GIS in Alaskan Engineering Projects, Panel Presentation

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GIS in Alaskan Engineering Projects, Panel
Presentation

• Moderator Angela Parsons, Engineering Assistant
  II, DOTPF, State of Alaska
• Panel
• Matt Freeman, Civil Engineer, FAA Alaska Airports
  Division
• Mark Pearson, P.E., GeoNorth
• Regan Sarwas, P.E., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Laura Young, Technical Services Group Manager,
  URS

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Purpose

• Increasing use of GIS/GPS/Remote Sensing
  Nationally to support Engineering Projects
• Discuss use of GIS and other spatial technologies
  in Alaska Engineering projects
• Perspective of members of local engineering and
  GIS communities as to
• What company/agencys use of GIS for Engineering
  has been and what they would envision it could be
• Advantages of integrating GIS into Engineering
  projects
• Barriers/problems with GIS for Engineering
• Presentations by panelist with range of
  experience and views will prompt group discussion
  of issues

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GIS and Engineering

• GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing technology/science for
  collection, creation, storage, managing,
  displaying, analyzing spatial data
• Engineers (Civil, Petroleum, Mechanical,
  Electrical, etc) work with data that has a
  spatial component.

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From GIS.Com GIS for Engineering

• Planning and engineering tasks that can be
  accomplished more easily with GIS software
  include
• Site Analysis
• Development review and approval
• Right-of-way engineering
• Automated mapping
• Water quality analysis
• Watershed modeling
• Geobibliography
• Underground services
• Capital improvement project tracking
• Soil analysis
• Inventory tracking and management

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Nationally

• GIS and Engineering becoming more and more
  integrated. Private and Public Sectors.
• University Courses in GIS within Engineering
  Departments including UAA
• Google searches and ASCE searches

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ASCE Website Search
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GIS-T Conference, March 2004

• Im an Engineer Why do I need GIS?
• Randall D. Tardy, P.E. Director Industry
  Marketing, N. America, Bentley

http//www.gis-t.org/yr2004/gist2004sessions/Prese
ntations/session221.pdf
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GIS can help communications about spatial data
amongst the various groups involved And
organizes/analyzes/manages engineering data
throughout the project lifecycle.
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Questions for Audience

• How and why do Alaskan engineers and GIS
  professionals use GIS to better support
  engineering projects? (examples?)
• Is there an expanding future for GIS and
  engineering in Alaska? If so, how do we get there?

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Central Region DOTPF Perspective

• Obstacle DOTPF funded and organized around
  discrete projects and sequential functional units
  working with the projects. GIS vision is
  effective integrated, enterprise spatial
  information system. Not the current corporate
  culture, or staff organization, or funding
  mechanism, or familiarity.
• Bottoms up versus Top-down priority (need an
  executive champion)
• Time and priority for overworked staff to
  retool/educate on GIS
• Helps that local Consulting groups are using GIS
  often easier to outsource than do in-house.