coordinator and their efforts to contribute to the NSDI via state spatial data infrastructures.

Integrating Defense Installation GI&S—2009 and Beyond Panel Discussion

Integrating Defense Installation GI&S—2009 and Beyond Panel Discussion: —Costi Tudan, ODUSD (I&E) BEI

The DISDI Program team will provide an overview of the strategic direction for the coming year with a focus on standards, data sharing, and common goals for the defense installations and environment community. In addition, the team will provide a presentation on the future of SDSFIE, followed by discussion. This panel will be facilitated by Mr. Dave LaBranche, the new DISDI Program Manager.

Multidisciplinary Initiatives to Establish Compliance for Geospatial Data Models and Metadata

Enthusiasm for Geospatial Metadata Compliancy: Is It Possible? View Presentation [PDF]: —Jessica Zichichi, Innovate!, Inc./EPA

Geospatial metadata is becoming increasingly popular as a means of providing access to geospatial resources. Although its benefits are well-known, it is often difficult to encourage analysts to create metadata because it is time-consuming and can be difficult to create. In 2008, an NSDI-sponsored grant provided funding for a series of training sessions that focused on creating FGDC-compliant metadata and participating in intra- and inter-agency sharing efforts. Close to 200 participants were recorded from over 20 states and 30 organizations. The enthusiasm for the training indicated that managers and analysts are keenly interested in developing compliant metadata, but they need access to resources that will help them. This presentation will describe how the trainings were conducted, the perceived impacts to organizations that participated, and how the end result will hopefully improve overall governance and compliance for a number of organizations. Lessons learned and next steps will also be discussed.
Socio-Cultural Data Model to Map the Human Terrain: —Kevin Backe, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Engineering Center

As part of the Mapping the Human Terrain Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Engineering Center has developed an initial Socio-Cultural Data Model for managing and utilizing georeferenced socio-cultural data. USACE employed a team of subject matter experts including several anthropologists, a socio-scientist, and a cultural geographer and other end-users together with experienced data modelers and a geospatial database designer to develop this initial model. The team reviewed hundreds of reference sources to establish an initial data dictionary of terms. The team also developed a half dozen use-cases for this data model. The team generalized concepts from these use-cases to ensure this data model could have broad applicability. Next the team developed a logical data model that contain concepts that reflected the most common data elements that could be readily found in cultural maps, atlases and socio-cultural data collected by organization(s) about a region. This socio-cultural data model has both spatially explicit features and non-spatial features that are georeferenced to a location.

At this point the USACE lead team is working closely with ESRI data modelers to generate an effective implementation of this Socio-Cultural data model in an ESRI geodatabase. The USACE team will then populate this database with geospatial data being collected and evaluate the completeness and design of the data model and geodatabase.

USACE is now at the point of engaging the broader Federal, Academic and NGO communities to review this initial version of a socio-cultural data model and geodatabase and provide comments and feedback. If there is adequate interest USACE would like to form a socio-cultural COI focused on the development and adopting geospatial Socio-Cultural standards including this data model for maintaining this type data.

Health Information and Analysis Integration (HEA)

Health Information Systems in a Web-Based Enterprise Environment

Pilot of the Public Health Distributed Geospatial Intelligence Network (PH-DGInet) View Presentation [PDF]: —Jim Tobias, BearingPoint

The Public Health Distributed Geospatial Intelligence Network (PH-DGInet) Pilot will establish a geospatial architectural framework at the CDC National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) and the installation of two pilot nodes. The CDC NCPHI will host one of the pilot nodes and a second node will be hosted at a participating state health department. A Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry will be established to publish GIS Web services with metadata in the form of Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The pilot proof-of-concept will establish the utility of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to service all of Public Health.
Supporting Health Care Systems Planning with a GIS Web Portal View Presentation [PDF]: —Duane Fleming, Department of Veterans Affairs

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the nation’s largest integrated health care system with nearly 1,200 facilities in the U.S. and serving over eight million enrolled veterans. Facility planning is done by professionals at 21 regional offices in consultation with facility staff members. VHA has developed an ArcIMS Web portal that allows planners and facility staff to visualize their current point locations in relation to enrollee residential density. Facility locations are rendered with estimated travel time bands representing VHA guidelines for access to care. This reveals spatial gaps and areas of overlapping service that may suggest locations for new facilities or opportunities to decommission existing facilities. Enhancements underway will allow planners to model the impact on accessibility if facilities are added or decommissioned in locations of their choosing, and to see locations of non-VHA facilities. The latter may suggest opportunities to contract out services in lieu of building new facilities.
Alabama Resource Management System: —Chris McInnish, Alabama Department of Children’s Affairs

ARMS began in 2005 as a collaboration of state agencies and nonprofits under the leadership of the Department of Children’s Affairs. Through these partnerships the ARMS Website is a shared reporting nucleus for demographic, statistical, and resource information. The ARMS Website utilizes reports, graphs, and maps to share current information and allow users to conduct advanced queries and analysis.

ARMS target audience generally is not skilled in utilizing computers or GIS systems. They include Juvenile Judges, teachers, child-care workers, social workers, and nonprofit directors, who have a hunger for information but often find it difficult to find. ARMS is answering this challenge by providing a tiered structure of tools allowing users to enter the system with simple reports and move at their pace to complex GIS server tools providing access to over 100,000 individual layers.

Level 1 grants users access to reports which supply statistics for their area. Many of these reports are common demographic details that are available at the county level. Supplementary monthly reports are generated for specific areas where dashboards offer a breakdown of current data.

Level 2 provides users with simple access to maps. Over 1000 of the most common elements are posted for download in pdf format including statewide and local maps.

Level 3 offers access to an advanced GIS server which makes available multiple layers of information from the ARMS data banks and dynamically created maps. ARMS allows users to navigate through the 100,000 layers and display the information at the county, Zip, Census Tract, Block Group, or street level.

ARMS provides access to information from ESRI Business Analyst, Department of Education, Mental Health and Retardation, Administrative Office of Courts, Youth Services, Public Health, Human Resources, Kids Count, Secretary of State, Industrial Relations, United Way, Criminal Justice Information System, and others.

Health Data Management and Analysis Techniques Panel Discussion

Health Data Management and Analysis Techniques Panel Discussion: This 90-minute panel discussion moderated by William Davenhall, ESRI’s global marketing manager, health and human services solutions, will discuss topics covering health data standards such as HL7, HIPAA, data exchange formats, and standardization of health-related information. The leading experts on the panel will share their viewpoints and experiences from all areas of health care including federal, defense, state, and private sectors.

