An Overview for the State of Connecticut

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• An Overview for the State of Connecticut
• Geospatial Information Systems Council
• January 23, 2008

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Todays Agenda

• Introduction to NSGIC
• Key Initiatives
• Strategic Partners
• Value Provided to States

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Introduction to NSGIC

• Description
• Membership
• Conferences
• Committees

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What is NSGIC?

• Small 501 (c) (6) nonprofit organization
• may engage in limited political activities that
  inform, educate, and promote their given
  interest.
• Formed by the State GIS Coordinators in 1991 at
  the Atlanta URISA meeting
• Promote statewide GIS coordination councils
• Serve as the voice of the States for geospatial
  issues
• Actively engaged with many Federal organizations
• Especially the FGDC on issues related to the NSDI
• Promote effective and efficient government
  through the prudent adoption of geospatial
  technologies
• Management Office in Bel Air, Maryland
• King Stringfellow Group (KSG)
• Washington Liaison in Annapolis, Maryland
• Bill Burgess

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Breakdown of Members in 2007

• State Government 62
• State Councils (6) 88
• Institutional 30
• Business/Corporate 66
• Federal Partners (4) 143
• Federal Member 58
• Total 452
• Currently 480 members with steady growth

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NSGICs Mission

• Be an effective advocate for states in national
  geospatial policy initiatives
• Guide the states in fulfilling their role as
  builders of the National Spatial Data
  Infrastructure (NSDI)
• Promote statewide geospatial coordination
  activities in all states

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Officers and Board Members

• President Cy Smith, Oregon
• Past President Stu Davis, Ohio
• President-Elect Learon Dalby, Arkansas
• Treasurer Ivan Weichert, Kansas
• Secretary George White, California
• Board Members
• Dave Brotzman, Vermont
• Jim Knudson, Pennsylvania
• Mike Mahaffie, Delaware
• Mike Ouimet, Texas
• Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Indiana
• Will Craig, Minnesota
• Try to maintain a balanced geographic distribution

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Mid-Year Meeting

• Held in Annapolis, MD
• 241 Attendees (2007)
• Federal Programs and Congressional Focus
• Capitol Hill Visits
• Capitol Hill Event
• Stakeholders Meeting
• Social Event
• Long Hours (600 am to 1000 pm)

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Annual Conference

• 350 Attendees
• State Programs Emphasis
• All Plenary Sessions
• Committee and Special Meetings
• Long Hours (830 am to 1000 pm)
• Lots of Food
• Social Event
• Arkansas in 2006
• Wisconsin in 2007
• Colorado in 2008
• Cleveland in 2009
• Rotate States, East v. West, Urban v. Rural

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Committees
Each committee is chartered and works according
to Strategic Plan assignments

• Board of Directors
• Outreach
• Conference
• Communications
• Technical Issues
• Geospatial Preparedness
• Elections
• Sponsorship

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Key Initiatives

• Fifty States Initiative
• NSDI Governance
• Imagery for the Nation
• Ramona

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Fifty States Initiative
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Fifty States Initiative

• Make fundamental changes in the way we work
  together to build the NSDI
• Normalize the way all states participate in
  building the NSDI
• Involve statewide coordination councils in
  governance of the NSDI
• Enable all stakeholder groups to work together to
  meet their own business needs

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Fifty States Initiative

• Solid foundation through Strategic and Business
  Plan development
• Assemble in discrete manageable units
• Bottom-up approach that is all-inclusive
• Statewide coordination (not just state agencies)

Templates promote common Strategic Business
Plan development with baselines Measured Results
http//www.nsgic.org/hottopics/fifty_states.cfm
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Coordination Criteria

• Full-time Paid Coordinator
• Defined Authority
• Relationship with State CIO
• Political Champion
• Responsibilities for NSDI Assigned
• Effective Coordination with Local Government
• Sustainable Funding
• Contractual Authority
• Federal Government works through Council

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Effective Statewide Councils

• Provide mechanisms for broad representation by
  all stakeholder groups
• Routinely engage in strategic planning
• Develop business and marketing plans
• Have formal authorization and bylaws
• Follow the 9 coordination criteria
• Have funding to enable their operation
• Commit to implementing appropriate OGC, FGDC,
  ANSI, ISO other standards

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Marketing
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Marketing
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Marketing
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Marketing
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NSDI Governance
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NSDI Governance