Members: David Stinchcomb, Chief, Cancer Statistics Branch, Surveillance Research Program (SRP), Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute

Richard R. Bannick, Ph.D., FACHE, Director, Performance Evaluations TRICARE Management Activity/Health Programs Analysis & Evaluation Directorate, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)

Daniel Sheres, consultant based in Baltimore, Maryland, specializing in the application of modern management practices and information systems technologies in public and private health care organizations; executive director, Institute for Community Environmental Risk Assessment

Data Collection Methodology and the Effective Use of Data for Health Analysis

Analysis of Air Routes Used by Travelers from Countries with Endemic H5N1 View Presentation [PDF]: —Leslie Sokolow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Advanced knowledge of the probable internal travel pathways of travelers from counties with H5N1 influenza would help public health officials anticipate patterns of geographic spread and identify critical points of control. This analysis identifies external and internal migration pathways for immigrants returning to the US from visits to their country of origin. US counties with 500+ immigrants from H5N1-endemic countries were identified. Flight routing data were obtained and ArcGIS Spatial Analyst used to determine geographic linkage. Sizable immigrant communities live in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, DC, Baltimore, Seattle, Boston, Chicago. Six domestic airports serve as primary entry ports (79%) for traffic from H5N1-endemic countries: LAX:19%, JFK:18%, SFO:14%, Newark:8%, Dulles:8%, Boston:6%. Seven international airports are most used by these travelers: Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Heathrow, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam. This analysis can aid surveillance efforts aimed at early detection and situational awareness so timely interventions can minimize spread of infection.
Health Care Service Point Accessibility: Challenges of Conceptualization and Modeling View Presentation [PDF]: —Mark Guagliardo, Veterans Health Administration

The concept of service area, or catchment area is the geographic foundation for most studies of access to care. With this approach service area borders are drawn around facility locations according to where patients obtain care. This geography is suitable for studying health system-focused topics such as patient origin and travel distance, or demographic profile of catchment area. However, because only those who use the services are georeferenced this geography is not suitable for tasks such as identifying areas of unmet need, or determining the best location for new service delivery points. A geographic approach that takes into consideration the location of all persons, not just service users, is needed. We describe the pros and cons of the two approaches in the context of the Veterans Health Administration system, discuss the challenges of the population-based approach, and make recommendations for future studies that will support that approach.
Mobile Data Collection for International Disaster Response View Presentation [PDF]: —Jim Tobias, BearingPoint

Mobile data collection for international disaster response is a recurring need for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC provided mobile data collection implementation and response for the Myanmar cyclone and China earthquake disasters during 2008. Standard disaster mortality and morbidity forms were translated to Chinese for the earthquake response and these forms were shared with China CDC. There is an opportunity to build a library of standard forms for disaster response and mobile data collection. A Public Health Wiki is in the development process to store and share mobile data collection forms with standard value sets for disaster response.
A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Asthma and Air Pollution: —Jacqueline Jackson, NASA Langley Research Center

Air pollution has been found to be a significant trigger for asthma exacerbations and linked to several respiratory illnesses. As part of the Americans with Disabilities Act NASA Langley Research Center (LARC) collects information about its employees on their respiratory illnesses. A study was employed to determine if there is a link between asthma and air pollution rates in the area and compare these rates with other areas in Virginia to see if this is a significant problem in the Hampton Roads area, where LARC is located. Using ESRI ArcMap 9.2 asthma rates were found to be slightly elevated in the Hampton Roads area of the state. This study will be utilized in the development of an Environmental Tracking System in Virginia, in which chronic diseases that may be related to exposure to chemicals, physical agents in the environment will be analyzed through a spatial and temporal application.

Homeland Security/Law Enforcement/Public Safety (HOM)

GIS in Emergency Operations Centers

Infrastructure Protection in the Homeland Security Geospatial Enterprise: —Michael Clements, DHS/IP

The infrastructure protection mission area is a major driver of GIS use in a homeland security context. GIS applications help infrastructure protection stakeholders visualize the infrastructure landscape and understand infrastructure asset, system, and network interdependencies and risks. The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) plays an active and important role in supporting the use of GIS capabilities to enable the infrastructure protection mission at the Federal, State, and local levels, and with private sector infrastructure owners and operators. This presentation provides an overview of IP initiatives to partner in the development and implementation of infrastructure spatial data standards; to collect, manage, and share infrastructure data; and to build and provide geospatial products and GIS applications for the homeland security community to visualize and use infrastructure spatial data.
Production in Emergency Operations View Presentation [PDF]: —Jennifer McCarron, National Protection and Programs Directorate

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GIS Capabilities in the Secretary's Operation Center (SOC) View Presentation [PDF]: —Robert Shankman, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations

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Standards for GIS Enterprise Data Sharing in Homeland Security and Law Enforcement

Standards for GIS Enterprise Data Sharing in Homeland Security and Law Enforcement: Anthony Hoang from the DHS Enterprise Data Management Office (EDMO) will speak about the DHS Geospatial Data Model and the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). The director of the DHS EDMO, Donna Roy, has recently been nominated to the role of Executive Director for NIEM. NIEM continues to be jointly sponsored by DHS, DOJ, and state and local government leadership. Learn more about both initiatives critical for sharing information across the federal government and other homeland security and law enforcement partners.
FEMA Fire Maps: —David Alexander, FEMA

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Dynamic Mapping Enabling Federal Law Enforcement

Dynamic Mapping Initiative of National Drug Threat Survey Data: —Philip Burkhart, National Drug Intelligence Center

The Mapping Initiative uses interactive maps and internet technology to facilitate a more detailed flow of city and county drug threat information to a wider audience of policy-makers, law enforcement, researchers, and the general public. The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), a component of the Department of Justice, annually conducts a National Drug Threat Survey (NDTS) of state and local law enforcement agencies to collect data on the threat posed by illicit drugs in the United States. The survey is an important component in the production of the National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA). The NDTA contains static maps with survey responses aggregated nationally and by OCDETF region, whereas the Dynamic Mapping Initiative provides users with responses at the city and county level. Data from the NDTS is now viewable by the general public via NDIC’s Dynamic Mapping Initiative at www.ndicgis.usdoj.gov or from a link on NDIC’s home page www.usdoj.gov/ndic.
ATF’s Bomb Arson Tracking System: —Donald Robinson, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Bomb Arson Tracking System (BATS)—BATS serves as the Nation’s repository for incident data pertaining to bombing, explosives and arson incidents in the United States, as mandated by statute and Attorney General directive. Reporting of explosives incidents to the United States Bomb Data Center (USBDC) is mandatory for all Federal agencies, pursuant to the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which established a national repository of explosives and arson incidents. BATS is a secure, Web-based information sharing system that serves as the direct link for Federal, state & local agencies to all of the data maintained by the USBDC. Investigators can use BATS to perform trend analysis and compare incidents for similarities in motives, device components, suspects and crime methodologies for possible investigative leads nationwide. Images of improvised explosive devices, crime scenes, and bombing and arson scenes are shared through the BATS secure Web connection. Investigators are able to capture details of bomb and arson cases, including the area of origin or device placement, casualties, dollar losses, fire descriptors, collateral crimes, device components, and descriptions of how a device was delivered. BATS also features a GIS mapping component, which allows investigators to map any incident or combination of incidents in the system.

BATS communicates Explosives Theft Alerts, and other Advisories and Assessments related to the criminal use of explosives and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to Federal, state and local agency participants.

BATS also includes a functionality that allows investigators to use the program as a case management system, allowing them to build their investigation in BATS, while maintaining absolute operational security.

Homeland Security Information Protection Data Panel Discussion

Homeland Security Information Protection Data Panel Discussion: This panel will describe the changes and enhancements to the Homeland Security Information Protection dataset. Learn about its availability, using the data on HSIN and GEOINT online as well as the harmonization of the dataset with the IP Infrastructure Taxonomy, and new ways in which NGA and DHS are coordinating to create a mission-essential dataset.