• NSGIC members invested significant time to
  develop a recommendation for a new governance
  model for the NSDI
• Part of the FGDC Future Directions Strategic
  Planning
• Outgrowth is the National Geospatial Advisory
  Committee (NGAC) which is a Federal Advisory
  Committee that will advise the FGDC through the
  Secretary of Interior
• Members should be announced next week
• NSGIC worked with GITA, MAPPS, URISA and NACo to
  support nominees who could work effectively with
  each other and make a difference

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Imagery for the Nation
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Imagery for the Nation

• Organized effort to acquire imagery over the
  entire US
• Multi-Resolution (6, 1, 1-meter)
• Repeat cycles of 1 to 5 years depending on
  location and resolution
• Imagery stays in public domain
• Consistent national standards (image type,
  quality, format security concerns)
• States can manage part of the program through
  development of business plans
• Federal government funds basic program
• Users fund buy-up options and cost-share on
  high-resolution products

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Proposed Custodians

• USGS for High Resolution Portion (6 1) and
  for 1-meter program in Alaska
• USDA for 1-meter program in all other areas

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Imagery for the Nation Productsmeet the majority
of local, state and Federal needs
Six Inch GSD
Every 3 Years
Mandatory 50 cost share in Urbanized Areas with
populations gt50,000 and more than 1,000 people
per square mile
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Imagery for the Nation Productsmeet the majority
of local, state and Federal needs
One Foot GSD
Every 3 Years
CONUS 48 States 50 Federal Funding and
Optional 50 State Funding. Alaska and Insular
Areas are on Population Model.
Variations of coverage and how the 1 program are
funded represent the differences in the evaluated
alternatives.
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Imagery for the Nation Productsmeet the majority
of local, state and Federal needs
One Meter GSD
Every Year
Alaska and the insular areas are on a different
cycle and Alaska is acquired by USGS.
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Buy-Up Options

• Vary according to product type
• Color Infrared
• Increased Frequency
• Increased Footprint
• Increased Horizontal Accuracy
• Sampling to Lower Resolutions
• Increased Resolution (6 to 3 and 1 to 6)
• Improved Elevation Data Products
• Remove Building Lean (True Ortho)

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Evolution of Program

• First proposed by NSGIC in 2004
• Committee developed proposal
• Suggested to Federal Geographic Data Committee in
  September 2005
• Remanded to the National Digital Orthophoto
  Programs Committee (NDOP) in November 2005
• Proposal slightly modified through committee and
  supported by NDOP in April 2006
• USGS and USDA funded Cost Benefit Analysis
  November 2006 through July 2007
• NDOP Committee unanimously approved Alternative
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• NSGIC attempted to authorize and appropriate the
  1-meter program through the 2007 Farm Bill
  reauthorization and failed
• Already started to pull the geospatial community
  together for Hill activities in 2008

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Current Problems

• Incomplete coverage of the Nation
• Inconsistent data formats
• Data access restrictions
• Poor archival practices
• Varying quality of products
• Duplication of effort due to limited coordination
• Inefficient contracting
• Poor documentation

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Future Improvements

• Solves all the above problemsand more
• Creates a national aerial imagery program to
  collect and disseminate standardized
  multi-resolution products on set schedules
• Federal, state, and local partners can exercise
  cost sharing options for any required
  orthoimagery enhancements
• Provides a reliable business model for
  orthoimagery production
• IFTN imagery will be placed in the public domain
  and archived for historical purposes

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Economy of Scale
150 per square mile
100 per square mile
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Other Direct Benefits of IFTN

• Eliminates Need at State and Local Level for
• Procurement and Contract Management
• Quality Assurance Quality Control
• Archive and Distribution Systems
• Results in an additional 17.5 savings when
  applied to the Contracting Costs
• Frees up staff to do other work

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Ramona
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Purpose of the GIS Inventory

• Track the status of GIS in state and local
  government
• Aid the planning and building of Spatial Data
  Infrastructures
• Work in concert with Geospatial One-Stop and
  other Federal programs for broader data discovery
• Have a single inventory tool
• Unique state identity (promote buy-in)
• Reduce the need for the multiple ad-hoc
  inventories conducted by federal and state
  agencies

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Primary Components of the GIS Inventory

• Inventory of
• Users
• Organizations
• Systems
• Policies
• Geography
• 478 Data Layers
• Status Maps and Query Capability
• Directory of Users
• Reports
• User Support
• Newsletter Tool
• Administrative Tools
• Metadata Generation Tool
• Metadata Repositories (Web Folder and CSW)
• Supports the Annual NSGIC State Summaries