Imagery in GIS (IMG)

Imagery in GIS

USMC Oblique Imagery Project: —Art Kalinski, Pictometry

Oblique imagery combined with GIS data is growing in popularity and used by first responders, DHS, FEMA, NGA and the military. The United States Marine Corps is the first military branch to image all U.S. bases with high resolution ortho and oblique imagery. This presentation will review the technical challenges of the one year effort to capture imagery of all CONUS USMC bases. Training and implementation of the imagery in the Marine Corps ArcGIS based GeoFidelis program using an ArcGIS extension will be covered as well as two initial applications: firefighting and air field safety. High resolution Multi-Patch 3D models derived from the oblique imagery for security use and BIM model enhancement will also be demonstrated. Current efforts to image OUTCONUS bases as well as installation of oblique imagery cameras on the V-22 Osprey for use by in-theater intelligence analysts will also be discussed.
APFO’s Database of Photo Identifiable Control Points and Inspection Methodology: —Brian Vanderbilt, USDA Farm Service Agency, Aerial Photography Field Office

USDA’s Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO) in Salt Lake City is building a database of photo identifiable ground control points. These points are used to inspect the horizontal accuracy of orthorectified imagery acquired through the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). In 2006, APFO began with a pilot project to require known ground coordinate specifications (absolute accuracy), rather than comparing to pre-existing imagery (relative accuracy), as the authority in the rectification process. In 2008, seven states were flown and delivered to meet an absolute accuracy specification. The rationale for changing to this method was to acquire greater horizontal accuracy, in addition to a more intuitive and solid accuracy specification than previously utilized.

Although the database was created to assist the NAIP program, it could also be used in the future for other image acquisition projects. APFO’s goal is the creation of a very large collection of accurate photo identifiable ground control points.
Louisiana National Guard Unleashes the Power of ArcGIS Image Server for Quick Dissemination of Large Volumes of Imagery: —Mike Liotta, Camp Beaugard

The Louisiana National Guard (LANG) developed a Web GIS viewer that is capable of disseminating terabytes of imagery across the Internet quickly. Powered by ESRI’s ArcGIS Server 9.3 and Image extension and built on the 9.3 Web ADF, this application will help serve LANG through hurricane season and any emergency response that might arise.

LANG’s SAN houses the ArcSDE database as well as the 4 terabytes of imagery that previously had not been available to Internet users. Map and imagery services were created to provide end user access to this data. This solution dramatically reduced the effort required to incorporate and disseminate new imagery data via the Internet, instantly freeing up the GIS staff to concentrate on other aspects of their clients’ needs. This application will be a valuable asset for emergency preparedness and response.

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)

Developing Decision Aids for the Warfighter

Systematic Process for Developing Tactical Spatial Objects (TSOs) through High Definition Documents: —Michael Rainey, Department of Systems Engineering, United States Military Academy

On the battlefield, maneuver commanders and their staffs most often rely on two dimensional maps and satellite images to analyze terrain and manually select those locations that will best support their overall operational plan. To aide in this process, considerable amount of time and effort has been asserted into representing Tactical Spatial Objects (TSOs) within the Battlefield Terrain Reasoning and Analysis (BTRA) program and Geospatial Battle Management Language (GeoBML). However, at this time there is no systematic process that documents the planning considerations required to develop TSOs in order to best support a maneuver commander’s plan at the tactical or operation level.

The goal of this research effort is to establish and document a clear, concise, and executable process to aide in the development of TSOs that will have the greatest impact on implementation of the overall objectives of the BTRA/GeoBML research effort in support of the warfigther.
ArcGIS Software-Based Dynamic Intervisibility Analysis for Satellites, Sensors, and Ground Sites: —Chetan Desai, ProLogic, Inc.

ArcGIS framework provides support for extending the core data model, the provided data types, as well as the analytical capabilities to support new uses. This paper will provide a technical overview of approaches for supporting modeling of dynamic systems such as satellites and sensors for the purpose of advanced dynamic intervisibility analysis. The approach uses geodatabase to store and manage these dynamic temporal entities as well as to support interactive visualization and animation of the satellite tracks, sensor footprints, and intervisibility indicators. The integration of these new entities with the ArcObjects components also supports powerful query and analysis using existing ArcGIS functionality. The newly added components now provide ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server application developers with added capabilities to rapidly add geo-dynamic intervisibility analysis amongst space, air, and ground-based moving entities. The integration of these dynamic entities can provide additional new capabilities for many military and intelligence users of ArcGIS. These components are deployed at USSTRATCOM as part of the ArcGIS Server application for authoring User-Defined Operational Picture as well as a desktop extension called 4D Analyst.

Intelligence Dissemination

MCIA—Geospatial Intelligence Dissemination Methods: —Matthew Benden, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

The Marine Corps Intelligence Activity’s Geographic Analysis Division has been supporting the dissemination of intelligence products through Web and Geospatial Database applications since 2001. The online Geographically Linked Information Dissemination Environment (GLIDE) and MCIA Geodatabase systems are currently supporting the operational forces in every clime and place. Many of these “mission specific” geospatial intelligence applications have evolved far beyond expectations of MCIA. The latest implementation of ESRI’s ArcGIS Server has been essential in meeting the requirements to quickly develop and publish online Globe Services.

The most recent release of the Regional Expeditionary Intelligence Portable Resource (REIPR) driven by ArcGIS Engine is now answering the USMC demand for portable geographic intelligence in Afghanistan, Iraq and other remote areas where internet applications can not reach. REIPR arrives on the battlefield with geospatial intelligence that is preloaded and ready to use.
Pre-planning Data Sources: GIS Strategies for Counterinsurgency Operations View Presentation [PDF]: —Todd Lizotte, Pivotal Development, LLC

Warfare relies on effective, accurate and timely intelligence, which are especially critical when conducting a counterinsurgency operation. Simply stated counterinsurgency is an intelligence war. Insurgents and counterinsurgents therefore attempt to create and maintain intelligence networks and fight continuously to neutralize each other’s intelligence capabilities. In such an environment it is obviously an advantage to target or proactively create opportunities to track and map an insurgency network movement and if possible identify insurgent intelligence assets within a host government’s infrastructure, such as security personnel, national police force, government offices or military units. This paper will discuss the concept of pre-planning counterinsurgency data collection strategy that leverage Geospatial Information System (GIS) technology and passive and active taggants. One such strategy is the use of a passive and active tagging technology implemented within firearms purchased and distributed to the host nation’s security forces (civilian and military). Or active and passive tags which are planted or disbursed at geographic locations identified as areas of interest, such as border crossings and urban battle space.

International Development (INT)

Land Tenure and Economic Development

Integrated Public Land Management Using Coherent Cadastral Information: —Peter Rabley, International Land Systems (ILS), Inc.

A country wide cadastral or parcel index map depicting all properties and their boundaries facilitates both a more efficient and secure land market and serves as an important core layer of the NSDI as well. However, in the Bahamas outdated business processes, regulations and laws, and a series of disincentives mean that property surveys are never done or are created and never entered into the formal system of recording at the Department of Lands and Surveys. Change is coming though and as part of the Land Use Policy and Administration Project (LUPAP) work is currently underway to establish PIMS—the national Parcel Information Management System using the ILS Multicadastre software. PIMS will be the sole source of land parcel data containing both the spatial (geographical) and the tabular (administrative) data relating to parcels. In conjunction with PIMS the Government of the Bahamas has begun to implement LRS EMS a system designed to manage all interests related to Government land. The ongoing implementation is now integrating the PIMS system with the LRS EMS to provide a real time and coherent information. Maintaining PIMS and LRS EMS will require new procedures as well as cooperation between several government departments and private practitioners. These procedural changes will be discussed and described within the context of overall land management.
The Role of Geospatial Technology in the USAID Funded ‘Strengthening Property Rights in Timor-Leste’ Project: —Nicholas Thomas, ARD, Inc.

Newly independent Timor-Leste (East Timor) is clarifying land rights in its efforts to restore buildings, infrastructure and livelihoods affected by recent conflict. This USAID funded project implemented by ARD, Inc., is assisting the Government of Timor-Leste to 1) draft land policy, law and regulations to clarify and strengthen people’s rights in land and property; 2) support public information awareness to increase people’s understanding of their rights and responsibilities in law; 3) strengthen the country’s cadastre, land registration, and land administration system to connect rights in law with rights of land and property holders on the ground; and 4) assist national and regional governments with mediation and reconciliation that reduce conflict over resources and provide people with effective legal protection. In light of these objectives, this presentation will demonstrate the application of the ADAPX digital pens, ortho photographs, and ESRI desktop software in demarcating boundaries and recording land claims.
Development of Horticulture Industry in Ghana Using GIS View Presentation [PDF]: —Edwin Afari, USAID/TIPCEE

The goal of USAID’s TIPCEE project is to increase the competitiveness of Ghana’s private sector in world markets through an improved enabling environment and a strengthened capacity of the private sector to respond to market demands. This goal can only be achieved if available data on selected horticultural commodities are accurate, reliable, current and precise. The dispersion and lack of clear data to ensure an accurate planning of production—output levels, cultivated areas per crop, yields and production systems is a major constraint to competitiveness and long-term success of investments into the industry. This has led to poor production planning, inability to forecast yields, assess supply base and monitor small holder production. Farmers often over-estimate their farm sizes and over-pay for labour and other services. Resource allocation and targeting of small-scale producers for assistance and support has been difficult including GlobalGAP certification.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology provides spatial information on the production of various commodities and allows data to be related to geographical location. TIPCEE has established an internal GIS platform fully equipped with the requisite software (ESRI’s ArcGIS), base maps, plotters and printers to enhance the application of GIS technology in the horticulture sector. TIPCEE generates geographic maps and attribute data on location of farms, sizes, varieties cultivated, age of trees—which are given to industry associations, client firms and other stakeholders upon request.

Spatial understanding of the industry will enable the monitoring of Ghana’s export crop production and management systems. It’ll also enhance the distribution networks’ requirements for precise monitoring and planning of supply and productivity changes on farms. One significant impact of GIS on industry is that it provides accurate address systems and identification of farm maps for future traceability systems which is demanded by EU buyers.

Through GIS mapping smallholder farmers are integrated into modern supply chain systems as they become fully traceable using a unique address system generated through geographic reference of the entire farm as well as individual plots within the farm.
Using a Microfinance Provider as a Trusted Broker to Provide Formal Recognition of Land Rights to the Poor: —Craig DeRoy, Corporate Initiatives Development Group

A team of 5 partnered companies—International Land Systems (land administration solutions providers and consultants), Opportunity International (leading microfinance lender), International ESRI (world’s leading provider of GIS mapping applications), Trimble Navigation (electronic GIS/mapping survey equipment) and First American—joined forces and provided land title/registration services to 50 school owners in one of the poorest areas of Ghana. This project has taken a process that typically took more than 10 years with costs up to $3000 and made it a process that takes about 10 days and costs targeted at less than $100. What is more, this process involves full government cooperation. Our public/private partnership does not await government action, rather private industry (a microfinance lender in our pilot) drives the process to a commercially viable conclusion which parallels and is accepted by the government as a replacement for their process, resulting in formal title for the poor in record time. And, what is more, the costs for the process can be loaned to the client in the same manner as other elements of microfinance loans. Giving clients clear formal recognition of their rights to land will bring them much closer to the formal market, allowing them access to credit and the security this formalization brings. It also for the first time gives them a fixed address something as important as their recognition into formal society itself. By leveraging technology and training/deploying human resources “in-country” we are seeking to create a truly sustainable and scalable program. There are two overriding principles at the heart of determining paralegal title in the Demonstration Project in Ghana: 1) that properties can be identified and delineated along general boundary/point principles, and 2) that though both customary rights and common law rights exist in Ghana, both are sufficiently well-defined to be legally recognized, valued, conveyed, and pledged as collateral securing the loans in the program. The program relies on a high degree of support by the local administration, as well as family, social and tribal institutions.

Humanitarian Affairs, Global Health, and Food Security

Primary Applications of Spatial Analysis in Humanitarian Emergencies View Presentation [PDF]: —Firoz Verjee, Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, The George Washington University

This paper summarizes the findings of an 18 month global survey about the usefulness of GIS-based humanitarian assistance. Usefulness was assessed through a series of case studies that demonstrated the application of GIS-based analysis during actual and potential humanitarian interventions. It was found that GIS-based analysis can have a decisive impact upon the coordination of humanitarian assistance, and appears to offer substantial potential beyond its cartographic applications, particularly for Site Selection, Geovisualization, Vulnerability Estimation, Cluster Analysis and Range Analysis. These and several other forms of spatial analyses form an emerging doctrine in the field of humanitarian GIS, and are featured in ESRI Press’ forthcoming release GIS Tutorial for Humanitarian Assistance.
Sub-national Population Estimates and Maps for Response to Global HIV/AIDS View Paper [PDF]: —Robert Leddy, U.S. Census Bureau

Effective response to global HIV/AIDS requires an understanding of the distributions of populations within countries and the prevalence patterns of HIV within those populations, temporally as well as spatially. Through the sponsorship of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative, the U.S. Census Bureau is producing subnational 5-year age/sex group estimates for the years 2000-2010 for a series of “focus” countries and others sharing bilateral efforts with the U.S. Government, many of them in Sub-Saharan Africa. The estimates are prepared by means of an iterative process using census numbers for those subnational areas as a base. Linked to boundary shapefiles, ideally at the second administrative level, the estimates and the shapefiles are being provided to users via the HIV Spatial Data Repository, hosted by Macro International.
Food Security, Early Warning and Decision Support: Applying Global Standards to Local Assessment: —Glenn Levine, USAID/DCHA/FFP BEST Project (Fintrac, Inc.)

The international aid community is well aware of GIS as an important component in surveillance and emergency response systems, and is using them to extend collaboration with partners around the world. With the broad scope of coverage that it provides, GIS often supplies decision-makers and program implementers with communications tools to convey early warning, current status, or retrospective insights about an area of coverage.

USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is a preeminent actor in food security analysis and decision support. In operation since 1986 and now covering 4 regions of the world (mostly Africa), it is widely renowned for its objectivity, credibility, and technical sophistication. Recently, FEWS NET has taken a giant leap in the application of global food insecurity mapping at sub-national resolution. This elusive challenge has been made possible, in part, by an enterprise implantation of GIS desktop, server, and Web technologies.