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Important Features

• Open source
• Simple intuitive interface
• Inexpensive to modify and maintain
• 6,000 per year for hardware/software/ISP
• Original User Needs and System Build - 60k (NOAA
  funded through BAA)
• Total Investment is lt 150k to date from (NOAA,
  FEMA, FGDC, DHS)

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Underlying Architecture

• PHP - programming
• MapServer - mapping interface
• MySQL database
• Commercial Hardware (Liquid Web)
• Dedicated High Speed Server
• RAID Level 1 Storage
• On-Site and Off-Site Backup
• 2-hour repair/replacement guarantee

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Interoperability
NDEP National Digital Elevation Program
Committee NDOP National Digital Orthophoto
Programs Committee MIP FEMAs Mapping
Information Platform GOS Geospatial One Stop
Portal CSW Catalog Services - OGC Catalog
Service 2.0.1
GIS Inventory is not dependent on any other
system.
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Status Maps

• Visualize status of particular data layers
• Map can be customized
• Information reports on all data layers

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Reports

• Run reports based on your own search criteria

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Sample Report
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COUNTY AGENCIES THAT CREATE NC ONEMAP FRAMEWORK
LAYERS
Number of Layers
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STATUS OF MAJOR DATA LAYERS - ORTHOIMAGERY
Total number of responses 82 (6 responses
were blank)
Total number of responses 88
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Tabular Reports
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Metadata Requirements

• GIS Inventory does not ingest metadata
• too many variables in free text fields
• GIS Inventory has a structured series of
  questions in several functional areas
• GIS Inventory creates starter metadata that is
  compliant with the FGDC CSDGM standard

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Customers

• State and local governments and their partners
  from many sectors, including private business
• Select Federal Agencies (FEMA, DHS, NDOP, NDEP)
• FGDC Cadastral Committee (new)
• GOS Portal
• General Public

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How or why are they using the system?

• Data Discovery
• Strategic and Business Plan Development
• Building Spatial Data Infrastructures
• Research on Status and Trends

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Statistics September 2007 (Updates for December
2007)

• 1,824 Registered Users (2,993)
• 572 have documented data layers (648)
• 5,861 metadata records (avg. 10 each)
• 3,237 Framework (3,512)
• 2,624 Other layers (2,874)
• 1,335 harvested by GOS ?
• 1,154 validated by GOS ?

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Strategic Partners

• Who Are They?
• Stakeholders Meetings

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Stakeholder Organizations

• National Association of Counties (NACo)
• Urban and Regional Information Systems
  Association (URISA)
• Association of American Geographers (AAG)
• Management Association for Private
  Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS)
• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
  Sensing
• University Consortium for Geographic Information
  Science (UCGIS)
• American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM)
• National Emergency Number Association (NENA)
• Public Technologies Incorporated (PTI)
• Western Governors Association (WGA)
• International City/County Management Association
  (ICMA)
• Others

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Stakeholder Meetings

• In-person meetings currently scheduled around
  other events
• Coming together to form a Consortium that will
  work through bylaws
• Will promote a collective agenda based on 100
  agreement on issues
• Should prove to be a powerful voice for this
  industry

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Value of Membership to the States
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Benefits for State Members

• Communications
• Members are eligible to participate in NSGIC's
  Member and State Representative Listserves.
• Printed directories
• Blog and Web pages
• Partner Liaison Opportunities
• Liaisons between NSGIC and more than two dozen
  agencies and partners.
• Conferences
• State Coordination
• NSGIC assists member states in strengthening
  their coordination programs
• Annual surveys are conducted among all 50 states
  to summarize activities and share data.
• Policy Development
• NSGIC is increasingly recognized for its
  contributions toward the development of national
  geospatial policy.
• NSGIC members have been requested to participate
  in many committees and the input is highly
  valued.
• NSGIC seeks to make sure the needs and concerns
  of its member states continue to be heard and
  addressed at the national policy level. As a
  unified body, NSGIC can better serve as one voice
  for all states.

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Most Important Benefit

• Peer-to-Peer Monitoring and Outreach
• NSGIC members provide valuable information and
  experiences to their peers across state lines on
  topics as diverse as standards development, job
  classifications, proposal development, and many
  other issues.

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THANKS for Listening

• Any Questions?