Data management, rigorous analysis, and decision support systems often lack the sophistication of localized models due to time-tested problems of resource constraints and coordination problems. This track will focus on one organization’s bold attempt at applying global standards to local assessment.

How to Contribute to the Group on Earth Observations Panel Discussion

How to Contribute to the Group on Earth Observations Panel Discussion: The Group on Earth Observations (or GEO) is coordinating international efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The U.S. government is one of more than 75 nations supporting this effort. This emerging public infrastructure is interconnecting a diverse and growing array of instruments and systems for monitoring and forecasting changes in the global environment. This “system of systems” supports policy makers, resource managers, science researchers, and many other experts and decision makers in support of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. ESRI is supporting this effort by providing a GEO portal. Come learn about the U.S. government’s efforts and how you can publish your data and services on a GEO portal.

GIS in 2D—Development and Diplomacy Panel Discussion

GIS in 2D—Development and Diplomacy Panel Discussion: The interconnected global challenges and opportunities facing America in the 21st century call for the alignment of diplomacy and development assistance and their integration with our economic policies, defense and intelligence activities, and other national strategic objectives. This kind of coordination requires large amounts of information to be collected, analyzed, and shared across dozens of U.S. government agencies, NGOs, and private-sector organizations involved in these activities. GIS technology supports all these processes and is currently being used by many of these agencies for that purpose. Please join us for a panel discussion on what is currently being done in this area and what opportunities exist to better leverage technology toward these goals in the future.

Land and Natural Resources (LNR)

GIS in Conservation

An SDI to Support Conservation View Presentation [PDF]: —Brian Embley, The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has defined an aggressive goal of protecting 10% of all habitats by the year 2015. In support of this enormous effort, TNC understands that geospatial information is critical in prioritizing conservation efforts towards this goal as well as measuring progress.

TNC boasts 800+ loosely connected GIS professionals working at dozens of office locations across 4 continents. As much of the information needed to support TNC’s aggressive conservation goal is created and maintained at local field offices, a means to share discover and share data is being developed in the form of TNC’s international, distributed data sharing infrastructure.

This presentation will look at TNC’s current status of a multi-node geodatabase strategy including data flow, data access and challenges inherent in a large, federated organization.

Enterprise Challenges for Land and Natural Resource Organizations

An Agency-Wide Approach to Geospatial Training at US Forest Service View Presentation [PDF]: —Bill Silva, U.S. Forest Service GSTC

The US Forest Service’s Enterprise License Agreement with ESRI, as well as significant advances towards an enterprise-wide approach to GIS at the USFS, has caused GIS usage to reach more broadly and deeply within the agency. To keep pace with this increased use of technical software like ArcGIS, the Forest Service is pursuing innovative methods to provide quality training to its widely dispersed employees.

Shrinking travel and training budgets, and the need to train more people more frequently to keep them productively using current GIS technology, has resulted in the Forest Service seeking to incorporate the Internet into its long-term training strategy. Curriculum distribution via self-paced eLearning modules residing at the USFS Website is now being employed by the Forest Service. This approach allows more frequent and less expensive access to training, simplified training logistics, centralized content update, and the delivery of consistent and concise GIS curriculum to students.
Creating Cultural Resource Spatial Data Standards: —Deidre McCarthy, National Park Service

Locational information is a critical factor in understanding cultural resources and how to protect and preserve them. Knowing the location of a resource provides more than an understanding of where the resource is, offering clues about human and environmental influences on that resource and helping to explain why it exists. Geography can be used as a means of integrating the myriad of cultural resource databases operated by Federal agencies, where one location can reference multiple databases.

OMB Circular A-16 designates the National Park Service as the lead agency for the cultural resource spatial data theme, responsible for the stewardship of the dataset and the creation of cultural resource spatial data standards for all Federal agencies. This paper will describe the methodology, technical aspects of the implementation involved in the establishment of Federal-wide cultural resource spatial data standards, in addition to providing an update on where the process stands to date.
Building an Enterprise Geodatabase Land Based Schema to Support a Native American Tribal Government: —David Wyatt, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

“GIS is the core component of improving geographical related workflow operations in a Tribe’s service oriented economy.”

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), a federally-recognized Native American tribe, consists of over 14,000 enrolled members who are direct descendents of those Cherokee who avoided the forced removal to Oklahoma in the 1830s that is commonly referred to as the “Trail of Tears.” The EBCI is a sovereign nation, governed by a three-branch government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The Tribal government provides services typical of those provided by most municipal governments as well as being responsible for implementing and working with regulations and initiatives from the Federal government.

The EBCI are currently in the process of building an enterprise Geodatabase system designed to integrate the current Tribal lands data, interrelated workflows and infrastructure/resource management of the Tribal government. This includes the building of the cadastral fabric of all Tribal owned parcels with the office of Bureau of Indians Affairs who currently holds the Trust land records of the EBCI.

Over the past year the EBCI GIS office has been working with numerous Tribal programs to design an Enterprise Geodatabase land based schema to support various Tribal departments’ workflow and use-cases as well as specific data schemas of Federal and State agencies.

Energy Issues in Land and Natural Resources

Evaluating Geospatial Information for EPCA Analysis View Presentation [PDF]: —Caitlin Willoughby, Booz Allen Hamilton

Geospatial information plays a key role in the EPCA analysis of the RMP/EIS process. The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) and the Energy Policy Act both require inventory for all onshore Federal lands to identify and estimate the underlying extent of oil and gas resources. Resource Management Plans (RMPs) and Environmental Impact Statement (EISs) describe and analyze alternatives for the planning and management of public lands and resources administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). These comprehensive studies include: change analysis, potential impact assessments, and cost-benefit analysis. Geospatial technologies are leveraged to ensure that accurate management decisions are being made throughout BLM’s RMP/EIS process. Geospatial information is being used to identify BLM Field Office resources and analyze the land use impacts during the management decision process.
Keeping Large Energy Projects in Compliance with NEPA Using GIS View Presentation [PDF]: —Brian Cantwell, Argonne National Laboratory

Since the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) federal agencies have been implementing various programs to enhance energy production and delivery. Whether designating new energy corridors in the western states, evaluating new offshore drilling areas, or determining lands available for lease to solar or wind power plants, these projects present unique siting and environmental challenges for federal agencies. Congressional mandates found in EPAct often involve multiple agencies, each with its own mission and management requirements and its own methods of data collection and dissemination. In addition, while stakeholders have varied agendas, all stakeholders and agency officials require clear and concise data, including spatial data, on which to base decisions. This paper focuses on using GIS and Web technologies to address these challenges in a way that allows decisions of national importance to be informed by local knowledge.
Managing Forest Stands with ArcGIS: —Brad Chappell, Tetra Tech

The Navy has taken advantage of the ArcGIS application suite to implement a FGIS (Forestry Geographic Information System) that has streamlined the Navy’s forestry data management practices. This application uses ArcGIS Desktop and the .NET Framework to provide custom functionality to meet the needs of Foresters with the Navy. The ArcGIS Desktop platform was chosen over ArcGIS Engine because of software regulations specified by the Navy and because the user base already maintains ArcGIS Desktop licenses. Some of the primary functions consist of a custom tool to draw forest stands, a tool to split stands into sub-stands and compartments, map book generation and disconnected editing. The application also will provide Foresters with a GIS based model for planning forestry resource management activities.

Modeling and Spatial Analysis (MSA)

Managing the Environment for Public Safety and Welfare Using GIS

Use of Inference Network in Environmental Mapping through GIS: —Anshu Gupta, MANIT

Planning and design activities of different level i.e. urban, town, rural, transportation etc. aims to create a better environment which is in the interest of safety, health, aesthetics, comfort and general welfare of people. It is the major channel to control the human activities that pollute urban environment and perform the managing measures to improve the urban environmental quality, UEQ. Urban environmental quality management requires UEQ assessment through environmental parameters like air quality, wind direction, noise quality, vegetation, topography etc. Environmental parameters have intertwined mesh of relationships which can be defined by Fuzzy rules. However, fuzzy rules are to be established in a structured format to evaluate such quality with good precision. This paper deals with such format establishment named as Fuzzy inference network. Further same network has been utilized in evaluating UEQ through Boolean inference network. Results are compared for both the methods and conditions along with the efficacy of the methods are analyzed. It has been established that this method has a lot of potential applicability in urban environmental studied with modified inference network incorporating more number of environmental parameters.
Developing a Spatial Hazard Index Methodology Using ModelBuilder: —Joseph Ludwig, USTRANSCOM

Natural hazards can have a profound impact—damaging infrastructure, taking lives, and causing cascading economic effects. In order to help identify the communities and infrastructures at risk to such hazards, a geospatial-based natural hazards index was developed and the methodology documented using ESRI’s ArcGIS ModelBuilder capability. The model incorporates appropriate statistical and spatial analysis tools to study the geospatial distribution of hazard events to determine the areas that are most prone to natural disasters. The model also enables users to analyze the spatial hazard variations by month to identify when specific natural disasters are likely to occur. Overall, the model will allow for spatial-temporal hazard trends to be analyzed to help understand when and where disasters may strike an area of interest, enabling governments to better prepare for such events and protect communities and key infrastructures.
Risk Information Awareness Tool—Flood: —Johanna Meyer, AECOM/Watershed Concepts

The Riverine Flood Risk Management and Situational Awareness Tool provides flood risk analysis for over 45,000 critical facilities. This flood solution identifies population and housing units at risk by river and gauge for FEMA Region I. It is available to local, regional and state emergency management via the Internet. The flood data includes a DFIRM, Q3 and a comprehensive HAZUS Flood model for the 50, 100, 200 and 500 year hazards for all 67 counties in New England. It allows for user input of data via Web forms and generation of multiple reports.

Food Supply Health Using GIS

Supporting Agriculture through Emergency Response and Recovery View Presentation [PDF]: —Jeffery Bloomquist, USDA Farm Service Agency

The USDA Farm Service Agency is responsible for identifying agricultural losses due to natural disasters and implementing emergency programs to help alleviate the destruction and financial loss suffered by farmers and ranchers. The loss assessment process has traditionally been completed by identifying both the severity and extent of damage based on ground observations. USDA-FSA offices in Minnesota and North Dakota are using GIS to respond to these weather events and document impacted areas. A suite of geospatial analysis tools utilized by these FSA offices combines Doppler radar data and agricultural data in the Common Land Unit to identify areas with the greatest potential impact from severe weather events. Information derived from this process is distributed to field offices to assist in the local disaster assessment process. Using GIS improves data quality and efficiency in a collaborative process to document disaster events and implement agency emergency programs.
Using GIS in Dye Study of Shellfish Growing Areas View Paper [PDF]: —Guilan Huang, FDA/CFSAN

FDA/CFSAN recently conducted a study to determine the risk associated with the viral quality of effluent discharged in Alabama. A dye study was conducted by tagging the wastewater treatment plant effluent with a tracer dye with the goal of determining the dilution of effluent at the various shellfish monitoring stations as well as understanding the spatial patterns of the effluent over time to better locate shellfish stations in future studies. We found GIS extremely useful in at least three aspects: (1) GIS illustrated the zones of dilution in a straightforward and innovative way to interpret/visualize GPS data; (2) GIS is helpful to allocate research monitoring stations in a scientific way, saving labor cost and increasing data efficiency; (3) GIS is useful for finding outlier data caused by boat speed exceeded pump capacity and carryover. We will study other useful aspects of GIS in the future.
Examination of Agricultural Health Using Commercial Imagery and Geospatial Analysis: —Amy Cotnoir, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

Assessments of irrigation infrastructure operability and agricultural health provide policymakers with knowledge of the extent of deteriorating infrastructure that is potentially impacting water distribution and food scarcity in marginal agricultural lands. The exploitation of high resolution panchromatic commercial imagery for geospatial analysis of irrigation status and agricultural health provides an unclassified product that can be distributed for interagency collaboration. By extracting irrigation infrastructure use and functionality from unclassified imagery and shapefiles over representative agricultural sample areas, analysts can create statistics displaying a snapshot of regional functionality. When these imagery extracted data sets are combined with multiple vegetation indices for the sample areas and the region as a whole, analysts provide an overview for policymakers to implement economic development programs to rehabilitate underutilized agricultural areas and direct financial investment.

National Geospatial Information Management (NGI)

Standards and Frameworks

GIS & BIM Interoperability View Presentation [PDF]

—Nancy Towne, USACE

There are many GIS and BIM users who are familiar with the nationally recognized DOD standard products but often experience implementation challenges merging BIM and GIS. Hence, the Center provides technical assistance on-site as installations and agencies move towards enterprise GIS with BIM. Specific issues that are frequently requested that would be better solved at the field users’ office include:

How to convert project data to comply with SDSFIE and BIM Datasets
How to creatively utilize SDSFIE with BIM technology
How to add and maintain SDSFIE-compliant data sets using 3D technology
How to implement standards with eGIS applications

Geospatially Referencing Tabular Data to Produce a Geospatial Thematic Data

—Sandra Downie, GSA

Federal Agencies are developing geospatially enabled Situational Awareness capabilities. Decision makers want real time briefs on buildings, people, equipment, network etc that are in the area of risk. Agencies traditionally use text data and FIPS codes to record location. In an emergency, complete accurate location data is needed in a digital format that is compatible with the common operating picture in the Emergency Response community.

Government Buildings and Facilities are considered Critical Infrastructure. Agencies are responsible for their own assets and maintain their own PP&E data management system. GSA’s responsibility as the Lead Agency for this geospatial data, is to facilitate the development of standards for “Buildings and Facilities” geospatial data, so that when this data is brought together, it will provide a seamless geometry and attribute data set that can be integrated with the National Emergency Response “common operating picture”.

This paper outlines the steps taken to geospatialy enable asset management tabular data to support the GSA’s Office of Emergency Response and Recovery OERR. In a collaborative environment, like a FGDC work group, agencies share best practice within a community of interest and develop standards and guidance for the Nationally significant themes like “Buildings and Facilities.”

Identifying, Mapping and Cataloging Low Hazard Dams in Indian Country View Presentation [PDF]

—Rich Stein, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Irrigation, Power and Safety of Dams

The Indian Dams Safety Act of 1994 mandates the Bureau of Indian Affairs to develop a comprehensive list of dams located on Indian land. The Bureau estimates there are well over 1000 low-hazard dams within Indian Country. Low-hazard dams are those whose failure would pose no threat to human life and would result in minimal property damage. Of major concern are dams categorized as low-hazard that may have risen in hazard classification due to down-stream development. Unfortunately, knowledge of the current condition, and often the location, of many of these dams has been lost over time.

Safety of Dams officers within the Bureau consider it imperative that a current list of low-hazard dams be compiled. The Bureau has undertaken the investigation and, employing a multi-faceted technique using aerial photography, GIS and GPS technology, begun to gather data on low hazard dam locations and to incorporate that information into a geodatabase.

Army National Guard Geo-Spatial Data for Installation Management

—Mark Parthum, NGB-ARE

Over the last few years, the Army National Guard has experienced a growing requirement for geo-spatial data at the federal level to effectively perform land management functions and to meet ever increasing requests for geo-spatial data. To meet these needs, the ARNG required a process to systematically identify, develop, and manage geo-spatial data resources. Furthermore, the process required a method that stores and maintains the geo-spatial data in the ARNG geo-spatial repository. This process has become known as the Common Installation Picture (CIP). By allowing the CIP process to identify federal geo-spatial data requirements, develop the data, and publish specifications for the data, the ARNG is more effectively meeting the mission of land management. Additionally, the ARNG has been developing methodologies and applications to further enhance the federal geo-spatial repository. The presentation will outline the timeline, creation and current state of the CIP.

Geospatial Applications Enabling the Federal Enterprise

The National Map Now: —Mark DeMulder, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

The National Map, one of the cornerstones of the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Geospatial Program, is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and other Federal, State, and local partners to improve and deliver topographic information for the Nation. This tool has many uses ranging from recreation to scientific analysis to emergency response. The National Map is accessible via the Web and results in products, services, or downloadable data. The geographic information available from the National Map includes orthoimagery (aerial photographs), elevation, geographic names, hydrography, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover. Other types of geographic information can be superimposed in the National Map viewer or brought in through a geographic information system to create specific types of maps. The National Map is a significant contribution to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure and currently is being transformed to better serve the geospatial community by providing improved products and services, including a new generation of digital topographic maps. This presentation will describe its current status and provide an overview of the production schedule for the National Map products and services.
Geo-Enabling Projects Support HUD Information Requirements View Presentation [PDF]: —Jon Sperling, HUD

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) supports the Department’s efforts to help create cohesive, economically healthy communities. PD&R is responsible for maintaining current information on housing needs, market conditions, and existing programs, as well as conducting research on priority housing and community development issues. Two PD&R projects are showcased in this presentation. One, HUD’s Geocode Service Center’s ongoing enterprise service which geo-enables 17+ data systems: administrative records, postal data, contractor data, etc. to make information access easier and faster. A second project is STEWARD, Spatio-Textual Extraction on the Web Aiding Retrieval of Documents, a collaborative exploratory project with the University of Maryland. This system extracts, queries, and visualizes textual references to geographic locations in unstructured text documents. The presentation provides project details and best practices.
Development of a Geospatial Portal View Presentation [PDF]: —Diane Lockwood, Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) mission is to “… enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives.”

The Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO), the National Geospatial Resource Center (NGRC), the Regional Field Advisory Committee (FAC) and the BIA’s GIS Users are working together to develop a geospatial portal for authorized users which will increase: communication, capability and productivity amongst BIA professionals. This technology will enable tribes, agencies, administrative personnel as well as GIS users to upload and download geospatial information in a national system across the BIA.

Major System Workflows and Processes

Canada, Mexico, and the United States Harmonize Their Small-Scale Frameworks: —Jay Donnelly, National Atlas of the United States

In 2004, the largest nations of North America collaboratively produced basic cartographic data layers at a scale of one to ten million (1:10,000,000). These integrated data sets were documented in three languages; were made available online by each country for download at no cost to the end users; were provided as Web map services; and were published in a political base map of North America that was distributed to everyone who attended that year’s ESRI International User Conference. These fundamental map layers became the geospatial framework for the North American Environmental Atlas. Federal mapping organizations in Canada, Mexico, and the United States have now agreed to produce an entirely new set of frameworks at a scale of 1:1,000,000. These data will be harmonized at national borders and will adhere to the Global Map data dictionary.
FGDC Imagery for the Nation Project: Status and Plans: —Vicki Lukas, U.S. Geological Survey

Imagery for the Nation (IFTN) is envisioned to be a Federal program, conducted in partnership with State and local government, to address the nation’s basic business needs for imagery. The IFTN vision was designed by the National States Geographic Information Council and endorsed by the National Digital Orthophoto Program, a Federal imagery coordination body. Building on this broad-based consensus on the IFTN vision, the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) initiated the IFTN Phase 1 Project to begin planning for Federal implementation of an IFTN program. The implementation of a comprehensive and integrated imagery program requires an unprecedented level of cross-agency coordination and executive oversight. The Phase 1 Project has begun to address these challenges and will conclude with a report outlining a set of next steps towards implementing IFTN. This session will provide an overview of the status and plans of the effort.
USACE National Levee Database: —Tom Schweitzer, PBS&J

The National Levee Database program is a comprehensive digital inventory that will ultimately include location data for all 14,000 miles of levees within the USACE program. The database will retain and facilitate easy access to critical information about individual levees, bolstering efforts to ensure levee safety while assisting other agencies that conduct activities related to floodplain management. To date over 6,000 miles of levees have been surveyed using RTK GPS technologies at high accuracies. All the levee features are being compiled into a 3D SDSFIE compliant geodatabase as part of the new National Levee Safety Program. The data is already being used for levee inspections, levee analysis, emergency management, flood response and floodplain mapping.
Spatial Data Standard for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (SDFIE) Update: The New Release 3.0: —Marc Beckel, Northrop Grumman

In early 2009, the Spatial Data Standard for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (SDSFIE) was to be released for the DOD IGI&S user community as a Logical Data Model-based (LDM) standard. This presentation will review the latest Release 3.0; which includes the Data Model and the suite of SDSFIE Release tools available to all DOD users via the Web (www.sdsfie.org). The new suite of Web-based tools allow the user community to migrate data, generate compliant databases, and “adapt” the SDSFIE to ensure that every user has a place for their data while maintaining the full effectiveness of the standard. The SDSFIE tools support the creation of physical implementations, which include the ESRI platform.

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names: Why I Should Care about Standardized Place-Names Panel Discussion

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names: Why I Should Care about Standardized Place-Names Panel Discussion View Presentation [PDF]: —Lou Yost, U.S. Board on Geographic Names

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body created to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government. The Board comprises representatives of federal agencies concerned with mapping and geographic information, population, ecology, management of public lands, foreign affairs, and national security. The Board promulgates official geographic feature names with locative attributes as well as principles, policies, and procedures governing the use of domestic names, foreign names, Antarctic names, and undersea feature names.

In this age of geographic information systems, the Internet, and homeland defense, geographic names data is even more important and more challenging.

Applying the latest technology, the BGN continues its mission. It serves the federal government and the public as a central authority to which name problems, name inquiries, name changes, and new name proposals can be directed. In partnership with federal, state, and local agencies, the Board provides a conduit through which uniform geographic name usage is applied and current names data is promulgated.

This panel session will introduce the role of the BGN as well as federal agency roles and responsibilities from members of the Board.

Concepts of GIS Sessions (COG)

What IS GIS and How Can It Help Me

What Is GIS and How Can It Help Me: —Bill Davenhall and Chris Thomas, ESRI

New to GIS? Looking for a bigger picture of GIS, how it works, and how to leverage it? This introductory session will explore the basic concepts of GIS, what it does, and how organizations are using it. We will also explore the benefits of using GIS and show example applications to illustrate concepts.

Concepts of Geographic Analysis

Concepts of Geographic Analysis: —Chris Belson, ESRI

This workshop will focus on managers and staff new to GIS. A wide range of analysis tools and techniques for geographic analysis, from spatial queries to spatial modeling, will be covered. This session will use problem-solving approaches and discuss common pitfalls to avoid when doing your analysis. You will also learn how to critically evaluate data, assumptions, methods, and analysis results.

ESRI Product Line—Understanding the Best Options for You

ESRI Product Line—Understanding the Best Options for You: —Damian Spangrud, ESRI

Does this sound familiar? You are responsible for implementing GIS at your organization, but you don’t know which ESRI products are the best fit for your organization. One colleague tells you product X is the way to go, while another says you must buy product Y. Is either colleague correct? This session will help you determine which ESRI products best suit your organization’s needs.

Industry Focus Sessions (IDF)

Sustainable Health: Persistent GIS

Sustainable Health: Persistent GIS: —Bill Davenhall, ESRI

Health and human services organizations around the world face formidable challenges every day. From allocating scarce resources more effectively to monitoring population health status, GIS is helping to make health care everywhere more accessible, affordable, and attainable. This unique technology is making major contributions to the important work of health ministries and hospitals in the fields of disease surveillance and health disparities and to improving the accessibility to health services. Health and human services organizations must strive to accurately collect, manage, and analyze vast sets of data while also communicating information, results, and interventions in a timely manner. GIS plays a substantial role in making these information-intense activities sustainable to improve human health around the world. This presentation will review some best practices in GIS such as those of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and many local public health organizations. Attendees will learn how ESRI’s GIS technologies are used, the informational challenges they are addressing, and the technical specifications that are actually being deployed in these applications.

Geospatial Collaboration and Intelligence in a Homeland Security Data Fusion Center

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—Paul Christin, David Cook, and Jeff Sopel, ESRI

Public safety, homeland security, and law enforcement are tasked with more responsibilities today than ever before. Key among these responsibilities is managing and exploiting—”fusing”—the vast amounts of data they collect for actionable knowledge. Effective data fusion relies on different intelligence capabilities. There are four key intelligence capabilities currently being applied in the data fusion community:

All hazards
All risks
All crimes
All threats

These intelligence capabilities can be leveraged individually or simultaneously within the fusion environment. To support these capabilities, a framework is needed to capture and optimize workflows and tradecraft. Once captured, workflow and tradecraft can be repeated, modified, or shared, providing constant feedback, effective resource management, and direction to a mission. These workflows include developing analytic products that are clear and customized and support performance-driven, risk-based prevention, protection, and response programs. ESRI and Microsoft are working together to build a collaborative geospatial framework for data fusion and intelligence centers called FusionX. This session will provide an overview of geospatial information systems in the four key intelligence capabilities above by examining the entire data fusion workflow: data collection, integration, analysis, and dissemination. Explore how GIS has been integrated with collaborative workflow technologies, such as Microsoft’s SharePoint, PerformancePoint, and SQL, to assist with complex analysis in identifying hazards, risks, crimes, and threats. Also, see a demonstration of the FusionX capabilities that support the data fusion mission across public safety, homeland security, and law enforcement.

Situational Awareness in Ops Center and in the Field

Situational Awareness in Ops Center and in the Field: —Paul Christin, David Cook, and Jeff Sopel, ESRI

GIS is an essential technology for providing public safety personnel with enhanced situational awareness—an understanding of events as they evolve and what resources must be applied. Data and information stored and managed through a geodatabase can provide intuitive, actionable knowledge within a mapped context. The key is to acquire, process, and present geographically represented data so the user doesn’t have to search for it. The information should be contextualized and relevant based on the mission, workflow, and tasks being performed. Various technologies, including hardware, software, and networks, need to work together to provide homeland security and public safety professionals with situational awareness. This session will discuss how GIS supports situational awareness and decision making from the operations command center to the field and how it can support everything from assessing risk to critical infrastructure protection.

Managing Tomorrow's Transportation System with GIS

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—Eric Floss, ESRI

Transportation professionals increasingly face four interrelated challenges:

Provide comprehensive information systems that effectively guide decision making despite scarce public resources.
Ensure the safety of transportation systems.
Monitor the effectiveness of transportation policies.
Maintain an accurate asset inventory.

This session will highlight the role that enterprise GIS plays within local, state, and federal agencies in addressing these challenges. Learn how GIS, in a service-oriented architecture environment, can help integrate other business solutions, such as project and financial management systems, for effective project delivery. Find out how GIS, combined with real-time sensors and surveillance technology, provides an effective common operating picture for performance monitoring and security operations. This session will also address how GIS provides a common framework for safety management and crash analysis. Finally, the session will review the importance of maintaining an accurate asset inventory and discuss 2010 HPMS reporting requirements. Best practice examples will be highlighted throughout the presentation.

Technical Workshops

3D Analyst—Visualization with ArcGlobe
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Advanced Administration for ArcGIS Server
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Analysis and Geoprocessing: Case Studies—Problem-Solving Methods
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ArcGIS Server: Served Once, Consumed by Many
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ArcLogistics 9.3 Helping Government Save Money
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Building Great Web Maps Using ArcGIS
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Building Mashups Using the JavaScript API and Flex for ArcGIS Server
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Configuring PLTS
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Data Integration for ArcGIS Users
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Data Management in the Multiuser Geodatabase
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Delivering Secure GIS Solutions
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Designing, Deploying, and Using Cached Map Services
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Developing Applications with ArcGIS Server Using the Java Platform
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Developing Applications with ArcGIS Server and the Microsoft .NET Framework
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Discovery and Access of Geospatial Resources Using GIS Portal Toolkit
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Enterprise GIS Design Using Citrix
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Enterprise GIS: Vision, Impact, and Architecture
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ESRI Mobile GIS Solutions
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ESRI’s Support for Standards in ArcGIS: Building GIS Standards and Their Role in Interoperability
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Introduction to ArcGIS for Situational Awareness
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Introduction to ArcGIS Defense Solutions—Military Analyst and MOLE
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Introduction to ArcGIS Server—Creating and Using GIS Services
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Introduction to the Multiuser Geodatabase
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Leveraging OGC Services in ArcGIS Server
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Managing Distributed Data with Geodatabase Replication
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Multiuser Geodatabase Editing Workflows
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PLTS for ArcGIS—An Introduction
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Regression Analysis: Making Informed Decisions for Better Planning
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Storing Symbology in the Geodatabase: Using Cartographic Representations in ArcGIS Desktop 9.3
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Unlocking the Potential of ArcGIS Explorer
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What’s New in ArcGIS Server
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